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Settle Down Kids: Back to School Edition

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
  • Remind them how many days until the school bus comes
  • Ask them to pack away their camp bags until next year
  • Make them go to bed early beginning a week before school to “practice”
  • Bag the lunches every day one week ahead of the start of school – again, good practice
  • Unearth the school shoes and set them by the door, ready for that first morning
  • Nix any plans for sleepovers and partying close to the first day of school
  • Calculate how many hours they’ll be in school this year; have them help with the math
  • Treat everyone to a fun trip to Staples for school supplies
  • Index all possible school lunches for easy pickings; place list prominently in the kitchen
  • Offer to do dry runs to school before that first day, just to practice
  • Unwrap new packages of pencils and get the kids to sharpen them
  • Smile to yourself as they roll their eyes and moan about not being ready for school or complain about all the practice

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I, also, am too pretty. And “too” other things. Like smart.

Monday, August 16th, 2010

OMG. I can’t stand it. Sorry for the Valley Girl-esque opening (is it still Valley Girl? If you use the initials?) She’s done it again. That HotMess who made the NY Times a couple of weeks ago is back opening her pie hole and saying stupid stuff. Have you seen this? Go — read it and come back. Quick.        So. Are you as amazed at her stupidity as I am? And are you, as I am, so jaded as to be almost without capacity to be as fully snarky as necessary to even write about her? And are you, as I am, wondering why I’m even wasting key strokes writing about her?

“I’m too pretty to be in jail. I’m a good person. I’m not a criminal and I will never go back there,” the “Jersey Shore” star said.

And,

“I don’t know why people take it so seriously,” the 22-year-old said. “I had a couple cocktails, and they just put me in a drunk tank to sober me up,” because “I was on the beach,” Snooki explained. ” It happens to the best of us, you know?”

Hmmmm. I do, in fact, consider myself to be “the best of us” and I don’t recall seeing Snooki at the monthly meetings, and nor have I ever found myself in the “drunk tank” after spending the day at the Jersey Shore. I would remember both of those things, and quite clearly too. Call it one of my peculiar foibles, but I work hard to avoid public drunkenness, the drunk tank, and police involvement in my expression of good times and good livin’. I’m just odd like that. And seeing as I’ve just come home from a week at the beach (albeit NC, not NJ) without any sort of criminal record or public drunkenness (not undertaken, and therefore not caught), I must again refute the suggestion that the best of us will have such a problem. (Actually, I believe it’s in the Best of Us charter, that public drunkenness — and your subsequent arrest — get you thrown out and your dues are not refunded.)

As for the “too pretty” assertion….again I say, fish in a barrel. She sets herself up for this, for crying out loud. Did she not read the NYT description of herself? Honestly, someone get her a copy of the paper. Or a mirror. HotMess.

UPDATE! Another Einstein from the Jersey Shore cast was arrested yesterday, on a couple of outstanding warrants. (The saddest thing — for me — is that the warrants were “unspecified” but rumored to be about unpaid parking tickets and there was no stupid statement about the best of us, or whatever. Rats.)

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