Speaking of Moving
OR Construction Geek Pet Peeve and Related Complaining After being house-less for 16 months, I am practically vibrating with plans for decorating the new house. Soon you will be inundated with all...
View ArticleMoving and Associated Suckage
So we were able to get the key to the new house on Friday instead of Monday, which THANK GOODNESS, because the amount of work that has to be done is absolutely breathtaking. Jim took Friday afternoon...
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• Articles like this – How Food Companies Exploit Americans with Ingredients Banned in Other Countries are what continue to motivate me to feed my family the highest quality food I possible can....
View ArticleTo the Mattresses!
When we moved out of our house 16 months ago, we got rid of all our mattresses. Jim and I bought ours around 15 years ago, and it lasted through 5 moves and one Super Puker baby. There was really no...
View ArticleGrown-Ups Ruin Everything
I’ve been thinking more about this after I vented a little the other day about how wary I am of getting my kids into group sports because of all the pressure to…to what, exactly? To get ahead? To win...
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• Here’s an interesting story about dropping mice on Guam in an effort to kill snakes. • HORSE MEAT FOUND IN IKEA’S MEATBALLS! • New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems determined to RUIN PIZZA...
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• I had a whole bunch of mental notes about what I wanted to write today, but they’ve all disappeared. That’s what I get for trusting the mental part of my life. • I went out yesterday to run some...
View ArticleAdventures in Decorating
So yesterday when I asked if anyone is interested in pictures of the new house, thousands hundreds tens fine two people said “sure, what the heck. It can’t be worse than your usual swill.” A couple...
View ArticleSpeaking of Projects
I bought 4 of these from Amazon last week. I’m going to build something. Guesses? The post Speaking of Projects appeared first on Not Inadequate.
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• Erin at The Usual Mayhem sent me this link a couple weeks ago and it’s too good not to share: What Celebrities Would Look Like if They Were Average Americans. Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman...
View ArticleRe-u-nited and it feels so goooood…
Cabinet, purchased at local antique mall: $282.00. Filled with yarn: ecstatic. The post Re-u-nited and it feels so goooood… appeared first on Not Inadequate.
View ArticleOn the Common Core
So a couple weeks ago, I saw a tweet that Saxon was aligning their math curriculum with the Common Core. And the day after that, I received an email from Math-U-See that they, too, were aligning with...
View ArticleIf you want to get really paranoid…
Read this: The U.S. Dept. of Education’s Data Mining Efforts. Snippet: “The U.S. Department of Education is investigating how public schools can collect information on “non-cognitive” student...
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• I’ve been catching up on Us Weekly now that we are in a house like normal humans. Apparently some guy called Lil Wayne got his forehead tattooed. The tattoo says “baked.” If I got a tattoo, I’d...
View ArticleWorld’s Bitchinest DIY Coffee Table
Remember these? I built the World’s Bitchinest DIY Coffee Table™ with them. Gigantic, eight-inch-diameter casters from Amazon + Ikea butcher block counter top - It weighs around 800 pounds, but that’s...
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• ‘member that time I was all bragging how I negotiated a super low price on our new mattress? Well, it was too soft, and we had to exchange it and that cost $500 and now I am back up to having paid...
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• School bans Triangular Shaped Pancakes after a student gets a sore eye when another student chucks one at him. My, what a bunch of weenies we are. I was watching Yukon Men the other night, and a 14...
View ArticleNow make me feel better
Do you homeschooling moms ever find yourself dealing with things that you know wouldn’t be an issue if your kids were in school? My kids have this habit of yelling it at the top of their lungs anytime...
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• Little lost another tooth last week. It was loose for weeks, but she wouldn’t let anyone near it, insisting it “wasn’t ready yet.” Well, it fell out right into her lap. Then she jumped up and...
View ArticleThe Fuzz
So yesterday I was in my house, minding my own business, when the doorbell rang. Happily, Jim was close enough to answer the door, as he was out of his basement lair to scrounge some lunch. I perked up...
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