Anyone can change a diaper. It takes a special woman to launder a daughter's thong.

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02 February 2010

In a Rut


So are you prepared - dear reader - to imagine this scenario in the Spin household . . .


Veggie with a respectable full-time job. . . earning money?

Trigger on ADD meds. .. and (according to her latest report from college) a neat freak????

Ponzi out of funds because I've learned to lock my wallet up at night???

Veggie on the verge of purchasing her own car. . . with her own insurance policy. . . .so that it no longer matters if she cracks ours up????

Trigger staying out of the emergency room????

Ponzi completing the college application process without a hiccup. . .and already accepted at two universities?

Veggie easily passing her employer's drug testing???

Did I tell you that Trigger is on ADD meds?

Ponzi deciding not to go to a concert and selling her ticket for a profit????

Veggie's travel plans being confined to weekends. . .  and limited to the Northeast corridor????

Trigger . . . Well, she's still away at school so she could be doing God-knows-what there. . . but the beauty of it is. . .  God knows the bad things she's doing, while I'm still in the dark!!!!

Ponzi. . . Now would you believe it if I told you that she's .  . . well . . . . less scheming????

I ask you. . .  where have the good old days gone????


Truth be told. . .  within the last week Veggie stayed out 'til 2:30 a.m.. . . Trigger overdrew her bank account once again. . . and Ponzi attempted to steal twenty bucks from me (twice). . .  but still . . . I dare say we're closing in on boring here. . .

31 January 2010

Yeah, Sometimes I Need a Big Old Slice. . .


Don't you love it how we old ladies don't know how to text? said A Mom on Spin lightheartedly to another mother as she watched her painstakingly depressing the keys on her cell phone. . . never guessing that she was attempting to contact an individual on the run - accused of stealing $13,000 from A Mom on Spin's favorite hippie priest.

Today is my son's birthday she replied.   I doubt if he still has the same cell phone with him, but I just wanted him to know that somebody still loves him. . .

And I thought I had it tough with the sticky boobs. . . 



26 January 2010

Come to Think of It. . . I Still Don't Know if She Was Peeing or Not





So, I've never really told you this, but the real reason I didn't want Trigger to go away to college is that I somehow knew that one day I was destined to receive this panicked phone call, which came in at approximate 8:53 on Sunday morning. . . .

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Me:  Hello?

Trigger:  Mom!  I'm in the most pain I've ever been in in my life!  Should I go to the emergency room?

Me:  What's wrong?

Trigger:  I told you yesterday!  My throat is so sore it feels like it's swollen shut. . .my glands are HUGE and my neck's all swollen. . . I can't move it, you know. . . and I can't touch it. . .  and I have the worst headache I've ever had in my life. . . and it's going down my spine now. . . and I've never been in so much pain in my entire life!  Should I go to the emergency room or not?

Me (considering. .  .) That much pain?  More than the time you broke your right foot in that Irish Dancing competition?

Trigger:  Yup!

Me:  More than the time you broke your left foot playing basketball?

Trigger:  More!

Me:  And what about the two times I brought you to the emergency room with pleurisy?  More than even those times?

Trigger:  Way more!

Me:  How about the appendicitis?  It can't hurt more than the time you had your appendix out. .  .

Trigger:  Mom!  That was Ponzi, not me!

Me:  What?

Trigger:  Mom!  I didn't ask you anything. Talk to me!

Me:  I'm trying!  But your father wants to know if you have a fever. .  .and if you were out at a frat party last night. .  . oh, and are you peeing. .  .

Trigger:  Of course I wasn't out last night, Mom!  I'm sick!  And I don't even know if I have a fever 'cause I can't find my thermometer!  And  what business is it of his if I'm peeing or not?

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And if, by chance, you can't imagine a conversation worse than that one, I'm here to tell you that once Trigger was indeed in the emergency room (and I, in church mind you. . . ) our primary means of conversation then became texting:


Trigger:  Am hooked up to an I.V. now and they're giving me lots of medicine.

Me:  did u tell them u have lupus and did u give them you rheumatologist name (I have yet to master the art of punctuation and capital letters while texting. .  .)


Trigger:  Yeah, but they said I had to get hooked up right away.

Me:  r u dehydrated u father was right i bet u werent peeing what medicine they giving

Trigger:  I don't know!

Me:  ask them then tell them that doctor milkmans number is two one two eight five three two two nine three (How does one text a number???)

Trigger:  Some antibioitics, some painkillers, antinflammoatory (spelling has never really been Trigger's strong suit. .  .) and something so I don't throw up.

Me:  i think im going to throw up send it here

Trigger:  Mom!


I could go on like this forever,
but know that if Trigger were not back
in her dorm room within two hours of these texts,
I would not be here reporting to you as an ever-faithful  . . .




23 January 2010

Dear Mr. President of Sticky Boobs, Inc.



Dear Mr. (or perhaps Ms. - but a woman would have known better) President of Sticky Boobs, Inc.,

Despite the fact that there was no acknowledgement to my previous correspondence last January,  I find that I am once-again at your mercy. . .  begging you to take some action on my behalf.  And, yes, the reason for my correspondence does have to do with the stickiness of your product. . . but not in the manner of which you and I spoke last year. (Well, I spoke.  You never saw fit to reply. )

This time I would like to simply ask the following question:


If your boobs are so sticky, why - then - do they not stick around?

Wait.  Let me state that more succinctly. Why do your sticky boobs not stick around where they belong?

For, Mr. (or perhaps, Ms. - but a woman would have known better) President of Sticky Boobs, Inc., it appears that whenever your sticky boobs are needed by one of my three daughters, they are no where to be found.  Sadly, it seems,  those little rascals are often carelessly left at a friend's house after a big sleepover. . . buried deep in the recesses of the dog's crate (Don't blame her. She's a retriever!) . . . or - as is most-often the case - smushed in the closet or suitcase of another daughter.  And guess who it is who ends up having to shell out yet-more money on her daughters' boobs, Mr. President?

That's right.  Me.

Case in point. . .

Just the other day I was forced to leave my sick bed in order to drive Ponzi to the corset shop so she could spend a whopping $48 of my money on a set of your push-up-enhanced sticky boobs. (Yes, I know Ponzi has her license, but the Spin Family has been short a car ever since Veggie's accident - may Percy rest in peace - and all of my daughters refuse to drive my 1999 minivan, but I guess that's a story for another day . . .)  When I inquired as to the whereabouts of the countless other boobs I had purchased for Ponzi in the past, I was informed that Trigger took all of the good sticky boobs back to college with her, Mom!  And, although Trigger may have left some bad boobs behind in the wake of her departure, no decent mother worth her salt would entrust her teenage daughter's decency at a rock concert in the heart of New York City to a pair of bad (or shall I say sticky-challenged?) boobs!

So I ask you. . .  .  Should it be my fault if Trigger has sticky fingers in the sticky boob department?

I think not.

In fact, I think it's your fault Mr. (or perhaps Ms - but a woman would definitely have know better) President of Sticky Boobs, Inc.!  Yes, it's your fault for not having some sort of elaborate locking mechanism. . . or security-encrypted packaging. . . or, better yet. . .  . voice-activated adhesive . . . attached to your boobs.  That way they could actually stick around and be available to the rightful boob-owner when she needed them.

Could you work on that for me?

Tell you what. . .  I won't even charge you for the intellectual properties associated with the voice-activated idea if you would just market the product.   Having the correct boobs at my daughters' disposal when they need them would be payment enough.

Signed, one of your best customers (albeit, reluctantly)


Oh. . .  and I still think you would make a killing in the sticky thong (ouch!) department. . . .