The Archives
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fight the frump
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!
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fight the frump, homemaking madness
Fight the Bed Frump: Three sheets to the wind
06.13.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsDon’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 [...]
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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 CommentsYou’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 [...]
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fashion, fight the frump
Motherhood’s New Clothes
05.30.08 | Permalink | 11 CommentsIs 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 [...]
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money
Finance Frump
05.01.08 | Permalink | 14 CommentsFirst: You feel the tax rebate is: Most criminal use of taxpayer money ever! You want me to stimulate what? Hallelujah! Money! Money! Money! Why didn’t we have another kid in 2007? Second: The best way to spend it is: Save it all, baby. Blow it on 79 cute shoes. Invest in a Mutual What? [...]
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blogging, fight the frump, health, motherhood
Frump of Mind
04.24.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsThe 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 [...]
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fight the frump, health, motherhood
Going under the knife
04.18.08 | Permalink | 17 CommentsI 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 [...]
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