While I was in Las Vegas last week, my laptop battery died. Not in the “needs to be recharged” way. In the “you unplug it, it dies” way. I grudgingly got online to find a replacement battery and then almost died when they were around $120. But . . . but that was 20% of the original cost of my…
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Unshelled
With social networking sites reigning supreme these days, it seems like I’m asked practically daily to write a little blurb about myself, to “sum myself up,” or “describe me in a nutshell.” But, hey, newsflash! I’m a pile of walking contradictions. I can’t be summed up in five or six tidy sentences. Can anyone? For instance: I love “fancy” food…
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Whip It Up #3
I know this one is late, but frankly, I hadn’t cooked anything except some tacos (which we ate standing at the counter) in over a week and a half. That excuse makes me look bad, I know, but it’s all I’ve got. I mean, I can’t really be posting the recipe for instant raman. Anyway, I finally did make something…
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Ornithophobia
I hate birds. I think they are disgusting and creepy and gross. In Las Vegas, there are pigeons everywhere, and I can never look at one without thinking that they are rats with wings. Their little red eyes and that horrible way they waddle around make me so squeamish that I try to avoid even looking at them. They are…
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The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Has everyone read The Host by Stephenie Meyer now? Yes? What do you think – better or worse than the Twilight books? I’m so curious because I can’t decide, still, where I fall. the host In case you don’t know the story line, here is the world’s shortest recap for The Host by Stephenie Meyer: aliens take over the Earth…
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