Queen of Rambles

I’m thinking about putting up a Craigslist ad, advertising for a kindred spirit stay-at-home Germantown mom who can hang out with me once a week. I need a friend. A local friend. A flesh and blood, hanging out watching Sesame Street, you watch my kid-I’ll watch your kid, let’s laze about on the couch while [...]

People, I have to share something. If I don’t share and you find out, you’ll find me and beat me with a rolling pin. I had a metric ton (is that even possible? Aren’t tons a completely different system? Wouldn’t it be a metric gilliogram?) of frosting left over and hated to just throw it [...]

I’m so pleased to be able to post that my holiday cookie decorating party was a success! I love hosting parties, even though I never actually do host parties, so this satisfied my inner hostess. We had four families over, which was probably one family too many given space constraints, but it was a perfect [...]

Boy oh boy am I one tired mama! I don’t know why I am completely incapable of doing any sort of work during the morning, but I’ve always been that way. Mornings are for staring, slack-jawed, at the computer screen in front of me and wishing I could crawl back in bed for three hours. [...]

Snow is fun and exciting when you’re 8, but when you are in Maryland and no one knows how to drive in inclement weather and it takes you 45 minutes to drive a route that normally takes 12 minutes top, snow is BAD! I knew it was snowing this morning because I read it on [...]

I could have been a contender with my grandma this morning. Her goal each day is to have all her tasks finished by 9 am so she can sit around and stew and fret and be lonely the rest of the day. It’s very upsetting that the one nice department store in town doesn’t open [...]

Despite being up till 2 am and waking up at 8, I had a great day today! I was really dragging at the gym, and my poor hips are killing me (too much mambo on Sunday), but the day only got better from there. Tora and I have made a tradition in the years I’ve [...]

I knew better than to take the fake midol at 5 pm. It lists caffeine as an ingredient, but I was going apeshit crazy with the yelling and the screaming and the wanting to kill people so I thought I’d do everyone a favor and tame the wild PMS beast. It’s now 11:22 pm, well [...]

I’ve been dreaming of Veronica Mars all night after Leslie pointed out that YouTube had bits of a re-imagined VM that was not to be. It didn’t have Wallace, Keith, Logan or anyone else, but it had Veronica and it was good (except for the chase scene. That was B-A-D. Why, CW? WHY? WHY MUST [...]

owl Pattern is from www.sewhooked.org/HPPaper.html Originally uploaded by Ramble Queen I know not all of you enjoy seeing my quilty stuff so I try to keep it over on my quilting blog, but I’m really excited about this one! My very first Harry Potter quilt block! I really liked being able to use my stash [...]