Some Business

Posted on April 14, 2007 by The Daring One

I get over 1000 spam comments every single day. Continue reading →

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Taking Inventory

Posted on April 13, 2007 by The Daring One

Every once in a while I like to sit down and think of all the reasons I’m the BEST MOM EVER. It’s a good exercise to try and narrow them down to a reasonably small list of my saintly acts. The most recent addition is up at parenting.com so you can go over and let me know any reasons why you might by my runner up.

In the event that I can no longer fulfill my duties as BEST MOM EVER, I’d like my replacement to be one of you.

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Is Your Man Man Enough?

Posted on April 11, 2007 by The Daring One

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Mine is.

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Practically Perfect In Every Way, Not That it Matters

Posted on April 10, 2007 by The Daring One

I don’t know where she gets it… ahem… but Laylee’s showing herself to be quite the perfectionist. She is an uncompromising stickler for detail which causes high quality but low output, inconvenient if she plans to earn her keep down at the workhouse. Continue reading →

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George, Elaine, isn’t that Doctor Santanisto?

Posted on April 10, 2007 by The Daring One

When Magoo the Large was born, my body was a mess. 10.5 pounds of baby will do that to a wee flower like myself and so it was that my hip joints were unbearably painful. My doctor took some X-Rays and asked me if I’d like to see a specialist. Sure. Does he come with drugs? Send him in. Not enough people have seen me breastfeeding today.

Doctor Santanisto had dark wavy hair, pulled mostly back in a physician’s doo rag. He had a soul patch, expressive eyebrows and a slightly sinister look about him.

He was professional and helpful but I couldn’t get over the thought that I had just had a run-in with a caricature of an evil doctor from ER or possibly a Seinfeld-like nemesis.

“Helloooo Kathryn.”

“Hello Dr. Santanisto.” (In the voice Jerry reserves specially for Newman.)

A couple of days later I was back up at the hospital’s lactation center being fitted for a high quality mammary suspension device and I started to describe the specialist doctor to Dan.

“It was just weird. I wish you could have met him but there was something about him. It was like he’d stepped right out of a hospital drama, the ruthless surgeon who smooth-talks the patients and then goes off and fires interns for yawning or handing him the wrong scalpel. I picture his laugh to be a deep cackle. I really wish you could have seen him.”

Two minutes later I was hobbling out of the parking lot when something caught my eye. Not 10 feet from my car sat a black BMW convertible with red leather seats, the top down being driven by — DR. SANTANISTO!

“Dan! LOOK! That’s him and he’s driving Satan’s car!”

Dr. Santanisto’s wavy hair was loose in the wind, an extra-long cigarette dangling from his sneer.

“Wow,” said Dan, “That’s creepy.” This is what I’m saying.

You know I love casting people as I drive around town. If I’m ever the casting director for ER The Next Generation, Dr. Santanisto’s totally gonna play that one mean guy.

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Coming Clean

Posted on April 9, 2007 by The Daring One

I have been hooked on Luxor ever since my trip to Montana. My family invited me and the kids in for what seemed like an innocent vacation and then gave me my first hit. They said it would “help me relax”. At first, that’s exactly what it did.

I could feel the tension draining from my body as I began to participate Continue reading →

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