tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45112879273819982732024-02-07T23:22:44.870-06:00When a Shrink Gets on the Couchshrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.comBlogger366125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-3876502347301395472015-01-02T14:09:00.000-06:002020-01-27T14:10:29.244-06:00more novel synchronicity and the history of british ruleYesterday I chose a movie to watch instantly, Restoration, starring Robert Downey, Jr. Restoration takes place during the reign of King Charles II, mid-17th century England . I had never heard of this movie despite loving RDJr and old English period pieces. The Restoration Period, I learned from the internets, occurred during the second Reign of the Stuarts, the "first kings of the united shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-19821717355400017422014-11-22T10:00:00.000-06:002020-01-28T14:31:57.399-06:00alternative prayerHearing the outrage of the religious right over the lack of prayer in schools and government institutions irritates me down to the tiniest molecule of my being. Just recently the Supreme Court heard a case over prayer in a legislative setting. I heard about the case on public radio and had one of those driveway moments, or in this case, garage moments, where I get home, sit in shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-55675021196669477072012-01-06T09:26:00.000-06:002012-03-03T01:52:15.291-06:00in which she mandates chick flicks and cute puppy videos
So many times in my personal life and in my office I get asked some version of the eternal question, Why is he so selfish? A wife or partner of a man tells me that while she is always thinking of his needs, he seldom recicprocates.
I hear things like,
I go to his action movies but he refuses to come with me to a chick flick.
Or,
For weeks I think of the perfect present shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-64016703010580652052011-12-17T11:34:00.000-06:002020-01-28T14:36:30.653-06:00driving pet peeve number 328: aggressive courtesy
Like most people, I find the holiday season one of such mixed feelings. On the one hand there's the season of love and giving and Santa and of course the baby bejeebus (credit, Hokgardner), all combining to bring out our kindest selves.
On the other hand there is Christmas shopping and navigating a crowded parking lot. This recent spate of frantic beat-the-rush browsing has shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-77960562909705693132011-12-09T07:00:00.000-06:002020-01-28T14:41:40.688-06:00a little bit of texas (no football, promise)Husband and I spent our 20th anniversary in San Antonio. Some random pictorial highlights:
First things first. Thanks to Karen for her restaurant suggestion. Homemade hot sauce with roasted .. peppers or tomatoes, or both... was superb. Cheese enchiladas... perfecto. Margarita... excellentay: Sweetly sour, salt around the rim and stout.
A word about the shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-54029339041877715502011-11-24T12:56:00.001-06:002011-11-24T14:29:24.819-06:00turkey may never taste the same
We interrupt the preparation of your family's Thanksgiving feast to bring you a special announcement.
Be it stuffing your turkey with oranges (like we do) or making a last minute grocery store run for parker rolls (like I wish we didn't do) or preparing a blender full of liquid fortification in anticipation of Aunt Martha, who, every year, without fail, puts on her unique version of shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-30857085011775323162011-11-15T18:12:00.004-06:002020-01-28T14:44:35.050-06:00she jumps out of the recipe rut and into the frying panYou could say I've been in something of a cooking rut. With three teens going three different directions, a dog, five chickens, and one sorely neglected beta fish named Molly, I haven't had much time to think cook let alone experiment with new recipes.
Mention a new dish and I cringe at the thought of reading a recipe, shopping for extra ingredients, more time in the kitchen to get the shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-50704130857849412362011-11-03T07:37:00.000-05:002020-01-28T14:45:22.112-06:00the ides of twinness
Beware the Ides of Twinness.
Because it's a guarantee. One of your twins will beg you to get braces. You will spend fifteen minutes at the dinner table explaining the many reasons why she does not want braces.
And then? The other twin will be told she needs braces. And you will spend fifteen minutes during the car ride home explaining mom doesn't always know what she is talking shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-37371558133182091482011-10-22T13:53:00.012-05:002020-01-28T14:48:08.943-06:00fare thee well coffee yogurt, sort of
How exactly does one announce a blog name change? How does one inform of a profile name update? Send out cyber printed announcements? Commission a video? Hire a plane to pull a banner, a la Mrs. Brightside's post?
I came up with Coffee Yogurt one night in December several years ago. I didn't know what the blogsphere was all about. I was looking for some virtual connection with fellow shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-31271896117341821962011-10-19T20:20:00.001-05:002020-01-28T14:49:24.953-06:00EPIC FAIL
A huge thanks and nod of appreciation to my regular readers who haven't given up on me. Especially those who continue to leave comments despite my EPIC FAIL as a reciprocal blogger.
My excuses are as follows.
Work has been kicking my boo-tay.
Playing limousine driver to my not terribly grateful twin tweens has been kicking my boo-tay.
My husband's rants about the Aggies shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-63182494335101384962011-10-19T19:15:00.002-05:002011-10-19T22:30:38.949-05:00jenn's sensational high coupToday Jenn's Sensational Haiku Wednesday theme is ...beautiful man, theregraceful handsome courteousdance with ... who me? yes!shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-18353661256584867602011-10-14T07:10:00.001-05:002012-03-03T01:51:40.680-06:00don't include me in the 99%
Am I willing to march with the 99% protesters?
Meh. Not so much.
Am I willing to march with the 90% protesters?
Hell to the yeah!
Who can support this growing economic disparity? Better question: What the hell is wrong with Tea Partiers and other tax cut harpers who think the way out of this recession is more of the same?
Thank you Mother Jones for the above chart and shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-6103112857754226362011-10-06T07:08:00.001-05:002020-01-28T14:51:49.752-06:00attachpicking: parental bonding of the highest orderFor various reasons, I didn't get to breastfeed my kids. Not beyond the first few weeks, anyway. So I wince a little when I remember those shark nibbles hear breast feeding moms make claims that nothing brings a mother and her baby closer than the feeding the way mother nature intended.
Used to be, when I heard smug mommies claim breast is best my stomach would lurch. I wondered if I shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-31850753987345440012011-09-30T14:57:00.023-05:002020-01-28T14:55:10.795-06:00do cry for me, austintina
A few Friday mornings a year I manage to take a solo walk around the Lady Bird Lake, formerly known as Town Lake, or, in the case of most longtime Austinites, stubbornly referred to as Town Lake.
This morning I walked (highlighted in yellow, above) from the south side of the pedestrian bridge at Lamar Boulevard (PFLUGER Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge), crossing onto Congress Avenue shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-45287981819492840102011-09-18T10:07:00.005-05:002020-01-28T14:56:05.764-06:00shame on Tennessee
Shame on the Tennessee Department of Revenue, Taxpayer and Vehicle Services for denying their citizen, Ms. Whitney Calk's personalized license request because they jumped to the conclusion that she intended something "vulgar."
Leave it to a red state, pork barbecue eating, bible belt bureaucrat to miss the wholesome, health promoting, true intent of a vegetarian enthusiast.
Redeem shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-83930748407130945842011-09-13T23:08:00.006-05:002020-01-28T14:56:41.412-06:00somebody please put a sock in her mouth
Sally Kern
Oklahoma State Representative
House District 84
"...every day our young people... are bombarded at school, in movies, in music, on TV, in the mall, in magazines, they’re bombarded with ‘homosexuality is normal and natural.’ It’s something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we don’t have to deal with a terrorist attack every day, and that’s what I mean... that shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-79952205511100412052011-09-11T09:45:00.003-05:002012-03-03T01:56:09.262-06:00never forgetshrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-58900676883059774082011-09-07T19:37:00.004-05:002011-09-07T20:05:05.627-05:00oatmeal sexA potential solution slash compromise to the sad and dangerous state of the state of Texas as vented loudly upon previously:Thanks to The Oatmeal for solving the riddle sucky ass Texas Education Code's* bogus answer to the sex ed problem. *Section 28.004shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-90211452142121447482011-09-02T13:26:00.008-05:002011-09-02T19:25:07.634-05:00state of the state of texasI'm none too happy with the state of Texas right about now. And I'm not talking about our current drought or the record setting heat wave. Did somebody say 23 days of 105 or hotter? I only thought it was hot two years ago.
No, what I'm p*ssed off about is man made. Woman made. Ignoramus made.
I ranted before about how Texas' public school kids are getting lousy information when it comes to shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-37382758107393942312011-08-30T00:01:00.001-05:002011-08-30T00:01:02.128-05:00random thoughts tuesday
Don't you love it when you go through the forgot your password prompts and you answer your secret questions correctly and they tell you your new password has been sent to your email address and then, you know what comes next, you have no idea which email address you used.
Gotta love backyard chickens, too. You go through the trouble of cutting up veggie scraps, taking said scraps to theshrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-4458785859770993822011-08-22T06:24:00.000-05:002011-08-22T06:24:00.755-05:00true evilEvery time I hear a right wing Christian preacher ranting about the evils of the gay lifestyle or some neo-con politician up for re-election warning that the legalization of gay marriage is the antithesis of family values, my blood boils.
Because I have listened to too many heartwrenching stories about the true and actual evils bestowed by Christian parents upon their gay children. These shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-67731009057784986042011-08-19T06:08:00.000-05:002011-08-19T06:08:00.441-05:00sweet thumpingEvery year in Luling, Texas there's a Watermelon Thump, where thump equals festival.
Every year I say I want to go and every year I miss it for one reason or another, usually because I forget all about it when the weekend arrives. This year we had just returned from vacation and I opted to stay home and luxuriate in doing nothing.
It's called a watermelon thump for an important reason. shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-79375536202853645012011-08-16T19:29:00.015-05:002011-08-16T20:28:20.814-05:00taking the plunge, Austin style
Took one of my kids and three of her friends kayaking this afternoon. Playing super mom, my husband Sam called it.
We rented three kayaks and set out for Town Lake, aka newly-named-but-seldom-referred-to-by-the-locals-as Lady Bird Lake.
First we paddled under the Barton Springs Footbridge.
Here's a view pedestrians see when walking along Town Lake Hike 'n Bike Trail:
Then we paddledshrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-75618622114278148252011-08-12T11:25:00.002-05:002011-08-12T11:56:16.558-05:00yogravation
yogravation - the feeling you get when you rearrange your week's schedule to attend a particular yoga class, only to show up, mat in hand, and find it was cancelled.
fortunately, there is help. everydaypeoplecartoons by cathy thorne. shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4511287927381998273.post-45829985057974235952011-08-05T09:00:00.001-05:002011-08-05T09:00:08.152-05:00TGIF Fill-Ins1. How can I be sure you really are a Young Rascal?2. What would weed-ius do?3. My hair obeyed my every command today.4. Family reunion avoiders anonymous.5. My favorite summer fruits are cherries and mango.6. Yumm, that was delicious, thanks... er wait ...what was that?7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to watching instant movies on Nitflex, tomorrow my plans include tennis shrink on the couchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271891110211081990noreply@blogger.com7