Opal |
Dear Mom and Dad of the Toddler Who Was Riding Unsupervised on a Big Wheel in the Middle of the Street Last Week:I've thought an awful lot about little Opal Jo Jennings lately. I don't know why. At th...
Posted by kristan on Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 PST |
The Death of Her |
It's been two whole weeks since Crawley, my grand crawfish, came to live with us. We thought we'd provided a good home, but, upon further research, we discovered she needed a lot more room for crawing...
Posted by kristan on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:50:00 PST |
My Crustacean Grandchild |
Bella walked slowly to the car with a Tupperware container full of something lobster-y. As it turns out, today marks a momentous occasion: I'm a grandmother."Alright, so I take it you got the crawfish...
Posted by kristan on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:25:00 PST |
TWP |
"We are known by the company we keep." I’m sure Senator Obama heard those annoying, teen angst-provoking words just as often from his custodial grandparents as I did from my mother. However, my ...
Posted by kristan on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:34:00 PST |
Bella and the F-bomb |
The Unlikely Fairy visited yesterday.Exhibit A: Mom, The Bell, Russell, and I attended Riverdance at Nokia. I’m fairly certain that Kristan circa 1989 is dead from the shock of that alone. Keep...
Posted by kristan on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:21:00 PST |
Barack O’Come Lately |
President Bush is sober now, but he's still rattling off like a drunk loon about our economic crisis. He says he doesn't think we're headed into a recession, although he senses things are "slowing dow...
Posted by kristan on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:39:00 PST |
Pink Bra/Baby Blankie |
Yesterday Bella stayed home from school with the flu. Halfway into our third movie, she asked me: "Mom? You know that thing Nana does with her bra?"I wasn't sure where this was headed."You know.""Help...
Posted by kristan on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:36:00 PST |
Urine Starr |
I'm sitting at Starbucks in Grapevine and feeling underwhelmed by the smell of get this, urine. Yes, urine. Surely, there is no reasonable excuse for that. I mean, I just paid somewhere in the neigh...
Posted by kristan on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:36:00 PST |
Ringo. Tsk, tsk, tsk. |
Ringo Starr just appeared on David Letterman. I ordinarily drown out this sort of background junk, but the lyrics were so terrible I had to gawk a bit. "I was a sailor first, I sailed the sea/Then I g...
Posted by kristan on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:41:00 PST |
The Spears |
There are many important things going on in the world today, but before eight am, both Mom and The Bell had already asked the twenty-four million dollar question: "Did you hear? Jamie Lynn Spears is p...
Posted by kristan on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:36:00 PST |
