When equal isn’t
Ah, Valentine’s Day. Many were the years I got one or two or maybe just a small handful of cards, from my closest friends. Rare were the secret admirer cards Continue Reading →
Category Archives: lifeingeneral
January video blog
I recorded this video blog on my first day back to work in January after the winter break. It was a dark morning and I was compelled to share it Continue Reading →
Elusive sleep
This week, I’ve had a string of several nights of messed-up sleep. Night before last I actually went to bed early (i.e. on time) and managed to sleep but last Continue Reading →
New Year Wishes
It’s after 9 am here and it’s just me and the cats awake right now (in fact, I think it’s just me and one of the cats). Hubby is sleeping Continue Reading →
Christmas evening.
Christmas went well this year. We didn’t leave the house but hosted two gatherings: my Mom and Aunt in the morning and a houseful of Mike’s side of the family Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas
Enjoy the LOG, until YouTube deletes it…. and then, may I suggest bopping over to the Internet Archive for a viewing of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? Yeah, you know Continue Reading →
The Week Before Christmas
Here’s a little ditty to describe our week, with apologies to Clement C. Moore (regular readers will recall another version of The Night Before Christmas that I posted in 2008) and to Continue Reading →
Deck the house with lights a-plenty
Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la. We used a total of 5 strings of 70 white LED lights plus one string of 70 LED icicle lights for the front of the house — two Continue Reading →
I hate mice.
I can handle spiders, snakes, insects and most creepy-crawlies, but you throw a small, uncaged rodent in my path and I am likely to scream and run faster than I Continue Reading →
Of Blizzards Past
OK, really just one, and it wasn’t exactly a blizzard as much as a record-breaking dump of snow. The winter of 1996 was remembered for one thing, snow that totally Continue Reading →