Month: October 2005

I think it’s time to pull out the big black kettle, put on my way cool kinda sparkley black cape and my big witches hat. No, not for dressing up for Halloween. I think it’s time to create some sort of magic brew to kick the Red Sox Pitching up a notch.

Good Lord, people, how much are we paying you to throw the ball over the plate in some sort of unhittable manner? That’s what I thought.

I don’t actually have a recipe for improving pitching, but it must involve eye of newt, which seems to be ubiquitous in witch recipes. It must be the salt and pepper of caldron cooking. I can probably come up with spider webs, looking up at the light fixture in my hallway. Eek. Gotta dust that puppy. Not the real puppy, the light fixture, silly. Where is your head?

So then the question is, do I avoid watching the game today. I think maybe I will, if at all possible. Then again, living with Mr. Dump, it’s not possible.

Not tater tots, silly. I mean the children. The two boys and the girl. Well, not the short boy – he’s too fussy and hates fizzy drinks.

I got my step-kids to drink Moxie over the weekend. I know, you’re thinking to yourself, “Moxie, didn’t they stop making that during WW1?” No. No they did not. They still make it, and the Coca-Cola company distributes it. They had it on the menu at the place that used to be called the Time-Less Diner up in Merrimack NH, which is now Joe’s something-or-other under new management. (Anyone know what happened with that, by the way?)

Their take? Nasty nasty nasty aftertaste. You drink it and think it’s kind of got a root beer undertone, and then, after you swallow, the burning aftertaste kicks in. Gah.

I’m such a good step-mom.

Okay, so I said I’d tell you what I was up to this weekend. I was knitting! I made me a wearable yarn-based garment! Woo! Go me!

See, I told you I can’t be trusted to go shopping, and not with my step-daughter. We got some round loom thingies and a ton of yarn and set to work. I got obsessive and finished mine. Now I’m working on a scarf for Mr. Dump, and then I’ll try a hat. Or a bookmark.

I had so much to tell you, but it seems Blogger is down. So I don’t know
if you’ll even see this until they are back up. The scary thing is that
I may have been down all weekend and I never noticed. The mesage says
they’re down for scheduled maintenance from like 4:30 to 5:30pm. So
that’s at least 17 hours ago.

If I had noticed they were down, I would have updated by hand. Can’t do
that from work.