My husband's museum, the OLD STONE FORT, is featured as one of the two "haunts" tonight on SyFy's GHOST HUNTERS at 9pm. He's the director/cutie in the green shirt and quasi-sideburns/muttonchops (I forget if he had them trimmed down in August, when they shot the thing).

Yes, it's mind candy. Watch and cheer anyway, please.

Teavana, that (normally) wonderful tea haven, is on my sh!t list right now. They are discontinuing several of my favorite teas, which meant I had to hurry to Crossgates Mall today and buy a screamingly expensive amount of tea (five pounds of various at their prices... Thank god for bulk discounts). I got two pounds of the last six pounds In the ( Read more... )

Dinner at Aperitivo last night:  asparagus with caramelized onions, olive oil and lemon zest; green beans with pecorino, toasted almonds and olive oil; warm goat cheese and spinach salad with some added grilled-to-perfection chicken.  And a just-a-little-is-just-enough bite of my husband's lemon ricotta cheese cake ( Read more... )

One of the problems with Facebook:   if you have a large "client base" who reads you there -- as I do -- then you can't be snarky, depressed, or in any way negative,  because it could "damage your marketing/marketable image."  People who don't really know me except as Their Favorite Psychic can get all kinds of wrong reads on why I'm feeling ( Read more... )

Just posted on YouTube:  Four delicious little bits from my talk at the Arizona Changing Hands bookstore in April.  I'm 15 pounds down from this view (all off the gut!) so think of me as a bit slimmer... those of you who haven't seen me in many years may be a little shocked at the alterations.  But it's still me, kids.

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After weeks and weeks of freezes, lost data, touchpads going kaput etc. etc., I officially Gave Up On the Damn PC World.  I have finally started the migration from the Dell from Hell.

I bought an IPod Touch and an IPad yesterday -- both the gigunda 64MG versions (but without the 3 or 4G).  Carle has successfully rejigged my calendars (vital for the ( Read more... )

We will not go into details *ahem*...but let's just say that after a year on 'em  the bioidentical hormones finally proved their worth ( Read more... )

Ah, my favorite Date Day of the year: the local County Fair. We stroll the grounds and observe the local not-so-wildlife (sheep, cows, pigs, chickens), guiltlessly indulge in Not-Doctor-or-Health-Guru-Approved Fair Food, and smooch at the top of the ferris wheel (several revolutions' worth) to renew our marriage license. And I get to show off my ( Read more... )

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This morning, weight was *172* and change.  This is major because this USED TO be the weight above which I never went, pre-2004 surgery.

Another 12 pounds to go and then I will have hit a major goal of 25 pounds down. After that, we renegotiate things.

I still don't LOOK  like I did pre-surgery, of course; never will.  But it's better than it was.