Anyone with a blog can participate in a Fun Monday, so if you’re a blogger, please feel free to join the group. Each week a host blogger picks a topic, and all the participants post their response on Monday. This week’s Fun Monday is hosted by Robin @ Pensieve, and the topic is…
Quotable quotes and [...]
Movies I can’t watch because…
…bad things happen to a dog.
I can generally tolerate some violence in movies and literature, but Leave The Dogs alone.
Here I am holed up in the bedroom on my laptop because Nick and Rob are watching I Am Legend. And while I hold Will Smith right up there [...]
I’m sitting on the couch with the Nike again. A Saturday morning with no particular agenda is rare for me. I’m supposed to be cleaning the spare room. I keep twitching my nose, like Samantha in Bewitched, but so far the room still looks like Dorothy’s house post-tornado.
To further avoid getting [...]
A conversation at my house ten years ago:
“I want to get a puppy”.
“I don’t want a puppy”.
“Tough, I’m getting a puppy anyway”.
That puppy represented my first insistence that I be allowed to be myself. That puppy became my best friend and joy at the bleakest hour of my life. That puppy is [...]
I had some great ideas for today’s blog. Really I did. But today finds me a little discombobulated on two counts.
Count One: I’m wearing BLUE socks. How does one get up and dress in olive-green corduroy pants, oatmeal sweater, and brown shoes and manage not to notice blue socks until one [...]
Picture this.
You’re a thief. You want some cash. You cast your mind about your neighborhood to find a likely source of ready moolah.
You settle on the corner muffler shop. Because everyone knows a muffler shop keeps more cash on hand then say, the liquor store, or AM/PM.
So, at 8am, right after [...]
One of the few driving obstacles in my daily commute is a rather busy four-way stop in South Lake Stevens. A common traffic phenomenon. However, at 6:50 a.m. the combination of under-caffeination and the mysterious desperation of most suburbanites to get to work on time give it Sudoku-like complexity. It is always [...]
Happy Easter Monday!
If I was living my fantasy life in Tuscany, Easter Monday would be a holiday and I’d not be on the train going to work. Since the closest I’m getting to Italy these days is my Italian-themed kitchen, here I am on Sounder 1700, the 7:12 to King Street. Eminem [...]
I forgot my coat today. It’s warm and happy on its padded pale blue hanger in my closet. My scarves are there too, in the scarf bag. Leaving my outerwear at home was probably not a good choice – it’s darn cold today, and the skies are ominous.
As usual, the Spring memo didn’t make it [...]
LJ is having one of THOSE days. I often envy the Nike and the cats. After all, what have they got to do? They sleep when they want, food gets served up twice a day on schedule, and as far as I know they don’t lay awake worrying about anything.
But today, LJ is having one [...]