Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
This Labor Day weekend has turned into Garage Sale weekend for me. And it has provided some truly unexpected highlights. The somewhat expected was selling *some* items. I knew it wouldn't all sell, but I figured some small things would attract folks and you just never know what will catch someone's eye. My somewhat joking... Continue Reading →
I REFUSE to let the good spirits I am in from a great, productive, fun weekend of cleaning & running & socializing & organizing & writing waste away into Monday! (heck the Padres even swept a weekend series!) I REFUSE to let the news that Sports Boy's weekend diving certification courses start at 6am instead of 7am... Continue Reading →
In case you didn't notice from my last post, SportsBoy is looking less like a boy and more like a teen clearly transitioning to a young man: Last summer I hatched a plan to start transitioning his bedroom to match, but somehow got side tracked. So this year when the summer bonus-in-lieu-of-a-raise time... Continue Reading →
It is so damn odd to have Sports Boy here during the month of July! I have felt so disoriented. Every summer for the past five (six? seven?) years he has hopped on a plane to Sweden pretty much within a week of school ending. Sometimes the very next morning. He would return the last... Continue Reading →
I've been following a blog about a cat lovin' woman in Alabama for about 3-4 years now. She lives on a small farm with pigs & chickens & dogs & a shit-ton of cats. OK, to be fair, she is a foster kitty mama and has perfectly set up rooms in her farm house to... Continue Reading →
Time to brush off a little dust around here. *cough* *cough* Sorry about that. Worse than the dust accumulation in here though, is the clog in my brain from not posting! Twitter helps for those quick bursts, but man has it been hard to not go through each day thinking in terms of potential blog... Continue Reading →
Riddle me this: You all know I have a need to park in MY SPOT at work. You also know I have a need to walk as many steps as possible each day. MY SPOT is closest to the stairway to my basement office. Which is important given that I am carrying my purse, lunch... Continue Reading →
With proper planning and a little self discipline, you CAN get through a pay period without buying food from the cafeteria at work. A 14 year old boy CAN make it through a 2.5 hour baseball scrimmage/tryout, a 1 hour circuit workout and a 1 hour cycle class on just two pieces of toast and... Continue Reading →
I know, I keep changing the look of this place. Sorry! It's in my nature to re-arrange things all the time. And since they just introduced a new theme that supports quickie status updates & link & gallery posts similar to what I found for Pragmatic Progressive - well, I had to try it out.... Continue Reading →
I do not understand how CBS could, yet again, show the Grammy's on tape delay on the west coast. No other award show does that anymore. It's stupid. OTOH, since it WAS tape delayed and since everyone on my twitter feed who saw it live tweeted about it (plus some friends were there tweeting LIVE... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 