Christmas and The Art of Healthy Communication…

Friday all I wanted was for Devoted Spouse to bring the Christmas tree upstairs from the basement so I could decorate.  Being a pre-lit tree, all he had to do was lug it upstairs, put the various parts together, plug it in, and his job was done.
Devoted Spouse dug through all the stuff under the [...]

Foto Friday or You Knew I Had a New Camera…

It was only a matter of time.  I’ve been out playing with my new toy even though I only have it on an automatic setting while I try and learn all the falderall of this fancy piece of equipment.  For now, auto works fine.  So just for grins, and mainly because I don’t have anything [...]

Wordless Wednesday

A Tisket, A Tasket, He Fell Out of His Casket

The picture above was a real casket company in Washington, D.C. back in the 1920’s.  I included it because this is a post about caskets…sort of.
Let me preface this by telling you right upfront that I am one of those wicked people who tend to laugh at inappropriate things and at inappropriate times.  And after [...]

The Horror of Horoscopes

While I usually pay little attention to pseudo-sciences such as Astrology, I must admit to being a bit entertained by one of the local paper’s Sunday Horoscope section.  This is not your average Fortune Cookie horoscope; there are no lucky numbers included.  The guy who writes the column is something of a goofball, but I [...]

Wordless Wednesday…So Hard For Me to Be Wordless…

They Wanna Make Me Shop Black Friday…But, I Say No, No, No

Yes, the above title should be sung to the tune of Amy Winehouse’s Rehab song…because shopping Black Friday is enough to put you into rehab or cardiac arrest or a coma.  I refuse to do it. No. You cannot make me.  All the pretty flyers in Sunday’s paper will not induce me to leave my [...]

Heigh Ho the Derry-O, The Dell Limps Along

I have been literally babying my Dell laptop for months now as one thing after another either falls off or goes wrong.  Let’s recap this fun journey, shall we? …
Not counting the massive amounts of Vista-related crashing…the first traumatic injury was when the quotations key fell off, only to be re-attached by some computer geek [...]

I Won, I Won, I Won, Applause, Applause!

I never win giveaways.  I keep entering them but I always know it is just alot of work for nothing because I will never be randomly chosen.  Man was I wrong this time!!!  My bloggy buddy Midwest Mom had a “Sticky Vinyl Letter” giveaway over at her place hmm-sweet-splendid-wisdom and just notified me that I [...]

Food Friday

As a good southern gal (regardless that I currently live in OH), I have been a faithful subscriber to Southern Living Magazine since 1985.  I’m proud to say I have every one of their annual cookbooks dating back to that year and they’re all nicely lined up on my bookcase in the kitchen with the [...]