Three (3!) Things Thursday
1. I am reading a book on leadership, and came across this passage: Umm – so except for this book, everything else I’ve read has been smutty vampire or werewolf paranormal romance. I am not at my most...
View ArticleShoesday – Garden Party
And not just shoes. I am graduating in August (well, I have a diploma, so I guess I’m already graduated, but I’m walking at the ceremony in August) and I need a new fancy outfit to wear under my...
View ArticleAugust 2012 Goals
July 2012 Goals Get back into the swing of things & develop a new routine for Alvie, the architect & me that works well so that we’re all getting our needs met. – SUCCESS! – Mostly. Alvie is...
View ArticleSo many things!
Internets! I have been so busy! Friday, we drove down to Eugene (and strangely away from all the heat). We had a cheap (but nice) motel for the night. There was a pool. So we did this: He loved it,...
View ArticleThree Things Thursday
I was all prepared to do a Wednesday chub-day update on my baby, and then read the Ambitious One’s Three Things Thursday and realized that it is, indeed, Thursday. My world is topsy turvy! (I vote for...
View ArticleI Esteem Colossal Lexemes and I Cannot Prevaricate
When I was younger, I delighted in words, in the turns of phrase that make a story worth reading or hearing. The way the right author could take individual pieces with independent meanings, and make...
View ArticleWord Nerd (in training): Onomasticon
I am committing to weekly word nerd posts in my attempt to improve my vocabulary. My goal is to find a word that I would actually use in conversation (or in blogging), post about it, and then use it at...
View ArticleFive Things Friday: Alvie Bean Edition
You guys, my kidlet is not only a tiny sociopath*, he is also adorable! Yesterday, we were counting, and I was counting on my fingers. He looked at my fingers, looked at his own fingers, and his face...
View ArticleWord Nerd: Solecism
I have not used last week’s word at all. I thought about it frequently and practiced in my head, but then I was concerned that I would use it incorrectly and someone would make fun of me. (This is...
View ArticleI Like Big Brains!
One of the best things about 2014 was that the new friends that I made were all so very much smarter than me. Well, that’s kind of good. A little disheartening at times, but overall good. More or less....
View ArticleBrain. Dead. Send Help (and gin)
It is Friday. TFIF. (Freya is my new goddess and I will be invoking her in all things that require divine invocation. My general atheistic stance remains pretty firm, though, so don’t worry!) I am...
View ArticleHow many shades of heather does one person hold?
I mean heather as in an oyster color. I didn’t want to use “shades” and the g-word in my title as I’m already disappointing scores of Google searchers who are here due to a shoe fetish. I am currently...
View ArticleI Like Big Brains!
One of the best things about 2014 was that the new friends that I made were all so very much smarter than me. Well, that’s kind of good. A little disheartening at times, but overall good. More or less....
View ArticleSo Long 2017!
This year has been a huge mixed bag for me. January had a trip to Breckenridge with The Beer Guy, then rats (!), then moving in with aforementioned Beer Guy. February, I turned 40 and published my...
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