Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Lists, no recipes

If Julie Powell can post a blog about her childless life in the city and a 900-year-old recipe book based primarily in butter and parsley, then my findings about the world should be a cinch. I will begin this blog with the list I created this morning using three pens (all short on ink, of course) while listening to my gigantic dogs fight with the neighbor's dog who still has testicles and no manners, of course. I am amazed at how this brief encounter with paper sums up what will most likely be another cataclysmic day in the life of a freelance mother trying to make a bleak living in rural Massachusetts. It may also be said that I am one of about two women I know who has yet to discover the numbifying joy of Cymbalta. But don't worry, a dear friend (very dear) gave me three Clonapin for a late birthday present and I still have two left. I don't remember where the other one went....



Buy a 50 lb bag of dog food for Dumb and Dumber (hopefully I can get it to the car without further injuring my back)



Buy children's toothepaste so that the high flouride levels don't show up at the next physical



Eggs, since the last 18 were mostly cracked and now those are mostly frozen



Write my column so that my editor thinks I take my life seriously



Tell a good friend that I am not a Christian



Prepare for reaction of said friend



De-louse daughter's pillowcase, again.



Make plans to sue the Mayo Clinic for posting that "most African-American children do not get head lice"



Make plans to sue the publishers of "What to Expect When You're Expecting" for not adding the appropriate epilogue, which could be entitled "Where hell is really at".



Reheat coffee pot, and have a cup, a.k.a. lunch



Hope that back-up is working so as not to lose first blog



More later, thanks for reading, if you did.

4 comments:

  1. I did and Ed was right, I will. I'm addicted to blogs. Good use of my time huh? Oh well, it'll give you a reason to write.

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  2. Mayo said most, not all.

    After all, they came up with a great condiment for sandwiches.

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  3. Ironically, mayo can also be used to smother head lice! It does a hell of a number on the pillowcase, however.

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  4. I am so happy that someone else understands that drugs are good and that life is shit sometimes.

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