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Words of the Day

January 27, 2012 By Jana Llewellyn

Progesterone: a hormone which plummets in a woman’s fourth decade and may cause brief, intermittent bursts of psychotic behavior.

See also:

Children: Small screeching creatures who change settings on woman’s iPhone.

Husband: A man who “does dishes” by leaving large pots in the sink.

Dishes: Porcelain, plastic and glass items that magically appear only moments after they are put away.

Synonyms: Laundry

Antonyms: Freedom

Neighborhood Bank 

1: Asbestos-ridden financial building whose workers look like they crawled out of a hole in the ground.

2: Institution whereby citizens hand over hard-earned money and are told they cannot retrieve it for several days. (Citizens apparently do this willingly. White-haired and/or balding men get rich from the interest.)

See also:

Interest: something women with low-progesterone levels rarely have.

61° and raining

1: weather report for Friday, January 27th near Philadelphia

2: symptom of polar ice caps melting

3: sign of “end times”

4: weather which, combined with woman’s low progesterone levels, causes increased propensity toward psychotic behavior

Free and easy wanderer pillsmagical, easy to swallow pills given by acupuncturist or herbalist which make Woman her usual enthusiastic, nurturing self

Tea 

1. archaic: universal antidote to common ailments such as seasonal affective disorder, anxiety, moments of existential crisis

2. modern: universal antidote to common ailments such as seasonal affective disorder, anxiety, moments of existential crisis

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The Good in January

January 21, 2012 By Jana Llewellyn


The good things about January, you say?

SuperWoman will admit, this list is a stretch. But it’s part of her master plan of “acceptance,” so humor her.

Here goes.

1. If you forget your groceries in the trunk of your car overnight, they will stay cold. (SuperWoman only did this twice.)

2. People will say “Happy New Year” well into the third week. Hearing the word “happy” is good.

3. Nowhere is the sound of a leaf-blower.

4. You can catch up with old friends over the internet, because no one is going outside.

5. Coats and scarves can sort of cover up the extra pounds you gained in December.

6. A lot of people were born in this month, apparently.

7. You can go to bed at 9 p.m. and almost no one will consider you a loser.

8. Women can reject that hideous ritual of shaving their legs.

9. You can catch up on past seasons of excellent television shows, like In Treatment (HBO), Downton Abbey (PBS), and Justified (FX). Oo la la, Timothy Olyphant.

10. The sun is far away, but chocolate is widely available.

 

Image of Timothy Olyphant via Wikia.

 

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My iPhone and God

January 19, 2012

I have this issue with thinking everything that happens has some bigger meaning. For the past few days, I’ve been fretting about my iPhone. You’d think the thing was a family member or something. I was at a museum with my kids, and when I went to the bathroom, my phone slipped out of my [...]

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Fiction Detox

January 8, 2012

For most of my life, I’ve had my head buried in a book. Things just never felt right if I didn’t have another world to escape to. Last summer, though, on my journey through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, I got out of my comfort zone and put myself through a week of reading deprivation. [...]

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SuperWoman Makes a Resolution

January 1, 2012

Welcome to 2012, year of the apocalypse! Did you notice how unusually warm the weather is? That’s because the world is going to end. No matter. SuperWoman thinks resolutions should happen all year long, not just at the beginning of a new year. But she’s a sucker for any chance for reflection and self-improvement. What, [...]

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Seven Wicked Ways Santa Gets Down the Chimney

December 24, 2011

The question I’ve been getting a lot this year from Mr. B is how, exactly, Santa gets down the chimney on Christmas Eve. When I was a kid, I was confused by this whole process as well, since we didn’t have a chimney. We had a steel door with a deadbolt. If it was strong [...]

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SuperWoman Prepares for Winter

December 20, 2011

You haven’t heard much from SuperWoman lately, because she’s busy. See, Autumn is her season. She goes and goes and goes, and kind of likes it that way. But now that winter is coming, SuperWoman can feel it in her bones. (And in her stomach and thighs, unfortunately.) Once red and flaming, she is now [...]

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The Meaning of Santa (Or, The Power of Bribery)

December 17, 2011

I just published a post on Babble.com about why I can’t lie to my son about Santa anymore (after this year). It’s a hot topic, for sure, so I thought I’d repost a similar essay I wrote in 2010. The same feelings hold true for me now, with the exception that this year, I did [...]

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Bizarre Love Triangle (A Maladjusted Book Club Post)

December 12, 2011

Welcome to the One-Year Anniversary Edition of The Maladjusted Book Club! So glad you could join. (And don’t worry if you haven’t read the book. I tried to include a little something for any wanderer who arrives here dazed and confused.) The Marriage Plot Do you think Jeffrey Eugenides watches old reruns of Felicity, that [...]

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Goodbye, Coffee

December 5, 2011

Some people (scientists, I believe) say that your body regenerates every seven years. That just happened to me, like, in November. I am an entirely new human being. How do I know this? Well, I’ve made a very unsettling discovery in the past few weeks: Coffee makes me nuts. It didn’t used to. It all started when [...]

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