... my cat is weird. It's funny how people talk about their cats like they are so original. "Oh my cat did the funniest thing yesterday! She climbed up the screen door!" Wow, like no cat in the history of the world has ever done that before ( Read more... )

Sometime between being an opera singer and hosting Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel, Mike Rowe worked on QVC. I found some videos of him doing the QVC thing on youtube and I am falling out of my chair laughing ( Read more... )

I had a great weekend. I went to a handbell workshop Friday night and Saturday. I learned stuff about how to ring handbells and also signed up for a community handbell choir that might be formed in Tallahassee. I hope it will work out. Then I could ring at church and elsewhere. I certainly have no problems playing religious music in church, ( Read more... )

Who watches House? Tell me what you think! I'm very intrigued by what I know about it and what family members say about it, but I've never seen more than a commercial for it.

A new pastor was visiting in the homes of his parishioners. At one house it seemed obvious that someone was at home, but no answer came to his repeated knocks at the door ( Read more... )

I finally changed out my icons, so now I will be really cool.

Last night there was a lunar eclipse that was at 100% at approximately 10:05 pm EST. My husband and I went to Piney Z Lake, a little city park hidden in the back of a residential subdivision full of houses that are too close together. The park is technically closed at dark, so there are no lights at all. It was very dark and all we had was a ( Read more... )

We're in a drawn-out conflict overseas, the economy is in the toilet and what is Congress doing? Questioning professional baseball players about possible steroid use. I'm all for throwing the book at drug users, but I find it ridiculous that my tax money is being spent on that ( Read more... )

My husband is driving down to Gainesville (2.5-ish hours) to do some research at the University of Florida library on Saturday. That means I can do whatever the hell I want for the day. I have some work to do and I'll try to do some cleaning, but I'm also going to slack the hell off. I can't wait!

If you have anything to do with higher education in Florida, you are probably aware of the havoc the Florida Legislature is wreaking on the State's public universities. It is truly disgusting to me. Departmental budgets have been cut by a fairly significant amount (4%, which doesn't sound like much, but when you're dealing with millions of ( Read more... )