Posted in About me, memes on July 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Stealing this one word meme from Emily, since my thoughts tend towards the terse today:
1. Where is your cell phone? Counter.
2. Your significant other? Tall.
3. Your hair? Flighty.
4. Your mother? Creative.
5. Your father? Kindhearted.
6. Your favorite thing? Food.
7. Your dream last night? Wacky.
8. Your favorite drink? Cola.
9. Your dream/goal? Peace.
10. The room you’re in? Paneled.
11. [...]
Posted in About me, memes, tagged 7 random things meme on April 15, 2008 | 9 Comments »
My new bloggy friend Michelle tagged me for the 7 random things meme, which I’ve done once before here. Since it seems to take such things to get me to write a blog post these days, I will gladly participate.
1. I am a whiner. Sadly, my kids are too. I’ve mentioned that I’m the youngest [...]
Posted in About me, Writing Life, memes, tagged six word memoir on March 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
You’ll love this little writing exercise I found out about from Stephanie at Bad Mom. I had fun looking around her links to SMITH magazine’s Story Projects and NPR‘s slideshow version.
Without further ado, here are a few!
Momma, I [...]
Posted in Frugality, memes, tagged Aldi, Thursday Thirteen on February 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Amy at MomAdvice is doing a review of her Grocery Game trial. She’s a big Aldi fan (the Aldi Queen, in fact), so I’ll really be interested to hear what she has to say.
In celebration and solidarity, I thought I’d do another shamelessly commercial Thursday Thirteen to share my love for all things Aldi.
While doing [...]
Posted in Frugality, memes, tagged Meijer, Thursday Thirteen on February 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Actually, this would more accurately be titled: 13 things I love about shopping at Meijer with my 3 year old.
If you don’t like crass commercialism, click away now. But of late, I have been struck with how close to pleasant it can actually be to shop with a 3 year old in tow while searching [...]
Posted in About me, Fun, Poems, Writing Life, memes, tagged writing exercise on February 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
If I were a shoe, I’d be a red silk flip flop.
If I were a city, I’d be Paris.
If I were a season, I’d be summer.
If I were a car, I’d be a Volkswagen bug.
If I were a vegetable, I’d be a pea.
If I were a fruit, I’d be a grape.
If I were a [...]
Posted in About me, Fun, memes on December 22, 2007 | No Comments »
You Should Have a Blue Christmas Tree
For you, the holidays represent a time of calm, understanding, and peace.
You avoid family fights, and you don’t get too stressed out - even when things are crazy!You like to make Christmas about making everyone’s life a little bit better.
You don’t get caught up in greed or commercialism. You’re [...]
Posted in About me, memes, tagged 7 random things meme on November 24, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Stephanie, aka bad mom, tagged me for the 7 random things meme. And I realized it’s about 100th post time for me! woo hoo! Consider this a little foretaste of the traditional 100 things list.
1. Eggplant makes me throw up. Do not try to sneak it into my food. ‘Nuff said.
2. Buy now, save later! [...]
Posted in About me, memes on October 18, 2007 | 15 Comments »
I’m entirely too close to 40 to do a 40 before 40 list. But THIS list? THIS is the perfect list for a procrastinator like me to think about maybe possibly doing some more of these someday before I die. I do not, however actually desire to do all of these. Saw it over at [...]
Posted in About me, Fun, memes, tagged fab four meme on September 25, 2007 | 12 Comments »
…you put conditioner on your underarm hair. Oh, yes. It’s true. I have the softest underarm hair in the ‘burbs. And I had just shaved; so who really knows? Perhaps I was thinking about this.
It’s germ city around here. I have been trying to scrub and Lysol in between pretending to watch television while drooling [...]
