I know you don’t like your high school and want to transfer to the public school. But you spent all of freshmen year getting detentions and underperforming academically. You expect me to believe that you’ll get better grades and behave yourself if I put you in another school. I do not believe you and I can’t reward your behavior. I can’t tell you this because I’m trying to be positive and help you learn from your mistakes. But I am dreading the start of school, the calls from the deans, the conferences with teachers. I was looking at pictures of you the other day from when you were a little boy and we were so close. How did we get here?
Turns out the copier needs new PARTS, not new PANTS
You’re a grocery store. How can you not have broccoli? It would be like going to MacDonalds and they don’t have French fries.
Not long after my last post, the puppy woke up and was wandering around in our small office. I realized I was smelling DIRT. I looked around and the puppy had gotten into a potted plant and flung damp dirt all over the carpet. I forgot that puppies are like manic toddlers! Oh, and then while I was cleaning up the mess, my cockatiels landed on me and kept bugging me.
Now there is Heinz mayonnaise and Hellman’s ketchup! I am trying to adapt.
When faced with a difficult professor who grades hard and an easy professor, the choice is simple: choose the guy who grades easier. No, you do not need a “challenge” and no you do not need to learn it. You look like me but we are obviously not related. To get into medical school you need good grades. I took every easy grader there was in college and was sneaky about choosing classes where I would get good grades. My son, on the other hand, loves to learn and likes a challenge. #momfail #truth #c’sdonotallowyoutoattendmedicalschool [sigh] I am being somewhat sarcastic… 
You looked embarrassed when you saw me because yes I was the one who called you out on it. You SHOULD be embarrassed.
Nobody, including his four siblings, thought to tell DH that his mom was diagnosed with breast cancer a year ago?? I don’t get his family AT ALL.
Wow… there actually are doctors IRL who can compete with the Gold Standard set on Hollywood shows. It’s such a different (great) feeling when one comes across such a person. I’d offer you my firstborn, but he’s already married. Will you still be around (and working) to partner with my med school lad when he needs someone terrific to get his feet wet with post med school? You’d love him - and he’d love you. Retirement is rather boring or so I hear…
If I had a dime for every time my mother in law was a ■■■■■, I’d be pretty rich. But I have to thank her…for showing me exactly what kind of MIL I will never b
four and a half months ago I asked you to make two simple cuts in the marble . I didn’t nag much because it was for my mom grave and I know you have a thing about her. AND you loaned out the saw before you got it done and it was stolen. yeppers, I have to say I saw it coming. Not the steal but not doing it for me. Kind of still breaks my heart. last time I swear for you to diss her.
Six year-old and stage IV metastatic cancer are phrases that should never be spoken together.
Alas.
Why, God?
Ugh, sometimes I wish you didn’t go to school in the Middle East. The person who needed to approve your visa doesn’t get why you would be there studying English, so he refused to help you and told you to come back in 25 days. I’m being a helicopter parent and talking to AUB’s office in New York City. The woman said she will follow up and talk to her colleagues in Beirut. She said they will be able to resolve this. I hope so. 
Drove to the airport, and poof, once again, you are gone.
So frustrating when people get a new puppy and don’t share photos . . . 
My husband has been away for a week. It’s been wonderful.
Dear Dress Designers,
Please enter the 21st Century and realize that we no longer have ladies’ maids to help us zip up our clothing. And please note that many of us live and/or travel alone. (This goes especially for you who design jumpsuits and wonder why no one buys them - have you ever tried going to the bathroom in one, without an entourage?)
Please begin making women’s clothing that we can put on by ourselves!
Thanks.
Beyond happy that a lingering (LONG lingering) work item is off my desk. Beside myself.
Finally tackling that to-do list for the summer, less than 2 weeks before school starts (for me!) again!
It was a nice time in Maine. Dreading the long flights back to Asia and the end of our summer on Friday.