"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Delight, Distractions, nostalgia, videos on Jan 15th, 2017
I was thinking about the Ten Albums that Defined Your Teen Years thread that’s going around. I am going to be a sad-ass and admit I don’t have a roster of ten albums. I listened to a lot of different music, depending on my mood. I was, to the largest extent, a pretty basic metalhead. […]
Posted in bike commuting, Delight, Parenthood on Jan 12th, 2017
I rode my bike to work today. Many of you are like, “yeah, so what…you always ride your bike to work,” but the fact of the matter is. I have a job to ride to. It’s very, very, very part time, but. I have eight hours a week where I am being paid for my […]
Posted in biking, Delight, Family, Parenthood on Mar 13th, 2014
So, that tiny little scrap of humanity they allowed me to bring home from KU Med Center back on July 13 is now 26″ long and 16lbs, 4 oz. Quite a bit of progress from his starting stats of 17.5″ and 4lb, 14 oz. What Joseph likes is: his feet, being carried around, sitting up […]
Posted in Delight, Recommendations, Utter Silliness on Feb 8th, 2014
OMFG, there’s this guy on Tumblr who does comics about his D&D adventures and he is one funny, twisted, deranged man. This series, which ends on a fucking glorious pun, had me cackling out loud. Like hopeless, leaning against a wall, whooping, wheezing, losing-every-bit-of-my-shit laughing out loud. I don’t think you even have to be […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Cars as a hobby, Delight, nostalgia, Photo entries on Jan 12th, 2014
So, in 1993, I was a the wee slip of a girl you see above, clambering joyously aboard a car-hauler to inspect her Very Own Car. Most teenagers dream of their first set of wheels, and have quite specific ideas about what their dream car is. Most never do get their hands on their dream […]
Posted in Cars as a hobby, Delight, Holidailies 2013, Take A Look At This, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 26th, 2013
Last night, to end a very silly not-argument about the word “recidivist” and its proper spelling, I took to Joel’s gigantic dictionary, a Webster’s New Twentieth Century Unabridged Dictionary from 1972. After I’d won the argument (heh) I spent a bit of time just thumbing through the tome, because I like dictionaries and just randomly […]
Posted in Delight, Holidailies 2013 on Dec 18th, 2013
I’m doing a remarkably poor job of this Holidailies thing. I can and will cash in the excuse that I’ve got a teething baby in the house and most of our waking hours are filled with a peculiar fractious grunting noise which is slowly grating my nerves into coleslaw. I will be beyond pleased when […]
Posted in Delight, Holidailies 2013, Utter Silliness, videos on Dec 11th, 2013
Joel either read my blog or my mind, and came home last night with quite a nice fake tree, so we’re now ready to get Festive. I draped it in lights today, then failed to find the extension cord, so right now, the tree project is stalled out slightly. I’m actually going to re-arrange things […]
Posted in Delight, dumb things I have done, Holidailies 2013, nostalgia, Utter Silliness on Dec 5th, 2013
I climbed up to the shelf above the closet in my sewing room today to get some crap down from “the archives” (or rather the boxes of accumulated crap that represents the criminal evidence of my youth). I needed my old cassette tape collection for reasons. Okay, by reasons, I mean that I felt like […]
Posted in Delight, Fashion, Parenthood, Take A Look At This on Aug 30th, 2013
I was goofing around on Flickr earlier this evening and came across three Daguerreotype photographs from the mid-1850s (probably, judging by the hairstyles and dresses) of women breastfeeding their babies. I thought that these three photos were quite beautiful as a tender moment was committed to a sheet of tin with the top technology of […]