"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Food & Snacks, Imports from old blogs on Dec 20th, 2005
No matter how tempting it may be, subsisting principally on citrus fruit is not a great idea. You will lose weight. You will have a stomach ache. Indeed, you will suffer a number of digestive complaints. AND, you will get enormous damn canker-sores in your mouth that will hurt so fucking bad you think you […]
Posted in Cats, Imports from old blogs on Dec 15th, 2005
Because then my recycling bin stinks of cat-piss and I have to hose it out before I can bring it inside, and frankly, I’m not enthusiastic about using a garden hose in the middle of December. Go figure. And then, because un-neutered cats’ piss is so pungent and adhesive, the bin is still smelly and […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs, Playing With Weather on Dec 7th, 2005
The title of this entry is for the benefit of my sister, who reads my LJ, and who might talk to Mom before I do next. Don’t need to make Mom worry 😉 Anyway. I had the longest damn 3.5-mile bike ride of my fucking life this afternoon. We got something on the order of […]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries, Super-Short Entries on Dec 6th, 2005
Heh. So, remember that orange blouse I posted a few weeks ago? Turns out I had scanned the pattern envelope a while back. So, here’s a picture of the original rendition of it, from 1948. I think I am going to make up the cap-sleeved version of it sometime. That would be style B for […]
Posted in Fashion, Imports from old blogs, Shopping on Dec 4th, 2005
Is not usually a rationalization for buying a bottle of perfume. The pull of nostalgia took me over today when I was at the drugstore picking up a prescription. My sis and I had been talking about Jovan Musk a while back, a perfume which was our Aunt Debbie’s signature scent for many years, and […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries, Playing With Weather, Trek 800 on Dec 3rd, 2005
Well, this is my much-beloved Old Reliable mountain bike. The ten-ton Trek. The first picture was from last spring, before I started doing stuff like putting bottle cages on it. It just had blinky lights, and I think it still had the bar-end rearview mirror, which it no longer has. It kept getting knocked off […]
Posted in Home Improvements, Imports from old blogs on Dec 3rd, 2005
The stereotypical woman is expected, I think, to go hideously overbudget in Designer Shoe Warehouse. I, on the other hand, start hearing “Danger, danger Will Robinson,” in my head as I cross the portals of a hardware store. Today, I had to go to the hardware store to get some plastic for the bedroom windows […]