“For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas.”
What a way to wrap up the holiday season. Every bit as sobering as 2004’s tsunami in the Indian Ocean: less immediately heart-rending, perhaps, but with clearer long-term global consequences.
Acorn returned from his sojourn with his father on Xmas day, and has spent the last thirty-six hours alternately opening presents and sleeping. His method for opening gifts involved long periods of playing with each new toy (and then going back to check on previously-opened ones) before going on to open the next one. [...]
Dear Santa,
I think I have been a good girl this year. I know I’ve tried.
For Christmas, if you bring me anything, I would like you to bring me a job. Six months and counting of active searching is wearing down my spirit, and the seasonal gig I’ve lined up for the spring won’t help for [...]
Her Most Serene Highness Lady Mouse the Sheepish of Old Yarkhillshire
Seems appropriate, somehow.
(via Pharyngula )
I ran across this post earlier today. It’s a good example of something I could have found hilarious, if the lack of a good editor to tighten the prose (a mixed blessing of the blogging world, in my opinion) and the author’s cynicism about the Santa legend (he seems to be of the “Santa [...]
Dear Company That Claims to Want to Hire Me,
My name is Country Mouse, blogger, mother, and semiprofessional skeptic.
Titling your email regarding a job “(not MLM)” (which is to say, “not multi-level marketing”) does nothing to enhance my confidence in the legitimacy of your company. Neither does starting your message with “Your resume was [...]
At the risk of this sounding like some emo LiveJournal entry…
I miss my son. I miss him desperately. I miss having to shape my day around his needs, having him climb on my back for an impromptu piggyback ride, sharing my cereal with him even when it’s identical to what’s in his bowl. [...]
“So,” my dad tells me, “I’d been in the kitchen scrubbing the stove. And I stepped back into the living room, and the front door was standing wide open, and the cats were coming and going at will.”
Minutes later, he opens door to the garage, and in darts one skinny, perturbed black cat. [...]
A few days ago, my aunt brought a tin of Christmas candy to my grandfather’s house. Acorn was playing in the living room while the adults played a board game in the dining room, but he realized pretty quickly that there was a rare treat to be had. So I made him practice saying, “Candy, [...]
Acorn’s having a great time with his dad, from the sound of things. All our work on his speech is paying off, too: here’s what he said while I was chatting to him tonight.
“Hi.
“Nnn.
“Nng.
” ‘Kay.
“Bye.
“Bye!”
None of these were close to being perfectly pronounced, except for ” ‘Kay,” but it was understandable, and it felt like [...]