Generation X Meets Generation iPod

I’m an old lady.
Not in age, unless you listen to a 13-year-old, but in attitude. These kids today just irritate the crap out of me, and I think they need to just grow the hell up.
So what am I going off about today? iPods and latte. Yup. Even these simple things can send me into  [...]

And My Idiotic Act of the Week Is…

We got a dog. A puppy, actually. And I am starting to wonder what the hell I was thinking. Seriously!
The husband swore we wouldn’t get another black lab, but when he saw her, he realized that our Lucy was really a black greyhound. This little girl (named Lizzie by our middle boy) is almost pure [...]

Screwing Around at Work and Getting Away With It

Yep. Blogging at work. And with the boss’s okay, even. See, she’s had some difficulty with her wireless keyboard putting in too many letters at a time. Her correspondence is starting to look something like this:
To whooooom ittt may conerrrnn. This is ofiiiiiiicial busssssinesssss.
So, as the resident techie (and don’t you feel sorry for the [...]

Spoofing and iTunes Crack

I’ve been spoofed. Not in the Hot Shots/Airplane/Police Squad kind of way, but in the dirty, nasty spammer sort of way. Last week I started getting all these “undeliverable” messages in my email and couldn’t figure out why. Then I saw the original email address was something like bob@catherinwade.com and rachel@catherinwade.com and dirtylittleblankityblank@catherinwade.com. After emailing [...]

Snow Pics

As promised, I’ll share some pics of our lovely little snow storm. Remember that new garden and patio I built this last summer? This one:

Well, now it looks like this:
And the kids? Well, the stuff is over their little heads:
And you can catch a wave in my front yard:
Gotta love a blizzard!

Work At Home Mom?

As all three of you who read this blog know, I work outside the home. One could argue that I actually make my living writing, since I take cognitive (IQ) tests and academic tests that others have administered and turn them into a cohesive report that hopefully makes sense to the parents of the kids [...]