Entries Tagged as 'Supergenius HQ'
From the Fortress of Solitude
Yesterday in the midst of cleaning the Fortress of Solitude I decided that after nearly fourteen years in hiding that my Sweet Valley High books should come of the dark and take their rightful place on a bookcase. It’s so deliciously nerdy. Every time I catch a glimpse of that shelf out of the corner [...]
Read more7 Ages of Rock
Dear VH1 Classics,
I would just like to thank you for airing all seven episodes of the 7 Ages of Rock today. This was easily the best thing that could have happened to me today. See, VH1 Classics, I had to clean the entirety of Supergenius HQ today because in roughly 18 hours my family is [...]
Mmm MmmGood
Supergenius HQ smells like bacon and Newcastle. This is not a complaint.
Read moreOn the first day of Christmas vacation my true love gave to me, nothing
Bedtime: 2 a.m.
Waketime: 8:24 a.m.
Goals for the day: Clean the upstairs, all of it — laundry room, Fortress of Solitude, my bathroom, my bedroom, and the still empty master suite.
Yes, during the next thirteen days of Christmas vacation I’m turning iwilldare.com into a Bridget Jonesesque diary of sorts. Come on, I don’t have anything to [...]
Simon & Garfunkel were probably writing about this place
Sometimes, on Sunday afternoons, it gets so quiet in here the only thing that can be heard is the fizz and pop of the bubbles in the Diet Coke and the ceiling fan. That’s only until the Diet Coke goes flat, then it’s just the ceiling fan and the blood pulsing though my fingers.
It’s [...]
Welcome to Aunt Jodi’s House of Child Labor
Now that Stink has embarked on his senior year of college and Sister #2 often has to social work on the weekend, I’ll be spending a lot of Saturday afternoons with Jaycie and Max.
It’s gonna be so rad. I recently discovered that little kids love money, and they love it so much that they will [...]
Some really, very important housekeeping items from the management of iwilldare.com
First of all, and this is really very serious and important, if anyone knows anyone who can get me some tickets (or, realistically A TICKET, because I am not above going alone) to the MGD Craft Series with Paul Westerberg at First Ave, not only will I be your BFF, I will supply you with [...]
Read moreSupergenius battles the bed of doom
In honor of Labor Day, I had vowed to do as little labor as possible. Of course, Sister #4 totally rained on everyone’s parade by deciding that she simply had to put together the bed she went to Idaho to fetch last week.
Oh, let’s talk about the bed. This was a bed she bought last [...]
On irony and cleaning supplies
Okay, let me get this out of the way first. I am afraid of heights. Go ahead, laugh. Everyone seems to find this eensy bit of irony the utmost in hilarity. Yes, yes the 6′5″ woman is afraid of heights. Hardee-har-har. I’ve been over this before.
The height thing was a topic of conversation at Hell, [...]
The Great Supergenius Bedroom Remodel of 07
Meet my soon-to-be new bed! Isn’t it the bomb? After much rigorous research and a year of indecision. I found the absolute coolest, most perfect bed ever put on this earth.
Isn’t she lovely?
Now I just need to finish priming the master bedroom, painting the master bedroom, getting a new ceiling fan in the master bedroom [...]
Here’s the problem with cleaning
So instead of doing something creatively productive, I’ve decided to clean Supergenius HQ. Since the downstairs is often cleaned because people see that I jumped right to the second floor.
This is not fun. People who like cleaning, I will never understand them. Ever. It’s a dusty, dirty task that leads easily to distraction and dissatisfaction. [...]
In danger of losing body parts
I’ve reached the point in my mini-Independence vacation where I have to start being productive or very important parts of my body will fall off, namely my brain and my clitoris. Both of which I value tremendously. This means I either have to clean Supergenius HQ or write. If either of these things occur today [...]
Read morePerhaps I am made of steel
Since I am not sick, I decided that I had to clean my bedroom and the Fortress of Solitude. I didn’t do so well. I kept getting bored in the middle of the cleaning. So everything’s kind of in a complete state of disarray. However, since tomorrow is supposed to be about -80 bajillion I [...]
Read moreA Supergenius’ Progress or, Hey, I know that guy
So I made it as far as putting all the fiction away. This was the coffee table before, and now there’s only four books on there, all which have to go upstairs to the Fortress of Solitude. I have, however, been totally waylaid in my effort to put all the books away. While trolling through [...]
Read moreA weekend with goals
I often lament my complete lack of personal goals. I feel like I should have some sort of goal, you know a place I see myself in 5 or 10 years. But I have none. Short-term, long-term, no-term, I got no goals.
Until now.
This weekend I decided to set a few goals for these two days.
1. [...]
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