Archive for June 2007
East Texas: The Final One For Now
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 30, 2007
It’s true. While this is not the end of the book, it’s the end of what I’ve written. You know, I just sit around all day and stare at walls. There’s really no excuse for me not to write. Nothing like, umm, I just had a baby four five months ago [...]
Doll Naming
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 29, 2007
Commando Demando, a.k.a Zoe, (she’s not so demanding lately), has a thing for naming her dolls. Not only does she name them, they all belong to family groups and have ages and detailed histories. Like if they’ve been to jail and how they feel about that documentary Zoe’s dad made her watch the other night.
Occasionally, [...]
Preparing for the Future
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 28, 2007
- In: family| mad skills
- 2 Comments
In this day and age of technology, I feel, as a mother, that it’s never too early for gremlins to be trained on the computer.
Here The Cuteness demonstrates that even at the tender age of almost five months, point and click is easily attained.
“Yes, I am cute. It’s true. But one has to [...]
Nature, Bread and Vintage Play-Doh
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 27, 2007
So I couldn’t really come up with a cohesive theme for this post, but I am all over The Random. It’s what I do best.
I’ve mentioned Cooper, our microcephalic dog. For those of you that refuse to look up the word, microcephalic, let me finally tell you it means someone with a head [...]
Finally. Instant Gratification
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 25, 2007
- In: Artsy Fartsy| Nature
- 3 Comments
My grandma got a new digital camera. My grandpa says she is now a new woman. I can understand. She gave me her old one.
It’s my first digital. I really like my Canon EOS. I inherited it from My Man when we got married and claimed it for my very own ever since. Sometimes he [...]
More Headlines
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 25, 2007
Geez, I think this whole magazine headline thing is becoming a series. I made a category for it over on the sidebar.
Before I begin, however, let me just say Jackelope had a smashing party today. His birthday is tomorrow and we will go swimming for some more fun. He was a little confused, though. He kept [...]
East Texas #10
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 22, 2007
Remember, for the rest of (Almost) Everything I Know I Learned in East Texas, find the category on the side bar.
Discipline: East Texas Style
I’ve already mentioned the Rubber Finger. While that was not usually a form of discipline, Donnie did cross the line with it occasionally. He had some other fine tricks up his sleeve, as well.
From [...]
Just Deal with It
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 21, 2007
So I took the gremlins out to a friend’s pool finally, cause they’ve been begging non-stop. We actually went two days in a row because really with The Cuteness and all, we can only stay anywhere about an hour and a half since he refuses to sleep anywhere but his own soft cushy drool-stained bed. [...]
Six Years with Jackelope
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 19, 2007
- In: Jackelope
- 2 Comments
We’re getting ready to celebrate Jackelope’s 6th birthday around here, so I thought I would post a little photo montage to commemorate the passing of six of the weirdest years of my life.
Jackelope came into this world like a rocket, literally. The doctor almost didn’t get there in time to catch him. He’s been a [...]
Just the Headlines
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 17, 2007
I had so much fun griping about magazines the other day on THIS post, that I thought I’d poke some more fun at the topic. I had some down time at work finally last night around 1 a.m. when people apparently decided they’d bought enough John Wayne Ultimate Collection DVD for their dad’s Father’s [...]
Office Supply Addicts
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 16, 2007
- In: family| mad skills
- 6 Comments
Aside from ripping up couches and devouring vats of fruit snacks, my gremlins have an addiction that makes them unique to their breed.
Office supplies.
While some mothers are lamenting the money it takes to keep their gremlins in baseball uniforms, underwear, toothbrushes, juice, and other normal things like that, I’m trying to organize a relief fund [...]
East Texas #9
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 14, 2007
Here’s number 9, you crazy East Texas Fans!
If you want to read the rest of (Almost) Everything I Know I Learned In East Texas, find the category section on the side bar and click on ‘East Texas’.
Imaginary Friends
If you want your kids to have a great imagination, move them out to the middle of nowhere [...]
Apocalypto
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 13, 2007
Senseless bloodbath or gripping history lesson?
This might seem like the most obscure review you’ve ever read. Here’s the bottom line. I liked this movie. Was there a lot of blood? Yes. Too much? Probably. But I’m sure it was an accurate portrayal of the fighting within the tribes of the Maya. Which leads me to [...]
The Fast Track to MuppetLand
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 12, 2007
I’ve may have mentioned that I like the muppets. Or maybe I just said I feel like I live with muppets. After all, are muppets and gremlins really all that different? I guess it depends on which muppet you’re comparing. Animal, The Swedish Chef, That Guy Who Throws Fish vs. Stripe [...]
My Brain
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 10, 2007
It seems that I write alot about my brain. I’ll admit, it is a source of fascination for me. My blog stats has a nifty little tool to see search terms that people have looked up, then found my blog.
Things like clogs, shower hair catchers, ammonia and bleach, bossy women I’m sick of them. I’m [...]
Saturday Ramblings about The Skinny
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 9, 2007
I’d like to take this moment and step out of my usually organized (ha ha) system of writing and express some randomness. Weekends aren’t the best for creative thinking for me, since as you probably already know, I work weird night hours three nights a week.
I’d like to vent a bit about the skinniness [...]
East Texas #8
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 7, 2007
- In: East Texas| Writing
- 1 Comment
Remember, if you want the other entries on this series, scroll down the sidebar to “On The Brain” and click on East Texas.
Grown Up Friends are the Best Kind
Donnie and my mother made some choice friends down in Texas. I have several vivid impressions of them that remain solidified to this day. Oddly, I don’t [...]
Jar of Doom
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 6, 2007
Yesterday I found a hot tip for bickering children over at Living on A Dime. It was called The Jar of Doom. I love that name. The idea is that you get a jar, fill it up with slips of paper that have chores written on them, and when you have a whining gremlin who [...]
The Cuteness Strikes Again
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 5, 2007
The BubbleGum Gang
Jackelope
Commando Demando
Socrates, naturally thinking of his next argument
And as an added bonus, here’s Cooper, our microcephalic, barfing dog. No, that is not a sock. It’s a giganto bone I purchased months and months ago because I was tired of him chewing those other little bones up so fast. It worked, [...]
A Tuesday Poem
Posted by: carrielouise on: June 5, 2007
Poison Ivy, evil leaf
your oil covers now our skin
they say to scratch is not to spread
then why’ve you moved right down my chin
my forehead’s itch, it makes me wimpy
I cut my bangs, I now look gimpy
Benedryl, you’re not effective
the scratching has lost all perspective
Gremlins moaning all day long
yet Jackelope escaped
You cannot touch him, Evil Leaf
no [...]
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