Life is a mashup of toys and gadgets, hobbies and recipes, kids and odd socks, all held together with love and duct tape.
Since I finished graduate school and became a full-time mother (nine years ago), my life has become extremely cluttered. There are school papers, coupons, tiny Lego blocks, snack wrappers, odd socks, unlabeled CDs, and mountains of laundry… I could go on, but I won’t. Everything from the important things, like my kids, to the dirty, [...]
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Okay, I usually try to keep my snarky thoughts to myself, but every now and then, I have to let them out. Otherwise, the pressure would just build up until I had a huge snark explosion, and that would not be pretty, right? So in the interest of mental health, and snarky humor, here is [...]
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Once a year, the Girl Scouts set up shop in the foyer of our local grocery store. They stack up boxes and boxes of cookies, put on their sashes, smiles, and best manners. I try to resist, but I just can’t! I must have the cookies! Last year, my husband mistakenly brought home some peanut [...]
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After I got my kids off to school this morning, I was sitting in my usual spot, at the computer. I started opening all my favorite sites in tabs, glanced out the window to watch the snow falling, checked to see whether the pages were loading fast enough… Fired up Mail and a couple of [...]
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I’ve been tagged again, this time by Rudy. This meme required a bit of thinking, and here’s what I came up with. So what the heck is “blego”? Blego (GeekMomMashup.com definition) – A mispronunciation of the name of Aragorn’s horse “Brego,” in The Lord of the Rings. I love that book! Blego (evilwoobie.com’s definition) – [...]
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With the recent blog explosion, I’ve noticed a proliferation of extra-large RSS icons. I certainly understand people’s desire to attract subscribers. I have my own RSS icons on my blog. See them over there on the right, near the top of the page? Nice little buttons with the familiar — even standard — little curvy [...]
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GeekMom’s Memory Lane: Smells of Springtime in the Heartland
by GeekMom on April 18, 2008
I live in the midwestern United States, in a suburban area. Although I wouldn’t consider this a rural community, you don’t have to drive far to be “out in the country.” I consider myself a country girl at heart. I grew up on a wooded lot in rural Wisconsin, and loved playing outside without worrying [...]
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