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  Fight the Klutz Frump, and Other Tips for a Well-Lived Life

  06.19.08 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  ***Updated*** I should probably save all these tips for upcoming Works-for-Me Wednesday posts, but since Shannon could not be bothered to acknowledge my seven million shout-outs to her the other day (forget what I said about the Golden Rule, okay?), I just might start boycotting the carnival, which will really show her!

• fight the frump, homemaking madness

  Fight the Bed Frump: Three sheets to the wind

  06.13.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Don’t worry (or, I’m sorry), there’s nothing about sex in today’s post. Or inebriated sailors, or, as Wikipedia explains, a ship whose sheets have come loose. My brother (neither a sailor nor staggering drunk) called me earlier this week to ask my advice about sheets. He’s attending training for people who joined the Air Force [...]

• fight the frump, health, money

  Like trying a swimsuit on, only in front of your realtor and your mortgage broker

  06.05.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  You’ve probably heard that there’s a housing slump. But I’m not buying it. Unless by “slump” you mean that paying 229,000 for a screwy multi-level, 1600-square-foot house in an okay neighborhood is a steal. (Just nod, you New Yorkers; I know, life isn’t fair). Most of the time I feel really grateful for the money Dick [...]

• fashion, fight the frump

  Motherhood’s New Clothes

  05.30.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Is there anything worse than the perfume-pushers at department stores who douse the unwary? Probably not, but I also don’t like fashion or makeup or shopping. My ovaries have even failed me in my laundry endeavors. In fact, it is entirely possible that I am not a woman at all, except for those three children [...]

• blogging, fight the frump, health, motherhood

  Frump of Mind

  04.24.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  The first time I heard someone express a desire to “stick my head in the oven,” I thought, what a sad, defeatist attitude. What good could possibly come of that, unless you had a gas oven? But now I get it: I’ve been depressed the past couple weeks. It’s a situational depression that will go [...]

• fight the frump, health, motherhood

  Going under the knife

  04.18.08 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  I read an article in the New York Times six months ago that changed the way I view cosmetic surgery. I don’t say “plastic” surgery, because it was a plastic surgeon who sewed up my 4-year-old brother’s eyelids after a car accident left him full of broken glass. Plastic surgeons fix cleft palates and enable [...]

• breastfeeding, fashion, fight the frump

  Hide the Hunchback

  04.04.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  First, another confession, and then, an honest-to-appearance tip. I ran (in the minivan) to Walmart right after walking with Shalece today. While I didn’t shower or anything, I did change out of my exercise clothes. But if the same kind of people shop at your Walmart as do at mine (people like me), then you [...]

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