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Directionally Challenged 2009-01-05 09:35:35 I am directionally challenged. It is a trait that I inherited from my mother. She used to say, "If you want to get lost, follow me." I have lived up to this genetic predisposition in spades.I wasn't quite so bad when I was a newbie driver in New Jersey. I'd been riding in cars with others for years, and as a native, I knew when I was headed in the wrong direction. I'd take a jug-handle and he
Yay January SECOND of 2009! 2009-01-02 08:58:13 At last, the new year is finally here! Yay!!! January
SECOND of 2009!And don't try to tell me that it started yesterday. Yesterday was all about parades and football ~ and the last desperate grasp of 2008 whiplash. Since I refuse to believe that this year will be as bad-funky as the-year-that-shall-not-be-named, I've decided that yesterday only counts toward my karmic rewards under the heading
Is It Over Yet ~ Almost?!? 2008-12-30 11:07:02 One more day and it's over. We can ring in 2009, which, in my case anyway, has to be better... Hell, I'm due if nothing else! But I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, the only one that's due.This year has been mediocre highs and low lows. Really, was it only me that found this year to only be so-so in the good department, any highs being left over from previous times? And somehow, it m Read more:Almost
Christmas Week and the Aftermath 2008-12-30 11:03:15 We made it... We survived Christmas
and can now double-down for ourselves instead of others on Black Friday Redux... The brand new shopping day brought on by the poor economy and the fact that news shows have nothing better to report on because they're on too many hours, too many times per day. And for me, this is Black Friday Redux on so many levels...I'm not in the mood for "Shopping News" whi Read more:Aftermath
Crap-Wrap Christmas 2008-12-22 11:34:27 And so my dear readers, we come to Monday on Christmas
week. Aack! The shopping is done after braving the insanity on steroids that is the 'last shopping weekend before Christmas'.Now comes the wrapping... and the hope beyond hope that you have gotten enough gift-wrap, bows, ribbons, name tags, and tape to get it all done without having to steel yourself against the brutal cold that's wracking t
Packaging and Misdirection 2008-12-19 11:22:28 Today is my ex-husband's birthday ~ Happy Birthday you old(er than me) coot, I know you're reading this... Hope your day is happy.His birthday, for many of my years now, has signaled the last bell being rung on the pre-Christmas frenzy. December 19th... only 6 days till Christmas... and only 5 SHOPPING DAYS till Christmas... Sorry to cuss at you like that, but it's the truth.It also makes me thi Read more:Packaging
Alien Invasion 2008-12-17 13:25:01 I'm convinced that aliens have invaded. They came to Earth in their spaceships disguised as big gray pouffy clouds. They infected us with their mutant-alien-cold-bug. When they want to get a close-up-and-personal view of how this bug affects us, they emerge in the cover of night and sit in the trees, camouflaged as branches. From there, they can look through our walls and gauge our reaction to Read more:Alien
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Homestyle Hurricanes and Tornados 2008-12-15 10:55:21 This weekend, a hurricane met up with a tornado, they made fast friends, and decided to come on over to party and parade through my house.I was sick, and instead of laying up in the bed like a vulture-picked-carcass, I decided to handle the blog envy and change up the layout... You know, to be productive even without much energy.Sometime after I retreated to the computer room with my jacket and my Read more:Hurricanes
Blog Envy 2008-12-13 14:12:03 I have a big-time-bad-ass case of blog envy going on. I can't help it. I've gone green... and NOT in the environmentally friendly way.As I have mentioned, (or you may have just seen the ad down at the bottom of the page here) I have another site that I've been working on, cussing at, revamping, and finally, finally come to terms with; the what and how and why it's going to look and operate...OK
Hell Froze Over 2008-12-11 10:14:29 Having spent only two and a half years in the south, I'm not sure whether it was Sam Houston or Stephen Austin who famously said (something along the lines of...) If the devil owned property in Texas and Hell, he would rent out Texas and live in Hell...With that said, Hell froze over yesterday. With some parts of Houston racking up to four inches of snow and two of it's major bridges closed durin
Happy Holiday Two-fer 2008-12-10 10:15:31 I know that I have mentioned before, Judi's blog, [zany life + crazy faith]. Last month she asked me to do a guest post for her list of November Holiday
s (a complete explanation of this is available in my post Guest Posting on JLo's NO-HO This month, Judi is doing a much shorter guest series for the 12 Days of Christmas. I am featured today for, obviously, the 10th day of Christmas. I have bee Read more:Happy
Playing Well With Others 2008-12-08 10:08:02 I do not play well with others. Not when it comes to my computer. I'm a greedy, selfish Catholic-school nun ready to smack your knuckles with a ruler for even letting the thought cross your mind of touching my keyboard. And yet, with sis-n-law G, down visiting on some ugly family business, I was quick to say, "yes" when she asked me if she could use my beloved 'puter to check some email, account Read more:Others
Freezing Wimps 2008-12-04 10:00:39 Do my hands work? OK, good... I wasn't sure they would because I am freezing my orbs off in here!I have come to understand that south-east Texas weather is... simply Weather-By-Sybil. Yesterday, I was being blown three counties over by winds that bent trees, but it was warm-ish. By the time I cooked dinner, I actually had to kick on the AC for a bit to assuage the feeling of being burnt up in t Read more:Freezing
The Beginning of the End 2008-12-02 11:03:02 Ahh, December. The beginning of the end of the year. When all the things you've accomplished and changed and lost come into review; and you think about all the things you want to accomplish and change in the new year without any of the worry or grief of the losses to come.It can be magical with the holiday season flashing it's pretty lights and joyous TV ad campaigns, or it can be so stressful on
Did'ja Do Black Friday? 2008-12-01 10:48:18 Did'ja survive BlackFriday
?Did'ja remember your mace and pepper-spray and brass knuckles?Did'ja get out of the stores with anything you went in for?Did'ja settle for the lime green fuzzy hat with the blind-you-bright orange and hot pink pom-pom cause it was only a buck and you wanted to come home with at least ONE bag of something to show for the pitch-black circles under your eyes and all those Read more:Black Friday
Holidays Are No Vacation 2008-11-26 12:44:12 Remember when we were kids... when we'd get time off from school to run around like maniacs and eat like pigs? When we were kids, we thought holidays were one big vacation. Oh, to be that stupid... I mean delusional... I mean naive--yeah, that's it, naive... to be that naive again.I'm grown now, and I can tell you with all certainty that holidays are NO vacation! They are a lot of damn-hard-wo Read more:Holidays
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Someone Thinks I'm Great! 2008-11-26 10:33:50 I was given three more awards this week (and it's only Wednesday--Yay Me!!!) so two bloggers think I'm great! OK, they may just like to read my stuff, and I mistakenly think I'm great cause they gave me awards... this is probably much closer to the truth, but tomorrow at Thanksgiving dinner, I'm gonna go with the first story... All three awards require:1. Adding the award badge to your site.2. Read more:Great
Issues 2008-11-24 10:34:42 OK, so just a couple of probably unrelated thoughts that have come to me over the weekend as I interacted with friends. Thank you Hubby & M & G for sparking me off. Bottom Line: I have issues...Issue Number One: The W Economy.I believe that the tanking of the economy has been coming for quite some time. Thanks in part to what started in January of 2001 as a very strong economy, and ev Read more:Issues
The Hazards of Cereal 2008-11-21 15:56:30 Oh, those Special K commercials make it look so good and healthy for you. Their little brown flakes with mini chocolate bars mixed in with them, "... so you don't ruin your day" they say... what about your night?This is why you shouldn't eat cereal at night. I didn't have Special K. I had what was left in the bag of maple-and-brown-sugar-fake-shredded-wheat. As my mild sweet-tooth clouded my judge Read more:Cereal
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Organization 2008-11-19 10:36:45 One week out of the month, I have PMS, in varying degrees, which sucks big fat donkey dick no matter how mild it may be. But I also get something else in that week... I get organized. Jimmy-Hoffa-fridges (* see my guest post on Judi's blog for that insider reference!) and closets that can crush you if opened too quickly don't stand a chance during this week. Neither does the most driven internet m Read more:Organization
Cleaning My Room 2008-11-18 10:18:03 I was blessed last Saturday to have three hours of alone, grieving time while everyone else was still asleep. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'd already been in mourning for over two weeks, so three hours was adequate, the big factor in that was ALONE time. Parents, you already know how rare that is, but to get it without having to leave the house was quite simply, a gift from God and Grandm Read more:Cleaning
What Shade of Crazy 2008-11-16 13:08:45 Who...The...Fuck... brings a camera to a funeral?Apparently, my step-mother.It's true, I could not, would not make this up. I don't believe in defaming someones good name with lies... But if they do something stupid, crazy and or crass, I may pass it on, especially if it is so over the top as to make everyone else in the world go, "WHAT?!?" and get a look on their face so priceless that you wish Read more:Crazy
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Sickies 2008-11-11 11:52:52 "I cannot go to school todaySaid little Peggy Ann McKayI have the measles and the mumpsA gash, a rash and thirteen bumps...............What? What's that? What's that you say?You say today is... Saturday?Goodbye, I'm going out to play."partial quotation from the poem, "SICK"available in full in the book,Where the Sidewalk Endsby Shel SilversteinHubby is home from work today. He is having some fo
Grieving 2008-11-10 11:36:36 I am Grieving. When I found out that my grandmother was in the hospital I started doing reiki treatments on her. For those of you unfamiliar with reiki, I'll simply explain that it is a healing energy. Reiki treatments can be administered for everything from heartburn to cancer, and that once a practitioner has been initiated to level two, the treatments can be done from a distance. I had an unusu
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