I. HATE. SCALES. For the past few years they’ve told me nothing but bad news. Occasionally, they’ll give some small ray of hope – only to snatch it back on the next visit. They’re intrinsically evil. Every once in a while I’ll try to reason with the scale. I’ll say things like – Listen – here’s [...]
Archive for August, 2007
On Being a Weight Watchers Flunky…
Posted in My Version of Events: A Daily Journal on August 28, 2007 | 6 Comments »
How to make the Best Muffins…Ever
Posted in Not Just Another Fleeting Fancy on August 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just returned from a bruncheon attended by women from my church. So much fun ! Anyway, I was in charge of bringing the muffins. Really an exciting task for me, because I have the BEST muffin recipe thats been lurking around my family cookbooks for years. Very simple, very delicious – and because of that [...]
Monsters in My Basement
Posted in My Version of Events: A Daily Journal on August 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
My husband has announced that he’s going camping -I am, obviously, filled with dread. I have this thing about being alone in the house. Mind you I’m not technically alone – my 7 year old is with me. But by alone I mean “without the comfort of an adult who knows how to shoot a [...]
Extermination of a Species
Posted in Questionable on August 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
So what’s the deal with flies? I mean – what’s their function exactly? Just to give you some background – I hate flies. I know, I know – we all hate flies. But I really hate them. I may even take a small amount of sadistic pleaure in ridding them from the planet (nothing clinical [...]
Reasonable Doubt
Posted in A Cock & Bull Story: The Art of Writing Fiction on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is a short story I wrote in late 2006. I entered into a writing contest that was recommended to me by a friend. The jist of it was that each contestant was to take the 1st line of a published work of fiction (a list of sentences was provided), and create a short mystery [...]
The Write Stuff
Posted in A Cock & Bull Story: The Art of Writing Fiction on August 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
You will find here samplings of my short stories (mostly mystery fiction), my thoughts about writing, and inevitably, my struggles with it. I love to write – it’s theraputic, and on the whole, I encourage it. You can journal and write for your posterity, or you can write beautiful poetry, and bear your soul in prose. Whatever form [...]
Do It Yourself-ers
Posted in Not Just Another Fleeting Fancy on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So I’m completely obsessed with DIY projects, and as I was Stumbling today, I came across this nifty little site that shows you 100 Things you can make yourself. I’m going to start with the gingerale.
Impulse theory…
Posted in Questionable on August 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever wondered how supermarkets decide what products should be displayed around the checkout counters to entice us into that one last impluse purchase? There’s the staples: gum, hard candy, chips, gossip magazines. Those seem pretty straight forward to me. But the other day as I was standing in line, I took a closer look at [...]
