As we drove home tonight, the moon was round and large. The soft light shown on the roadway ahead of us and off the leaves and branches of the trees. Violet pointed to it, and I remembered the moon of my childhood. The Old Man on the Moon. I would look up at his face [...]
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Today I walked to Safeway with a friend of mine who shall remain nameless due to her highly gullible nature.
We both bought bags of grapes, and she started eating hers as soon as we left the store.
“Don’t eat your grapes, they’re covered in pesticides!”
“Yeah, but I don’t want to wait till we get home–I’ll just [...]
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I just got home from a barbecue and noticed a strange coincidence. If you get women with small children or babies together, odds are that 75% of them will reference childbirth or labor at one point or another during their visit.
It’s not that they are creatively trying to find sick and twisted methods of population [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AJ, Birthdays, Coloray, funny, gross, gross stories, Lake Goodwin, Pooping, stories, Violet on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so first off, this is not a story I should be telling you. Secondly, if you get grossed out easily, please stop reading–that way you can’t complain to me when you realize that you will never swim in lake goodwin again.
All the characters will remain nameless. So apparently this happened like last summer or [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged babies, cell phones, chores, entertaining a baby, painting, science, Shown, stories, talking, Violet on April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dear Auntie Showny,
Thank you for entertaining my daughter via “phone sitting” today so I could finish painting the downstairs. I know she’s too little to ever say anything back to you, but I can assure you that she was listening intently the whole time. I was too actually. I could hear you across the room [...]
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Don’t worry, this isn’t my most most embarrassing moment. I have too many to pick a favorite.
I was reminded of this story the other day when I was looking through some of my brother’s pictures on facebook. I was 16, and a girl, which means pretty much anything can get filed under the “Most Embarrassing Moment” category. [...]
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