Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated

**Yesterday**   Only a few more hours til I put the man on a plane.  We’re both listless.  There are things to do around the house – empty the trash, brush the animals, vacuum.  But we don’t want to waste the time doing unsavory tasks, so instead we wander around the house.  Picking things up,…

By Leucantha’s request – an ode to the neti pot.   Ode to Neti   My suffering acute, my concrete nose And drip, post-nasal, keeps me from my rest. My babe-filled womb expanding as he grows Allows me not the drugs I would request.   What then?  O neti pot, you sing my name It…

Thank you for calling the Brazilian embassy.  For 2008, the cost of a tourist visa is $100.  The cost of a student visa is $150.  The cost of a . . . <extended price list> . . . <five minutes later> . . . that we will not accept cash, check, or credit at this…

So you send in your application to get a visa for the country to which you intend to travel SEVERAL months in advance of your departure date.  You go over all components thoroughly to be sure no details are missed.  You send the appropriate amount of money for the application fee.  You insure and certify…

Also?  I’m making two this year.   1 – Remember to take cloth bags to grocery to minimize amount of plastic bags that end up exploding out of our recycle drawer and all over the dadgum house.  Stole this one from my sister-in-law.   2 – Be a good mom, and also still a good…