Monthly Archives: September 2007

arr, says pirate henry

The newest addition to the Cranky family is, as usual, a Henry. This one is pink, and also a pirate. Arr.
I keep fussing around with the Cranky Pals website and I’ve added topside navigation, so now it is ABUNDANTLY CLEAR how people can click buttons to buy things from me. This is kind of me, [...]

waiting for the (language) explosion

Okay, I’m the last person you want to talk to about mother’s intuition. Well, maybe not the last, but certainly not in the top ten. But, see, I’ve been worried about Happy Fun Baby’s speech for, oh, ever, but until now he wasn’t officially a late talker. I don’t even know if he officially is [...]

morning people may have other annoying tendencies

Remember how I used to be all “Yeah, my kid might not go to bed until 11pm, but at least he sleeps until 9:30 or 10!” Remember that? Because wow, was I wrong. I mean, not then. Then I was right. But now? Now we are up, awake, bright-eyed, etc. at the ungodly hour of [...]

going the distance

I went for a jog this morning. No! I’m serious! Quit laughing, it isn’t nice.
As you can see, I went just over a mile…assuming you count the dip in the beginning when I decided to hop on the MAX instead of trying to find my way through the maze of construction on the way to [...]

happy talk like a pirate day!

Tags: talk like a pirate day, pirate, pirate baby

threadless loves me, and you should too

ETA: Aaaw, I didn’t make it past the first round…but thank to everyone who voted for me! I’ll just have to come up with something fabulous for next time…
I have a design in the running on Threadless! If it gets picked, it’ll be a Threadless tee, and I will achieve infamy and fortune. Or at [...]

technical difficulties (with the blog, not with me, for once)

ETA: Fixed! Yay for having a husband who knows how to do things with databases!
Comments are down, in case you hadn’t noticed – apparently the comments database crashed, and I need to do something to it. Since the extent of my database savvy is “Step 1: Identify the Problem” I’m hoping the internet will come [...]