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Utah is not a state known for its legislative sanity.  This, after all, is a state that recently made headlines for proposing to honor gun manufacturers on Martin Luther King Day and for considering the elimination of 12th grade to cut back on education spending.

Well, it just got a whole lot worse.

Utah just ( Read more... )

My brain is trying to drive me crazy.

And it attacks while I’m asleep.

I’ve been interested in dream interpretation since I was a teenager. I even have a dream dictionary. But, that has not prepared me for the two doses I’ve had recently.

Sunday night - I was selling horses door to door. I got one nice family to buy a horse and I was in their living ( Read more... )

Lately, it seems that everyone is talking about the Twilight movies.  The last one and the one that is to come.  And most people have made the same comment to me, making fun of the vampires saying “real vampires don’t sparkle ( Read more... )

When I was growing up, I was older than all my friends.  And by that I mean that my birthday comes first in the year so I am at least 1 month older than all my friends.  When we were kids, that meant I was the first one to be 12 (I don’t remember why that one was such a big deal), the first to get my driver’s license, the first to be able to rent R ( Read more... )

Even when you think you’re tuning everything out, it’s amazing what snippets still leak into your ears.  I listen to NPR on my drive to and from work and while they do some interesting science reports (did you know: Your brain waits for information from all nerve endings, from tip of your head to tip of your toes, before reacting to stimulus from ( Read more... )

I did my good deed for the week, I drove a friend to pick up his friend at the airport.  Not that I minded.  Bradley Airport doesn’t phase me.  Unless I end up in the wrong terminal and panicking because we can’t find the flight number on the Arrival board - but I won’t go into that.

I was rewarded for my drive time with an unusual sight.  A lanky ( Read more... )

Between my husband, my sister’s in-laws, and me we’ve seen many friends and relatives leave dear CT for the seemingly superior climates down south and out west.  Now every e-mail, phone call, and letter (yes we still get actual, handwritten on paper, put a stamp on it letters) has to contain some quip about how much better the weather is where ever ( Read more... )

Have you ever thought about the end of world and giggled? Probably not: because A) you are not criminally insane and B) you are not British. Neil Gainman and Terry Pratchett are British, and as for criminally insane ….. well, the jury is still out.

I just finished Good Omens - The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witch. The story begins ( Read more... )

I hurt my back a few weeks ago. And I don’t mean I had a backache that required a hot shower and some ibuprofen. I mean I woke up screaming and crying at 3 o’clock in the morning feeling like I had a Charlie-horse in my back. I’ve had back problems since I was 17 and rolled my car down the Merrit Parkway, but I have never been in this much pain. I ( Read more... )

He says he has no job prospects (he has a job but he hates it and thinks it’s beneath him) and no real friends here. Which would come as a surprise to our friends I’m sure. He said if he had to stay in this state he might as well, “eat a bullet”, because he has no hope of ever having a life he would enjoy. So, apparently, my husband has morphed ( Read more... )