AmyD. | January 16, 2012
It’s taken many years, but I think the girls have finally beaten Mike down almost completely. Three of us in very different life stages makes for a constant, demanding, eye rolling, “if looks could kill”, screaming, “who took my gray eye liner?”, hot mess kind of life. More than once someone has joked that if [...]
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Tags: A-Christmas-Story, Bumpus hounds, Christmas tree, dad in a house of girls, menopause, pms, women
AmyD. | December 26, 2011
Aside from having a fondness for George Strait’s “Amarillo By Morning” I can’t say that I’ve ever been all that excited about Texas. It’s not that I have anything against Texas, politics/politicians aside, it’s just not a state that has interested me. Sure, lots of history, the Alamo… uh, Chuck Norris?Texas Rangers? Seems like a [...]
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Tags: bakersfield, bako, bbq, chocolate covered oreos, Mexican food, oreos, Republic of Texas Company, smoked meats, texas
AmyD. | November 7, 2011
I’m all about nurturing the self-esteem of my children. No really, I am. You know, when it’s necessary and all that jazz. Normally, I would give pause and really become concerned about what telling a story involving a burn that looks like a hickey might do to the child with the burn-that-looks-like-a-hickey. Except, the moral [...]
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Tags: burning your neck, burns, burns that look like hickeys, curling iron burns, funny conversations, hickeys, teenagers
AmyD. | July 14, 2011
That bit of ridiculousness was brought to you by me, courtesy of Katie who has played it roughly 8 billion times and turned lines from it into the most obnoxious earworm on the planet. I swear. Personally, I thought it was just “okay” the first time I saw it. What made it funny was our [...]
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Tags: Blogging, Drink my hot kool-aid, earworms, friends, imbibing, Jim Jeffries, Julian Smith, ridiculousness, Russell Brand, Seagulling
AmyD. | May 24, 2011
I have attempted almost everything imaginable to break my husband of this blasted obsession with fishing, including breaking my ankle WHILE fishing. His interest goes away for several months to a year at best and reappears out of nowhere with the enthusiasm of someone just offered a full-time job drinking beer and fishing for trout [...]
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Tags: Buena Vista lake, catfish derby, fishing, stinky bait, sun burn