Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Dec 10, 2009, 10:31 pm
Dinosaur Mom Seal of Disapproval goes to Maryland Surgeons, who saw my mother-in-law on Monday, called on Tuesday to schedule her for surgery next week to remove her gall bladder, and then called me t...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Dec 9, 2009, 9:37 pm
I am inspired by news of l2saint's pregnancy to provide tips on parenting babies and toddlers. The bad news is that being a parent of a baby or toddler is difficult in the sense that it is exhau...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Dec 7, 2009, 9:25 pm
BoyMan: The so-called "cartoons" they show these days aren't worthy of the name. Me: What's your idea of a good cartoon? BoyMan: "Ed, Edd and Eddy" and "SpongeBob" are good cartoons. Me: We...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Dec 5, 2009, 8:28 pm
Komarovsky, this one's for you.
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Dec 5, 2009, 7:17 pm
I went to an Al-Anon meeting this week for the first time in several months. No new alcohol-related horror drove me to the meeting, I just figured I would go check it out. I decided against sharing ...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Dec 2, 2009, 10:32 pm
Pain: UTI or IC outbreak brought on by too many days of soda pop and malt liquor. Pleasure: Thank heavens something stopped me from drinking malt liquor! Pain: Gas Pleasure: Delicious Italian dinner ...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 30, 2009, 7:24 pm
I may not be making inroads toward multimedia celebrity, but my avatar had a guest starring role in a Thanksgiving production over at Liquid Egg Product. Yea, I do Pitye ye Fool, who doth treat with y...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 27, 2009, 6:01 pm
Holiday idyll Would have come at a great cost - The father-in-law.
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 25, 2009, 9:30 pm
Since a Facebook friend asked me for my candied yam recipe, I will share it here in a spirit of holiday joy and joyness.This is adapted from the recipe for "Yummy Candied Yams" in The New Basics Cookb...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 23, 2009, 9:35 pm
I am still waiting for someone to write a handbook on dysfunctional parenting. To wit, I seek instruction on the art of mitigating the havoc I am wreaking on my precious offspring by spending most of...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 22, 2009, 7:06 pm
Riley Dino is a great fan of country music. He embraces his rural heritage. He imagines himself driving a pick-up truck and living out in the country somewhere - possibly Florida, where the Protosaurs...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 20, 2009, 5:59 pm
I don't feel a whit healthier than I did three days ago. Today all three kids were home. Babushka did not have a full-on temper tantrum at my continued presence on her turf, but she did catch he...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 19, 2009, 9:18 pm
The younger two are sick. Mouse has been home all week, and Riley Dino was home yesterday and today. I have the early stages of it myself. If it weren't for the climate of fear accompanying thi...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 17, 2009, 9:16 pm
Thanks, @Anonymous. I can't believe that other people didn't jump all over that meme idea. I refuse to believe that the rest of you don't have unanswered existential or deeply personal q...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 14, 2009, 8:52 am
Most of you only know my mother-in-law from reading this blog and therefore visualize her as an ancient, crazed Russian peasant woman in a headscarf, emerging periodically from an earthen cellar in my...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 13, 2009, 8:59 pm
I left the office around quarter to five and, to my surprise, found myself home early enough to intercept Dino Spouse and the kids before they embarked on their Friday night rounds (fast food and reta...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 12, 2009, 8:15 pm
Meme this: what three questions would you like the answers to? You don't have to say from whom or why.
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 11, 2009, 8:15 pm
Don't forget to refill your antidepressants on time, especially the ones with nasty withdrawal side effects.
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 9, 2009, 7:35 pm
Mouse and I had a Unicorn Day yesterday. In this case, it was literally a unicorn day, since she got a stuffed unicorn from Build-A-Bear Workshop. The unicorn was an atonement gift from us for the l...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 7, 2009, 9:32 pm
The real problem is not that I can't keep a thought in my head, it's that I can't concentrate on one thought at a time. Here are the contents of my head tonight, at least the ones that ar...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 4, 2009, 9:09 pm
My sons' interest in dinosaurs when they were little(r) awakened my slumbering interest in the natural sciences AND gave me a conceit for a blog. Thus I have adopted the dinosaur as my totem. Ac...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 3, 2009, 8:23 pm
Bedtime chez Dinosaurov. Riley Dino and Mouse are each jealous of the time I give the other for conversation and snuggles. BoyMan has ceded this ground to his younger siblings because he is Too Big ...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 3, 2009, 6:51 pm
BoyMan attempts to describe Foghorn Leghorn: "Who's that big cartoon chicken who's all buff and stuff?"
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Nov 1, 2009, 2:47 pm
Hiding from my mother-in-law's ill-humor, I have taken Riley Dino and Nephew Junior to the Swim Center for an afternoon of aquatic fun. They started with the Splashdown, a giant flume, then they ...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 28, 2009, 9:19 pm
I love xkcd so, so much. I had to post this because (a) I remember having similar sleep-dep hallucinations during lectures in college, (b) I am about that tired today, and (c) "QED, bitches!" has jus...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 27, 2009, 10:32 pm
My employer (aka Ur Takses, or The Ministry of Silly Walks) doesn't let us download strange new applications off the internet on to its computer networks. That's fine and all, but it just occ...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 24, 2009, 10:28 am
This has been a week of messed up dreams with subtexts of such intermeshed bureaucratic, domestic, and erotic provenance that I cannot find a single word (bureau-erotic? domesticratic?) to describe th...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 23, 2009, 5:27 pm
Im in ur takses, watchin otherz werk. This isn't a commentary on the federal workplace or the value middle managers like yours truly add therein. I am literally escorting uncleared technicians w...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 16, 2009, 3:35 pm
Readers of recent posts will note that I am (a) of heroic and ample proportions and (b) annoyed by the challenges of shopping for clothes. Inspired by Jessie X's post on the sizing of women's...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 16, 2009, 12:17 pm
My wanderings through the ancestral homeland continue. The bank was finally pursuaded to release my money after I spoke to two customer service representatives and a manager in my best She Who Must B...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 14, 2009, 12:02 pm
For the first time in my life, I missed a flight, this morning. Somehow I got my arrival and departure times for my flight to Detroit mixed up and - there I was. I shower Southwest with love for get...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 13, 2009, 6:19 pm
Dear Wal-Mart: Fat people come in many heights. Many of us used to be skinny people, but our weight gain did not affect our heights as we expanded. So why, Wal-Mart? Why do I magically gro...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 11, 2009, 9:57 am
Some time this summer (I think), the county the Columbia Association put in a very nice playground Tot Lot behind the Jeffers Hill swimming pool and community center. My kids and Nephew Junior love th...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 10, 2009, 5:21 pm
It was a busy week in the theater of the absurd that is my dreamscape. Earlier this week, I dreamed that I was moving alone to Michigan for some kind of short-term (four to six months) professional ce...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 6, 2009, 10:32 pm
Dino Spouse and I have, over the years, compiled a list of the worst excuses ever. "It's not what it looks like" is one of them. Other winners are "It just happened" and "I can explain." This i...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 4, 2009, 10:46 am
If Ma Protosaur read my blog, she would (after strenuously objecting to being "Ma," an appelation she hates) take great delight in Riley Dino's discovery of logic as a tool of persuasion. Yes, th...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Oct 1, 2009, 10:52 pm
Just finished hand-writing seven pages of notes of latest draft of Dr. Johnson's novel. Okay, I guess this may be something editors do all the time too, but to my mind this is a major perk of mus...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 30, 2009, 10:06 pm
I am conflict-averse, yes, but I have a competitive spirit all the same. It is fueled by vanity and insecurity and, occasionally, by the desire to test myself. My competitive spirit was tickled by b...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 29, 2009, 10:14 pm
The spirit of Twisty Faster and the literary influence of Dr. Johnson prompt me to point out that, as Rilke said, beauty really is nothing but the beginning of terror.
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 28, 2009, 9:58 pm
I got nominated for a Mobbie, which is a Baltimore Sun award for meritorious blogcraft. You could vote for me (or a worthy local blogger of your choice) if you check out the Mobbie page. I can't...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 27, 2009, 8:44 pm
I am hungry and sober. This is how I should fall asleep every night if I want my bosom to keep sticking out further than my stomach. Alas, the last few days have involved lots of rich food and drink...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 25, 2009, 12:32 pm
Komarovsky made me cry again. Damn it.
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 24, 2009, 10:02 pm
I got an HD radio with an auxillary jack installed in my car for my birthday. My long-time dream of being reunited with oldies-format radio has come true at last. There are two extended benefits to ...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 22, 2009, 8:59 pm
I subscribed to the Washington Post, Time, and Scientific American. I want a Kindle, but that's my personal longing and not part of my mission civilisatrice. I reviewed answers from a math quiz ...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 21, 2009, 8:24 pm
I can't stop obsessively reading Jezebel. I try so hard not to geek out on blogs whose authors neither know nor care about my existence, but who can resist something like this? Yes, that's wh...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 21, 2009, 12:21 pm
Sticker paralysis, courtesy of Urban Dictionary. It is real, and it affects lives. My life, anyway. I am blogging on this topic of great import because I am home, having taken Babushka for day one ...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 19, 2009, 8:38 pm
A set of Harvard Classics from 1930 appeared in my parents' home when I was a child. They were in the book shelf with the glass doors where also were displayed momentos from our relatives' fo...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 19, 2009, 11:05 am
Now I am 39. Last night I was treated to a fine meal, my family's birthday dinner plans for me having shifted to Sunday*. This morning finds me babysitting my niece and nephews while supervising a...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 17, 2009, 9:43 pm
I don't read Dooce. I have nothing against her, I'm just jealous. Seeing as how I don't know her and she doesn't know me and all, none of this is relevant in the slightest. But now ...
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Kate Dino posted an article on Dinosaur Mom Chronicles - Sep 4, 2009, 8:26 am
Visiting the Protosaurs with Mouse this weekend, I have decided that their stately condo near the ocean will henceforth be known as Bikini Bottom. I've stayed in my pajamas til noon twice while Mo...
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