Tagged: blogalicious

28
Sep
2009

AT LEAST IT’S MORE THAN 140 CHARACTERS, EH?

I suppose that I may not complain about the dearth of posts from people I want to read when I have been lax about writing myself. Thinking of that was enough to make me un-duff and start writing. If only it was always so easy. Also, if only it resulted in a post worth reading! HAR! suckahs! 😛 It was damned cold out today—fall arrived with a snap and a vengeance. It took no prisoners in its announcement of arrival. Cold, rain, gusting winds, grey skies. BRRR…now I’m sort of bumming about my yummy lunch salads because it’s kind of...

09
Aug
2009

CREATIVITY IS THE POWER TO CONNECT THE SEEMINGLY UNCONNECTED*

How often should you post, when you blog? Should you post every day? Every couple of days, every week, once a month? I know that when some of my favorite writers are posting daily it feels like Christmas every day to me. But, sometimes it seems that if I post too often people don’t have time to read it all or that they miss things, and only see the latest. How much is too much? Does it even really matter? I suppose it is the writing urge that should steer and not the desire for validation or comments. I don’t...

24
Jul
2009

AND THE ENVELOPE GOES TO…

Findus, along with Martin and Karin, is VERY excited to announce the winner of the Great Plush Animal Purge Contest 2009! You all have a lot more faith in my ability to get rid of things than I do: reebert guessed a whopping 12 bags! ms_hackman guessed 24 but I suspect she wasn’t really seriously trying to win another stuffed animal. 😀 Lizardmom and hi_from_sheryl got a bit closer with 9 and 8 respectively, but blog lurker Carolina hit the nail on the head with her answer: 5 bags! Yay! The tiebreaker, which wasn’t needed, was 2 kept and 2...

21
Jul
2009

PLUSH PURGING & A CONTEST!

The Great Plush Animal Purge of 2009 is over and lo! We have all survived. In the playroom we have a huge round basket. It’s big enough for both kids to get into and hunch down. It was STUFFED full (ha! get it?) of stuffed animals. In addition, Martin had an hanging toy storage unit that was full of stuffed animals in each of 6 compartments. AND both kids have a half dozen or so of their very favorites in their beds. All in all, I suspect we had well over 150 stuffed animals of various sizes and cuteness. If...

14
Jun
2009

WHEN THE DOG BITES, WHEN THE BEE STINGS, WHEN I’M FEELING SAD

moose word origins leaves sleeping in reading a good trilogy playing games my grandmother’s gingersnaps finding a new artist velvet unpredictable movie endings belly laughs lily of the valley spice cake getting mail hugs from my family sushi sushi sushi! being helpful CATS knowing the answers to questions wikipedia singing silly songs deviled eggs antique markets bright blue skies magpies poetry that lights your head on fire ordering books browsing bookstores a stack of much anticipated books to read my bookworms book group the smell of freshly-baked bread the smell of freshly-cut grass cinnamon sugar toast clean sheets on a...

08
May
2009

LOVE LOVE LOVE

One of my FB friends who is also a colleague commented at work this week that he couldn’t believe how many books I read. “Do you REALLY read that many books? You read like one a day!” he exclaimed. “I don’t watch TV.* I read 139.5 books last year,” I replied, and left him gaping. I’m reading comfort books right now: just finished The Dark is Rising series and now have started on James Herriott’s All Creatures Great & Small. I suspect it’s because I need to find comfort anywhere I can these days, when worry fills so much of...

18
Mar
2009

WHAT MY KIDS THINK OF ME

Interviewed the kids in this Facebook meme and wrote down their exact responses 🙂 Apologies to those who’ve already seen it, but if I don’t put it here it won’t be in the yearbook. Martin – age 11 Karin – age 9.5 going on 17 1. What is something mom always says to you? M – Stop fighting! K – Get a life 2. What makes mom happy? M – When we do (stop fighting) K – Hugs & kisses 3. What makes mom sad? M – When we ignore her K – If I don’t want to be with...

19
Feb
2009

OVERSIZED BITS OF TID, WITH SNOW & HOMICIDAL MANIA

It’s snowing like crazy outside. Fat white fluff-flakes floating dreamily down, down and around in the white light of the streetlights. The street is filled up with snow. Clifford the Big Red Rock has a sparkly white skullcap. The plants are hunkered down, puffed up with the white stuff. We’ve had snow on the ground for almost 2 weeks now, though really it hasn’t been that much; it keeps melting down to a thin covering and then freezing. All the footprints in the yard: kid, dog, neighbor’s cat, are softening at the edges and filling in. They’ll have to stomp...

14
Feb
2009

IT WAS NOT INTO MY EAR YOU WHISPERED, BUT INTO MY HEART**

One of the best things about elementary school was the preparations for each holiday as it approached. I shudder to think how many trees elementary school children go through in the form of construction paper. The whole school would be transformed by the new decorating scheme each month: orange & black for Halloween, orange & brown with gold buckles for Thanksgiving, red and green for Christmas, green for St. Patrick’s Day and of course, in February the brightest colors to cheer up the blah-est month: red & pink for Valentine’s Day! All the kids would bring shoeboxes from home and...

13
Feb
2009

PAPER NAPKIN INTERVIEW

If Sheryl and I could sit down at a little café and each have a half a ciabatta sandwich and a cup of chicken & wild rice soup together, we would, though I’m not altogether sure what kind of soup she likes best. I love soup. It’s one of my favorite foods. It’s hard to find a soup I DON’T like, though of course there are variations that are better than others, and I tend to prefer the cream- and broth-based soups over the tomato-based ones, but whatever, this tangent apparently has the bit in its mixed-metaphorical mouth and is...