Why technology has my arse in a sling.

by Kelley on February 9, 2010

no tv

please ignore the dying plant and artillery. Or not.

Today was a day with no televison. Not once was the TV turned on.

Not for the morning show to watch the news.

Not for the banality that is morning TV.

Not for Dr Phil.

Not for Oprah.

Not even for motherfucking Martha Stewart.

Now before you go all ‘WOW she has some serious restraint cause Martha was decorating cakes AND laundries today’ and I die a little inside because they are my two ob-freaking-sessions right now, it is not because I have gone on some weirded out hippy TV rots your brain tangent and will start duct taping scalding hot stones to my upper torso.

It was because I couldn’t find the remote.

Some fucker hid the bastard and because someone thinks it is absolutely necessary to hook shit up through other shit and have a fucking communicating remote that is all ‘did that fix the problem?’ and I am all NO IT DID NOT FIX THE PROBLEM BECAUSE I CANNOT FIND THE DAMN REMOTE TO ANSWER YOU, and if I don’t have the motherfucking communicating remote I have no freaking CLUE how to turn the TV on through the PVR/DRV/DVR/PVA/MIA/MRI thingamahboobie.

So today I sat in silence. And learned far more than I ever needed to about the Power Rangers.

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Awwww, that is the gutter where I met your father…

photo credit: Moo.  Pretty good considering she was doubled over with the laughter.
Twenty years ago today, my boyfriend kissed me goodbye, got in his car and drove to a new life.  Thousands of miles away.
Twenty years ago today, while standing in the driveway waving goodbye to a boyfriend who was a good filler between boyfriend [...]

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Life goes on.

I sit in front of my computer.
A fresh cooling breeze hitting my shoulders from the open window beside me.
The TV is off, the only sounds are Strong Bad on loop coming from Boo’s bedroom while he sits in the family room with MPS making a ‘movie’.
I hear a helicopter in the distance, the only thing [...]

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Dude is a playa. Mummy has been pwned.

‘We will have takeaway for dinner’ were the first words out his mouth when I picked him up.
‘Nope’ was my reply.
For the next hour he vacillated between screaming and sobbing and heartwrenching looks and totally broke my resolve, culminating with me -

laying next to him on his bed while he cried into my hair with [...]

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When Urban Dictionary gets it right, it is right ALL THE WAY BABY.

Click image to largerize…
nuff said. Bow to me.
P.S. there was another definition but I thought I would give the people at Urban Dictionary the heads up that I am not blonde nor blue eyed.  So they can fix it.  I am not only humble but helpful as well.
P.P.S. I totally stole this idea from [...]

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Hobos, Grammar Nazi’s and first days. Sans pants.

Today Boo was up and raring to go.  Dressed and packed for his first day of the school year an HOUR AND A HALF ahead of time.
Too did the usual ‘whatevz’ but left the house sporting her new awesome messenger bag and the cutest pencil case ON EARTH.
Moo lounged around in bed, as you do [...]

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While I was gone…

I took a break.
The internet still worked. People still Twittered and Facebooked and laughed and cried and sent messages of hope and support, took pictures of their children and sent naked photos to one another and fuckers still trolled.
I took a break. And it was lovely.
On Wednesday last week I was lying in [...]

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not ready yet.

I am not dead.
I am not languishing in the senior citizens lounge of the local hospital like last year, nor am I in the ‘mental hospital getting the help you obviously need’ {fuck you troll, sideways with my trusty moulding razorblade encrusted pineapple}.
I am not on some awesome luxury holiday with my every need being [...]

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phone call with my mother.

I was out shopping with Boo. As I am allowed to do because I am A FUCKING ADULT AND CAN DECIDE TO DO CRAZY THINGS LIKE TAKE MY KID SHOPPING FOR SCHOOL SHOES when MOTY called me on my mobile.
‘Where are you? Why aren’t you at home? What are you doing?’
‘Calm down [...]

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Cause I freaking rock this mothering caper

Is it wrong that, moments after finding out that Moo has been offered a place at her 1st choice university, I start mentally turning her room into a Mothers Retreat?
Already gotz me the combination lock and perused google for WHITE lounges and big fluffy pillows.
What?
You can’t tell me that you wouldn’t do the same.
{in reality [...]

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