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Friends to the Rescue
Way back when we decided to attempt selling our place and moving up to a slightly bigger place, we thought it would happen quickly. Put our place on the market in early May, move in June, go on a well deserved vacation in July. That was the idea, anyway, based on the last two townhouses in our complex, and how long it took them to sell. However, the market in our specific micro climate has changed drastically, and selling has become a bit of a nightmare. And yet…we still need a vacation. So, here we are, with family visits, school registration, work, etc., all limiting our options for when we…
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Friday Update
 Hi Bloggy Friends, I’m in Colorado, coming home today. YAY. It’s been a very short, intense business trip. Short, because I flew in on Wednesday for a meeting on Thursday, and I’m flying home today. Intense, because on Wednesday, while I was flying in, some of my coworkers were in a helecopter crash. Thank goodness, everyone is OK, and the very shaken up folks who were in the crash left early, and are already safely home. But needless to say, everyone here is reflecting on how much worse things could have gone for our tiny company, for the families involved, and we’re very thankful that all are unharmed. And it…
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How To Fold A Sheet
Fold A Fitted Sheet With Perfectly Squared Corners I’m out of town for a few days, on a short business trip. Since I have nothing really to say myself, being out of town and all, I’ll tell you that Gina mentioned on her blog the other day that she can’t fold a fitted sheet to save her life. In the comments, chichimama posted the link to this video. If there are any (probably not) readers to my blog who don’t already read Gina’s blog, AND if you give a rat’s ass about how to properly fold a fitted sheet, watch and learn. I couldn’t help but marvel at the beauty…
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Easy Peasy Chocolate Mousse
Last summer, the first with me working from home and Maya being here all day for most of the summer, I thought one fun way of keeping her from getting TOO bored would be to cook lunch together every day. We would learn how to make new things, she would get some mad skilz in the kitchen, and it would be fun. We cooked two, maybe three things (one of which was mac and cheese from the box). The problem was that she is indeed my child, and also Ted’s child, and she LOVES to sleep in. Also, being my child, breakfast when she first wakes up doesn’t really appeal…
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What’s in a name?
I was shocked, SHOCKED I’ll tell you, to read over at Bite My Cookie that she does not consider herself a feminist. She said she wouldn’t make a good feminist, because her husband is the breadwinner, while she is at home with the kids, and cooking up an idea for a cookie business, which will be funded at first from money saved from her husband’s job. So, because she loves her husband, she needs him, and doesn’t want to do away with him and do it all on her own, she doesn’t think she would make a good feminist. She’s smart, articulate, well educated, strong willed, opinionated, loving, entrepenurial, motivated…
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Fun at Mr. Steak
This is the story that I wrote for Top Blog Mag. I waited a week, and then posted it here, though it shows the same date…Top Blog Mag wants us to lead readers to THAT blog, so I didn’t post here sooner…but it’s a funny story, and I selfishly wanted it to be on my blog. 🙂 I’ll put it in ‘block format’, to show that it was published somewhere else first… Back in 1984, I worked as a waitress at a Mr. Steak restaurant in Stockton, California. To say that the workplace was different then than it is now would be an understatement…or perhaps it was working at a…
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Stupidity
Awhile ago, I signed up to be a blogger over at Top Blog Mag…they have four bloggers a week write posts on one theme. The theme this week is ‘Stupidity”, and if you’re at all interested in finding out what I did that was stupid enough to get me fired from Mr. Steak back in 1984, click on over and check it out.
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A.T.&T. SUCKS HOLE
Why, you may ask? Because they lie. Maybe a month or two ago, we received a stupid sales call from AT&T, wanting us to migrate our internet over from a cable modem to their DSL line. They claimed it was just as good, for half the price. Just try it, you’ll like it, and if you don’t, there’s no penalty, just send the DSL box back, and they’ll remove any charges, no harm done. OK, we decided to give it a shot. The box came, we hooked it up, and you know what? IT SUCKED. SLOW like molasses. We took one look at that, and decided, never mind, let’s stick…
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Notorious
“Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.†That’s a quote from this book, and it came to mind the other night when I watched an old Alfred Hitchcock classic, Notorious, which stars Cary Grant (though not Jimmy Stewart) and Ingrid Bergman. I would have to say that Notorious was DE-LI-CIOUS. I’m not sure how this film came to be in our Netflix queue, but I’m glad it did. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, in 1946. Cary Grant plays Devlin, a U.S. govt. agent who recruits Alicia to fly to Rio and…
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The House of Mirth – Film Version
A few months ago, I read The House of Mirth as part of my Winter Classics Reading Challenge. I heard good things about the film, so I added it to my netflix queue. You all know how it is with the queue, right? Things keep getting pushed up top, so something you intended to watch soon gets watched rather later than you had thought. I thought I would watch The House of Mirth soonish after reading the book, but things like Big Love got in the way. Anyway, it finally came last week, and while Maya and Ted washed the dog and had a swim on Sunday, I watched the…
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I’m a curmudgeon…
I realized this last night, when Ted and I were talking about what means good service to us…and I said that I miss having my change counted to me. You know, your purchase cost $12.35, and the cashier counts out your change, “that was $12.35, here’s 45, 50, $13.00, $14.00, $15.00, and $5.00 makes twenty.” Gosh, those were the days. I’d settle for someone telling me that the computerized cash register said my change was $7.65, and counting that to me, rather than just saying, “Here’s your change” and dumping it in my hand.  Also, when you had time to look at your receipt and what was on it before you put…
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How Do You Feel About This?
I’m sure that by now anyone who cares knows that there’s a Sex and the City film in the works…that the salary negotiations for Kim Catrall were finally worked out, the script long finished, schedules cleared, and the film is currently in production. This knowledge pulls me two different ways. 1st off, YAY! I love the girls, I love the relationship between the four of them, I love their friendship, the writing, the stupid situations they get themselves into, etc. However…I kind of liked how the series was tied up into a pretty little bow. They were all happy. Charlotte had Harry, and had her baby on the way. Miranda…
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Mawige*…
A random train of thought that started out with me thinking about my new glasses went on to my contact lenses, and somehow derailed into coworkers from 15 years ago, and then took a surprising turn and ended up with me thinking about divorce. Specifically, I was thinking about this coworker of mine way back in the early 90s, an older guy who was on his 4th or 5th marriage. He met this woman, fell in love with her, and they zoomed up to Tahoe to get married, post haste. Those of us who were a bit younger thought that was kind of strange…what’s the big rush? His reasoning, though,…
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Links of Love
(This picture is of Shrimp Paulista, the last link of love today…enjoy!) Once in awhile, it’s fun to point people to some blog posts that they might not otherwise see…so, because I love you all, here are a few that I enjoyed this week (and maybe one or two from last week…): Py Korry bought a fancy space-age type turntable and rooted through our album collection, starting a new feature on his blog called “I could give a rip”, in which he rips a hard-to-find song from LP to MP3 and uploads it for your downloading pleasure. The debut song is one of my old school faves, “Some Girls”, by…
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Update
I’ve gone from rated “G” to rated “PG-13”, considerably upping my street-cred. Oddly enough, it wasn’t for calling our fearless leader a fuck-up in the last post… This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: dangerous (8x) hurt (3x) pain (2x) suck (1x) Whatever.