Aunt Jan wins

the BEST PRESENT AWARD this year! She gave me a Nancy Pearl action figure with amazing push-button SHUSHING action!

Nancy Pearl's website

Kudos to Bill Barrow!

Cleveland State Special Collection

Religion

What the hell is this crap?

I don't usually care about religion one way or another, but what gives the God D*&m Pope the right to have immunity from possibly BREAKING THE LAW?

This really fires my butt!

IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!

I have earned my SUPER MOM cape! You must envy my puffy chest and strutted arms.

I found the pen at WALGREENS! Walgreens, you rule! I bought two more, so if this one breaks, I have a back-up. And we are giving the third one to her friend who started all this, and who actually did break hers.

She was with me when we found it, so no go under the tree. But her face was super joy and that's all that matters. I wouldn't have been able to hold in my excitement even if I found it by myself. I guess I can return all the other items I got her...

Christmas Time

Rules! My belly is inches from my desk and crumbs are all around. I think I have found what I could for Gen. This year she is crazy for a pen that writes invisible, but has a black light. I found it is called a Spy Pen. And America is out of them at the moment. I told her straight out, I tried and I failed. She said, "You are always too late with anything I want." I love how children pigeon hole their beliefs as ALWAYS. They never remember what you did for them an hour ago. I'm SO sorry, all you have is shelter over your head, food to eat, and different jeans to choose from every day. NEVER MIND the heat in the house.

I gripe as a writing tool, so the truth is, Gen has been wonderful this year and I couldn't ask for a better, more thoughtful daughter.

To all music playing stations out there...

STOP PLAYING HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH!!!!!! They are bland and boring. And don't try and sneak them into Christmas song time either- I heard that... Whiney, dull, voice. Might as well send my happy holiday time down their drain.

Friday Night Partae'

at the new place. I went through my taxes and organized them MORE! Exciting! Omgosh though, I finally emptied another box. I had to stop with the file cabinet, paper messes SUCK. But I WILL get through them and be done soon. A file a day seems to be the rate. If you can't do a lot, do a little. (Thanks mom for the great advice!) It sounds like a mom advice doesn't it? I hear myself tell Gen a LOT, "If you don't clean up after yourself, someone else has to, and that's not right." Hasn't sunk in. But I do wonder what she will repeat to her kids when she (never, according to her) has some.