When my brother told me we were going to the Sawdust Festival this past Thursday I thought he said the Sausage Festval and I wasn't quite sure how to respond. Fortunately, I misheard my brother and making a decision about whether I wanted to spend a couple of hours celebrating sausages became moot. The Sawdust [...]
Tag: Humor
The value in being freakishly tall…
After I told Cheyenne that she was getting really tall the other day (she is getting amazingly close to my height at the ripe old age of 11), she made a comment that I have not been able to stop laughing about. She said, "I want to grow up to be freakishly tall so I [...]
Carbert – if only…
I had a realization the other day - my summer "vacation" is two-thirds over. How did this happen? What is this phenomenon wherein the things you love go quickly and the things you do not love so much trudge along as if you are walking through swamp muck? I don't fully get it. Didn't Einstein [...]
Happy hours…SC at the GC
Sara Lepp asked me the other day when Happy Hour is at Granite City (GC) - I didn't know the answer to her query...indeed, I thought every hour I spent at GC was happy. You may recall that I proclaimed in my blog back in late June that GC is my summer 2010 go-to hang-out. I [...]
An Idealist by any other name…
When I was at the grocery store today a man approached me in the parking lot having seen my license plate and asked me to define "idealist". I have to say I struggled with the pop quiz and finally settled on this, "That's me...not content to settle with what others' say is the reality." I [...]
Laughing with Lupe…
Last night the kids and I went to Jalapenos Mexican Restaurant to celebrate my birthday. It was the first chance we had to all be together for awhile, and it was a lovely time. I have to say at the outset, if you have not been to Jalapenos lately (2901 Main Ave in Fargo) [...]
Gridlock
My information superhighway is experiencing a traffic jam. Okay, traffic jam is too gracious a term - really it is gridlock - nothing is moving except perhaps some choice fingers. As I type this my two email accounts collectively hold more than 1,200 unread emails. Yes, more than 1,200 UNREAD emails. Those unread emails represent [...]
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