Today I have been married for eight years. To the same guy. For eight years. For some that may seem like a very short time and for others an eternity. Our marriage has outlasted both my mother’s marriages, though to be fair only one ended in divorce. I have never lived in the same house [...]
Entries from April 2009
Happy Anniversary to Us
April 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Stuff
Now hair this
April 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Stuff, Venting
Maybe I should have lied and said that I just got back from filming Survivor, Yemen or that I had been sequestered in the Big Brother house, but I didn’t. I just let the chips fall where they may as the receptionist checked and announced that I hadn’t had my hair cut or colored since [...]
Tags:fashion·Television·vanity
It’s a Girl
April 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Stuff
I found out last night that we are having a baby girl. I know I don’t look pregnant, I’m not. Oh, maybe that was misleading. Technically, my brother and his wife are having a baby girl. Whatever, we are having a baby girl, YEAH! We already have a baby boy and he is gifted and [...]
Nada Mucho
April 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Good bad television, Stuff, Venting
There are some weeks that go by and nothing much happens. And while that can make for a peaceful existence; it does not make for a colorful blog. This week has been one of those weeks. Nothing special happened, nothing got my proverbial panties in a bunch. It was a nonevent kind of week. Sure [...]
Tags:Television·Twitter
The Eating Season
April 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Everything else is gravy, Stuff
This morning marked the beginning of the brunch season in our family. Easter Sunday is like opening day of the eating season. For some families the eating happens around the Christmas holiday and while we eat our share then as well, I prefer the brunch season. In a departure from my usual culinary snobbery, I [...]
Love at First Bite
April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Animals on my planet, Stuff
There is a reason God made puppies so cute: no one would care for them if they weren’t. It has been four years since we had a puppy in the house. It is not as if I had completely forgotten the downsides of raising the little fur balls. It ‘s just that I may have [...]
My Discontent with Winter
April 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Stuff, Venting
I know that by writing this I sound like a spoiled brat. But that isn’t my fault; it is Bob’s fault. On our first “road trip” he took me to Maui. He also took me to Paris, Rome and Barcelona while we were dating. Granted those were business trips when he worked for an airline, [...]
A (Goose) Bump in the Road
April 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Animals on my planet, Stuff
One of the reasons we chose to add another dog to our family was because Mike, our yellow Labrador American child, had always lived in a multiple dog home. (All the other reasons were purely selfish except the one about rescuing a shelter pup.) It would stand to reason that when we suddenly became a [...]