I had a birthday this past weekend and totally got my way all weekend long would like to first express gratitude for my dad who suffered trauma upside down and all around at the hands of our 6 year old whirling dervish provided overnight babysitting services.
That oughta teach him to offer up such a thing.
What [...]
Now that I’ve upgraded my version of WordPress, draft posts I have from before the upgrade are dated “1969″ as the year written. All the rest say “2008.”
Time flies.
I would have been 3 years old in 1969.
What brilliance! What trendsetting to be blogging back then!
Those were the good ol’ [...]
I shall walk the dog and go to the grocery store.
Hmmphrff.
Jenn just realized she is clogs, so I had to try this little personality test. It’s an online quiz with just a few questions, so it MUST be accurate, right?
What kind of shoe am I most like? Sneaker? Slippers? Western boots?
Nope.
You Are Bare Feet
You are a true free spirit, [...]
adjective:
Having been formerly; former; sometime.
A quondam flower child, she spent seven years at the Royal College of Art, before becoming a lecturer at Edinburgh School of Art.
– “Interview: Cool, calm collector”, Independent, December 13, 1997
Quondam comes from the Latin quondam, “formerly,” from quom, “when.”
Seems like I shoulda known this word. After all, I am [...]
I’m taking a stab at the writing prompt Jenny offered this week: Marriage in real life.
Well. What can I say about marriage? In the big scheme of things, it’s fairly early yet. I’m going on 7 years. Just one dog year, actually. Hm, seemed longer.
Even though I [...]
While I’m at the eye doctor’s the other day, I had to fill out a new form on medical information since over a year had passed from the previous exam.
I’m looking at what I filled out before. No medicine allergies, no cataracts. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Then I read, Occupation: homemaker.
Huh?
In [...]
