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Havoc has an ear infection. Safeway is doing some sort of promotional thing where new prescriptions are free. (not all prescriptions unfortunately, not the 3rd tier $50 on my insurance stuff, the maintenance type drugs, but the antibiotics are) So we got free amoxicillin for the kid. My cousin tells me her DD (age 11 I think) has become resistant to the cillins and the meds they give her for ear infections cost $120! (Somehow I don’t think Safeway includes that in the promo). Ye gods! Havoc spend the day laying around watching Return of Jedi, playing Lego Star Wars and pretending he was a Jedi. Don’t get me wrong, I love Star Wars, but it’s been non-stop Star Wars in this house since early January & I’m ready to go back to the Thomas or dino obsessions of last year. Mayhem is so into that Lego Star Wars game. He’ll sit in front of it for hours if we let him. There was much wailing & gnashing of teeth when he first went through the levels but after 6 weeks of playing an hour o...

When you are tired of saying “Back away from the TV” to little Wii players

I woke up to this It’s about 4-5 inches and school, naturally, has been cancelled. There go my plans for today. I had a full day planned too. Get Havoc on the bus Go to the gym Take a shower Get Mayhem on the bus Photo document putting purple streaks in my hair for a Tuesday Tribute tomorrow (I’m sure I am not the only one who arranges the blog fodder opportunities in her life to coincide with appropriate memes) Sweep & mop the house Sew a padded cover for my camera strap & work out a pattern for a camera cozy (I love my Crumpler bucket but it’s just too big for about half my purses. I need something snug but not bulky, more to protect from scratching than impact) Get caught up on blog reading Now the only thing I am likely to manage is ‘take a shower’. The roads are probably fine at this point but body pump was cancelled & I don’t feel like making the effort just to run on the treadmill.  Hair coloring is impossible (boys wanting to touch the dy...

It was nice most of this week. So we were outside playing for a change. I’m not sure if the bus is under attack or picking up riders I am told this is a dino climbing race. These guys don’t climb as well so they stayed on the ground Storytime. Friday it got cold and there was some painting and I went to the gym Havoc’s Weekly winner For more Weekly Winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom

A few months ago I wrote about my internal debate between Vanity & Common Sense over hair color. The end result was that after weeks of thought I bought a box of color and a few more days of dithering, I actually used the color. Now that it is 3 months later I naturally have some root issues.  But this isn’t about that. It  is about that internal debate though. I have naturally wavy hair.  Stupid looking waves at that.  No matter the cut may hair is too wavy to hang right and not wavy enough to really curl. I got my first perm at 13 to correct this problem.  For the next 15 years I alternated between periods of perm curls and periods of flat iron straightness. It just depended on which was less effort to achieve. (Common Sense holds the long term decisions. Vanity knows it’s not worth the fight) The perm would be nice & curly for a couple months & then it would start to require a lot of mousse & gel and a diffuser …. Then it would be easier to...

As I am now a pagan this has no real meaning to me. But as a former Catholic I still have this vague feeling that I ought to be at Mass, or coming up with something to give up or going to confession. Lent always reminds me of confession There is some sort of rule about going to confession during Lent so you can go to communion during the year as I recall. Possibly the rules have changed. It’s been awhile Forgive me father for I have sinned. It has been…hmm…1981 I think…so it’s been 28 years since my last confession & I’ve been busy since then coveting and having other gods before me. I’m fairly sure you don’t even have to say that bit anymore. I was in Catholic school for 12 years and we went to confession twice a year from grade 2 to 8 and once a year after. (Which is odd really because the potential to sin increases once you are teen, especially the venal ones.  Do they still differentiate venal from mortal?) I always found confession to be an unsatisfying experienc...

I love cereal. My husband loves cereal. My kids love cereal. Cereal is a family affair. It can be breakfast, or lunch, or snack, or even dessert. If I am home alone, it often is dinner. Sometimes it is a late night snack. It can be eaten dry or soaked in milk. I prefer it with milk but the males tend to eat it dry. My favorite is Honey Nut Cheerios. Mayhem likes Reese’s Puffs and Havoc & DH are partial to Cinnamon Toast Crunch.  We’re a General Mills sort of family. DH & I both grew up on Coca Puffs, Kix, Cookie Crisp and Lucky Charms. He takes issue with Cookie Crisp these days day so we don’t buy it but the rest of them appear in rotation in our cupboards. It never lasts long.  General Mills sent me a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch to review last Thursday. It was gone by Saturday evening. Cinnamon toast is one of DH’s favorite snack. Cinnamon Toast Crunch saves him waiting for the bread to toast and he doesn’t have to get a knife dirty spreading butter. Breakfast o...