Anyone got any ideas how to explain voting to a 4 year old? Lucy wants to know why we’re all wearing these “stamps?”
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The guest room chez Upside Up has been officially christened now — Larry and Al came up from New Orleans to spend Friday night with us. Larry has a tendency to arrive with out-of-the-ordinary goodies so it was almost not a surprise when he brought out a silver fleecey wrap and unveiled a bottle of Absinthe. According to wikipedia, the effects of La Fée Verte have been described by artists as mind-opening and even hallucinogenic, and by those jolly prohibitionists as turning good people mad and desolate. Mad! And Desolate! Rimbaud and Verlaine! Van Gogh! Toulouse-Lautrec! We would swirl around…
Once upon a time we lived in Durham. We had a large living room and we added built-in bookshelves with plenty of space for books and picture frames and “objets.” (Pron: Ob-jay. It’s French you know. For knick-knacks.) Then we moved to Charlotte. We now have an even larger living room, but we have no bookshelves, and no space for books and picture frames and objets. So one day my husband, the man who has been making my heart lurch for 14 years now, drew a picture of some boxes. He took that picture to the Home Depot and bought…
Mozzarella — Cinderella. Brought to you by the mind of a 4-yr-old.
Upside Up Index for Halloween 2006. Number of Little Mermaids: 2 Number of pumpkins carved: 4 Number of economy-sized bags of candy purchased: 10 Hours it took to dispense entirety of economy-sized bags of candy: 2 Number of handfuls of candy I stole from Zoe and Lucy to put back in our dispensing bowl: 4 Number of times our doorbell rang after we turned out the lights because our candy was gone: 3 Number of kids in the first half hour to come to our door without a costume: 6 Number of parents who, along with their kids, held out…
We were finishing up at the library. The girls had selected a new batch of Magic Tree House books and a couple of videos, and I was kneeling down, putting it all in a plastic bag in my backpack to keep them dry since Zoe had talked me into walking to the library despite the pouring rain outside (it was warm that day and I was having a moment where I didn’t want to be the kind of Mom who categorically refuses to walk somewhere in the rain just because we might get wet). I was kneeling next to the…
I got this spam email the other day. Listen, I am not sure whether you got my first email or not. I am sort of concerned. People are making me feel uncomfortable and I don’t like being in the middle. Some of the staff are spreading rude jokes behind your back about your weight. I personally have no problem with you being you. Please don’t come back at me for informing. I just wish to help if anything. I thought about mentioning it to a boss but then to have something like this explode is silly and embarassing for everyone…
Apparently Disney is turning over a new leaf, announcing they will be limiting their licensing to “healthful” foods. Here’s an article from Ad Age talking all about how not only will they go lo-fat and lo-sugar (not inherently “healthful” mind you — sorry, I’m a terrible food snob) with all the food they emblazon with their images (my take on this, above), but they will also be reformulating foods at their theme parks, banning trans-fats entirely. I guess it’s just a matter of time before the obese cross-dressers are going to take a stand against the ban.
Why don’t we do it in our sleeves? A hilarious spoofy (yet real) video about coughing and sneezing into our sleeves instead of our hands.