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It’s a hard knock life

Emily wants to know, if I had a super power, what would I want it to be?  Easy!  I have actually given this one some thought (why?), and have always wanted to be invisible.  Or, the ability to become invisible, anyway.  Like Sue Storm in Fantastic Four!  That would be a useful skill.  I can […]

An alarming lack of compassionate emotion

I’m not a softie.  Just ask my husband or my son and they will tell you that I am Mean.  (Actually, according to my husband I am not so much mean as I am a robot.  Thanks, babe!)  I am not big on sympathy, usually my response is “Walk it off!  You’re fine.”  I am admittedly […]

Sickness, elves, first words and a partridge in a pear tree

Good news!  It is indeed possible to avoid succumbing to a stomach bug of misery and destruction, no matter how pervasive it may seem to be.  Apparently you just have to will yourself to not get sick.  Because even though the Virus of Doom felled all other human members of my  family, I managed to […]

Three movie reviews.

I saw three movies over the weekend.  In their entirety, completely uninterrupted (well, almost.  When movie-watching at a home with young children there are virtually always interruptions, even if said children are supposed to be in bed.  Also, sometimes I run out of wine).  I even saw a movie within 5 years of its release […]

RWI* – Underworld

Wednesday night I had time to sit down and watch the Netflix movie that had been sitting on our DVD player since late August (possibly we are not getting our money’s worth) – Underworld.  I hadn’t been expecting much, and N was not interested, which is why I finally got around to watching it – […]