Kangatopia

Dang it.  I’ve just been given the all clear to go home before the outside temperatures drop and make life in traffic a little more treacherous than normal.  Unfortunately, on any other day this would mean that I could make a beeline for my bike and take it for a three hour spin, today it [...]

And I’m telling you that has got to end. I do not like green eggs and ham sleeping alone on cold nights when the rain is coming down, and the weather is getting icy, and my kids all sleep in their own beds and in their own rooms. I have a bed. [...]

A few weeks ago I talked to my boss about changing my schedule to 7am-4pm.  This way I would have more time in the evenings to ride my bike during the less dangerous daylight hours or work out at the gym if the weather was bad.  It would also allow me a lot more time [...]

This is something I’ve been puzzling over the last week or so since the news broke that Michael Richards is a soul angry racist after yelling profane epithets at hecklers during his stand up act at a comedy club. Parablemania has a pretty palatable take on the whole to-do. The irony of all [...]

Not having Shep around yesterday was a little weird. He’s been really helpful with keeping us all in line and on the straight and narrow. Bear is never late to school. The kids always eat balanced meals. I never eat things I’m not supposed to, and I always do the full [...]

Today is a slow day at work and I’ve been doing some thinking about the content, or lack thereof, of this blog. Most of the time it reads like a badly kept diary, except minus all the stuff about sex, alcohol and very public shows of graphic affection at the hockey games Shep and [...]

The first holiday of the holiday season was a crazy congruence of cooking, shopping, over-eating and exercising. Just like it was for everybody else.
This year my father and I made a decision we’ve resisted for years. We decided to (gasp!) purchase the bulk of our Thanksgiving dinner from a local Target. For [...]

It’s two nights before Thanksgiving, and all through the house two creatures wanted to go to bed on time, and thank God because the mama was all stressed out. She put them to bed, and begged the middle child to go to sleep but her coughing fit would increase until partially digested dinner was [...]

Ok, seriously, just one more post and then, I promise, I am going to do some work or something. (But, I’ve had a lot of coffee and am feeling good, really good, really fucking great actually.) This dieting and exercise thing is really getting on my nerves. One day Shep wakes up [...]