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I call myself Bad Mom because at the time I came up with it, I was learning about the assumptions we put behind our words. I was following the pattern of not believing that my kids are okay, and speaking to them from that basis. I changed that, and it made a big difference. I am from Utah and my people are still living there. My husband was in the Air Force and we rattled around until we saw Colorado, and we stuck.

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Contributed by: Lisa Arata on 6/14/2008

Okay you guys. I had two of those cute little baby margaritas that come in bottles. Salvador's Margaritas. I don't like them as much as the cute little cuervo ones. Too citrus-peely. But by the time you drink that last drop, they're okay!

It's only 6:18 and I haven't made dinner yet. For shame!...

But on the bright side, it's so early I still have time for one of those orange juice tequila thingies pretty soon, while I'm cooking. My boy said he wants chicken pot pie. Can I do a pie crust mix and all that, while soaking up tequila in my liver?

YES!

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I have a really bad hobby.

I have this seventies song stuck in my head. It goes... Superstar/I want to thank you for what you are/wo-oo-woooh/...and it has a nice little moog synthesizer fill. What was it?? I just want to hear it again for 30 seconds on Itunes!

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Do y'all remember that TV show, Married With Children? In one episode, Al Bundy gets an old song fragment stuck in his head, and it's driving him crazy. It goes,

___ ___ him....

And that's all he can remember, except for the notes. It's driving him insane. Finally at the end he goes to a used record store and sings it to the guy behind the desk, who happens to be an old record afficionado.Al sings that little tiny snippet to the desk clerk, who then says. "Wait. That's... Anna, by the Beatles."
(something something...and I will set you free/ to go with him...)

Sweet relief.

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Well. In my attempt to find that nice little...probably too bland...seventies song, I'm looking through the American Top 40 with Casey Kasem, for anything that could be the song I"m looking for.

But there are hundreds of songs! And I think this one is late-seventies, but songs can fool ya. Like, Stuck In The Middle With You by Steeler's Wheel. Did you know that song charted in 1973?

No way, you say.

I KNOW! It's more of a 1975-78 kind of song. Like Bleaker Street or that other one. Home and Dry? I know Stuck in the middle was also in a movie starring Michael Douglas but I can't remember the name. Oh yeah, and in a Quentin Tarantino movie where people got shot in graphic comic violence. It's one of the great songs of our era. It captures the seventies. We'd lost the idealism of the sixties and were still cursing the treachery of the establisment. Stuck in the middle was where many of us knew ourselves to be.

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This is its own special kind of hell. Snippets of the unpopular 70's songs!

That being said...

I love my seventies music! I was born in 1964 and grew up listening to pop music all the time. I was there when every store and swimming pool decided that radio music was a must-play for every casual occasion.

My first memoryfrom the media was the Beatles' breakup.

I'm a Stones girl, though. What's the diagnosis?

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

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Maybe my cathectic song didn't make it into the top 40. In that case, where can I find the bottom 60 of the billboard charts? I NEED TO KNOW--it's a subtle torture!

What a beautiful weekend.

Gotta go walk the dogs. Today, seeing as how I've had two cute little margs, they get to walk slow and do the smellies. You know, the part where you let them stop and smell all the p-mail from the other dogs? I usually only let them do it up at the xeriscapic garden on Reservoir road. It's good for their little doggie psyches, y'know.

Today, it's sooo melllow. I hope your Saturday night is that way too.

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Submitted By: Lisa Arata

posted on 6/19/2008 @ 9:49:51 PM

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The crust is the least of the problem. You got your crust, your gravy, and then...what, vegetables and chicken pieces and all that. Call dominoes. Just kidding. Thanks for noticing my blog.

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Submitted By: Gladys Mercier

posted on 6/18/2008 @ 7:35:00 PM

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Lisa, next time, get out the Bisquik and make a really fast and good chicken pot pie. Recipe inside box...if you can still read...

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Submitted By: Lisa Arata

posted on 6/16/2008 @ 9:19:22 AM

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Ach! Get it out!

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Submitted By: Michael Rule

posted on 6/15/2008 @ 7:59:45 AM

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Sugar, do to dodo do do Aw Honey honey, do to do do do, you are my candy girl, and ya got me lovin' you.......there, that should get any other tune out of your head for awhile....lol

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