This blogging thing makes me a better grown up. I learn lessons without someone having to sit down and school me in how I’m wrong – I learn via watching and the light bulb A-HA moment. . I had a light bulb moment about friendship and favors about a year ago. . Back when I started blogging (way back in ought seven) I met Mrs Flinger. She was all cool.. Read More
Better than stroking out over healthcare reform
(I have a lot of deep thoughts while I’m not sleeping. Big, important, deep thoughts. I don’t know how to share them all yet, but I’m going to try to pare things down to small bits that I can manage.) . 1. Walking. Almost 40 million hits on the goog about Benefits of Walking. 2. Laughing. Just reading the facebook status updates of people makes me all tense and clutchy.. Read More
Main Street Shopping Lives In My Computer
When Scout got home from work yesterday, I congratulated him on making us so boring financially that ABC World News didn’t want to put me on the National News. . To say he was confused would understate his reaction. . Heather had called me to see if I would be up for an interview about being middle class – after talking to the lovely woman from ABC World News with.. Read More
Rules to being a successful mommy blogger – according to @kaisermommy
– Realize some women are BITCHEZ. They just are. Their moms and sisters are probably BITCHEZ too. Also? Their friends. Like speaks to like and BITCHEZ hang tight. Think of these BITCHEZ like a rank, wet fart. Unavoidable and best to avoid being in their path. – Grooming counts dude. If I look at my 5 fave mommy bloggers – not a one of them presents as an uggo. I’m.. Read More
Vibrator #fail
(conversation between friends joined already in progress) Miss Piggy: back to my other question – did you try the ‘better than chocolate‘ vibrator for women? Janice: I did . . . not strong enough . . . but overall works Miss Piggy: HATE IT Janice: HAHAHHAA Janice: like the ergonomics of it Miss Piggy: yeah, the ergonomics are nice, that’s why I wanted to try it. thought it would fit nicely between.. Read More
Ahh the Twitter Enema
I like to have my twitter followers/following balanced. If it is supposed to be a conversation, then for me, I need/want to be both talking and listening to the “friends”. . To figure out who I can “unfollow”  (y’know peeps I followed and they never followed me back, and now I don’t know why I followed them in the first place) I like Friend or Follow. Easy to see who I’m.. Read More
Ash Wednesday
I know. Posting two days in a row. Crazyness. (Craziness?) . MommySnatch and ZoeyJane both wanted to know what book I’m reading – (click the image to link to the book. It’s not an aff link bc I’m too lazy to make it an aff link right now.) I was drawn to it because it is pretty. I could hang the book on my wall and enjoy it as art… Read More
On Lent
It’s snowing here. Like enough snow that I’ll even call it a good snow. . I made a snow angel yesterday. As I fell back into the snow, the world went WHOOSH …. quiet. The way that only happens when the world is filled with snow. I lay there enjoying the release of everything in that moment while I made a snow angel. While the snowflakes poured out of the.. Read More
The quilt and the chair
There are two projects up there – One is the knitted quilt project using (mostly) yellow, purples and greens. I have several Phat Fiber samples in there too – the blue is the Princess Bride sample from Sept. The primarily white is … Snow White? from the Sept box. The yellow is … um. Also from September. A lot of the light purple you see is Maude and Me. The.. Read More
Sometimes, the posts, they just write themselves.
Last night at damn dinner time there’s a knock on the door. I think it’s my sweetie mailman bringing me a package. It’s not. It’s some little blonde. New carpet cleaning place opening up, they are looking for peeps with some carpet to munch clean so customers can tell their friends about it and the rug munching carpet cleaning company can get some word of mouth advertising. I think, “Hey,.. Read More
ZOMG Mommyblogger DRAMZ!!!!!
I point fingers at people who go trolling through the internet looking for drama to blow up about. I do my best to keep my mouth shut. Here comes the fancy but. However. I see this tweet Had a company contact us asking us to pay $10 per item plus s/h to review them. “We do this to ensure that our bloggers have done homework” I reply with a very.. Read More
For the Ravelry and Knitter peeps
We’re doing a secret Santa (or whatever politically correct name) over in my Ravelry group and this is to help my partner out. And the local knitterati knows about the blog so they might like some info too. 1. How long have you been spinning? What skill level do you consider yourself? Picked up the drop spindle for the first time in Dec 2008 but had no luck till Summer.. Read More
How to tell you are a mommy blogger -1
You send your husband the following message from your ever open email to his ever charged blackberry: bring bud ice cream. he just sat on the little potty long enough to poop there. i’m so thrilled you are lucky i’m not taking a photo and sending it to you. Then you blog about it.