You Know You Are A Slack Blogger When…
You can’t remember the password for your blog. Obviously I got in after a few tries. I’m practically a hacker. Fellow bloggers contact you to see if you are alright/alive. (Thanks Charles! You are too sweet.) You keep getting distracted by Scramble, making popcorn, organizing a closet to find a shoe, organizing apps into folders [...]
Imaginary Smiles
Today’s story isn’t so much funny as it is a reminder of how unexpected experiences in life can touch you in dramatic ways and make you stop for a moment in time and realize what is truly important. This weekend, my heart was touched by Ben. Ben is only two years old. He is also [...]
What A Cookie Can Do
That was the theme for this year’s Girl Scout Cookie Sale, and I can tell you what it can do…send the cookie mom to the crazy house. The year started out in the midst of being Cookie Mom for my six-year-old’s Daisy troop. When 2000 boxes of cookies arrived at my home and filled a [...]
7 x 7 Award | Takes It And Runs Away
Margaret Reyes Dempsey from Conjuring My Muse passed along the 7 x 7 Award. After assuring myself that it wasn’t a “Laziest Blogger” award which I truly deserve lately, I was thrilled! I also think this was a sly attempt at distracting me from pestering her about her next novel. (Loved The Benefactor!) Then I [...]
Word Games and Draw Something Crazy
I’m back! My latest adventures will come later. In the meantime, I’ve been entertaining myself and torturing my friends with the iPhone/Droid game Scramble. Being severely Words-With-Friends-challenged due to a 3-or-4-letter-word-limit issue, I thought this would be better for me. It’s like Boggle…and still a word game…so I should have known better. I have a [...]
Preppy People, Meet The Hot Topic People
If the names L.L.Bean, Lacoste, Chris Craft, or Benetton bring back some bad memories, you aren’t alone. I spent the better part of my middle school days lost in the midst of the “preppy era” where pink and green were the “IN” colors of the day. I spent hours staring into the Benetton store window [...]
Stakeout To Catch a Runaway
I needed donuts and coffee quick! According to all the 1970′s cop shows I watched as a kid, it helps while on a stakeout. Keeping a watchful eye out for the “perp”, I anxiously awaited her capture so I could make the call to get an ID. You know I’m all about slapping on a [...]
Technically Superior Children of Today
Let’s face it. We are raising a generation of high-tech savvy children than make us look like cavemen banging rocks together. I consider myself pretty geeky when it comes to electronics, but the kids pick it up as naturally as holding a fork. My son wasn’t even two when he first began using a computer. [...]
Avoid Ghostly Surprises By Calling Ahead
Invaded by ghost ants AGAIN, the exterminator had to return to my house last week. I dreaded the possible awkwardness this would cause due to “the incident” last time. Two weeks earlier… Innocently hanging out at my computer working, I was unaware that the bug man had arrived and was working his way around to [...]
I’m a Bona Fide Versatile Blogger
A HUGE thanks to Brian from Unintimidated by Convention for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award. I greatly appreciate your thinking about me, Brian! I’m guessing there are always nominations and no winners…so we are all winners. Regardless I’m all about starting out the new year with an award! WHOOO HOOOO!! Hold on while [...]
Who Needs a Guard Gate Anyway?
I’ve been stuck at home all week with a sick 6 year old. Completely out of milk, I made a desperate dash to the store that erroneously included swinging by the Daisy Troop meeting to pick up a fundraiser order. Secretly that was just an excuse to make sure cookie order forms weren’t going home [...]
Community Network Meme 2011
I don’t usually do memes because I can’t even pronounce the word correctly. This leads to the fear that someone will ask me what I’m doing today. Rather than saying it correctly, I mumble “mrrmmsm” followed by panicked pointing while shouting “Hey there’s a cute puppy!” to distract them because that works every time. I [...]
