Yesterday I got caught in such a perfect storm of marketing and upselling that I had an out of body experience and just watched it all happen to me. Sometimes you just have to step back and marvel when you see a master at work. I went into Teavana. I’d had samples of tea outside [...]
The first rule of Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club. The first rule of blogging is that you talk about everything. I’ve been a blogger longer than a fighter so I guess that rule wins. I went to my first fencing lesson last night. It will be henceforth known as fight [...]
Work on the hallway started this morning. I was downstairs for sewing day and not paying attention to what was going on upstairs. Riley kept coming over and giving me looks though. He naps upstairs at this time of day and obviously he was being disturbed. (Poor Riley has a traumatic 24 hours. Riley, scourge [...]
I joined the Secret Post Club, which is like a Secret Santa exchange every month, and I just got my first package. (I was going to post a link but they’ve closed it to new members for right now so I must have been lucky to get in.) Mine came from Betty in the UK. [...]
The local mall is having a hard time keeping stores. As a result they are starting to have some offbeat new occupants. I wander around on my lunch break twice a week. Now I could get a tattoo or join a table tennis league at the mall. I’m not really interested. But today I saw [...]
Another weekend, another chance to torture small children with vegetables. This weekend’s secret weapon for making eating better fun was fondue. The first course was cheese. Z hates cheese. We had bread, apples, and cauliflower to dip. She ate some of the apples but no cheese. That’s ok. She’s been crazily ambivalent about apples. One [...]
I was addled in my sleep last night. I have having a dream where I was scamming a series of very random people from different eras of my life. Suddenly I woke up with a sharp, intense pain in my right ankle. Here’s what I was sure of: 1. It hurt like »«{• 2. My [...]
I take back my conclusion from the end of the last post that I am pathetic for not wanting to be away from the SO in the evening. It was not patheticness that made me squirmy. It was my female intuition screaming that something bad was happening. He had two unsupervised hours at home before [...]
Shopping Spree Originally uploaded by spirit97 Instead of having a sewing day today we went on a field trip. We headed to a quilt store two hours away from home. I hate quilt stores. I know that is speaking the blasphemy since all quilters are supposed to love and support their local quilt store. But, [...]
Z’s back this weekend. Welcome to part 2 of Eating like a Normal Human! Today for lunch she had a sandwich. I think her main sandwich familiarity comes from Subway where she gets a lettuce and black olive sandwich. We can recreate that at home. I had her make the sandwich. Disaster ensued when she [...]
I have a dirty little secret. I’m a registered Republican. Let’s call it a youthful indescretion. I was 18 when I registered and just signed up for what my parents did. I recently learned how to change it but if I do I won’t get gems like this. I got a letter from the local [...]
I’m not sure whether to call this The List of Stuff I Want or the List of Stuff I Need Money For or Man, I’m Gonna Be Broke or what. It started out as a companion to my 101 things in 1001 days list that ended last year. I don’t want to think hard enough [...]
I went to the Post Office today. Yes, that was dumb considering that it is April 15 (U.S. tax day for the international folks) but I had to mail off my secret post club package. I didn’t want to be late on my first month. Besides I had the foresight to send out my taxes [...]
Crocs Originally uploaded by spirit97 Old pink crocs on the left. Brand spankin’ new ones on the right. I think I got my money’s worth out of the old ones! I wore that tread down to nothing. The old ones are promised to a dog I work with on Thursdays and Fridays. She is always [...]
Sometimes I think I spend too much time with dogs. When I’ve been explaining to people that although I have an engagement ring I have no plans to marry, I’ve been using this explanation: “It is a sign that he claimed me. Sort of like peeing on me but nicer.” The even sadder thing is [...]
Since I’ve been home I’ve been catching up on shows I missed. One of them was Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. After watching Z eat french fries all week I was ready to fight to get her to eat some decent food. I just had to convince her father not to give in. He’s great at [...]
Washington DC was alive with flowers. We even managed to find some blooming trees although most of them were done. My favorite exhibit was the Brian Jungen area at the National Museum of the American Indian. Look closely at this mask and you can see that it is made out of Air Jordan sneakers.
Z started singing while we walked to Union Station. We finally asked why. She wanted people to pay her. She saw us give money to street performers and figured it would work for her. I can see her What I Did On Spring Break essay now – The Art Of Panhandling. She made friends on [...]
Yesterday at the American History Museum we saw this presentation about how to change lyrics of popular songs to make them into protest songs. There was even an audience sing along portion. Yippee – read that with all the sarcasm intended please. The last thing the SO needed was learning about protest songs. Now when [...]
We are having the total out of body experience of not having the worst behaved kid in a public place. It is nice. It becomes surreal when said kid starts pointing out other childrens’ bad behavior. Dinner last night was seafood pasta, butternut squash ravioli, and french fries. Bet you can guess who ate what. [...]