May 17, 2012

Fall 2010 Trends

Fall.  It is going for a run with a cool breeze blowing set against a clear, blue sky.  The scent of a campfire and burning leaves in the air and pumpkins adorning doorsteps.  It is my favorite season and not just because of the bright bursts of color on the trees but also because it is [...]

My Goody Drawer

I keep things hidden away in my nightstand. Things that no one in my house can have but me. In pretty wrappings, sometimes shiny and glistening, they beckon to me as they sit and wait until just the right moment when I open the draw and pull one out just for my pleasure. It’s candy. [...]

You Have WHAT on Your Ceiling?

You Have WHAT on Your Ceiling?

You are probably wondering what that thing is.  If you guessed a breast implant, well bonus points for creativity, but that is not correct.  I told you before we were revamping our house.  That picture is of quite possibly the world’s ugliest bathroom light I have ever laid eyes on.  It does look like a [...]

2010- No More Excuses

I never watch ‘The Biggest Loser’.  OK, maybe sometimes I catch a weigh in or two, but I don’t know the players, their stories or their fight to lose the weight while at the ranch.  Since there was absolutely nothing else on TV last night and I felt ridiculously tired, I lay there like a sacraficial [...]

I’m Done Being Sugar’s Bitch

I dreamed of sugar last night. Of cookies, cakes and frosting.  There I was in the aisle at the grocery store looking for bread and all I could see was already opened packages of Oreos begging for me to take one.  No one would know… Yellow cake, lovingly rolled and slathered with fluffy white frosting.  Cinnamon [...]

Welcome to Crazy Town

About a year ago, on a rather traffic-clogged road trip that was full of screaming Comedians and whiney Dictators, and me trying to claw my way through the upholstery or squeeze through a vent.  Any vent!  We all felt like we were about to lose it.  TD asked for the ninety-millionth time the classic line of, “Daddy! [...]