"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Jun 10th, 2009
AT&T, as most of you know, is a large, American telecommunications company formally and formerly known as American Telephone & Telegraph. It is cumbersomely large, lumberingly inefficient, astonishingly incompetent, and cozily insulated from the results of its inadequacies by its sheer size. I hate AT&T. I swear every time I ever have any business dealings […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, beer and/or homebrewing, Distractions, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Lists, Other Bike Stuff, Trashboat Shenanigans, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jun 5th, 2009
Yep, it’s gonna be one of those days and one of these entries. 1. They’ve been playing some butt-ass-awful music at work lately. Like worse than usual, and usual appears to be Adult-Contemporary Hits of the 1980s and ’90s. The recent streak of aural atrocities however, really has me scratching my head. Are they trying […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Recommendations on Apr 28th, 2009
Y’all, I can’t even think up a title for this entry, so you’re just gonna have to deal with the toothpaste situation. As am I. I’ve got kind of a history of weird toothpaste-related issues with the Wild Oats (now Whole Foods) down on 44th & Main. There was, as you can go back and […]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, meta on Apr 9th, 2009
I made a new blouse over the weekend. It is Option C from Simplicity 4020, and I am really happy with how it turned out. Especially when you consider that I used some pretty cheap nylon tricot (usually used for slips) that was left over from when I made myself some slips. I just wanted […]
Posted in books, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Mar 17th, 2009
This past library run was a real strike-out so far. I’d picked up My Lush Life by Douglas McEwan, ’cause I’d heard it was kind of like Patrick Dennis’s stuff, and I love, love, love me some Auntie Mame. It was, however, a tedious faux-biography that wore thinner and thinner as I read on. By […]
Posted in Cats, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Sewing on Feb 6th, 2009
I recently finished making a new blouse, and it turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. I decided today that I was going to take a picture of it on myself, since my modern dressmaker’s dummy is broken and it looked lousy on the circa 1914 one. So, I set up my […]
Posted in Distractions, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness on Feb 4th, 2009
So, I’m pretty much on tenterhooks of late, because I’ve been awaiting a callback from a job I really, really, really want. I’m hoping for a second interview, but at this point, I’d possibly let out a sigh of relief if the callback was telling me that I’m out of the running. At least the […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Dec 26th, 2008
Flu, that’s what. The last two months of ’08 have been a little rough on me. Attacked by a stray dog, hit by a truck, bronchitis/asthma-attack/cold, and now a standard-issue case of the flu. You know, muscle aches, stomach ache, head ache, overwhelming lethargy. I’m hauling my butt back to bed. Whenever I feel more […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Dec 14th, 2008
If you guessed that it was me, you guessed right! Yay? This past week has been a lung-o-riffic catastrophe. Last Sunday Joel and I did a big houseclean since the place had gotten completely out of hand, and that seems to have kicked off the wheezarama. Then, one of his co-workers shared a particularly virulant […]
Posted in Cats, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Dec 13th, 2008
This cat is a professional getter of my goat. I swear to you all that for the past 7 years, she has been pushing my buttons daily, multiple times a day. If ever two beings could be less in synch, the only recourse would be all out war. This cat! Where even to begin? Maybe […]