Headline seen on msn.com today:
Bush presses lawmakers to move quickly on stalled economic bailout plan
Yes, because moving quickly is always the best way to ensure you’ve got a solution that works.
Posted by: ssjane | September 26, 2008 | 12:10 pm
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Mother-in-law: We have too many birthdays in November and December.
Father-in-law: Yeah, no one should have any more babies in November or December.
Chris’s brother-in-law: (already has one child and has stated he isn’t sure about having another) Don’t look at me. Jane?
Me: Well…okay. But I’m also not having a baby in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, or October.
Posted by: ssjane | August 19, 2008 | 12:18 pm
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I’m hoping that the massive number of mosquitoes we’ve experienced in our new place has nothing to do with the location of said place, and everything to do with the rain we’ve had this year. Because if this is from the location, I’m either going to have to start looking for a new place right away or find a nice parka that goes down to my ankles and zips up to my chin.
Tonight the dogs and I were out for maybe five minutes while they stared at the parking lot of CVS and I tried to encourage them (unsuccessfully) to pee. Their curiosity satisfied (”there are still cars over there”), the dogs agreed to come back inside.
I felt a tiny tickle on my right leg, and scratched it. Before I’d taken more than three steps into the house, I began to suspect it was a mosquito bite. So I got some cortisone and put it on my leg, and that’s when I noticed a very still mosquito on my hand.
I wasn’t sure if it was already dead or not, so I whacked it with my other hand anyway, and its blood (or rather, my blood) squirted out of it. I hadn’t even itched it, but the bite has now become the size of a quarter.
The bug bite on my leg turned out to be three mosquito bites in a row, which have now become some kind of horribly swollen continent of itchiness.
Normally I don’t expect housewarming gifts, since this is our fourth house, but if you really, really, really want to give us something, I would be thrilled with any of the following:
Posted by: ssjane | August 18, 2008 | 10:07 pm
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New adventure that took freaking forever to upload because the nav bar was pushed underneath, so I resized all the pictures multiple times and reuploaded, only to eventually find out the problem wasn’t with the pictures at all, but because I had left out a slash mark in an html tag.
Grrr.
Posted by: ssjane | July 30, 2008 | 12:19 pm
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Today I have been busy reading Stuff White People Like and have sadly come to the conclusion that I am a White Person*.
*For those of you who don’t know me, this may be a good time to point out my baby picture on the upper right.
Posted by: ssjane | March 24, 2008 | 2:38 pm
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Getting robbed is not a choice.
Getting robbed is not a choice.
Getting robbed is not a choice.
We are simply the unluckiest people in the entire world.
Posted by: ssjane | March 6, 2008 | 11:40 am
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Posted by: ssjane | February 29, 2008 | 3:29 pm
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I have just finished moving to a new server and upgrading WordPress. Looks like everything is working fine, but I’m still paranoid that something important has gone wrong and I just can’t see it yet.
Posted by: ssjane | February 8, 2008 | 10:43 am
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One
Despite having “KC Masterpiece” carefully written down on my Costco shopping list, and despite having repeated “KC Masterpiece, KC Masterpiece” in my head as I searched for it in the sauce aisle, I looked at Mr. Yoshida’s Original Gourmet Sauce and my brain immediately said, “Yes! This is the KC Masterpiece sauce I am looking for!” and so I purchased it. It wasn’t until I got home and went to put it in the refrigerator that my brain caught up to reality and realized that KC Masterpiece is not spelled Y-O-S-H-I-D-A.
Two
My car went in for an ordinary service check this past week, and I found out that its turbo boost was broken and quite possibly had been broken for some time.
“You didn’t notice you weren’t accelerating as quickly?” asked the mechanic.
“Not really,” I said. “I mean, I noticed cars were honking at me more when I merged onto the highway, but I just figured that I was getting older and driving slower.”
Posted by: ssjane | January 20, 2008 | 9:14 pm
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you want to switch grocery stores because the plastic bags they use to bag the groceries fit your trash cans better.
Posted by: ssjane | January 6, 2008 | 2:27 pm
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