Category: life
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Calcium Deficit
All the times I found myself in the kitchen seriously considering if it would have been better to still be sick because then I could at least have as much [food containing calcium] as I wanted…
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Garbage Jenga
We really felt for the people working at the kid party venue who were waiting to clean the room and had to watch the garbage tower grow more and more unmanageable.
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You’re Scaring Him
I mean, once you have kids, you’ll wonder why you waited so long! (Even if only because you’ll imagine it would have been easier to handle when you were younger and more energetic in general.)
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Dead Ringers
Sadly, I did think that the basic plot of The Lord of the Rings was enough in the cultural zeitgeist that stopping someone over spoilers was a joke in itself. Then I remembered how many years it’s been since the movies came out.
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Persuasion 100
My kids have definitely figured out what kinds of things will motivate me.
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Forget The Alarm
To clarify: that’s not “me” in the comic – that’s not how I (outwardly) wake up. I got to hear this happen one day when one of my kids woke up to the usual school day alarm and decided to try this approach for dealing with it.
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Eye Don’t Get It
Honestly, I’m not even sure if reading in the dark is actually bad for you, but people sure brought it up a bunch growing up. I don’t recall reading in the dark often, but I also didn’t like carrots as a kid, so I’m sure that didn’t help with my terrible eyesight.
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Parental Leave
Yeah, that’s right: I’m taking a day off for each time I went through labor. Every year. Forever.
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Un-emergency
I understand that there are legal cover-your-ass reasons that they have to consider the worst case scenario when you call for medical advice, but it’s not always the worst case, you know?
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Party Crashers
Maybe it seems weird to imagine attending a stranger’s birthday party and nobody realizing it, but especially for those younger kid parties: you might not have ever met any of the parents or the other kids. Fun fact: little kids can be hilariously bad at identifying people! Trust but verify.