A 4th of July word problem
When you already have a wonky and sluggish thyroid and can’t figure out why you’ve been feeling like crap for the last several weeks and just “off” for a few months before that and your husband nobody has the balls …
Halfway through summer
It was the Fourth of July. The band was in their shirt sleeves and getting ready to rise for the director. The oboist was setting up his tuner and sounding the Bb. But it was wrong, so he tried a …
Unnecessarily grumpy
There are so many things I could write about today. Perhaps a Yet More WTF? Crap I found in the Sunday Coupons, or the death of Billy Mays (really, can random celebrities just stop dying now? I miss actual news, …
And that is why Tom and I will never divorce
I’m sure our parents will be oh-so-thrilled to hear that. A does not do well with change. At.All. It’s better than it used to be, but still ain’t all that great. When he was a wee thing, getting him out …
Complain, complain
Dear lady at the doctors’ office today, Please note that when you make an appointment with your OB/GYN that she has that pesky “OB” in her title, in addition to the “GYN.” Those two little letters mean that, on occasion, …
TODAY (just when I thought I had nuttin’)
Summer is delicious and sometimes I just don’t want to slap my wrists down on a hot laptop when it’s hot out. I’d rather enjoy a cold beverage on the patio with a book. Yes, a book. I seem to …
Still more bizarro stuff I found in the Sunday coupons
This topic could go on forever. There is no dearth of crap out there to snicker at, and somehow much of it ends up in the Sunday coupon circulars. Let’s see what I have here, collected over the last few …
Friday Fragments–6/19/2009
AHA! I’ve figured out the Friday Fragments thing. Many thanks to Mel, who directed me to Half-Past Kissing Time, so I can give credit. God knows I have enough flotsam and jetsam swirling around my brain today to play. Let’s …
Book queue
Good Lord, Jen, did a library explode on your kitchen island? As a matter of fact, it did. The floor is just littered with small pieces of paper and other library-ish detrius. It’s a mess, I tell ya. What you …
Taking the place of Jen today…
is me, Mel from Colorful Metaphors. I really like Jen. If I lived in Boulder, she would so be my BFF. We have lot in common. If she ever came to Austin, I would take her to the Whole Foods …