What is better than overeating, spending time with family, and hours of kitchen clean-up? Bowling, of course. That’s what we did for Thanksgiving. I know what you are thinking. Only pathetic losers with nowhere to go and nothing better to do go bowling on Thanksgiving. But that’s not true. Losers aren’t people who bowl on Thanksgiving. Losers [...]
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Only Losers Don’t Go Bowling On Thanksgiving
Posted in What's for Dinner, tagged bowling, family, food, humor, life, pie, Thanksgiving, traditions on November 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
They Get Their Artistic Talent From Me
Posted in Animal Farm, tagged art, book report, college application, college scholarship on November 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The other night my 17 year old son spent a couple of hours looking online for college scholarships. Getting a scholarship is difficult. People are not willing to just give you $10,000–they want you to have accomplished something. They expect you to have leadership experience or good grades. Or, leadership experience and good grades. Then, [...]
On Blood and Vampires
Posted in Animal Farm, tagged donating blood, Twilight on November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just call me a hero. I’m going to save three people’s lives today. Or six, if they are babies. Because I signed up to donate blood. I haven’t given blood since college. Back then, my roommate was a nursing major. She would convince all of the girls living in our apartment to donate. Together, we’d [...]
Life’s Lessons Learned
Posted in Life's Lessons, tagged driving, humor, life, shoes, teenagers, weekend on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a few things to think about: If a teenager drives 50 mph in a residential zone; forgets to use his signal at every turn; and leaves the window rolled down, the car unlocked, and the keys in the ignition when he stops to go into a restaurant–he shouldn’t have his younger brother and sister [...]
Your Computer is on Fire
Posted in How (Not) To Do Stuff, Life's Lessons, Surviving Scouts, tagged back-up, computers, fire, scouts, scrapbook on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you were to create a list of things that reek when they burn, plastic would be at the top. Because burning plastic does not have the same odor as say, anything that smells good. The other day I was in my room when I smelled something melting. I came running out to the kitchen, [...]
A Waste of Time
Posted in What's Up With That?, tagged field trips, humor, life, parenting, school on November 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just received a rejection letter. Rejection letters are bad. Some are worse than others. Like rejection from an editor because your writing is not a good fit for their publication and besides, it stinks. Okay, I’ve never gotten one of those. But only because I’ve never submitted anything. I don’t have the right size [...]
Wacky Mac Snack
Posted in Life's Lessons, What's for Dinner, tagged election, friends, humor, life, teenagers on November 5, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Everyone at my house is upset about the election results. So is everyone in the whole world. I know this because my 17 year old told me that everyone on Facebook (i.e. the whole world) is upset. Okay, so those are only his friends he is talking about, but he has a lot of friends. [...]
Coming Down From the Halloween Sugar High
Posted in What's for Dinner, tagged candy, Halloween, humor, life, sugar, trick-or-treat on November 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of my neighbors gave out apples for Halloween this year. APPLES! Aside from the taboo against apples as Halloween treats, don’t they know that apples are NUTRITIOUS?! What if everyone started giving out healthy food? Imagine the trauma to our children. Imagine the childhood obesity epidemic decreasing. Imagine the loss of revenue to the candy [...]
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Posted in A Poll or Two, Trials of Blogging, tagged comments, poll on November 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Look, it’s another poll. You know it’s your civic duty to vote, right? Please leave a comment if you have any other ideas or suggestions. ________________________________________________________________________ Copyright by Life in the Highlands. All rights reserved. Get more good stuff. Subscribe by Email or Feed Reader. ________________________________________________________________________ Related Posts: Is There Anybody Out There? Wacky Mac [...]
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