The bagger at my local Ralphs market managed to drop the cake I purchased all over the front of her apron while attempting to catch it, which only ended up covering her hands in frosting in mid-catch.  What amused me most is that she calmly replaced the clear plastic top and attempted to rebag it and add it to my order.  Huh.  No ( Read more... )

We've returned home from England and Scotland ( Read more... )

I'm posting from the west shores of England from my mum-in-law's home in the little city of Lytham with a lap-top and dial-up - my patience is running thin so this will be short!

The weather has been better then some of the summer's we've visited so there ya go.  Hey Norbert..we passed through Leeds yesterday on a trip to York...well, okay, we were ( Read more... )

Well, tomorrow we're off to England and Scotland (yes, Norb, we'll be on the same island!) for two weeks!  This is the first time in a long while that I'm not boarding an airplane within hours of clocking out at work.  Because I'm not running around like a madwoman, it almost seems too easy getting things in order to leave ( Read more... )

We have the Lieberman curse in our family.  It's an unrealistic worry about the world outside your door and it manages to surface just sliiiiiightly before I'm ready to take off on a trip.  There isn't a female in my family who doesn't suffer from it even a little bit ( Read more... )

The Orange County Music Awards were waayyyyyy cool last night and though there was a chance, Reverend Blue did not take home an award for Best Blues Band.  It went to a chick named Connie Rae - a housewife straight out of cookie-cutter surburbia.  But, the Rev. Boys were honored to have been nominated and their  tough competition were no less then ( Read more... )

I was drawn to a book by Joan Didion, an account of a year in her life in which her husband keeled over from a fatal heart attack while her daughter layed unconscious in the ICU - the first of two episodes in the very same year.  The name of this book is "The Year of Magical Thinking".  I'm only half-way through it, but BOYOBOYOBOY did I pick a ( Read more... )

GOOD NEWS!  Did you know...

...you can have BRAIN SURGERY and be out of the hospital and home in time to catch your favorite soaps!  I kid you not!

I was sent to see a patient who checked in last night, had her brain tumor removed this morning and sheeeezam! had checked out before I could see her at 12:30 this afternoon.  So quit whining about your ( Read more... )

Alright, so we live in America - land of the free.

So, why, I ask...why am I such a hater of those friends of mine who after TWO years of Paul being in the best gig of his life (with REVEREND BLUE) have still failed to get their fat asses up to come see a show???

Oh...wait.  I know - let's see .... pick one: (a) my kid called me (b) I forgot (c) 9 p. ( Read more... )

Because of my daughter's friendship with David Silvera, the drummer in the band Korn, we were invited to an invitational tasting at his new restaurant in downtown Huntington Beach called Silvera's Steakhouse and Lounge.  This new establishment is one that far exceeds the common fare on Main Street offering gourmet comfort food and American cuisine  ( Read more... )