Mar
28

Stealth Blogging

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I told myself I wouldn’t blog this weekend, just to give myself a bit of a break. Apparently I can’t stay away, though, and so here I am. In truth, I wanted a few days away – just given how horrible last week was health-wise, it felt good to *not* be a complete wreck. So, yesterday I went shopping. Bought some pants. A travel kit. Other odds and ends. On a side note, here’s a big fat WTF to Banana Republic. The last few years I have loved wearing your jeans. But now you seem to have switched your sizes to UK numbers and shrunk them. I *was* wearing your size 6. I could barely fit into your UK size 10 (30?) Looking on your online site reviews though, it seems I’m not the only one complaining. Sounds like they aren’t shrinking right anymore either. I guess I’ll just chalk… Read more
Mar
20

Keep that Appealing Female Daintiness, Yo.

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Crawling out of bed long enough to post a little Saturday Night WTFkery, for your viewing pleasure.  And now, I’m crawling back in to bed. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be coherent enough to actually write something.… Read more
Mar
18

Random Bitching Put Into Perspective

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I’m working from home today. Partially because I have the beginnings of a nasty cold, but also so I could take my car to the Nissan dealer to get it looked at. On Saturday I drove through what I thought was a puddle – but it turned out to be the mother of all potholes. Since that point, I noticed when I accelerated, the engine was making a bit more of growl than normal. I figured I’d done something to the muffler, and sure enough, Nissan called me this afternoon and told me the flange that connects to the muffler to the tailpipe (the big long one that connects the muffler to the catalytic converter) underneath had rusted out and basically had a big hole in it. But of course it’s all one piece. So Nissan’s solution was to replace the muffler and the tailpipe for the low, low price… Read more
Mar
11

Freaky Kids Books

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I’m no expert on children’s books. I know I read a lot growing up. I had to write one in high school. Even attempted to get it pubbed, actually – got myself a copy of Writer’s Market and everything. Of course this was in the days before the internet so trying to figure out what I was doing was a bit of a mess. But I digress. Since having children, it’s been kind of fun reconnecting with a lot of the old favorites – sometimes there’s just a great bittersweet sort of nostalgia about the stories. And maybe I’m odd, but occasionally a certain passage or a picture will trigger a memory and essentially transport me to an exact moment in time and I can *remember* sitting in a doctor’s office reading it, or huddling beneath the covers with a flashlight or what have you. However, in reading them as… Read more
Mar
10

Buckling Down

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I got on the scale this morning for the first time in a while and it’s not overly pretty. Okay, it’s not pretty by about five pounds, but still. Which irks me, because it’s not like I didn’t see them sneaking up on me, but here they are. Though maybe it’s more like ten since last year, five since the Fall? Still full of suck. I can make the excuse that I had surgery and that slowed me down a bit, but it’s been several months, so that doesn’t really count anymore. On the other hand, I really piled on those second and third helpings of mac and cheese over the holidays and I’m starting to see the results of that. Plus, as I’ve noted before, I’m a bit of a stress eater, and I like to eat to relax – when I’m reading, when I’m writing, when I’m playing… Read more