My house smells like menthol: Random Tuesday Thoughts
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:00AM
So obviously I can’t put Random Tuesday Thoughts on hiatus, since it’s apparently the only time I post. You’re stuck with me (I might call in ringers more often though).
Stop snickering. I can hear you.
I disabled my Questionable Advice column for now. Apparently I don’t have time to do that, too. I’ll fire it back up again when I’m independently wealthy and I have time to sit around all day blogging.
(Or the more likely scenario, when quit my job in a fiery rage and suddenly have time to sit around all day blogging.)
Now confirmed: skinny jeans make me look like an idiot. I am unsurprised. I’m questioning the motives of friends who tell me, “Just wear them with some tall boots and you’re good to go!” Because then I just look like an idiot…wearing tall boots.
Facebook and Twitter sneakers. Oooohhhkay then. Far be it from me to cast aspersion on anybody’s nerdiness, but….NERDS.
Top 48 Ads that would never be allowed today. Supposedly. Sadly, other than the artwork, some of them are exactly the SAME as ads that are allowed today.
My mother always tells me, “the universe gives you what you can handle”. I’m more inclined to think “you handle what the universe gives you…until you can’t anymore and end up with a white coat that has extra long sleeves”.
My kid has croup and I gave it to him. So I’m going to go lay in a corner and cry bed now. Get random, you guys.
Keely | 46 Comments
Reader Comments (46)
As much as I want to commiserate with you and feel your
painstruggle with the kids and skinny jeans, you make me laugh. Throughout the post. So do know that even though i'm laughing hysterically, I do so feel you.I hope you and your son feel better. I'm glad you aren't discontinuing RTT, because it gives me a reason to blog on Tuesday!!!! Have a good week!
You get to feeling better real soon!! Lots of fluids, chicken soup and some margarita's!!! That ought to fix you right up or if you drink enough, you won't care!! Ha! So glad to hear you are continuing RTT!!! I would have missed you terribly!
I hope you and your kid feel better soon. I love skinny jeans, but the facebook sneakers... UGH? They are horrible!
I just found your blog and am in love. With your blog. Maybe you, too. In a superhero-adoring fan kind of way.
Anyway, skinny jeans make me look like an idiot, too. Oh, I wish they'd work. Then I could wear some fashionable flats to go with them. But alas, I have short and stocky legs.
Those sneakers are so wrong in so many ways. Then again, I am giving a presentation about social networking tomorrow.....and I plan on using the link. Thank you. Got anymore?
Croup, yuck. The remedy that we were advised to use was hot steamy bathroom for 5 minutes, quick run outside into the cold air for 2, wash, rinse, repeat until the kid stopped sounding like he was going to hack up a lung. Is that still the advise from 4 out of 5 doctors?
Hope you all feel better!! I don't do skinny anything. I haven't been skinny since I was 12, well except that brief moment before I got married, then it all went down hill.
I just don't get skinny jeans...or jeggings for that matter. I am a skinny person (sorry) but have skier legs...skinny jeans DON"T work!
Hope the kids (and you) feel better soon.
Skinny jeans don't work for me. When you have short stubby legs like I do, all they do is make my butt look bigger. That's one vast area I definitely don't need help in making look bigger.
Sorry about the croup - hope both you and X feel better soooooooon!
Sorry about you and your son being sick. J-Man had croup twice last year and it's awful. We did the steamy shower/outside in the cold thing for a few nights. Hope you both feel better soon.
Also glad you aren't discontinuing RTT. Usually it's one of the 2 days we blog lately.
Those ads are pretty crazy. Each one was worse than the previous one. Yikes!
Yay for continuing RTT. Boo for the croup. Being sick and taking care of a sick kids sucks. Hope you both feel better soon.
I'm so sorry to hear you're all sick. Just stay away from my house and it's all good.
I hate skinny jeans too. They suck.
I agree with you about the Universe and the eventuality of the white coat with extra long sleeves. I hate it when people say 'God (or the Universe) never gives us more than we can handle' it makes me want to punch them. My standard reply to that is, "What about the starving babies in Africa, can they handle starving to death ok?'
Anyhoo, I hope you all feel better soon.
I can't even THINK about skinny jeans, unless I'm buying them for my stick of a daughter.
Facebook sneakers? OK, I need to check these out, just for the laughs.
Same with top 48 ads.
Sorry your kid is sick.
Sorry, but even when you post things should make me sad (like a sick kid or the overwhelming universe), you still crack me up!
Skinny jeans look so uncomfortable. For one's HooHa.
Can't work the skinny jeans either. It was a long three years before I realized this. Know what hurt the most? NO ONE said anything to me. They just let me think I looked good stuffing my sausage legs into too-small casings. Traitors.
Skinny jeans make everyone look like an idiot......unless you are standing next to someone wearing jeggings!
I got an extra white coat I won't need until this afternoon if you want to borrow it! Happy Tuesday! Feel better!
Croup is just the worst sounding stuff. Hope everybody gets better soon. Skinny jeans only work on those who look like stick figures. I do not. Therefore, skinny jeans look ridiculous on me too.
Man, I could use some of that Mornadine stuff! Sorry you're feeling lousy. Go to bed. Drink tea. You know the drill.
I think you should put "You handle what the universe gives you…until you can’t anymore and end up with a white coat that has extra long sleeves" on a t-shirt! I'll take 5!
I hope things get better soon!!!!
I kinda dig the Twitter shoes. Maybe if you wore those with skinny jeans? There's no hope for me, is there?
OMG those adds. I'll be revisiting them in my nightmares tonight.
Feel better, croupy.
Something bloggers rarely realize until too late: not having a job equals less time to blog. I was home with Sprite yesterday on my own doing the SAHM thing and didn't pick up my laptop until dinner was cooking and she was playing in her room for a spell. I used to think I would have loads of time to blog if I didn't have a job, but failed to remember that I actually have to pay attention to the kid, you know?
Sorry for the sickies! xo
I hope you and the kiddo get better soon. Question: is "croup" something only Canadians get? I think that was eradicated in the States in the 1800s.
Thanks for hosting from your sickbed!
I'm convinced that only young girls look good in skinny jeans. My daughter loves them but I don't care for the pair I bought for myself. They feel like they are trying to strangle my ankles. A little claustrophobic feeling too. Pretty much, they suck.
aww :( so many people are sick right now! I hope y'all feel better soon! I look forward to Tuesday's because of you so you better not quit!! :)