Yup, that's me: the girl who cried "wolf!" ... because, let's face it. I have so many times said, "I'm doing it! I'm losing the weight!" ad nauseam, that frankly it's a little embarrassing to talk about. Again ( Read more... )

I'm not a girl prone to headaches. Frankly, I don't think they felt safe in our house growing up - my father wouldn't have tolerated them, I'm sure, and I really rarely get them as a "grown up" (I use the term loosely, of course). But I have noticed that I've been getting them off and on for ... maybe the last 5 years or so. Certainly more than ( Read more... )

Every year -- but only in the last 7-10 or so years -- the happy holidays/Merry Christmas/keep CHRIST in Christmas/how the heck do you spell the Jewish holiday/is Kwanzaa for real conversation comes up. I think pretty much all of my regular blog readers know my opinion on this topic, so I'm really just writing this entry so I can go back to it and ( Read more... )

I'm only halfway kidding. I can't help but wonder if Flashmobs have hit their lifespan and need to be done. I mean, everyone loved the Antwerp Sound of Music one (in fact, that's probably another robot test - if you don't like it; you're a robot). And of course, the Oprah/Black Eyed Peas one was fabulous ( Read more... )

In the lag of time when I've pretty much not blogged, or only blogged about stupid things like American Idol or used this venue for posting my mealplans, I started watching Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. And I love it/him :) Except for a couple of really painful bits (Let us play with your look and Competitive Spit-takes, to name them), I find his ( Read more... )

Who knew Neil Gaiman, darling of my friends' list, darling of BookCrossers everywhere, whose books I still haven't read but was about to pick one up (Graveyard) after a friend read parts to me yesterday, was, well ... a little bitchy ( Read more... )

Have you heard of Elfster? My friend The Miscellanist just posted about it on her blog. It's basically a site that manages a Secret Santa gift exchange. Brilliant! You can even anonymously ask people questions. Brilliant!

In other news, I will be updating my_sisters_blog in the next few weeks. By hook or by crook. It's only about a year behind ( Read more... )