Not all of us can be Sooki
Sooki is the main character in The Saggy Baggy Elephant, he’s happy with himself and life in general until a parrot starts making fun of him. Parrots can be such dicks. Sooki then tries ways to make his skin fit better, mostly by asking predators for advice and putting himself in harms way. Each time [...]
It has to be done
I know it’s Boxing Day, which is usually celebrated here (in the US) by sleeping in late, not having any clue what Boxing Day is about (it’s a Cromwell thing– right?) and trying to figure out what you really want to get with the store credit once you find the gift receipt for that mp3-player-toaster-oven-vacuum-cleaner-answering-machine [...]
A stitch in time saves nine
I used to think that saying meant something about actually stitching the fabric of time, and I had no idea that it referred to actual mending. I guess I’ve always been an abstract thinker, or a very twisted literal thinker. We’re still waiting for the roof to dry out enough so that we can repair [...]
Home ownership is a pain isn’t it?
Our house is from the 40′s– we sort of expect things to go wrong from time to time. What we don’t expect is for everything to go wrong, all at once, all the time. So there’s just a bit of water damage in the bathroom. Just a little. I mean, it’s not like we have [...]
craft withdrawal symptoms
Craft withdrawal symptoms may include: Dizziness Nausea Vomiting Loss of Bladder control Uncontrollable urge to clean and decorate Okay, maybe we can skip loss of bladder control. I did dig out some of my vintage aprons and hang them on the wall, after cleaning the closet. Tacking the aprons to the wall looked off. A [...]
Welcome to the Great Desk Purge of 2007
Obviously I should make cleaning my desk a bit more of a priority, since the last time I cleaned it was somewhere in October of 2006. I think like most people I get a little overwhelmed with the stuff that might need to be saved for future reference and just make little piles. In the [...]
Adventures in sweatpants.
This morning I took advantage of the age old housewife trick of sleeping in sweat pants and ratty t-shirt. Bless Flylady’s sweet heart, but there are times when baby steps are not the answer, there are times the answer involves two quarts of degreaser concentrate, an alarm clock, thick rubber gloves and sweatpants. Earlier in [...]
