I can’t believe it! The bike parts got here today. Today! Fairly late, so I’m not going to get in there and put ‘em in tonight, but I’m still astonished. W00t!
OTOH, I have to go to the dentist tomorrow morning (early enough that it qualifies as morning even for you people, which makes me not […]
Basically, I’m an optimist, but I adopt a distinctly pessimistic approach to almost everything. It may sound like a contradiction, but what it means is that if things do go right, I am pleasantly surprised.
So it was when I heard from the exercise-bike people. They asked a couple of questions and then shipped off a […]
Yesterday, my brand-new-in-January NordicTrack recumbent exercise bike blew a gasket. Well, more precisely, a circuit board. It went “pffft,” went dark, and that was that.
Astonishingly, it does have a one-year warranty. So I filled out their online “customer service” form, which has so far been in limbo for almost 10 minutes without completing its submission.
I […]
After deciding to build a “draft” of The Dress from Hell, as I think I mentioned earlier, I had to root through my fabric stash to find some really hideous stuff I’d never use for anything else. I think I succeeded beyond my wildest dreams on the “fugly” part. Can’t imagine how this stuff ever […]
:happy dance, squeal, happy dance:
One of my favorite TV shows of all time is “Da Vinci’s Inquest,” a Canadian show that ran for eight years or so. It’s very well written, the acting is excellent, and it broke ground for plot complexities. I missed the first couple of seasons, but faithfully watched all the rest, […]
I’ve sprayed and pulled and dug up weeds for two weeks now. I hate them little buggers. They’re more tenacious than telemarketers and twice as nasty. You yank ‘em up and pile ‘em, and the bloody roots manage to work their way back into dirt, or start sucking on their dead comrades for sustenance. I […]
. . . what the deal is. Some actress is standing outside whacking at something with a sledgehammer. The trouble is, she’s obviously never held a sledgehammer before, the one she’s holding obviously weighs about 12 ounces rather than 12 pounds (if it weighed 12 pounds, it would outweigh the girl by about two pounds), […]
Drove down to KrisDi’s and Snaotheus’s for Easter ham (and sausage, and pierogi, and croissants, and cheese, and rolls, and veggie salad, and potato salad, and bean salad… and apple pie, and apple cake, and cookies, AND Cadbury Mini-eggs. . .) and as usual came away stuffed like a granary bag. KrisDi’s a great cook, […]
I love “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” a silly radio show whose mission is to keep us informed of extremely important ridiculosity in our world. Sometimes, it provides vital information, such as . . .
Bacon is a good hangover cure.
Chocolate helps you learn math.
I can hardly wait to hear what they learn about macaroni and […]
Books and articles and entire encyclopedias, and I think even combative TV shows, have been written about the trials and tribulations of being a bride and trying to get all that stuff orchestrated for a spiffy wedding.
We mothers of the groom get left out from the word go. Nobody ever talks about our trials and […]
Every now and then, when I’m bored, I play with a word puzzle carried in the Seattle Times, where my college buddy Jerry works, called “Cricklers.” (How’s that for messy syntax?) Since I pay little attention to news these days, I don’t usually bother with the news-based quiz; but I generally do the vocabulary ones […]
It’s foolish. It’s unreasonable. It’s dangerous. It tempts fate. But still, I’ve felt really happy the last few days. Not that I don’t usually, but it’s been a silly, over-the-top happiness that makes me a bit apprehensive because I figure some Event of Doom is heading my way. Maybe it’s the sunshine, which I normally […]
One of my knitter buds passed this along. It’s pretty cool; those of us who (a-hem) have ritzy things (a-hem) like iPhones should enjoy it. Some of the stuff is classic and public domain; others have been published within the last couple of years. Check it out!
Ah haaa! Grandma has perked up considerably after the initial groggy period on the new meds. She’s getting feisty again, AND hasn’t asked for any Percoset all week. That’s pretty impressive. She seems to be doing a whole lot better, pain-wise-speaking.
Success, peaches!
While taking some of my yarn stash out today to wind skeins into balls, I discovered the cheekiest insult I can imagine from a rodent.
Last fall/early winter, said rodent invaded my house. I surmised it was a chipmunk, since it kept packing entire little boxes of rodent poison into its cheek pouches and hauling them […]