<h1><a href="http://hop.clickbank.net/?davzo/familydaze">Family Daze</a></h1> <h1><a href="http://hop.clickbank.net/?davzo/familydaze">Stories by syndicated humor columnist Debbie Farmer</a></h1> <h1><a href="http://hop.clickbank.net/?davzo/familydaze">parenting, writing, kids, mom, stories, writer, manic mom, humor, author, ancedote</a></h1> <h2><a href="http://hop.clickbank.net/?davzo/familydaze">Do You Like This Website? 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Mr. Farmer)TheFool@familydaze.com</a></h2> <p><b>Family Daze Do You Like This Website? Recommend-It to a Friend. Seven Questions Stories by syndicated humor columnist Debbie Farmer that will help you realize you're not alone in the chaotic task of parenting Click here for information on carrying FamilyDaze weekly in your publication: Oasis News Features Syndicate (Six week free trial period. Rates based on circulation) Click here for a column Sample Get "Life in the Fast-Food Lane" a laugh-out-loud collection of wit and wisdom that will help you make sense out of the chaos of parenthood. (140 pages, soft cover) CLICK HERE Also Appearing in:Available Now "Family Daze" was granted "HONORABLE MENTION" in National Society of Newspaper Columnists 1999 contest. "Family Daze" reaches over 300,000 newspaper readers a week. Reprints have been in Reader's Digest, the Christian Science Monitor, Family Fun Magazine and over 200 regional parenting magazines. You can also find Family Daze columns in Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul II, Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul, Chocolate for the Women's Soul, and Life's a Stitch (along with essays Erma Bombeck, Ann Quindlen, and Gloria Steinem). You can subscribe to Family Daze and it will be delivered, monthly, right to your e-mail box FREE.(note: columns previously published) As Appeared in the Washington Post: Developing Pictures By: Debbie Farmer I don't want to brag, but I've always thought of myself as, well, a fairly educated person. I know how to set a thermostat, program a VCR and work a computer by myself. I can, for the most part, balance a checkbook, pump my own gas and make a mean egg plant casserole. But, no matter how hard I try, I can't figure out the local drug store's system for processing film. OK, OK. Some of you, more savvy types, are probably thinking, "What's the big deal, Lady? You go to the counter, fill out the envelope, slip it into the slot and Viola! A spider monkey could do it." Others of you (and you know who you are) know EXACTLY what I mean. You're the kind of person who charges into the photo section with gobs of finished rolls of film, pulls out an envelope and then immediately faints dead away on the floor. Suddenly you, a person who graduated Suma cum laude, can't figure out which box to mark. Or what kind of film you have. Or why you're wearing blue sandals with red skirt. Or where you stand on the whole Harrison Ford dating Calista Flockhart issue. In fact, you're no longer sure of anything anymore. And don't bother asking me why this happens because, well, I don't know. But I have a feeling it has something to do with all of the choices. I admit, whenever I'm given anything more than three choices my whole system shuts down. Like the other day when I went to drop off my film at the local drugstore, I was immediately surround by approximately thirty-two tiny yellow signs, all with various, reasonable sounding, options. Do I want one day service or two? Double prints or CD disk? Advantage or Advanced film process? How about twelve single 5x7's? Or Twenty-four 3x5 triple prints? Color or black and white? And on and on. There was a weary-looking lady next to me surrounded by a pile of envelopes, each with almost everything crossed out. I immediately relaxed because I knew I was in the company of another hopelessly confused person. "I can't believe this is so hard," she turned to me. "Just when I finally got the hang of buying panty hose." I was in complete sympathy. In fact, I thought back to the good old days when getting film developed meant putting your 110 cartridge into an envelope with your name scrawled on it. But clearly, this was no longer something so be taken so lightly. Now-a-days if you make one wrong mark you could end up with something very, very bad. Like the time my friend Julie thought she marked single 5x7 prints and she same home with fifty-seven dollars worth of color slides. And she doesn't even own a slide projector. I admit it's times like this that I envy my friend Shirley, who's gone digital. The only problem is that she has everything from the birth of her son to his seventh birthday party stuck inside of her camera. At last count, she has approximately 7000 pictures in there. But, hey, at least she knows where she stands. But getting back to my point. After much discussion of size and processing and all that we decided three important things: 1) you should not, under any circumstance, just mark everything on the envelope and see what happens, 2) Harrison Ford dating Calista Flockhart is just plain wrong, and 3) the best thing to do is to choose the section with the 3x5 double prints in color. We marked our envelopes and slid them through the slot. Then we stood around for a moment and swapped picture-developing horror stories before going our separate ways. And I'd like to tell you that everything turned out OK, but it didn't. Oh sure, I got what I ordered, but when I picked up my film I had 24 double prints of several tiny blurry images that could've either been my family or squirrels and one particularly colorful picture of my thumb. And, folks, I didn't even scream. The Best of Family Daze eBook This collection of thirty award-winning Family Daze columns can only be purchased and downloaded here! They will keep you laughing and nodding, while helping you to realize you are not alone in the universal chaos of raising a family. For Ordering Info and Free Sample eBook, Click >>Here<<. This is available as a Self-Extracting, Self-Running program, or in Adobe Acrobat format. You will be able to download it immediately (650k approx) or have it mailed to you. Receive Family Daze by e-mail every Month! subscribe here. Name? E-mail address? Where did you hear about Family Daze? 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