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No, those aren’t maggots.  It’s just rice.

You would automatically assume that I was in the kitchen….but the area being scrutinized was my bathtub.  Why was there rice on the side of the bathtub?  Well, if you’ve been a mom as long as I have, you just don’t ask those questions anymore.  Sure, when you had more than four brain cells, you would have turned this into a Sherlock Holmes-worthy whodunit but these days…..maybe you just don’t want to know or even care.  You need to preserve those precious remaining brain cells for more important endeavors, such as killing them with a glass of wine at the end of the week while chatting with your best friend about nothing in particular.

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Call me crazy (most do I suspect) but I end up talking to the nicest people on the phone.  Even when I was in college, I had a very long conversation with a woman trying to get me to switch phone companies.  I was dodging an English assignment, and she was dodging cold calling more people.  We ended up talking for nearly an hour about everything BUT the best long distance carrier.

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My final round of trashy magazines hit my mailbox last week.  The special price had ended, and let’s face it: without the Stephen King column in the one, I really had no reason to get it.  We get to see a movie on the big screen maybe once a year, not counting free kids movies or “must see” kids movies.

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I am a gift card-girl.  I like gift cards.  I give gift cards.  I don’t care if you’re a newborn baby or celebrating your 100th birthday.  Gift cards for everyone!  I don’t know what you already own.  I don’t know if your tastes have changed.  Honestly, if I start shopping for you… I really just end up shopping for myself.  So here’s a $25 gift card.  Go knock yourself out.

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HRH was having a particularly rough day, last week. So El Jefe sat down with her on the couch, tucked her under his arm, kissed the top of her sweet head, and pulled up Amazon on his iPhone. Search: Girls’ shoes. He’s such a good daddy. And such a sucker!

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