I keep forgetting that I no longer have a 17-year-old body. I've been suffering from a pulled lower left abdominal muscle since Sunday, when I overenthusiastically started clearing overgrown seedlings and weeds and brush from our wall gardens behind the deck. I was bending, and pulling, and clipping, and chopping, and squatting, and dragging, and ( Read more... )

I laugh when I read my previous post. I was oh so innocent then, enjoying the snow like usual. Little did I know that we would soon be slammed by snowstorm after snowstorm until the piles were so high that I felt like a little kid again standing next to them! It became a survival against the elements. Story after story in the news about roof ( Read more... )

Look at these wonderful photos of elephants at the Berlin Zoo playing in the snow. You can actually see them grinning and having a marvelous time! That's how I want to be ( Read more... )

I hate it when the weather is so nice at lunchtime that, when I drive my car to the Guilford Harbor, there is a full row of vehicles for me to be lucky to squeeze into. And I hate having to park so close to other cars that I can hear a grandmother to my left tell her little grandson in the backseat to finish his fries (while Toy Story is blasting ( Read more... )

Thank you MistressJennfer for tuning me in to the funniest publishing themed site ever. I love this disgruntled literary agent's quips and sarcasm. And it reminds me of the time when an author sent you a huge package with tons of gifts along with her strangely written proposal. It's unfortunate that she got so religious not knowing anything about ( Read more... )

Jeff's been working the jumbo tron at the U.S. Open and he's been taking the train all week. I've been picking him up at the little Derby train platform just down the hill every night at 11. I decided to see how Pumpkin would react if I brought her with me for the ride. (I have fond memories of driving to pick up Jeff's dad from his security guard ( Read more... )

So we were at a rest stop somewhere in Pennsylvania and I went in to . . . um . . . rest. I picked a stall, started to line the seat with t.p. just as my mother always taught me, and then tried to sit on it. But before I managed that, the t.p. flew off the seat. My there's a lot of air blowing things around in here. Let's try this again. Break off ( Read more... )

I can't believe I haven't posted for over a year. I've been missing. I WISH I could say that I was travelling through Time and Space with the Doctor and just got back . . . or that Han Solo showed up in the Millennium Falcon and I had to go off and help save the universe, AGAIN! . . . Or that I've simply been busy spending my millions from the ( Read more... )

So there we were at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford looking at creatively decorated Christmas trees and wreaths when Jeff started mumbling disparagingly about some woman who had tattoos on her chest and commenting sarcastically on how that's SO attractive . . . He said they were eyes. I'm like, what? Then I turned to look. The woman had a ( Read more... )

I couldn't believe my eyes when I checked out an article about hot toys this season: the animatronic Kota My Triceratops Dinosaur. WHAT??? So after reading all about this realistic toy dinosaur (What comes in the box? Triceratops, tail, leafy snack, and instruction manual), I searched YouTube. You've got to see this ( Read more... )