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<\/a>And no, I still haven\u2019t finished organizing, tagging, and polishing my archives.<\/p>\n
Administrative work like that is really not my thing \u2014 and when I say, \u201cit\u2019s not my thing,\u201d I mean, \u201cit makes me run hysterically in the other direction and do anything else to avoid it, even if that anything is laundry.\u201d<\/p>\n
But seriously, I\u2019m hardly behind on the laundry at all, which is pretty much a miracle.<\/p>\n
However, I am getting really, really, really cranky at the dearth of writing in my life. Posts keep writing themselves in my head at odd moments and then dying sad, meaningless deaths before they\u2019ve even had a chance to live. I\u2019m slowly becoming a walking graveyard full of forlorn and half-forgotten sentences, wasting away next to unwritten facebook messages and last week\u2019s grocery list.<\/p>\n
(^Seriously, that is how much I need to write. I just waxed poetic about not writing in the most melodramatic fashion imaginable.)<\/p>\n
Sadly, that\u2019s all the writing I have time for today, because the girls will be home from school in 20 minutes and we have to do a project, put away the Christmas ornaments, and then chop up and burn our Christmas tree. So here\u2019s other people\u2019s words to read, to help compensate for the lack of mine. (I mean, I\u2019m sure you\u2019re all waiting anxiously for me to write again, right?\u2026.hello? Is this thing still on?)<\/p>\n
Rebecca Frech, with some handy advice on what to do when your mom is a dumba**:<\/p>\n
\u201cJust write down he was late for a family emergency and leave a phone number in case the principal has more questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFamily emergency?\u201d I asked her. \u201cYou really think this qualifies as a family emergency?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSure,\u201d she answered. \u201cIf your mom is a dumba**, it\u2019s kind of an emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Read the rest at<\/a> Shoved to Them<\/em>)<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nKathryn Wales, with an important distinction between the good naked and the bad naked:<\/p>\n
Sure, much of the mystery in this department may have already disappeared. But don\u2019t think about it like that. Keep up a little decorum in your birthday suit and some of that mystique can be easily maintained. As an avid fan of Seinfeld<\/em>, I\u2019ll use the example of Jerry\u2019s discovery of \u201cgood naked\u201d vs. \u201cbad naked\u201d<\/a>. He begins dating a woman who is most comfortable totally in the buff at all times. George is envious, of course, but Jerry assures him that there are some major drawbacks to this: \u201cCoughing? Naked? It\u2019s a turnoff, man.\u201d After watching his girlfriend struggle to open a jar of pickles, he shouts, \u201cI can\u2019t look anymore! I\u2019ve seen too much!\u201d George still doesn\u2019t understand. Jerry explains: \u201cNaked hair-brushing, good. Naked crouching, bad.\u201d Married people know all about this and should be laughing right now. Better put a robe on it when you\u2019re not in an amorous mode.<\/p>\n