"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in books, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Dec 7th, 2009
I started writing this review (such as it is) before I finished reading the book, but most of the original objections stand. I did finally slog my way through to the conclusion, and while the protagonist (for want of a a better word) does become somewhat less detestable and hateful, the story doesn’t improve significantly. […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness, videos on Dec 5th, 2009
My voice is all jacked up. I’ve had this lingering cold/laryngitis/swinfluenza bullshit for about a month now, and my telephone-answering job isn’t helping the condition of my voice any. Endless tea, honey-and-lemon, and Emergen-C packets haven’t really helped much. At best I sound like Marge Simpson, at worst, I sound like a forlorn goose. Sadly, […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff on Nov 30th, 2009
Because bicycling has become such a thing lately, bicycling magazines have been popping out like mushrooms after a rainstorm. One of the many new players on the field is a magazine called Cog. It plays to the hipster/fixed-gear/polo/freestyle crowds and features a lot of advertising for products which purport a certain amount of lifestyle cachet […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Nov 24th, 2009
I have a milk-crate of hazardous waste on the back porch right now. At least 90% of this hoard came to me through no fault of my own; it was just hanging around the basement of my old house when I bought it in 2003 and I’m still trying to get rid of it. There […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Nov 10th, 2009
Apparently driving a stickshift one day re-trains me immediately. It’s pretty well established that I don’t drive much. It stresses me out, I get lost, etc. But when we were up visiting my folks, I drove Dad’s Jetta – we needed to go in to town and pick some stuff up, and Dad wasn’t up […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Sep 20th, 2009
Urgh, what a nuisance! I wasted the entirety of Friday waiting around at my old house for the gas company to send somebody by to shut off service. Nobody ever came. This makes the second time this has happened. Believe me, the gas company will be hearing from me again on Monday, and while I […]
Posted in Adventures, Oh, for fuck's sake, Sewing, Well I'll Be Darned on Sep 15th, 2009
make trashmonade? Yes, yes, I directly cribbed that from Strongbad and piemonade. Pretty much everything funny I’ve ever said was probably cribbed from somebody funnier than I am. Wit by proxy, isn’t it? Anyway, I’ve been makin’ some trashmonade just lately. You’re probably looking at this picture right now and thinking, “WTF does this lady’s […]
Posted in "Greenie II", bike commuting, Burley, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Trek 800 on Aug 22nd, 2009
Good grief, I had one of those days! Due to basic laziness, I got a kind of late start heading out the the bank, but I figured that it would be no biggie, since they’re open until noon on Saturdays. So I headed downtown with my paycheck in hand, ready to take care of some […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake, Shopping, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on May 10th, 2009
Who says I’m playing? Trash-pickin’ is serious business you guys! Anyway, yesterday we found a dumpster that was a BONANZA of clothing…good stuff too, some of it with the tags still on it! We actually ended up leaving plenty for the next scavengers! Melissa nabbed a pair of lime green pants and a shirt that […]
Posted in bike commuting, dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness on Feb 24th, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wgaWAHo2Q] So, as I mentioned over on Twitter earlier, I got caught singing Spice Girls tunes publicly this afternoon. I was out riding around, running some errands and enjoying the unseasonably pleasant weather, and for some odd reason, “Wannabe” was in my head. And soon, I was singing it, which was, of course, ridiculous and […]