I'm at Mandy's, working on Etsy stuff. I'm sitting on the couch. Ruby just brought a mouse in, dropped it on the floor right in front of the couch, and batted it cheerfully. As you can imagine, mouse was not so sanguine about the whole thing, and ran under the coffee table. Mandy is now searching with a cup to capture and release mouse, but mouse ( Read more... )

Why must sneezing fits occur while one has wet nail polish ( Read more... )

Yay, Suns!

Every winter, no matter how frequently I manage to apply lotion, my hands get so dry that they crack and bleed. Yet another reason to be grateful for Phoenix's mild winters, I suppose; a real winter could only be worse. I still don't like it. Sigh.

Current puzzles in my life:

-Why my largish Australian cattle dog/collie mix thinks he's a lap dog. That's just not going to work out.

-Why my mother, whose musical taste generally runs to things like Simon & Garfunkel, dislikes all the Flogging Molly songs she's heard except Another Bag of Bricks, which I would say is their hardest-sounding song ( Read more... )

Victory is mine! I found a beautiful Fossil cross body messenger bag for $8 at the Goodwill. I love Fossil bags. This is a good day.

This cake is currently in the oven. I'm now taking bets on how well it'll turn out, especially since, per several comments on the recipe, I nearly doubled the amounts of spice ( Read more... )

My awesome brother-in-law just brought over freshly grilled cheeseburgers. I love my family. :D

My car is about fifteen years old. It's a really good car-runs well, very reliable, good gas mileage. I'm fond of it, even though it's not a green Volkswagon Beetle ( Read more... )

State Fair. Why, oh why did I eat the chocolate-dipped frozen cheesecake? The fried zucchini and Indian fry bread and two giant cups of lemonade weren't enough? It may be weeks before my digestive system forgives me. But I petted a llama and goats and pigs and donkeys and a cow mooed at me. <3 ( Read more... )

Mandy, regarding the differences between our mother and us ( Read more... )