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Review : Mr. Clean w/ Febreze
31 March 2009, 4:00 pm
Filed under: Drama, Plague, Review Things | Tags: , , , ,

I received a fabulous package of Mr. Clean cleaning products in the mail just recently, and was intending to get to them for review later this week. I got to one of the products sooner than anticipated, however, when a friend’s kid did what kids do best and experienced the misfortune of barfing on my stairs. (Poor girl!)

I was out of the house for the moment of excitement, but entered the kitchen just in time to hear my friend ask if we had “a multi-surface cleaner of some kind” around with which she could wipe the stairs.

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Point Form

Random point form:

  • I love my workplace. It’s the natural parenting equivalent of a candy store. My boss is great, my co-workers are great and the customers are great. Working again — even in this limited manner — is just fantastic.
  • I’ve been off the Prednisone for less than 48hrs and my toe is already starting to become inflammed again. I see my rheumatologist this afternoon so that she can say “yes, it’s your arthritis” and “I would like you to take xyz drug every day to prevent this happening again” — to which I will respond “no thanks” and leave things essentially where they were about 10 years ago.   (more…)


Boots Are Made For Walking

My boots won’t fit me right now. Neither will my sneakers, shoes, or flip-flops.

The only thing I can wear right now that fits is a pair of slippers, gifted several years ago, that were a size and a half too large. Fortunately, now that my left foot is inexplicably swollen to twice its size they fit just dandy.

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Overheard : Buttons Are Important
22 March 2009, 7:25 pm
Filed under: My Kids, Things I Overheard, Work | Tags: , , , ,

Can you tell we’ve been talking about different jobs?

#1: “Mommy, pretend I’m an engineer and I’m building this Transformer into a robot.”

#2: “Mommy! Pretend I’m an engineer! And I’m building buttons that glow-up in the dark!”

#1: [scoffs]That’s not an engineer. An engineer builds important things.”

#2: “It is an engineer. I build buttons. And they’re important!

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Overheard : When Potty Talk Meets Nature Shows
22 March 2009, 5:02 pm
Filed under: My Kids, Things I Overheard | Tags: , , ,

My boys clearly watch too much David Attenborough:

#2: “Let’s go play more dung beetles. You be the big brother dung beetle and I’ll be the baby dung beetle.”

#1: “Okay.”

#2: “I’ll push the small ball of poop.”

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