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Why I Love WENDYWOOWHO
1. She is usually the first (and sometimes the only) person to respond to my LJ posts. Makes me feel so loved ( Read more... ) -
Huh. So am I just a hillbilly at heart?
(No offense to hillbillies anywhere - even those in Beverly Hills ( Read more... ) -
Do-be-do-be-do, The Shopping Coup . . . Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
OK, I only went to the fancy-schmancy department store to buy CHRISTMAS CARDS, I swear! But then they didn't have the ones I wanted, so I started looking around for a birthday present for my best friend ( Read more... ) -
Uh-oh.
Bwahaha! auntsie_pants forgot to log out of LJ, and now her evil, evil husband has control. Now, acting as auntsie_pants, what should I say? Oh, I know:
My husband, skipmagic is the niftyest, coolest guy I've ever met. He's the jelly in my jam-roll, my main Twinkie squeeze, my--
Oh, crap! She's coming! RUN, mutha-fugher, R-U-N! -
Overheard in the Land of Cubicles . . .
"I was groping myself."
I am no longer concerned about what tidbits people around here overhear of MY phone conversations. -
I believe the children are our future . . .
So I apparently lied a few weeks ago, when I complained that my autumn volunteer activities had gone down the crapper. Rather, it seems, some of them were just postponed. So on Wednesday, I get a message from the coordinator of the monthly "reading to kids" program in which I participate, wanting to know if I'll be able to make it on Thursday. ( Read more... ) -
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire . . .
. . . is apparently what we'll be having - and ALL we'll be having - for Thanksgiving dinner; my mom and I are headed to my sister's place for Thanksgiving, and she is lacking:
a) a working oven
b) two working burners on the stove (the two that do work are the small burners), and
c) a working microwave.
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, here we come! -
Do You Know When the Hen Broke Wind?
This beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon past I was outside fighting the rampant ivy threatening to overtake our back porch (and, indeed, our home) and I suddenly realized, apropos of nothing, that there are only two people left in the world (my mom and sister) who remember the funny and somewhat odd phrases my dad used to use to describe various ( Read more... ) -
The Un-sale: An Update.
I couldn't help it. I had a lunch "date" today in the mall of yesterday, and since I was walking through the department store again, I had to check. And Skanky Ganker was nowhere in sight. So I grabbed the red $95 sweater from yesterday (which was back on the rack by now) and asked a nice saleslady whom I'd never seen to check the price ( Read more... ) -
. . . and lest my shopping woes don't make me sound ENOUGH like a Lady Who Lunches . . .
Why, ah haven't a single voluntee-ah activiteh planned fuh this fawl ( Read more... )