Category Archives: life

I AM TIRED

March 25, 2010lifeKirsetin

of parenting
of writing
of grocery shopping
of meetings and
of things breaking in my house.

The current list?
* furnace
* water heater
* might as well throw in the AC, too
* dishwasher
* refrigerator

I’m thinking about moving just so I can avoid dealing with this crap. My coping mechanisms are fantastic, can’t you tell?

On the bright side, I can always read what these ladies have to say: Mrs. Chicken, Susie J., Angie, Janelle, Mayberry, & Jenny. And also, this very funny dad. They’re only a teeny tiny fraction of the blogs I follow, but these people keep me on my toes. They keep me thinking or laughing or, occassionally, crying. I’ll take any of them over listening to the drivel of the furnace guy for another hour.

So that’s my morning. Lookin’ good. How’s yours?

Oh My Bracket!

March 23, 2010life, sportsKirsetin

“MOM?!” he says very loudly. “You picked Robert Morris to win?” As is often the case, he is confused by my NCAA March Madness bracket selections.

“Yes. My cousin played football there, and he’s in the hall of fame. Plus, his wife is in the hall of fame there for softball.”

Quietly now, “Mom, that doesn’t really have anything to do with basketball.”

“I know, honey, but that’s how I pick them. There are upsets every year. This could be the year for Robert Morris.”

But it wasn’t. And the list goes on.

I picked Pittsburgh because another cousin’s wife attended, they got married at Heinz Chapel, and I have aunts and uncles out the wazoo who live there.

I picked Notre Dame because it seems like they always win in the first round, despite the fact that they were playing a school that briefly looked at me as a bball player waaayyyy back in the day. (Should’ve gone with ODU for that very reason. Of course they pulled it off.)

I chose Cornell for one game because my old boss went there, but didn’t choose them again because it’s been such a tough year on that campus. I wish I would have…first time for the Ivy’s in the sweet 16! Sweet!

And I picked Duke to win it all for two reasons: 1) I went to high school in NC and always liked Duke, and 2) I wouldn’t pick Kansas to win for nothin’.

I was right about one thing. There have been upsets left and right…it is, after all, March Madness. It’s just too bad I didn’t call the right ones.

But for now, at least, Duke’s still in the hunt. Go Blue Devils!

Everybody else? Are you wondering, “Why in the heck is she talking about basketball?” or do you have some sweet picks of your own? Do you go by the numbers or share my method of choosing with the heart? Who’d you pick to win it all?

The Sensational and Horrific

March 20, 2010lifeKirsetin

This week has been filled with some crazy and disturbing news.

There’s the story about the guy who smoked some weed, drank some whiskey, and left his baby in the oven overnight. (The oven was off; the baby is physically fine.)

The plane that hit and killed a jogger on Hilton Head Island.

And a guy who held his knee on a 2-year old girl’s chest until she stopped breathing.

What’s going on out there, people? Can you point me to some good stories? Hope, happiness, joy?

Maybe newspapers ought to start a page called News About Decent People, Actions and Events. Is that still news? Is it news that people will read, or can papers forced to print only the sensational and horrific because that’s what we buy?