Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2010
I’m playing with some new widgets today, and I’ve decided to conduct a completely unscientific poll.
Over the weekend when I was hijacked by spring, we flipped on the outdoor speakers. Which are fabulous to sit outside and relax by.
BUT.
We have a rather large music collection on the house. I don’t always like everything [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2010
My blog seems to have been hijacked the last few days by a little thing called spring. Actually, its a big huge thing, because living in New England, we are generally still seeing many inches of snow on the ground, and snowbanks in our driveways.
So the gods graced us with a warm, sunny weekend; [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2010
Meg decided last year she could not longer stand her dentist, as this dentist copped an attitude with her when she had to reschedule a cleaning twice in a month.
Meg gave the office plenty of notice, and things happened, like the nice people at Lowe’s wanted to deliver a new washer that day. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2010
Last week, some folks were in town visiting, and wanted to have dinner. A flurry of phone calls ensued; dinner was set, and reservations were secured.
Several hours before the dinner, a nephew was tracked down by the visiting party and asked to join us. Which meant we were squarely in charge of rearranging the event, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2010
Well, I never, said Scarlett O’Hara:
Yesterday’s Health Care Summit.
The only time you might want three jacks is when you are playing cards. Yesterday brought the JACKS together in a friendly bi-partisan setup discussion of the health care bill. See them stamp their feet! Feel their false outrage! Look at the giant health care bill [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2010
Have you ever played Insomnia Jeopardy? Check out my handy chart, which may be similar to your sleep chart, with minor category substitutions.
Lately, I can’t complain on sleep front. The Olympics have apparently brought fresh air and exercise into my living room, which translates into me thinking I am participating in Nordic events, thus sending [...]
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The cold Northeast brings dry skin in the winter, but when I woke up this morning and got ready to shower, and noticed I had extremely dry shoulders. WHAT THE HECK?
Use this stuff. Bliss Salt Scrub. You will feel Scandinavian squeaky fresh after using it.
Reading on the Kindle
From Amazon: "Holy cow, this book should be a huge success. It has everything: nuns, conjoined twins, civil war, and medicine — I was thinking that if Vikram Seth and Oliver Sacks were to collaborate on a four-hour episode of Grey’s Anatomy set in Africa, they could only hope to come up with something this moving and entertaining…. A marvelous novel!” Mark Salzman
I'm on board with this, I love it when nuns are involved in a story line.
Reading in Hardcover
From Amazon: "In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.
Since my husband is from Coos County aka, lumberjack country, I thought this would give me a little more insight to that crazy place he is from. Sounds like a trip down memory lane.
Parker's Beef Stew from Ina Garten. That's right, it calls for one whole bottle of wine, baby.
I’d like to watch that crab show, Mom.
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