What I have discovered from looking at loveseats on Craigslist is that most furniture looks really ugly after people have used it for awhile. That’s all.
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Another Brilliant Observation
Posted in life, Personal, tagged life, Personal on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
BedandBreakfast.com is a Big Lie Site
Posted in life, Personal, Travel, tagged BedandBreakfast.com, Beds and Breakfasts, Consumer, Family, life, Personal, Spain, Travel on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I used BedandBreakfast.com, also Inns.com, to locate a B & B in Barcelona. The reviews for the B & B I ultimately chose were fantastic, not one bad one in the bunch. They raved about the owner, the cooking, the facilities, all of it. I sought reviews on other sites, but there weren’t many available [...]
Laundry Shoot
Posted in Personal, tagged Personal, Silly on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I just saw an ad for a house with a “laundry shoot.” I wonder if it fires the laundry into its drawers and onto its hangers once it is laundered. Laundry shoot. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. I know. I’m easily entertained.
The only time I will use staples will be in a stapler.
Posted in computers, life, Personal, Ranting, tagged computers, Customer Service, life, Office supplies, Personal, Ranting, Staples, Viruses, Windows on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have been very busy lately. I have to use a PC for work because the software I use in my job is only windows-based. As is the case with PCs, the damn thing started running really sluggy and slow. I knew it needed a cleanup and defrag and all that crap, but I just [...]
Isn’t she just perfection?
Posted in Personal, tagged babies, Love, Photographs on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More Pithy Observation
Posted in Children, Family, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged Equality, Family, Feminism, gender, life, men, Personal, Women on October 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Why is it that so many people think that for a woman to be self-actualized and equal — in the workplace, in the home, in her sexuality — she has to act like a man? I don’t see how sleeping with a bunch of men and ignoring them later makes me any stronger or wiser. [...]
Pithy Observation & Simple Desire
Posted in Personal on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Concise and forcefully expressive, but not really. Concise, but maybe slightly less than forceful. Insightful perhaps, but who really cares observations. That would describe it best, but takes up too much room. Simple desire? I want to put a ponytail on my head like Pebbles in the Flintstones. That’s my first one.
More Pointless Rambling
Posted in Personal, tagged life, Personal, Pointless Rambling on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I keep thinking that I want to start a page on my blog that is called Pithy Observations. It would be filled with the sort of nonsense one normally finds on Twitter or Facebook, but that I generally don’t say because really, who cares? No one would care here either, but since this is not [...]
Halloween Comes Early Around Here
Posted in Personal, tagged life, Personal on October 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some person calls our office and presses the number to get through to my mobile phone…at midnight and 2 in the morning. Creepy, freak-show stalkers like that give me the heeby-jeebies.
Long Day
Posted in life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged life, Personal, Pointless Rambling on September 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Isabel turned 2 today. She’s my sleepy, snuggly bear, breathing into my side. So warm. So soft. I love my little girl. I’m so grateful she was born. The long-legged daughter came and nearly fell asleep in bed with me tonight. Are you going to sleep here, Miss Milla? Mmmm, nooo. Then more lying there. [...]
Isabel, a Polar bear, and a Giraffe
Posted in Animals, Babies, Children, Family, life, Personal, tagged Animals, babies, Children, Conservation, Environment, Family, Giraffe, life, Personal, Polar bear, Zoo on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Isabel went to the zoo with her cousin Sarah yesterday. We saw lots of animals because it was early and the sun was hiding behind clouds (as opposed to the last time we went in the middle of a sunny day when they were all napping). I felt sorry for the animals. Many of them [...]
Introduction to Brain Rules for Baby
Posted in Babies, Children, Family, life, Personal, tagged babies, Books, Brain rules, Childbirth, Children, Family, Happiness, John Medina, life, Personal on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is an excerpt from Brain Rules for Baby by John Medina. I have fallen in love with his book Brain Rules, and discovered the baby version on his website. I wish the school system would read this and stop trying to stuff reading in five-year-olds like they are pate’ geese on the way to [...]
Eggs in Spain, and indeed the Netherlands, too.
Posted in Food, life, Personal, Travel, tagged Eggs, europe, food, Holland, life, Netherlands, Personal, Spain, Travel on August 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have two observation about eggs from my trip to Europe. A couple of days after my arrival in the Netherlands I was dispatched to the grocery store to fetch eggs. I could not find them. I searched and searched and returned empty-handed. Both Milla and Anne told me the eggs were by the cereal, [...]
Barcelona
Posted in Babies, Children, Family, Personal, Travel, tagged babies, Children, europe, Family, life, Mediterranean Sea, Personal, Spain, Swimming, Travel on August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I have noticed since being in Barcelona, and indeed I have noticed in all of our European travels this summer, a lot more men carting around children than I see in the states. And here in Spain I have noticed many, many sets of grandparents or a grandparent caring for young children. I wonder if [...]
Düsseldorf
Posted in Children, Family, life, Personal, Travel, tagged babies, Children, Düsseldorf, europe, Family, Germany, life, Personal, Travel on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We spent 2 days in Düsseldorf, Germany. Actually, we stayed in a suburb called Ratingan at the in-laws of my friend, Anne. However we went into Düsseldorf both days we were there. The weather the entire time was pretty abysmal, especially for August, but this did not stop us from exploring. Sunday morning in Ratingan we were [...]
Legerdemain
Posted in life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged Busyness, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, WordPress. Every so often you feel the need to change things, to switch them around a bit, move words slightly left or slightly right, make lilliputian adjustments. One might not notice if one had not spent some time in this place. I wonder about this need to adjust and mark. I have been working [...]
Lucky
Posted in life, Personal, tagged Honey, life, Personal, Stoves on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our house smells like roasted sugar. Well, burned sugar actually. This smell is the result of a confluence of unplanned events. First, Milla turned over a plastic bear bottle of honey in the cupboard above the stove in an effort to extract every last molecule of the stuff from the bottle. Second, I forgot to [...]
Anticlimactic
Posted in Babies, Children, life, Love, Personal, Writing, tagged babies, Children, life, Love, Personal, Writing on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The interesting thing for me in finally finishing one of my books is how anticlimactic it has been. I finished it, then sat here and thought, Okay, it’s done. I will have to read through it and edit, but the bulk of it is complete. It seemed as if the occasion deserved something more, but [...]
European Vacation
Posted in life, Personal, Travel, tagged life, Personal, Travel on July 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I love that when European hoteliers, and beds and breakfasts quote you a price, it includes all the taxes and fees and whatnot, rather than the lying American version that tries to make the price look smaller by leaving that stuff out.
Rick Santelli is an Idiot…Still
Posted in Finances, life, Personal, Ranting, Society, tagged Economics, Employment, Finances, Foreclosure, FOX news, life, Personal, Ranting, Rick Santelli, Society, USA, Work on July 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I posted this a while back. See it here. I was responding to this moron the first time he opened his idiot face and let venom spew. Of course, since he’s still slithering around out there, the post continues to garner hits, over two years later. I reread what I wrote, and I can’t [...]
This is Tonight
Posted in life, Personal, tagged life, Personal, Pointless Rambling on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Milla, desiring to become the next FooPet idol, sings bland, corporate lyrics over and over while washing dishes. I am grateful she is washing the dishes; I am not grateful for her musical choice while doing so. Isabel slumbers, stirring quietly as she dreams. She likes to stand on boxes. Tonight the box she chose [...]
An Observation
Posted in life, Music, Personal, tagged Ella Fitzgerald, life, Music, Personal on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am rapidly discovering that if you spend most of your time listening to Ella Fitzgerald singing, then listening to most other singers will be a most unsatisfactory experience.
Pointless Rambling
Posted in Babies, Children, Family, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged Children, Family, life, Personal, Random Thoughts on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do you ever have a day where it feels like there is a burr in your ass? I didn’t start out the day feeling that way, but ever since I woke from a midday nap I have felt increasingly cranky. I’m sure a lot of it is that I did not get enough sleep last [...]
It Continues Unabated
Posted in life, Personal, Society, tagged America, Corporatism, Environment, Globalism, Imperialism, life, Personal, Planet, USA, World on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I have believed my entire life that good will prevail, that the greed of imperialism and corporatism would fail, that eventually in the battle against those who seek power for its own sake, who destroy this lovely planet for their own narrow gains in the moment, would all lose in the end and we would [...]
Oh for Cryin’ Out Loud
Posted in Finances, Personal, Ranting, tagged banks, Borrowing, Credit, Finances, Financial institutions, Loan sharks, money, Personal, Ranting on June 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’m a bankruptcy attorney so I am often in contact with collection agencies and whatnot. I have been doing it long enough that I have also seen a bunch of financial institutions come and go. It is amazing how many bottom-feeder, rotten-ass lenders turn around and change their name because they are such scum, even [...]
I had a dental implant put in yesterday. It was fine as long as I was doped up on ibuprofen. Apparently though, that was keeping the pain at bay because it woke me up in the middle of the night hurting. I left the prescription ibuprofen in the car. Milla left the non-prescription ibuprofen somewhere [...]
The Gap is so Dumb
Posted in life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged Clothing, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, Shopping, Stores, the Gap on June 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Gap is so dumb. Okay, I know my even saying that is dumb, but seriously, it is. I don’t love the Gap. I don’t like their business practices very much, plus some of their stuff is really expensive for what it is (although I realize their model is to price really high then get [...]
Miscellaneous Blatherings
Posted in Children, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, Writing, tagged Children, Family, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, weather, Writing on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have finished two chapters in two days, but now I have to work at the job that makes me money. I don’t want to. I’m burned out. I took a small break, but I think I need a vacation where I leave the continent. We are planning one of those, but it will not [...]
Monday
Posted in Babies, life, Personal, Writing, tagged babies, Children, Gardening, life, Personal, Planting, Writing on May 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my several books is finally coming together. I have been plugging away steadily and actually making a dent in getting it done. The result though, is that when I have time to sit and write, it doesn’t happen here. Many days, like this one, the choice is eat, write, cello, or French. Usually [...]
Interview with the Author of The Cello Suites, Eric Siblin
Posted in Personal, tagged Anna Magdalena, Bach, Books, Eric Siblin, German history, History, Music, Music history, Pablo Casals, Personal, Spanish history, The Cello Suites, Writing on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Described as “part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery,” The Cello Suites weaves together three narratives: the disappearance of Bach’s cello suites in the eighteenth century, Pablo Casals’s discovery and popularization of the music, and author Eric Siblin’s quest for the truth behind the suites today. Mr. Siblin graciously agreed to an interview, [...]
Poem for Mine Enemy
Posted in life, Personal, tagged life, Personal, poetry on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Your hatred implodes. Who is left malevolent and inauspicious, veiled with portent, menace, and shrouds of peril? No clemency for your fury, nor chastisement for your wretched mediocrity. The only soul experiencing your anguish is you.
Bedtime
Posted in life, Personal, Random Thoughts, tagged life, Personal, Random Thoughts, sleep on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight I ran, pushing Isabel’s stroller, for a half an hour. Ava ran with us. We ran up and down hills and across sidewalks. Many of the sidewalks were bumpy because of large tree roots. I love the large trees; I do not love the large roots pushing up the sidewalk. However, given the choice, [...]
Personal, Life, Weather
Posted in Babies, computers, life, Personal, tagged Apple, babies, computers, Family, life, Mac, MacBook Pro, Personal, weather on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s raining again today, but it was sunny for three days in a row even though they said it would only be one, and I got to wear shorts yesterday it was so warm, so I can’t complain about rain today. Apple took away my brand new MacBook Pro. I have to say, my apple [...]
Blue Valentine
Posted in life, Love, Personal, Relationships, tagged Blue Valentine, life, Love, men, movies, Personal, Relationships, Women on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I started watching Blue Valentine at the theater, but Isabel would not stay asleep and so I had to leave, but I wasn’t disappointed to be walking out. The thing was depressing and I could not get into it. I wanted to see what happened though, so a few weeks later I began watching again [...]
C’est la vie
Posted in Personal, tagged life, Parenthood, Personal, Writing on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have writing ideas all the time and sometimes even start to write them down. Then my little bug comes and wants to crawl in my lap or wants me to get up and play or wants something, anything, and I get up and give it to her and don’t go back. I’ve lost the [...]
Free Bradley Manning by William Rivers Pitt
Posted in Personal, tagged Bradley Manning, Democracy, Espionage, Facism, Guantanamo, Politics, Right and wrong, Society, Truthout, US, William Rivers Pitt on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This article can be seen on Truthout here. Free Bradley Manning Tuesday 26 April 2011 by: William Rivers Pitt, Truthout (Photo: thaths [3]) It is dangerous to be right in matters on which established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire I have a confession to make: I have been on the fence about Bradley Manning as [...]
Not Much Done
Posted in Personal, tagged life, Personal on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another day where it is over and I did not finish what I set out to finish. I did manage to complete one petition and start another, but that is all. I also made a pot of chickens soup, which is good since all of us are fighting some wretched sore throat that has [...]
Wedding Candles by Marc Chagall
Posted in Cello, Love, Personal, tagged Art, Beauty, Cello, Chagall, Love, Music, Wedding Candles on April 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is such a perfect, whimsical celebration! The couple moves through the town, candles flickering, the cellist and drummer play, angel goat watches, drinking red wine, birds dance while couples embrace. What more could you ask for on your wedding day?
Favorite Scene in a Movie
Posted in life, Personal, tagged Fried Green Tomatoes, life, movies, Personal on April 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite scenes from a movie is during Fried Green Tomatoes after Kathy Bates has rammed the little car that took her parking spot, the two young drivers of the car come out and she says Sorry, girls. I’m older and I have more insurance. I love it.
Groupon Update
Posted in Personal on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The person I contacted at Groupon “passed on” the information to others in the company about Beauty Med Spa nee’ Pure Med Spa. We will see what comes of it.
My baby
Posted in Babies, Children, Family, life, Personal, tagged Baby, child, Children, daughter, life, Personal on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My sweet baby holds a doll and rocks it back and forth and up and down exactly as I rock her, holding it in the same position as if it’s being nursed. She then drops the doll with a thunk and goes and picks up the cat by the neck. There is a limit, I [...]
Women Dancing
Posted in movies, Personal, tagged movies, Opinion, Personal, Women on March 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever noticed that in movies that are “chick flicks,” billed and marketed to women, where there are women in a family going through something or women who are friends going through something, that the movie creators always throw in a scene of them dancing together, often on a bed, sometimes resulting in a [...]
Isabel
Posted in Babies, Family, life, Love, Personal, tagged babies, Chiidren, Daughters, Family, life, Love, Personal on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Isabel, have patience! Have patience, Mama? I’m only 1 and a half years old. How am I supposed to have patience? And then I realized, today Isabel is exactly 1 and a half. Happy 1 and a half birthday, Isabel. Today Isabel also quacked at me. She picked up her new orange and white duck [...]
Have you ever gotten so buried in a book for days that when you’re through you’re in a daze? This is where I have been and where I am at now. It’s an odd feeling. I want to go to that world for a while and leave mine. Ah well.
HuckaBOO
Posted in life, Personal, Politics, tagged Huckabee, life, Personal, Politics on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If Huckabee is to be believed, I am causing more damage to the world than bombs because I’m a GASP! single mother!! I’m uneducated (except for that doctorate–oops, don’t tell!), I’m poor (except for my decent income–better keep quiet on that one!), I am stealing money from the state in the form of welfare (okay, [...]
I have stopped eating most sugar and for the most part, this works just fine. However, there are some nights (like this one), where I long to eat a giant slice of chocolate cake filled with warm, chocolate filling, or banana cream pie, or a brownie, or chocolate mousse, or vanilla cake with thick, white, [...]
Love
Posted in Babies, Children, Family, life, Love, Personal, tagged babies, Children, Family, life, Love, parenting, Personal on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My little daughter is perfect. I have moments sometimes, when I’m holding her hand or looking at her, when I think to myself that I am a human and she is a human, she is my cub, my baby. I held her hand tonight as she lay against me in the crook of my right [...]
Attitude Adjustment Bureau
Posted in life, Personal, tagged life, Personal, Work on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have got to do something to my brain so that instead of finding my job annoying, I re-appreciate the things about it that are so much more worthwhile than they could be. Probably a vacation would help. I haven’t taken one since I started a year and a half ago. I really want to [...]
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