Queen of Rambles

I feel like death warmed over. We worked for eight solid hours doing nasty grunt work like scrubbing baseboards and defrosting the freezer, but now we are done done done done!!!!! Free, free, free, freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! Mike even survived my grouchiness, and that’s not an easy task. I hate it when I feel myself […]

It’s dumped a foot of snow over the past couple of days, which means walking anywhere is no fun at all. The snow itself makes you feel like you’re walking in loose sand–hell on the thighs–but that’s not the only bad thing. My snow boots make my feet go numb after just ten minutes of […]

Why can’t I be rich? How do other people get rich? How do people afford maids? How do people afford mansions and nannies and chefs and people to do all their work? What are they doing that’s so damned important that they deserve such things and I do not? I’m becoming a socialist.
Mikey and […]

If it’s true that Tums are calcium rich I’m going to start laying eggs soon (egg shells are made of calcium aren’t they?). It’s a good thing we’re moving because my stash is just about gone. They have this nasty dissolve in water stuff you can use, but it tastes so nasty that I can’t […]

We had a great Christmas day up here at the North Pole. We even spotted Santa last night, complete with a reindeer. Honestly. Authentic Santas and reindeer are one of the perks of living up here. Every year there’s several ads in the classifieds and you can call and have Santa come right […]

Amazing how just a few extra drops of water can turn a flaky, tender, beautiful pie crust into a piece of old shoe leather. I do fear that my poor pumpkin pies will have a nasty, store bought crust kind of taste and it would infuriate me but I am too happy to be […]

Thanks for all the replies to my question. I really appreciate it! I’m really pleased with the caliber of the responses–a nice variety of well thought out changes.
So today is Christmas Eve and I’m still sitting here in my holey robe. I should take a shower and get started on the pumpkin pies. […]

I really, really, really need some help here. I mentioned this before, so if it seems familiar, that’s why. Mosaic Minds would like to do a sort of question/answer thing in each issue, getting opinions of more people and making it more interesting to read. Of course, this means I need you people […]

Jen is making a sort of Tales of the Sixth Grade journal to give to her daughter for Christmas, so after much waffling, I’ve decided to tell my own tale. Not that I remember much from sixth grade. I try desperately to forget everything that happened from fifth to eighth grade. What awkward, horrible […]

I feel like all the important count downs are blurring together. Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, selling our stuff, moving out, getting to the US, Christmas shopping over there (better late than never), then having yet another Christmas celebration. At least I only have to do one Christmas meal. My mom and grandma have decided […]