Last night, TW and I were sitting out on the front porch, as we often do, lost in our own thoughts. Quiet until she said something about “soul sucking jobs” – which was interesting because I had been thinking about “jobs that make you sell you soul”.
Is there a difference between a soul sucking job and one that asks you to sell your soul? Is it a matter of perspective? Or personality? Or something else entirely?
Selling or Sucking? Read More »
The IKEA 2008 print catalog has arrived. ROAD TRIP!
Where’s my calendar? Read More »
Happy Love Note Day! (How marshmallowy of me to know, right?) So what can you do with a cupcake topper for Love Note Day? You could obviously write tiny love notes, fold them like a love note and stick a corner in the cupcake. You could run out to your local craft store and buy some foamies or better yet some “shrinky dink” plastic and write mini love notes that would hold up better on a cupcake. Or, try and track down a dozen or two of these love note charm necklaces. You used to be able to find them pretty inexpensively at Claires but that was years ago (and I’m so glad I haven’t been in a Claires in years.)
Daily Dose of Cupcakes Read More »
Elisa just announced the location of BlogHer Business 08, BlogHer 08 and the brand new “road show” scheduled for a group of cities in the East/South East. Which events will I see you at?
BlogHer 08
BlogHer 08 – it ain’t Boston, or is it? Read More »
Since someone asked… (this is only part one – part two will probably be in the “more videos” section or click ferrick1’s name to find the second part.)
Don’t Say Goodbye, Just Say Goodbye Read More »
I am not a fan of scales in general. I’d like to throw away the scale that lives in this house but have come to accept that it lives as far under TW’s dresser as I can keep it. Scales. Are. Unnecessary.
This scale is even more wrong. It tells you which celebrity weighs the same as you do. Wrong. So wrong.
Wrong on every level Read More »
Happy Elephant Appreciation Day! OK so I’m a day early, this just gives you time to run out and find some miniature elephants to grace the cupcakes you obviously will make to celebrate the big day. Or, order some for next year to get these elephants for $1 each. From Oriental Trading, Elephant Finger Puppets and from Cafe Press elephant buttons.
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Kristy. Is. Awesome.
Anyone who has attended BlogHer Con already knows this. Anyone who reads her blog already knows this.
What? You haven’t attended either BlogHer Con or read her blog? WTF are you doing with your life? What a waste. But it’s ok. You can start now. It’s never too late to make a healthy change. And don’t worry, you won’t have to lay on a rubber ball, or stop eating carbs.
Read and learn and laugh. A lot.
She just walks around with it – unless she’s trapped on a ball Read More »
Can I just thank the greater blogosphere for mostly ignoring Talk Like a Pirate Day? I saw very few people using the “pirate talk” plug-in and just a few blogs overwhelming us with pirate stupidity. Thank you.
To show my appreciation for this, and for the women of Hanks… go and enjoy Knit Like a Pirate. KLAP is a hell of a lot better than TLAP.
We’ve discovered some problems related to owning a Wii. The problems started out small, but like in “Give a Mouse a Cookie” they have snowballed into, well…
Problem number one – constant cleaning of the living room (where the TV is). Animal hair makes my eyes itch so I spend very little time in the living room, where the animals spend a lot of their time. With the addition of the Wii, I’ve cleaned the living room three times – in 7 days. Cleaning means really cleaning – sweeping or vacuuming (or both) and dusting every inch of space where animal hair might land. I hate cleaning.
Problem number two – we have a lot of kids so we decided we needed four wii remotes. This in itself is not a huge problem. We ran over to Target and picked up a couple. Not a huge expense and one neither of us minded at all. But as we were leaving the store with our purchases we both began to wonder about the size of our living room and whether it could accommodate four people playing tennis at once (particularly the four we were envisioning). Frightening images danced through our heads and some of those images became reality on Monday. I will spare you the details and just say I will never play tennis with RJ again. Ever.
Problem number three – since the living room really can’t accommodate us and I will obviously play tennis with RJ and so will her sister, though I’m sure Liz has some misgivings about that, we really do need to solve the size problem. The best idea is to switch the living room and office around. The current office is wide, except there’s that whole fireplace issue but still the room would work much better as a Wii room. It will be a pain in the XXX to move all of the books but well worth it.
Problem number four – when considering moving the rooms around, this obviously leads us to want new living room furniture, and a new rug and of course new office furniture. All of which we’ve talked about for quite some time but have never seriously considered doing. Now we are seriously considering our furnishing needs and locating the money for those needs.
Problem number five – this leads us both to consider ditching work and driving 5 1/2 hours (one way) to the nearest IKEA (and daming IKEA Orlando for not opening until November – how dare they inconvenience us again?)
Problem number six – which of course leads us to the need to rent a van for the drive.
And at this point, I am done thinking about the Wii and the problems related to owning a Wii. If I think about it for much longer, I will pack it up and send it to my ex in laws or to the nearest retirement community where people who don’t have these types of problems can enjoy it.