I'm just full of advice these days aren't I? 🙂 I don't really have much to bitch about when it comes to my daily commute to/from work. After all, it's just 5 miles door to door, 10 minutes tops, no freeway, perhaps some traffic in the summer as I'm heading home but that's maybe 10... Continue Reading →
How to get a 13 year old to snuggle with mom
No, you don't have to dress in a funny blue dog suit. No, you just get the OTHER guy in the picture to remind the boy that he used to like doing that 🙂 Recently, I'd noted that SportsBoy had rather subtly backed away from a few little-boyish things. Like having me read to him... Continue Reading →
What do you love about the holidays?
August mom LSM asked this question on her site last week: What is your favorite holiday treat? and If you had to choose only one holiday tradition to observe this year, what would it be? Now, my first thought was that this question was excepting the actual day itself which is, of course, a day... Continue Reading →
Friday brain dump
Following up on that ergonomic assessment I had done at work a couple of months ago, I finally remembered to take a picture of the new Roller Mouse. That contraption at the bottom of the photo is it - the top part is a rolling bar that glides left and ride and moves the mouse... Continue Reading →
Are our lives too boring for blogging?
This topic inspired by Robin, who wonders if her life is too boring for blogging. to which I replied: "Honey, all our lives are too boring for blogging!" And yet we plug away at it, and, shockingly, people regularly stop by to read - why, I wonder? Well, as to the reading part, I suspect... Continue Reading →
What a drag it is getting (c)old
Unfortunately, mother's little helper wouldn't help with this problem. Or, maybe it would since I wouldn't care? 🙂 Have any other ladies out their experienced this? Not just getting more and more sensitive to cold, but getting it in one specific area? Making you so cold that you feel like that guy up there all... Continue Reading →
Was the Viewmaster a precursor to the VCR?
What do you think? Who is old enough to remember these? I had a red one (or maybe it was orange?)Â Now, I know they still make these, but you have to think back to the pre-VCR days when this was really all we had to re-live our favorite movies. It was this, or a... Continue Reading →
Grammy time!
Do you love classical music? Do you follow the Classical Music awards category for the Grammys? Well, if so, then you need to be following Miss Music Nerd. She was chosen to be an official Grammy community blogger for the Classical Music category. It's pretty cool because they found her (it was not something she... Continue Reading →