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FIRE!*

It’s been so long since I posted here that I forgot how to log in.  Well, in the interest of full disclosure: the blog redesign took the admin link off my home page and I didn’t know the web address to get in through the back door so N had to text it to me […]

In which we are crazy people

Yesterday my entire family was getting together for lunch at my aunt’s house in The Woodlands.  And I’ve been looking at cars, and found one that interested me at a dealership there.  So after lunch, N and I left the kids in the capable and willing hands of my relatives and headed out. Just to […]

The lazy woman’s update

I’ve been sadly remiss in posting anything about the very busy last couple of weeks, and if nothing else I need to get that last post off the top of my home page.  To that end, pitifully short summaries.  With pictures! Over Memorial Day weekend, N and I went to Baltimore for his college roommate’s […]

This and that

I managed two whole posts in a row that had a cohesive theme throughout.  Tonight my streak comes to an end. My dryer is a piece of shit, doo-dah, doo-dah* The damn thing has started eating drawstrings.  It happened a few times before, but it was sporadic and so I didn’t think much of it […]

Hard sell

I suppose that some people are easily swayed by TV commercials, promotional gimmicks, magazine ads, pushy salespeople and the like.  Unfortunately for the marketing world at large, I am not one of these people. Scene:  At home, around 9:15 p.m. on a weeknight.  My cell phone rings, from a number I don’t recognize.  I answer anyway. […]