Category: life
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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.
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How Old Were They?
Maybe I should have admonished my kid telling me to shut up, which wouldn’t usually be tolerated, but I (a) did feel bad about interrupting her and (b) was busy trying not to laugh in her face about the whole thing.
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Overzealous
I can’t even be upset – it’s all true: I did go overboard (and it’s a bit oversaturated).
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Life Finds A Way
I recently rewatched the original Jurassic Park, and that movie is still great. You know, I feel like this is even the sort of thing that Ian Malcolm’s character would actually do, especially if he knew he was in a movie.
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Stalk Photo
So imagine you’re at work while your spouse is keeping track of your children when an unknown number texts you a photo of one of your children without a clear location-identifying background or other people in it and no context.
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Absolutely Nothing
The reference is to a line about a “father’s brother’s nephews’ cousin’s former roommate”. Potentially you are your father’s brother’s nephew (or whatever combination of father/mother, brother/sister, nephew/niece that’s applicable to you, unless both your parents were only children), so you can go ahead and add that on to anything to make it sound more…
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Twin Day
The connections forming all the time in that little brain…wild.
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Watch Your Language
There’s something amusing about kids pointing out a technicality like this while using this insult against a sibling with whom they share the same mother, and in front of said mother. Because there are some arguably larger linguistic/usage concerns I could bring up here.