Confessions of a Middle-Aged Suburban Diva: What my house looks like as I try to pack for a week-long family trip

3.29.2008

What my house looks like as I try to pack for a week-long family trip

chaos.

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4 comments:

Jen said...: I'm right there a week from yesterday. I hate packing for trips. Ugh.; 9:11 AM
Kate said...: I too am about to have this problem as i will be packing for a two week trip in OZ next week!; 1:58 PM
janey jay said...: Y'all, I wish I had some great advice or tips to pass along -- but I don't.

Kate -- I'm totally jealous over your two-weeker to OZ next week. Take lots of pictures!; 3:14 PM
Jenn in Holland said...: Hope you're having a blast.
My house is in the same state a week AFTER the holiday. Seems like it never gets caught up...; 12:13 PM

great things someone else said

Hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty. the audacity of hope: In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation, a belief in things not seen, a belief that there are better days ahead.

~ President Barack Obama

What I really wanted was to have a job like Darrin Stephens on 'Bewitched', where you could be creative all the time.
~ Edie Brickell

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.
~ Helen Gurley Brown

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
~ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Lipstick traces on cigarettes can get you in trouble or remind you of the wonders of the night before.
~ Bob Dylan

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.
~ Emmylou Harris

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
~ Rudyard Kipling

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.
~ Dorothy West

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
~ Dorothy Parker

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.
~ Margaret Atwood

Music is the real place where democracy lives -- every note is equal.
~ Vince Gill at the 2008 Grammy Awards

What's the use of naturally curly hair if no one's jealous?
~ Frieda, from the Peanuts comic strip

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person.
~ John Boorman

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
~ Isaac Singer

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet him with, "Who could have done this? We have no enemies."
~ Phyllis Diller

Getting older, I think you just have to accept that we are all just big goobers.
~ Reese Witherspoon

Writing is the supreme solace.
~ Somerset Maugham

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3.29.2008

What my house looks like as I try to pack for a week-long family trip

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