She’s an old soul, Adele. She writes emotionally honest music and when I need to get lost in something, I get lost in her voice. This is the song I sing in the shower, much to my dog’s door-scratching protests.
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Nobody nose but me
My friend, Stacy, LOVES the thrift store. She has an uncanny ability to find really cute outfits, probably because she enjoys looking through miles of racks of clothing. Or she’ll enter the store with the intention of finding a size nine, strappy sandal in the “perfect” shade of blush – and she’ll find them! She’s...
Uplifting
I asked him to rip up the carpet on the steps, just to see what was beneath it. After this whole fiasco, I wouldn’t have blamed him for saying no, but Darren agreed to take a peek. Ha! Just as I suspected, there was beautiful hardwood steps being covered up by cheap carpet! Oh how...
Drama King
Community is a powerful thing. If something devastating happens in one’s community, everyone is touched to some degree. Just watch the news after a tornado rips through a small town. Folks band together in tough times. On the other hand, when a member of a community enjoys success, everyone is again touched to some degree. I...
Tada!
So last you heard from me, we were considering a kitchen makeover due to my dark wood allergy. When we purchased this house, the kitchen looked like this: After we moved in, it looked like this: MANY weeks later, we arrived at this: It’s ALMOST finished! We used this on the island and built-in desk...
Um, hi.
I’m back and I need your help.
Life is an Autobahn
There’s a reason I’ve not been blogging lately. We just finished moving from what we consider to be “out in the country” to “into the city”, if you can call a town with no stoplights as a “city”. I define city by the frequency of which I must open and close the shades to prevent...
Miss Emma
I’ve been really enjoying my Wednesdays lately. That’s when Lil Miss Emma from the Krew joins us after school. Emma makes me laugh real laughs. When she is here I LOL and ROFL ALOT…and so does everyone else. Today Elly, Nathanael and Emma played a game of Let’s Catch Popcorn In Our Mouths: Emma LOVED this...
Craptastic!
Remember visiting grandma’s house and noticing the odd objects she used in her decor? My Grandma used to have ceramic elephants and an iron cast scale which held plastic grapes on each side. Apparently red grapes weigh more than green grapes because I have this memory of picking the red grapes off in order to...
Murder, she wrote
Last night I went to bed early so I knew that when Darren woke me up, it would not be good news. “Neen… Bobo is dead.” My first thought was “oh no!” My second thought was “OMG, poor Kevin!” My third thought was “Holy crap, the Internet is going to think *I* did it!” I...
Mousecapades
Oh there are days when if I could trade places with any television character, I would!! Except for Dwight Schrute. I’d hate to be him even on my worst days. We have mice in our house. I’m not sure how many but if you see one you can assume that there are three trillion, which I...
Sole Food
A friend of mine is feeling a bit burned out from her job. I’m thinking that this post will be good for her sole. Hang in there, Michele. The weekend is almost here.
At Last
I know it’s not exactly normal for a middle aged woman to get her undies in a bunch about a video game but I fell in love with Halo a couple years ago, so when REACH was announced last year, I began the countdown. Reach was released today and my geeky self couldn’t be more...
LIl’ Dunns
It’s not very often that the baby of this family gets to shine in athletics since he’s still in elementary school, and lives in the shadows of his older brothers, but this year is different. Nathanael, aka Scooter, is motivated. He’s working hard and making a name for himself. Well, kind of. When we asked...
He’s my Favre-rite
Drew Brees, QB New Orleans Saints. Brett Favre, QB Minnesota Vikings. I like the Minnesota Vikings football team just fine. You won’t see me at games with my face painted purple and gold but I tend to cheer for the hometown team just like everyone else. And, like many women, I make game predictions based...
The gift that keeps on giving
We bought this satanic bird for Kevin on his 13th birthday. That was almost seven years ago. Bobo is a Sun Conure, a bird larger than a Parakeet and smaller than a Parrot and I was counting on the fact that Bobo would live a grand, full life of four to five years. Apparently I...
Only day 2 and I almost forgot.
Why do people in movies who get amnesia always remember the word “amnesia”? Why don’t doctors ever prescribe roller skates for depression? If you don’t try, at least you’ll never know that you can’t, right? Eating a sandwich under protest is probably the worst way to eat a sandwich. Kevin came home from college for...
I wear workout clothes just for the irony
My friend, Michele, has decided to blog each day during the month of September. She suggested that I do the same and while I’m a day late and a dollar short, I’ve decided that I need a bit of discipline in my life, even if that means I thrust my mundane life in your lap...
By leaps and bounds
Unfortunately I can’t embed this video but it’s so cool that you simply must make the effort to click here and watch it.
Mr. Funny Man
This graph made me laugh out loud. It was created by a guy named Josh over at Status Illustrated. I think he’s pretty funny. I mean, he wrote this: Power Out: An @yoyoha Live Tweet Event About a month ago, just before we put the kids to bed, the power went out. This is a...