Me (to the microwave, which is emitting a loud hum/buzz): “Stop that, it’s annoying.”
John (in a high, floaty voice): “Okay!”
Overheard at our house, cheesy soul music edition
November 17, 2013 by
John: “This may be a reverse-skate song.”
Overheard at our house, 80’s version the eleventyith
September 26, 2013 by
Tears for Fears “Shout” is playing.
John: “Whatever happened to the other guy in this band?”
Me: “?”
J: “This is Wham!, right?”
Me: “? Â No.”
J: “Oh, yeah. This is Tears for Fears. Still two guys, right? So whatever happened to the other guy?”
Me: “Andrew Ridgeley? Are we still talking about Wham!? Â I am fighting hard not to blog this, by the way.”
J: “How long has it been since you blogged? Â Do it after dinner.”
Overheard at our house, meatball style
June 24, 2013 by
The scene: Cardboard boxes full of flat-pack cabinetry are stacked neatly all around our dining room, ready for assembly and installation. Â John sits on a stool amidst the proto-wreckage.
Me: “What are you doing?”
John: “Sitting in the kitchen.”
Me: “Fair enough.”
Overheard at our house, pop music edition
May 31, 2013 by
Me: “A band that can do a bombastic cover of a Depeche Mode tune, and then go on to do something with acoustic guitar and whiny male vocalist? SIGN ME UP.”
Overheard at Yoga
March 15, 2013 by
Me: “I got back together with my treadmill recently.”
D: “Does that mean you broke up with your treadmill at one point?”
Me: “It knows what it did.”
Overheard at our house, pop culture vs. internet edition
December 6, 2012 by
John overhears the video below from  the other room. “It sounds like that crazy woman on 30 Rock.”
“Jenna?”
“No.”
“Cerie?”
“No.”
“You do realize ‘Crazy woman on 30 Rock‘ is redundant, right?”
(he meant Hazel)
Scenes at our house, early morning edition
November 16, 2012 by
The animals are fed, the dog has been walked, and I’m eking out a few minutes on the couch before I have to get ready for work. I’m just about to go upstairs when Milo hops up on top of me.
Me: Milo, you’re going to make me late.
Milo:Â folds one paw under.
Me: Milo, why do you always time it like this? Â I’ve been here for 15 minutes and now you want to cuddle?
Milo:Â folds another paw under, completing cat-loaf position.
Me: Dammit, stop being so soft and cute at me. You’re going to make me late for work.
Milo: purrs a few bars of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.”
Me: Fine, you smug bastard.
Overheard at our house, massive freaking hurricane edition
October 29, 2012 by
Our local news correspondent whack-job: “Tim, I’ve been to gas stations that don’t have gas, I’ve been to Radio Shacks that don’t have transistor radios…”
Jill: “But I’ve never been to me.”
Overheard at our house, kung fu edition
September 23, 2012 by
John tries to explain a martial arts movie to me halfway through.
Me: “That contains way too many antecedentless pronouns and requires me to care.”