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Orange and Silver: April 2015
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And As If That Wasn't Enough. By now you've all gotten your copies of "I STILL Just Want To Pee Alone" and read the hilarious and heartwarming essays by me and my fellow bloggers. (If you haven't, well, click on that little link over there that says, "Buy My Books! My colleagues and I aren't just hilarious in long form, we're also funny in short form. And by short form, I mean Twitter. Small acts of compassion each day is good for your soul. 60 retweets, 103 stars. 13 retweets, 32 stars. You may be saying.
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Orange and Silver: Five Ways I Revealed I Was an American Without Ever Opening My Mouth
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Five Ways I Revealed I Was an American Without Ever Opening My Mouth. I just spent ten days in the Scottish Highlands. Being an American, I obviously sound like one (although I did have one person mistake me for Australian, which was odd because Australian accents are far more similar to British accents than American), but beyond that there were apparently a myriad of other signs that exposed me as a tourist, without my ever opening my mouth. 8220;No, we’re not,” we replied. 8220;Are you Americans? My hu...
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Orange and Silver: The Greatest Cake of All
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The Greatest Cake of All. The other thing about my birthday that was always something of a letdown was that my mom bought me bakery cakes. Don’t ask me why that was a disappointment to me. I’m sure there were tons of kids who hated the homemade, amaturely decorated cakes that their moms made, but for me it was the opposite. How would you like to have turkey for your “birthday dinner” for eleven years in a row? I don’t even like. We ate about one more bite, and then she did. Has anyone ever made you a sup...
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Orange and Silver: Possibly the Worst Gift I Ever Gave My Grandmother
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Possibly the Worst Gift I Ever Gave My Grandmother. It’s not like she needs anything) and she eats a couple, then freezes the rest to have when people come to visit her. My friends and I all agree that if we make it to 102, we are going to eat all the cookies. Didn't feel old enough to be a grandmother- she was only about 57 at the time,. Because of Elsie the Cow- my grandparents had a farm and raised beef cattle. 8220;Oh, well, that’s all right with me. Tracy can call me Elsie,” she said. Thats not bad-...
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Orange and Silver: November 2014
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Thirty Things for Which I am Thankful. Let’s get the sloppy stuff out of the way first, because I do sentimental very badly. Presence of husband and children in my life, health of aforementioned, health of self, presence of extended family and their health. Grateful: check. Friends. Without friends I’d be…well, friendless. Chocolate. Self-explanatory, I think. Office supplies. I love. Facebook. I get no end of pleasure out of Facebook. Oh, I have my gripes with it, but overall it’s fun. Christmas earring...
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Orange and Silver: Summer Standards
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Summers are supposed to be relaxing. They probably are for my kids, who don’t have to go to school, but I still have a full time job, so not only do I have to figure out how to amuse my kids, I also have to work. That’s not to say I don’t relax in the summer. I do. I relax my standards. To illustrate the contrast, I offer the following examples:. Last Week of School: “You need to eat something real for breakfast even if it's just a Nutrigrain bar.”. Last Week of School: “Showers on Saturday,. Last Week o...
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Orange and Silver: August 2014
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The Number You Have Reached. Why, you may ask, do we then bother with a landline? 8220;Jesus, this is going to cost him a fortune. Duh He called my cell from his. It wasn’t costing him a dime. That idea would never have crossed the mind of any of my kids in a similar circumstance, because they know nothing of the concept of local calls versus long distance calls. Calls are calls to them. And remember calling someone and getting a “busy signal”? Self-checkout, a concept I know. 8221; Ugggghhh, OKAY MOM.
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Orange and Silver: Head Games
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8220;You have to calm down,” he kept saying. 8220;Are you kidding me? This kid looks like he’s going to need a transfusion in about three minutes, and you want me to calm down? Since my husband is a) a boy, and b) an Eagle Scout, he knew about the bleeding. He’s also far less inclined to flip out over things that have to do with the kids than I am. He told me later he was prepared to take the kid to Urgent Care if it hadn’t stopped bleeding when it did. July 1, 2015 at 4:57 PM. My husband handles those d...
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Orange and Silver: October 2014
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There were a few kids who engaged in a more repulsive dietary ritual. They would buy an economy size tube of chocolate chip cookie dough, and eat it all day long. I confess I did this at least once that I can recall. Kids generally only did this about once a year, because gross. Somehow we’d forget from one year to the next how revolting the whole experience was, and we’d do it again, only to recall that it was completely vile. We were kind of stupid that way. I will say that knowing what I ate when I wa...
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Orange and Silver: Buy My Books!
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