"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Food & Snacks on Jan 31st, 2008
Every year before the Big Holiday Brouhaha, I go nutty with the baking and make about a gazillion cookies until I can’t stand the sight of a bag of flour and don’t want to roll, stamp, drop, or press another cookie, let alone even smell one until…NEVAR AGAAAAAAAINNNNNN! Of course, only to do it all […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Food & Snacks, Hair issues, Lists, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jan 29th, 2008
Because I skipped a few too many days of posting and now I have all sorts of random everything to get down. So. 1. I stayed home sick from work on Friday. I got this weird cold from Joel that seemed to go in reverse, starting with a nasty cough and winding up with stifling […]
Posted in Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff on Jan 24th, 2008
My winter helmet is a real beaut. It’s a Nutcase bmx/skateboard helmet I lucked into at Cranksgiving. They had a raffle going on, and a fellow Earthrider had won this helmet, but it was too small for him. Also he wasn’t real sold on the style – he called it a “hippie helmet” because it […]
Posted in Distractions, dumb things I have done, Well I'll Be Darned on Jan 23rd, 2008
Have you ever set a coin on edge on a table and flicked it with your finger to make it spin like a top? If so, then you know how it looks when it loses momentum and falls over and kind of rotate/vibrates to a stop. Imagine you are in a 9:00 a.m. meeting, and […]
Posted in Cats, Home Improvements, Mountain Biking, Sewing on Jan 22nd, 2008
I had a 3-day weekend this past weekend due to Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day. A 3-day weekend is always welcome – in fact, I wish they all were, considering as how I generally spend all of Saturday on the run, then Sunday doing basically jack. That Monday in a typical 3-day weekend is […]
Posted in Cats, Lists, Photo entries, Utter Silliness, videos, Words I Like on Jan 17th, 2008
1. Confession time! (oh, this is going to be fun!) I sometimes confuse or conflate various celebrities or famous people, because I don’t follow their doings closely and maybe they look kind of alike, or have similar names. For example, I can’t ever keep David Duchovny & George Clooney straight in my mind. Back in […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Fashion on Jan 16th, 2008
I chose to wear an oversized orange cable-knit turtleneck sweater today, paired with an orange-and-red plaid skirt, white tights, and black mary-janes. It is true that I have short, brown hair, which I chose to hold back with a couple of little orange barrettes, and it is true that my eyeglasses have fairly prominent, dark-brown […]
Posted in Adventures, Family, Photo entries on Jan 15th, 2008
Yeah, the winter blah’s have set in on me, which is why it has now taken me nearly three days to post a weekend wrapup consisting of a couple of paragraphs, a couple of photographic links, and not much else. I can’t shake this hibernatin’ feeling. So, on with the entry I started writing on […]
Posted in bike commuting, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Jan 11th, 2008
I’m a nosy piece of work, and I dig other folks’ “what’s in my bag” posts and pictures on Flickr, so I thought I would do my own. Also, I had to clean my bag yesterday (Exxon-style glitter spill), so I figured since everything was out of it, I might as well take a picture […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Jan 10th, 2008
I have a whole category for “Dumb Things I Have Done.” That is because doing dumb things comes very naturally to me, and in the course of writing journal (online or otherwise) various recurring themes emerge based upon those things one does regularly. In my case, doing dumb things. So, today’s dumbness: 1. Chucking a […]