Our Christmas Card to You

We moved to New Mexico when I was about 13 years old.  My mom, God bless her, was a single mom with three little girls, working and struggling to make ends meet without any help from my father or family.  We three girls spent a lot of time alone waiting for mom to get home [...]

Colorful Moments

I just read something somewhere that reminded me of a particular time in my life that always makes me feel good.  The timing was perfect because I’ve been feeling inspired by little things like, the weather, a song, the light of the day, colors on the ground and in the sky, the turn of a [...]

Dun May Me Get to Fwee!

D-man has had an incredible amount of energy lately and it seems we are constantly yelling, “STOP RUNNING IN THE HOUSE!” at him every fifteen minutes. This morning, amidst the dogs pooping and peeing on the floor (I just let them in from outside; the bastards!), my not feeling well, laundry everywhere, D-man was, once [...]

Here’s Lookin at You, Kid

Every time I try to write here… I find myself stuck in complaint. I don’t wanna be like that so I just don’t write. *sigh* It’s a vicious circle. I need to get over it.
Here’s lookin’ at you, kid:
Lulu ate an entire plate of banana pancakes off the kitchen counter this morning. Bugger! Only one [...]

2008 In a Word

From The Daily Humorscope for January 1, 2009:
Pisces
(February 19 – March 20)
You will become fascinated by the unlikely use of the same word to mean very different things. For example, what is the link between “seasons” as changes in the weather and “seasons” as in what you do to food? Or for that matter, why [...]

In My ‘Hood…

Mark Lyons was the neighborhood bully when I was growing up. He was one grade higher than the rest of us and was always ordering someone around. He wasn’t exactly a ring leader but he would bully the younger kids until they finally gave up and let him call the shots. He’d grab one of [...]

BoobTube and YouTube Lacteal Goodness

Oh!  The Google hits I’m gonna get for this one…
Where am I? Well, I’m here and I’ve been working. I’ve been working a lot. ‘Tis the season and I finally have several days off in a row, starting tomorrow. I finished my day at 5:00 today and logged almost about 50 hours in just the [...]

Snow Day Hooky

We went to San Diego today.  No, not that San Diego. We went to this San Diego:
 
Can you guess what we did?

I’m just warming-up here…
We played hooky from school and had a snow day.  S packed us a lovely lunch and we headed for Jemez.  It was beautiful and cold and snowy and, well, we [...]

Wildfires, Friends, and Memories

CNN has been on in our house almost 24/7 for the last several days. We’ve been keeping up on the fires in San Diego and watching the scenes from afar and… Worrying. S grew up in San Diego and is watching as areas she knows quite intimately disappear into smoke and flame. It is surprisingly [...]

Tidbit Tuesday

I switched over the swamp coolers today. That’s plural because I did my mom’s and then did ours. Hers was a cinch but ours is proving a bit more problematic. First of all, I fell off the damned ladder. Not exactly fall-fall, more like slipped, slid, fell, scrambled, scraped, lunged, jumped… scraping myself along the [...]