I am totally sick of flooded basements!
Archive for February, 2009
Profound thought of the day…
Posted in weather, tagged flooding on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections on the art of blogging…
Posted in blogging, tagged blogging on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t blogged about blogging in a long time. When I first started to blog, I spent a lot of time thinking out loud, or should I say on line. I started this thing as a “lovely experiment” on a whim and slowly determined what I wanted from it. I recognized that it was a [...]
Tension on the screen…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chemistry, valentines day on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Instead of my usual “it’s Valentine’s Day, how much are the florists making today” rant, I thought I’d take a sexier approach to Valentine’s Day this year. I got the idea using my last year’s birthday present (now a year old), Netflix. I’d always heard of Gilda, but never saw it. I only saw the [...]
Another year bites the dust…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birthday on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
They say it’s my birthday. Happy birthday to me.
A February birthday is always a good birthday if it does not snow. It did not snow. Yay.
Now I gotta stop filling up on cake…
The perils of responsibility…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged childhood, responsibility on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone has their baggage from childhood, and responsibility is one of mine – one that can really get to me. I had too much responsibility. I know there are kids out there who had it a lot worse – they had to take care of drunken parents and other siblings while a parent was incapacitated. [...]
Rivalries with the neighbors…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged humor, rivalries on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just came across this amusing article in the Cedar Rapids Gazette: http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090209/NEWS/702099994/1002/NEWS - title: View from Missouri: you must be from Iowa if… It goes on to mention making sure your kid’s snowsuit fits under their Halloween costume (this could be a few other states, too) and you know several people who have hit deer with [...]
Winter confusion
Posted in weather, tagged snow on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been hearing about and seeing pictures of the snow in the UK this week. There’s supposedly very little salt and no plows because snow is an unusual event there. I guess I’m just an isolated Yank – I’d always thought that England etc. got pretty much the winter that we in the northern states [...]
Shouldn’t there have been a payoff to the Illinois groundhog??
Posted in weather, tagged groundhog on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At 10:30 a.m. on Groundhog Day, Tumbleweed Groundhog at the Brookfield Zoo awoke to find a group of guests waiting to find out if she would see her shadow! Tumbleweed did see her shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter!
If Tumbleweed had been named Rod, we could have fixed it and blotted out the sun. [...]
