"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia on Dec 12th, 2010
I pretty much dedicated today to cleaning and organizing my sewing room, no mean task for a packrat who often uses said room as a dumping ground for stuff I don’t know what to do with. I’d recently bought a few more of those Sterilite/Rubbermaid boxes with the clamp-on lids and decided that today was […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia on Apr 27th, 2010
Home Despot inspires a particularly delirious delusional state in me. I think it’s the fact that you can find pretty much everything there with which to make or destroy your average house and all of its accessory structures and miscellaneous appurtenances. A few years ago, I required a crowbar, as one does. So I hied […]
Posted in Garden, nostalgia, Photo entries on Jan 16th, 2010
The day I took my favorite photo to date was a charmed day – some days are. There’s no predicting which ordinary day will turn out to be extraordinary, but that was one of those days when the insects, zinnias, and I were somehow operating in perfect harmony. I’d gone out around midday on a […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia on Dec 14th, 2009
I was a little heathen child during the 1980s, arguably a fairly conservative decade, in western Nebraska, arguably a very conservative part of the country. I’m also from the tail end of the generations who experienced overt Christianity in the public schools. I realized pretty early on, after a fairly disastrous stint in Summer Vacation […]
Posted in Distractions, Family, nostalgia, Recommendations, videos on Nov 27th, 2009
I just got a movie recommendation from my Dad: The Long Long Trailer,” which opened in 1954 featuring the beloved Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz team, a 1954 Mercury convertible, and a really big travel trailer. Dad has been laid up for the past month following rotator-cuff surgery; he’s currently banned from using his right arm, so […]
Posted in Distractions, Fashion, nostalgia, Utter Silliness, videos on Aug 28th, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYkWMAbFVc0] ABBA and I have a slightly stormy history. I loved them as a kid, of course. Their sprightly, catchy, danceable tunes get young and old alike up and moving. When I was in college (undergrad) we used to play ABBA’s Greatest Hits in the costume shop when we were working on costumes for plays. […]
Posted in nostalgia on Aug 11th, 2009
I was, as my dad puts it, “wound up like an 8-day clock.” I felt like a can of cheap beer at a party, all shook up and ready to explode sparkling fizz all over the place. The Violent Femmes’ “Blister In The Sun” echoed in my head as I bounced around like a superball, […]
Posted in nostalgia on Aug 6th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I started thinking that the Sturgis Rally was coming up, and that the Box Butte County Fair would be next on the agenda. Mom had told me about some friends stopping in on their way up to Chadron for Fur Trade Days, and that made me think that in terms […]
Age 11 – discovering that “Fettuccine Alfredo” is basically fancy for “Macaroni & Cheese” (a dish I’d detested since early childhood). Age 15 – discovering that Toad The Wet Sprocket was nothing near to as zany and lighthearted as their band name. Age 5 – discovering that the orange drink which churns tantalizingly in the […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgpByGsgADw] We go Mmmm-mmm-mmm… I LOVED this song when I was a little kid. I was just plain stoked that the first letter of my first name was the first letter of so many awesome words. Mud. Mess. Moose. Monster. Machine. And speaking of machines, who didn’t love the Rube Goldberg-esque ice-cream-sundae-machine? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67khDZ0P7Xo] And speaking […]