I love Zappos, the mail-order shoe company. You pick out shoes on-line (searchable by color, heel-height, style….) and they are delivered OVERNIGHT! Amazing.
So effusive were my raves of Zappos, that Lewis decided to order soccer cleats on-line. “The ones I have now are too small,” he said, “and tryouts are this [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 24, 2009
Word of the Day: Zappos
March 17, 2009
Word of the Day: Progress
Someone in my town posts daily diary entries from a housewife
from 1902. Here’s yesterday’s. This is a typical day:
Wednesday, March 16, 1902
Some overcast early & late -
Up at 7 fixed the Lamps, dusted rooms,
sorted clothes, made beds & mended
awhile and then dressed & went to Flora’s. Just starting out with baby – (at 9-30) [...]
March 10, 2009
Word of the Day: Resurrection
Cricket Update: I found the bag o’ bugs. When I went to drive Lewis and his fiends friends to tennis lessons – there it was in the car, on the floor of the passenger’s side. I had only checked the car three times. The crickets were dead and bloated. The boys passed around some Skittles, [...]
March 9, 2009
Word of the Day: Bugged
Do you ever feel like you are losing your mind? Do you ever walk into the kitchen and can’t remember why you are there or forget where you parked the car in an 8-story garage? Yesterday, I stopped at Petco to buy crickets for my son’s leopard gecko. The clerk knocked twenty-four, large-size, skittering crickets [...]
March 8, 2009
Word of the Day: Junk Mail
I must not have a life because I really look forward to the mail. But, for the past couple of days the contents of my mailbox have been totally disappointing. Not only were there no juicy letters with colorful stamps from faraway countries, but here was nothing. Just junk mail.
I complained to my mailman, Bob, [...]
March 4, 2009
Word of the Day: 6,823.93
The stock market is crashing and the numbers are totally depressing. We have less than half the money we had last year. At least we had it on paper. With private college tuition up around $50K a year, it’s not a good time to have middle-class white kids with mediocre grades.
Maybe my kids aren’t geniuses because [...]
