How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

This Weeks. . . . . . . . . Confessions From Suburbia

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I went out to the drug store today and didn’t wear a bra.

I threw out a Tupperware full of moldy pizza sauce instead of washing it because the rancid goop made me gag.

I was pretty sure that flattened box of Cheerios blowing down the street on recycling day was mine but I didn’t chase it.

I did not give at the office. I’m just not giving to you. You are the third charity to knock on my door in just under two weeks and clearly I’m just not that nice.

I let my child wear two different socks to school today. Hey they were both white. At this point that counts as a match!

I used the TV as a babysitter. I let the girls watch an extra half hour of TV so I could talk on the phone without interruption.

I’m not going on the field trip because I just don’t want to. I’ve been on the same field trip twice now and I’m tired. Bad bad Mommy.

I made good use of my favorite phone feature…call screen. Good luck getting through.

I faked it…….
passed off store bought cookies as homemade. What? Did you think I meant something else?

Yep this is me, just trying to survive life here in the suburbs.

    • Comments

    1. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. What a riot!

      Passing off the store-bought cookies as my own…..I wouldn’t do THAT! Shhhh! Just don’t tell my Hubby, K?

    3. So funny. You are so normal!!! Well, you know that I would have ran after the cheerio box and most likely I would have broke an ankle doing it….but today, I did not wash my hair. don’t tell anyone!!

    4. I throw tupperware away, all the time. I’ve actually gone to buying the gladware or ziplock brand ‘throw-aways’ just for this very reason. I’m glad I’m not the only one that does this.

    8. With the vast accessibility of replacement Tupperware/Gladware/Ziplocware, etc., it becomes much easier to throw out the offending item rather than open it and deal with the stench and chore of scrubbing it out.

      Not to mention the pretty orange stain that will inevitably be left behind in the container!

    9. I’m blogging instead of sitting at a baseball game in the rain with my 3rd graders school.

      Feel better?

      And by the way, I absolutely LOVE the new look!!!!!

    10. oh well, that’s life, we do what we have to! One of my boys did the sock thing yesterday. I’ve been sick with a bad cold all week and am way behind on laundry.

    13. If I had a quarter for every “dish” I threw away because I didn’t want to puke from opening the lid I’d be a very rich woman! lol

    14. Awesome!
      your list is truely human and made me LOL :-}
      Living in my neck of the woods Nobody wears a bra at the Wal-Mart or shoes for that matter
      I DO of Course

    15. LOL… good girl on all of these. I would totally have thrown out that tupperware container, too. In fact, I’ve done that before. And TV can be a great babysitter sometimes, you know. Loved this post! You rock, mama!