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Ravings of a Real American Housewife (and Her Husband)

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Mr. Plow, That Name Again Is. . .

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

It has been a looooong “winter” “break.”  It all started a few weeks ago before the kids were off of school.  My family and I went grocery shopping, came home, and couldn’t get into our door.  That’s right, we were locked out of our own house.  How did we solve this inconvenient problem?  Well we had [...]

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Tags: Funny · General Stuff

Whop Out!

December 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Burger lovers all across America are being Punk’d by Burger King claiming to have taken away their most famous slogan:  Home Of The Whopper.  No longer.  As a new advertising scheme, the “people on top” decided to trick customers into thinking the Whopper was gone, when in fact they just wanted to video tape their [...]

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Tags: Funny · General Stuff · Pop Culture

St. Nick Gets Bigger

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

St. Nick sucks!  Well, maybe that’s a little harsh, but what a ridiculous, made-up, money-grubbing “holiday!”  I don’t have a problem giving my children little gifts to “hold them over” until Christmas, but it’s so painfully unnecessary to give my children something to look forward to, when all they have is stuff to look forward [...]

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Ho, Ho, Ho!

November 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

It’s the busiest, dumbest, most expensive, bloodiest, and most ridiculously biggest shopping day of the year. You fools!! I slept in today while my husband washed all the Thanksgiving dishes. After my kids had a piece of pumpkin pie for lunch, I did my nails and took a bath while he feverishly fixed the X-Box–is [...]

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Here’s To You Mrs. Robinson

November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

I was recently reading an article in “Vogue” magazine about Michelle Obama, the wife of a presidential candidate called Barack, and the reading was going pretty well (about as well as a reading from John Edwards), until I got to the last three paragraphs of a five page “quick hitter” documentary. If any of you [...]

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