Author Archives: Kari Neumeyer

Who me? Defensive? Dooce posted today about feeling like she constantly had to convince herself that the parenthood thing was going OK. I feel like that about my job. All signs point to my doing a spectacular job, everybody loves me, I’m sure to go far. But as I sit here and… aw jeez, nowContinue reading

The Tool Time Girl Did you know walnuts stain? Four doors in my house, so far. I think I’ve substantially raised the property value already. I still have half a can of walnut-colored stain left. I love it. No wood surface is safe…I even like the smell. Saturday, on my second of five trips thisContinue reading

Dammit I am a strong woman. I shouldn’t feel like crying when getting off the phone with a plumber, whom I will not be inviting back to my house. Problem’s the cheap toilet, he says. “You get what you pay for.” Like I picked it out. We’ll fix it our damn selves, rude guy.

Um, this is hard Back when I was a renter, I had a maintenance dude come out about a dozen times to repair my dishwasher. Said dishwasher flooded my kitchen a number of times, destroying my Buffy the Vampire Slayer board game and the inside of some cabinets. Over my birthday weekend, the maintenance dudeContinue reading

Blobs Among the personal blogs I’ve been trolling lately are three that I particularly enjoy. I’ve never met these women, but I feel like I know them. Lots of bloggers self-consciously try to be witty and hope or assume that the entire Internet is interested in reading about their boring lives (like, for example, theContinue reading

SOAP In between naps, Rob and I saw Snakes on a Plane. A bunch of the silly blogs I read say it’s such a fun movie, and while it’s not bad, per se, I think the funness depends on having a really enthusiastic crowd hissing and hollering and waving sock puppets. Our matinee crowd wasContinue reading

Well rested We still have a long list of things that need doing at the house, but I accomplished a very important one this weekend. I tested all the new pieces of furniture for nappability. They all work. Dozed off on the love seat watching TV Friday night, on the chair while reading Saturday afternoonContinue reading

Definitely not an appropriate use of company time or the company-issued camera phone But see how cute my hair is? Don’t I look just exactly like my avatar? It’s about the same hairstyle I wore when I was 9. Maybe now I’ll stop being mistaken for the mother of a college student.

Oh Happy Day It’s Friday, the sun is shining and in three hours, I get to go home and spend the whole weekend with my house. (Rob and Stew will be there too.) While Rob was away for the second of two 5-day stints, I taught his kickboxing classes. (The boxing gloves on the avatarContinue reading