Archive for October, 2003
Holly and I each had the same experience independently, it seems, of picking up the video camera to capture Daphne in crawling-practice mode, rocking back and forth on her hands and knees, only to decide against it at the last minute. Something about the motion is vaguely obscene. It’s hard to describe unless [ READ MORE ]
So, add diarrhea to the list. Daphne’s been having some, umm, liquidy stools for the last couple of days. They tell us this is most likely the result of the antibiotic she’s been taking for her ear infection. Today, Holly tells me, the little one pooped a poop that her diaper could not contain (yecchh!) [ READ MORE ]
Daphne is sooo sick… a cold, lots of runny nose and sneezing, an ear infection (for which she must twice daily drink a nasty bubble-gum-flavored antibiotic). Just today, she’s developed a nasty cough as well. She doesn’t have a fever; thank God for small favors. I’ve been sleepwalking my way through a low-intensity cold [ READ MORE ]
So I wandered into the local quickie-mart to pick up a carbonated beverage, and the guy at the counter greeted me with: “Hey, so, Cubs versus Red Sox in the World Series. You heard it here first! And then the Earth’ll get hit by an asteroid, ha ha.” I replied, “Well, if fate has [ READ MORE ]
Why does Old Navy smell like the inside of a Habitrail? Perhaps they call it Old Navy because, like the imperial warships that prowled the seas of the 18th century, it is entirely infested with rats. I used to think that the smell was related to the racks of cheapo foam-rubber flip-flops in the center of [ READ MORE ]