There is a decorative sign that says, "Sometimes I wake up crabby, and sometimes I let him sleep." It usually comes in both a "him" and "her" version. Today I felt like the "her" version. I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed - the side with the wall on it - [...]
Author: Ms. C
Keep the receipt…just in case.
After my son Noah shoveled my driveway and did a number of other chores at my house yesterday he consulted with his siblings about the four of them going in on one big Christmas present for me. They planned to head out first thing this morning to scour the Black Friday sales for the best [...]
Got attitude?
I've got attitude alright and it is one of the utmost gratitude. I am grateful for a thousand things large and small this day - as I am every day. In addition I will be grateful today for a fifth Thanksgiving in a row with no casualties from my cooking. On this Thanksgiving I hope [...]
Scanning my “horizon”…
There is quite an uproar about the full body scans the TSA has implemented and its alternative - the full body pat down. I can understand folks angst over both procedures as they both seem very invasive. I think folks would feel a tad better about submitting to such searches if they knew that TSA's [...]
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Vivien Leigh's iconic line as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire has stayed with me over the years. In that movie she said, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." I can't say that I identified with that saying though until I moved to my house on the cul-de-sac in West Fargo [...]
Book early…
Let me be amongst the first to say this winter - SNOW BLOWS! We aren't even 24 hours into the first significant snowfall of the season and I am already ready to go on record as saying I am over it. Unfortunately, the word is that there is much more of this to come this [...]
The next episode of hoarders…
I had an epiphany yesterday and it wasn't pretty. I had to face the reality that I am a hoarder. Yes...a hoarder. Not like those folks you see on T.V. who have stuff stacked everywhere in their house and can barely move about it (albeit, my post-flood house does presently sort of look like that). [...]
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