"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Jan 4th, 2005
Inspired by ‘s comment on my last entry: Oh, man, I forgot all about taping songs and writing lyrics sheets! Man, I used to spend hours and hours taping songs off the radio, then trying to make compilation tapes of just the songs I liked, without the ads and the songs I thought sucked. I […]
Posted in beer and/or homebrewing, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Party on Dec 31st, 2004
When I was a kid, I was fascinated with Fin de siecle Victorian history. The wondrous fashions, the absolutist conviction that progress was good and splendid, the florid literary styles–the whole darn thing fascinated me. I was a big fan of the Little House books, because they covered the life of a young pioneer girl […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Dec 20th, 2004
Reading Stef’s most recent entry got me to thinking about how people online present their pasts, frequently pitched to portray themselves as hard-knocks outsiders who by dint of extraordinary intelligence and sensitivity, have become the exquisite souls they are today. In these memoirs, you don’t get the story about how the teller convinced her little […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Sewing on Jun 4th, 2004
I’m going to deviate from the Alphabytes official wordlists today because there is a “D” word which sums up my most notable talent and one of my maddest passions. Dressmaking. I’m a seamstress, sometimes designer, and milliner by nights and weekends. During the workaday work hours, I’m a municipal phone-jockey, but on my own time, […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Feb 4th, 2003
Today (Jan 21) I decided that I really needed some chewing gum. My favorite sort is Wrigley’s Spearmint (not the sugarfree kind) and it can invoke in me nostalgias of the A la Recherche du Temps Perdu caliber. Okay, probably not so poetic and drawn out, and definitely not invoking Oedipal musings and epic insomnia, […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Utter Silliness on Feb 4th, 2003
One, one journal entry! Two, two journal entries! Three, three journal entries! Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaah! *lightning flash* *thunder clap* So, today I splurge out and upload those two journal entries I wrote over half a month ago, and ramble randomly in this one. When I was a kid, I always wondered what […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Dec 18th, 2002
As promised, a dramatis personae of the games of my childhood. My sister and I had a cast of stock characters we played in our games, kind of like an in-house Commedia Del Arte, each with his or her shtick. Some of the characters were fairly one-dimensional, others were more developed, depending on factors such […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Dec 17th, 2002
As the observant among you may have gathered, I grew up out in the country, and have one sibling, a younger sister (2 years my junior). Continuing with the reminiscence theme, I am going to ramble about what we did for fun, as kids, in the winter. Western Nebraska gets a fair amount of snow, […]