Money trees and other things that won’t help if you’re a robot.

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Have any of you been wondering about that damn money tree I bought back in February? Two things: (1) it’s alive and well, and (2) it isn’t working. Not one bit. It just sits on my fucking kitchen counter, still taunting me with its perpetual greenness. I’d been planning on finding buried treasure in the backyard, and much to my dismay that hasn’t happened. I’m beginning to think maybe money trees don’t work on robots. I may not have found any money for myself, but I did find some free money for you (yes, you). Tip Hero is doing another giveaway, and with Father’s Day fast approaching, they’re giving someone a chance to win a dad-themed prize. (But, if you win, you don’t actually have to give it to a dad. I won’t tell.) That’s right. One lucky winner bastard is going to walk away with a $100 Home Depot gift card that he/she may…

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Something normal for once. But, please don’t expect normalcy on a regular basis.

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All the talk about books last week got me thinking we should start a virtual summer reading list right here on Spilled Milk. Keep reading, it gets better… Sometimes I get annoyed at how certain sub-par books (cough, cough –…

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The birds and the bees and guinea pig sex.

guineapigsex

On Monday I randomly stumbled upon this little gem when doing “Internet research” for my 303 column: The product description reads: On a seemingly unrelated note, last month I attended (the last hour of) this really great Parenting Safe Children…

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Add it to the laundry list (part 2).

momsheart

A very dear friend on mine – - a best friend I’ve known since second grade and the one I used to pretend to pee like a boy with – - lives about ten miles south of the area in…

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The trouble with strangers, and the even greater trouble with dissecting strangers.

troublewithstrangers

I recently attended (the last hour of) this really awesome 4-hour-long Parenting Safe Children workshop. There was tons of good info., and I highly recommend it to my fellow Denver friends. I also highly recommend The Berenstain Bears Learn About…

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Wrapping it up.

bearscoversudafed

It’s that time of the week again, friends. This week, when I wasn’t blogging about flesh-eating Disney princesses and robots or tweeting with Peggy Orenstein, I was… Writing about a whole new kind of health care reform that WILL be…

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Any self-discovery centered around robots pretty much deserves its own blog.

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You know that ah-ha moment when everything in your life suddenly comes together in this seamless, perfect way? Well… 1: Last night I had a dream that I accidentally got a bio-mechanical robot arm tattooed onto my right arm. It looked a…

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The best way to fight off flesh-eating princess zombies is with a chainsaw. You can thank me later.

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Here’s what I’ve got for you today, my friends: flesh-eating princess zombies, more shit that shouldn’t exist, and another reason I’m sick of parenting books. A friend of mine had a baby and has been blogging about this book by…

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My battle with the Internet continues.

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Sadly, I fear it’s a losing battle, friends. When I went to make my URL tiny for Twitter, I noticed this: No, Google, you prove you’re not a robot. (Oh, wait…)

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I’m sorry, but I’m not sorry.

FB eff you

I feel like I should apologize for the number of times I’ve talked about my bowel movements in the past few months. But, I won’t. I won’t do it. My toddler is in the midst of potty training. Yesterday, while…

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Mother’s Day twenty thirteen…

WStag

… or, as I like to call it, Mother’s Day a la Lorena Bobbitt. Yesterday, after getting really fed up because Williams-Sonoma had sent me ANOTHER email about all of the kitchen appliances my husband should be buying me for…

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Wrapping it up.

westword-old

Let us review some of the shit I did this week when I wasn’t here… I wrote a special Mother’s Day blog for Westword. (Spoiler alter: this one’s all about mommy animals that violently kill and occasionally devour their young.) I shared…

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General Electric is fucking with me.

OptimalDry

This has literally tormented me every single day for the past year since we moved into our new(ish) home: Riddle me this, GE: When the fuck would I ever want my clothes to be anything other than optimally dry? The…

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