From the category archives:

It's All Relative

Upstaged By My Grandma

by Wendy on 11 June 2009

My 80-year-old Grandma is making me look like a sissy.

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It’s Aliiiiiiiiive

by Wendy on 8 June 2009

You know what I want them to say at my funeral?

LOOK! She’s moving!

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I’m a P-P-P

by Wendy on 18 March 2009

That’s Pathological People Pleaser, for the uninitiated.
There really isn’t a problem with this, because other people will really like you for it.  Who doesn’t like a total pushover who will make herself miserable because a near-stranger wants something from her?  Much less a friend or family member.
The real problem is when you change the rules.  [...]

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Um

by Wendy on 21 February 2009

My uncle Jim is not waking up from what was supposed to be a minor surgery.  My grandma has been at my house for a week and thinks I am her sister Linda.  This would be okay except I don’t know what to say when she asks me about my grandkids.  My daughter may fail [...]

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Grandfather Clock

by Wendy on 19 January 2009

When I was a kid (deja vu! another recent post started like this, too!) our house was unthinkably small.  The wall where our grandfather clock stood was the same wall that my bed was against.  At night when I couldn’t sleep – because insomnia for me started in infancy – I would listen to it [...]

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West Texas Goats

by Wendy on 15 January 2009

Frogs in My Formula got me all inspired with her uni-nut goat story (yeah, you really should check it out), so here is my West Texas Goat story.
When I was a kid, our property included a full city block that had to be mowed (I have mowed that son-of-a-biscuit with a push mower, too, which [...]

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It is So Cold I Put a Possum on My Head

by Wendy on 12 December 2008

Or a cat. Whatever you want.

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