Category Archives: funny

Down “Write” Funny – It Ain’t Easy Being Green

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Betsy Norman

Yesterday, my lawn was green. And just like that, one snowfall equals the grand arrival of winter and Christmas and all the mud and crap we’d previously sludged through is now bright, shiny and new! The same can be said … Continue reading →

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SQUIRREL!!!

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Betsy Norman

Thank you to Liz Steiner for sending this extremely-appropriate-for-me cartoon! Cartoon Credit: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

Posted in ADHD, Down Write Funny, funny, humor, Squirrel! | 6 Comments

Down “Write” Funny – The PT Perk

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Betsy Norman

So my Gazelle Girl damaged one of her hooves. You may have heard about it on my Twitter feed during one of my many #proudmama braggart postings about my track/cross country scholarship-bound spawn. (I swear one of my little ingrates … Continue reading →

Posted in #proudmama, Brainstormers, Down Write Funny, funny, gestation, humor, illness, labor, marching band, Muscle Memory, NaNoWriMo, parenting, spawn, Squirrel!, writing | Tagged achilles, avulsion fracture, bone, caribou coffee, downtime, gazelle girl, immobility boot, money, mri, obi-wan kenobi, physical therapy, podiatrist, quack, scholarship, starbucks, tendonitis | 2 Comments

The Iron Uterus – Introduction

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Betsy Norman

*Author’s note: The Iron Uterus is a defunct blog I briefly began and then abandoned in its infancy. I’d like to restart it here to address the ‘mother’ part of my blog. Reader beware – these posts involve the rearing … Continue reading →

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Down “Write” Funny – Elvis Isn’t The Only Character in Vegas

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Betsy Norman

We recently vacationed to Vegas with another couple. Young Elvis took the flight over with us. Our first Elvis sighting. Our friends had never been to Vegas, so I’d eagerly been preparing them to see Elvis in all his headlining incarnations, … Continue reading →

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Down “Write” Funny – Why I Suck

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Betsy Norman

Yup. You heard that right. I suck. Big ol’ Dyson-destroying-Hoover robo-vacuum-beat-down suckage of epic proportions. Why, Betsy, why! Because I opened my gigantic maw and got everyone riled up about NaNoWriMo and do the math and write every day you … Continue reading →

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Down “Write” Funny – NaNoWriMo Land Part 2

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Betsy Norman

So! Yesterday, at the stroke of midnight, did you scribble the thoughts ricocheting off your gray matter and rampageously vomit up a few thousand words because the fire to write your story burned feral through your fingertips?? Did you make … Continue reading →

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A Down “Write” Funny “Iron Uterus” Halloween Story

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Betsy Norman

Meet my alter-ego – The Iron Uterus. Enjoy this post from the past as my Halloween Treat to you! In third grade, while all the other kids wore their store-bought, lead-based painted mask and tissue-thin plastic tunics with superhero abs … Continue reading →

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Battling the Death Cough

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Betsy Norman

Heyla Friends, I see you’ve all been visiting and it gives me a gigantic thrill in my eager newbie blogger heart to see you here, but then realization of my-porch-light-is-out-so-no-treats-for-you guilt stomps all the fun out of it. I’m sorry! I suffer from the most … Continue reading →

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Down “Write” Funny – Caught Naked and Nothing to Write With

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Betsy Norman

I come up with the best lines when I’m naked in the bathroom. Or at 2:46 a. m., when I’m in that half-fuzzed twilight between awareness and psychedelic sub-consciousness. Neither situation is conducive to preserving the brainstorm brilliance to text … Continue reading →