Well, I’ve done it again. I’ve ordered a piece of workout equipment. I don’t know why I do this, but every now and then I lose what good sense I have and go off to crazyville. Last time it was the Heavy Hoop. The Heavy Hoop is a 3 lb. “hula” hoop that is supposed […]
Monthly Archives: April 2011
I’d like to be able to say I get my ideas from quiet moments of reflection, enjoying the unspoiled beauty of nature and letting the cares of the world fall away. However, that would be a lie. The truth is I am more often than not an innocent bystander to a happy idea accident, rather […]
This whole post may be in bad taste. That said, I was on the phone with my mother yesterday and she was telling me a friend’s daughter had been diagnosed with some sort of mini-seizures. Apparently, the child may have had them for years but no one noticed until recently. From somewhere in the recesses […]
I tend to use cultural references that go right over the heads of my younger friends, so I was asked to make a list of viewing recommendations to get us all on the same page. Next time I say “It’s going to be a bumpy night,” maybe I won’t get such strange looks. I have purposefully avoided […]
Due to the passing of a friend of mine last summer, and my father (unexpectedly – the day BEFORE my friend) I have been thinking about funerals. Not obsessively or anything, just in passing. (Oops, no pun intended.) I have attended fewer than a dozen funerals in my life, and frankly, they have been pretty […]
If you could stop the world for a day, what would you do? I had a few knee jerk reactions, but quickly put them aside as being far too boring. So cross off the list catching up on errands or work, sleeping or reading. (You can also cross off thumping Lindsay Lohan in the head. That […]
Sometimes I think the greatest invention ever was the snooze alarm. My clock is a 7 minute snooze. I understand they make 9 minute alarms, but I feel that’s just excessive. Give me 9 minutes and I’d be completely knocked out again, instead of in that semi-sleep mode with my brain slowly stretching and figuring out its […]
I had a maid when I was single and living in a two-bedroom apartment. She came once every two weeks. I was completely spoiled. Then I got married and moved in with my husband and my stepsons who were 9 and 12 at the time. Much to my husband’s dismay (he’d never had a maid before) I brought Atilana as […]
Are you that person others email or call and ask, “Do you know the name of that restaurant that’s on the corner of X and Y?” Or, “Who invented Comic Sans and why do seemingly intelligent people continue to use it?” If you are and you haven’t heard of “Let me Google that for you,” allow […]
Have you dealt with someone recently and discovered they have absolutely NO computer common sense at all? I’m not talking about your 60-year-old mother, I mean someone you consider a peer? I have. It’s surprising in this world of Facebook, Twitter, email, iPhones, and Blackberries, but it’s true – some people are just a little behind the curve. What […]
