“I had a really bad day.”
“At work?”
“NO MOM, I DON’T WORK TUESDAY/THURSDAYS.”
Translation: I’m trying not to cry, and anger’s easier.
“Okay, I’m sorry I forgot. So what happened?”
I tell her what’s bothering me…
“Have you eaten today?”
“YES MOM, I have eaten. GEEZ.”
Translation: Let me lash out at you, because I know you’ll still love me when I’m [...]

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Gone are the days of cutting and pasting. Too busy coding your website to write your own ransom note? This website will do it for you!
http://www.joshuarey.com/index.pl?Action=ShowArticle&ID=134&DoNotGoToFood=0
(that’s one I wrote for Janet about her pink stuffed dog, Pinky)

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“Is that jersey knit?”
“Nooooo, it’s panty knit.”

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She takes Dominoes seriously! from Heather Lynn on Vimeo
I learned a long time ago to let my Nonnie win at Dominoes. She doesn’t like it when you’re winning and she’s losing. I found this video while going through my external hard drive, and it made me laugh and I thought I’d share.

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Me: “Did I tell you about the newest book we’re reading in my senior seminar?”
Mom: “Yes! Yes.”
Me: “I did?”
Mom: “No.”
It reminds me of Jim’s wife from the Vicar of Dibley. Wikipedia sums it up quite nicely: “Jim Trott is a Parish Council member, who has an idiosyncratic way of saying “no no no no no…” [...]

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I found this on Facebook and I really like it and thought I’d share. Apparently it’s by George Carlin, but I can’t verify that (oh wait, no, I can, I’m just too lazy).
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We [...]

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I haven’t been able to write about this before now, because oh wait. I’m lazy. And lately I’ve been busy. But this present that I got for Christmas is just so cool I couldn’t pass up a write-up. Even Janet, the Queen of Nothing Even Remotely Having To Do With Technology, thought this was super [...]

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“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness [...]

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YAY! Welcome to the new(ish) Sugar Booger! For a long time I’ve wanted to expand the content area so that I could display my pictures bigger and badder, but I had NO idea how to accomplish that via css. But James, the resident TEEX css expert extraordinaire guy, helped me out today! And it was [...]

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