1. memory is a gift. cherish it.
    last night i watched The Diving Bell and the Butterfly…which, by the by, is easily one of the best movies i’ve ever seen…it’s the true story of Elle Magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a massive stroke, leaving him mentally aware but completely paralyzed with the exception of his left eye. he literally blinks out [...]
    Filed in The Friends, the old school ali | 15-Jul-08 | 27 comments
  2. sometimes classics are classics for a reason. you hear that, Hasbro??
    I love games. I always have. I guess it’s my competitive nature. And since ‘playing sports’ to me involves a big-screen television and a big-ass beer, I need to be competitive beat someone somewhere. Risk. Monopoly. Scattergories. Balderdash. Backgammon. Battleship. Trivial Pursuit. Clue. Scrabble. Boggle. Blokus. You name it. I’ll play it. And I’ll do everything [...]
    Filed in The Friends, The Snark | 11-Jun-08 | 37 comments
  3. grab your crackers. there’s cheese ahead
    way back when Ali was a wee lass (yes, i realize i am still kinda sorta of the wee lass persuasion) … back when i was littleali. when i looked like this… well, way back then, i went to private school. like my kids do. jewish day school. like my kids do. and when i was [...]
    Filed in The Friends, the girl behind the screen | 02-Jun-08 | 25 comments
  4. my mother forgot my birthday
    again. (oh yes, that’s right. it’s not the first time.) (i can remember many a time getting pulled from class with a phone call from my mom apologizing for forgetting. back in the olden days when we didn’t all carry cell phones) and i don’t even have my very own long duck dong. or my very [...]
    Filed in The Friends | 23-May-08 | 47 comments
  5. second time’s a charm
    i’ve spoken before about how the husband and i have zero sympathy for each other as far as our hands go. i have tendonitis. in my right hand. there’s things i can’t do. like put on my bra and open jars. he has a broken bone. in his right hand. there are things he can’t do. like [...]
    Filed in The Friends, The Husband | 29-Apr-08 | 23 comments
  6. payback! and some hidden talents! and a rarity!
    Remember when i went to St. Lucia? and remember when i told you that it was a great vacation but the service was so bad it was almost comical? and remember when i told you that Ilana was on the case?? well, lookie what showed up yesterday…. Our apologies are reiterated for any unhappiness experienced by you [...]
    Filed in The Family, The Friends, the girl behind the screen | 08-Apr-08 | 21 comments
  7. XLII and ali eats cake
    i won’t lie. i didn’t want the Giants to win. In general, i find New York fans of any kind to have a sense of worthiness that i find grating and annoying (there are some exceptions, of course…like my friend Adrienne and metalia, who i will allow to be both new yorkers and fans…but only [...]
    Filed in The Friends | 04-Feb-08 | 24 comments
  8. Mommy toilet training boot camp
    the nanny is too soft. and the husband is too laid back about this whole toilet training thing. they wait for her to ask for the bathroom…which works sometimes…but, people, she’s TWO. she needs to be reminded. she needs to be picked up while she’s playing. she needs to be supervised. gone are the days when [...]
    Filed in The Baby, The Friends, The Snark, the CBA | 14-Jan-08 | 30 comments
  9. weekendables…also, i might be rainbow brite
    guess what we were doing at 10am on sunday morning?? if you guessed sitting around in pajamas drinking hot chocolate and playing the wii…you are officially dead to me. because, alas, we were not doing these things. any of them. we were digging ourselves out of six feet of snow* to get to our friends’ [...]
    Filed in The Boy, The Family, The Friends | 17-Dec-07 | 15 comments
  10. of harassing and hidden f-bombs
    my eyes are tired today. combination of two things, likely. the first, not my fault, and the second, entirely my fault. it was a jam-packed weekend, as usual. and i haven’t changed my two-week disposable contacts, since, um, October 30th. (shh. please don’t tell my eye doctor. he’d murder me) took the two younger bunnies over [...]
    Filed in The Family, The Friends | 03-Dec-07 | 14 comments
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