Archive for the ‘Ms. Know-It-All’ Category

I took off of work yesterday and am at home again today. Over on the kitchen table is a roll of gray-silver duct tape, aluminum foil, scissors, tape, a bag and flexible aluminum dryer ducting. Over here at my desk I am surfing through my favorite blogs. In other words: I am procrastinating making T-Rex’s [...]

You may recall that, back in August, I was tagged to share 8 random facts about me. Random they were — and fascinating, too, especially the parts about the olive loaf, America’s Funniest Home Video rage, and primate social behavior, if I do say so myself. You may also recall from previous posts that I [...]

Cindy over at My Brilliant Mistakes recently tagged me for a blogger’s list-meme, so I wanted to delight her – and you – with eight random facts about me. It will also make up for the fact I haven’t blogged in a few days.
Here are the rules:
(The rules are more interesting if you imagine a [...]

My natural inclination today at lunch was to stay at my desk – not because I love to work through lunch – not at all – but to a) write out birthday cards to avoid being even more late in getting them to their recipients; and b) to avoid exertion and sweat on this hot [...]

I wish I could travel more. You know, take a romantic trip with my compassionate, sexy, witty – and currently imaginary- beau to Paris or one of the many cities in Europe I visited while backpacking around after college. (Note to eligible suitors: no youth hostels or one-star pensions this time; otherwise I’m pretty low maintenance.)
Or, being the [...]

Everyone has guilty pleasures. One of mine is filling my head with useless celebrity trivia. I don’t know what strange psychological imbalance creates this desire in me, but since it’s legal and doesn’t involve methadone it doesn’t seem all that bad.
On the way home from getting my hair cut yesterday I stopped over at my [...]