"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in books, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Recommendations, Things I like & Things I don't like on Jan 1st, 2012
So, I’ll give you the good news first. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox would have had a hard time being any better. When I finished it, I wanted to start reading it all over again from the beginning and enjoy it once more. It was a letdown that it ended. It was the sort [...]
Posted in Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Notions and Rants, Things I like & Things I don't like on Dec 31st, 2011
You probably have seen this video that is making the rounds, of a surprisingly articulate little girl being coached by her Dad through a Socratic discussion on gender marketing of toys. While I applaud the family for encouraging their kid to think about marketing and gender expectations, I find myself more than a little bit [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, NaBloPoMo 2011, Shopping, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 8th, 2011
I got this phone in February of 2006. It was pretty awesome, so I stuck a couple of foil daisy stickers on it to make it awesomer. They didn’t stay very well, but they were cute while they lasted. I got this phone from a shady discount-cellular-and-tobacco store on East Truman Road, about a block [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Lists, meta, Notions and Rants, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 3rd, 2011
Facebook. Freakin’ Facebook. It’s a love/hate website, that’s for sure. It’s fun to keep up with your friends, see your old schoolmates’ babies, check out your co-workers Spotify picks, hand out party invites, RSVP to same…it’s a daily ritual that many of us enjoy. Mostly. But Facebook has a habit of inventing new ways to [...]
Posted in Fashion, Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing), You have got to be kidding me! on Jul 31st, 2011
Do you ever read something and just find your face stuck like this ? Yeah, so I read a woman’s blog entry recently that just made one eye squinch up, while the other bugged out, and my mouth perhaps went “wha’ th’…you have got to be kidding me…the hell you say…” and maybe something incoherent [...]
Posted in Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Sewing on Jul 13th, 2011
Sometimes I click on the sidebar ads on Facebook, so as to sort of pay for the service, you know. So today, there were a really cute pair of shorts on the sidebar…neon green and shocking pink diamond patterned hotpants. Completely obnoxious and inappropriate for everything, but also totally eye-catching. Which, I’m sure was the [...]
Posted in biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Mountain Biking, Trek 800 on Jun 13th, 2011
Direct quote from a kid who’d stopped by Friz tonight to spectate. We were taking a break and chatting with the newcomer who’d voiced interest in the game. He was riding an IRO fixie, which would have been supremely difficult (if not somewhat dangerous) to try to play Friz on. So various among us were [...]
Posted in bike commuting, Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Mar 14th, 2011
So, on my ride to work today a driver pulled a nasty trick which seems to be a particular Kansas City specialty. This guy took a wrong turn…pulled in to the Community College campus off 31st Street when he probably meant to take a right on to Broadway. So, instead of cutting through campus to [...]
Posted in bike commuting, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jan 27th, 2011
In Anne of Avonlea, Anne has a lousy day, which starts off when she wakes up with a toothache and goes downhill from there. She gets to work (she’s a schoolteacher at this point) the heating stove refuses to draw, resulting in a cold, smoky classroom. The kids are all plagued with midwinter cabin fever [...]
Posted in bike commuting, Distractions, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Things I like & Things I don't like, You have got to be kidding me! on Jan 24th, 2011
I pass by this church every morning on my way to work, and every morning, I get a wee case of the grumpies from this: The first half zillion times I passed by it, I just thought, “oh, a phone box. You don’t see many of those around anymore. Darn convenient when you do need [...]
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