I noticed the other day at work that our sugar maple trees are starting to turn orangey-yellow at the very top ... and then when J and I went to the arboretum today, we saw some of the Japanese maples doing the same thing. And it's finally not a hundred degrees in the shade anymore, which is nice! Might even motivate me to start running again ( Read more... )

Part of me laughs at the media's vehement predictions of violent death and destruction, but they might actually be right this time ... of all the places for this hurricane to hit, it has found the most vulnerable one. I do not really understand the rationale behind people who choose to stay with their property, but then, being a small property ( Read more... )

Of course now with all the uproar, Mr. Robertson's backpedaling busily, claiming he was "misinterpreted" ...
From the Associated Press:

On Wednesday, Aug. 24, Mr. Robertson: "I didn't say 'assassination,'" Robertson said Wednesday on his Christian Broadcast Network show "The 700 Club" about remarks reported by The Associated Press and other media ( Read more... )

And here's to you, Mr. Robertson ( Read more... )

So the boy saw fit to e-mail me one of those "why men are happier/better/what-have-you" lists. I was in a slightly fiesty mood, and work wasn't too terribly busy, so I decided that I'd refute a few ... ok, ALL. It was quite satisfying though. :-)

1. We can "do" our nails with a pocketknife.
This may be why men complain they never get enough.2. ( Read more... )

The Sunday after ( Read more... )

seriously ... i am. i'm good at making excuses and good at putting myself down and very good at telling myself i can't do something, even as i tell myself i *can* do something else. i don't know for sure why i do this ... i qualify everything, and give more details than i should. i pansy out and explain myself in graphic detail to justify my ( Read more... )

And you must be living under a rock (or perhaps a bombed-out tank) if you don't know what that means. Yes kids, it's election time. And that means lots and lots of TV commercials (someone please tell Liddy Dole that suit jackets made from lime green chenille bedspreads aren't very photogenic ( Read more... )

I go shopping because I'm bored. Meaning I'll find all sorts of things I love that fit and look great and are priced decently. But the reason I'm bored is because I'm too poor to go do anything, which means I'm too poor to go buy anything at the mall, so all those things I found that I love and that look great and are priced decently stay on the ( Read more... )

indescribable, uncontainable ( Read more... )