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Bear with me. I am bummed out today because... 1. My sister and I talked on the phone on Monday. “Talked” isn’t actually the correct term...

Once again, I may be without DSL for a while. We are switching the DSL off on one phone line and installing it on our other phone line. Th...

Before I get into my latest riff on modern life in all its angst and sunshine, I just have to mention that despite years of correction, my g...

Please note: An alternate title for this entry might be, “Home Improvement Gone Horribly Wrong.” Consequently, there’s a lot of cussing (b...

Three Reasons Why Yesterday Sucked 1. My brand-new urban hipster hobo bag, purchased because I am utterly sick of carrying around a diaper ...

Here are my goals for 2005 (not, I repeat, NOT RESOLUTIONS): Learn Web design (see previous entry for today) Improve my overall physical, sp...

For the past few days, I have been visiting some of the sites listed at The Best Of Blog Awards 2004 (see http://www.blogmechanics.com/bob/ ...

So today I go to Nordstrom's at the Grove to return a horrible red sweater that I bought a few weeks ago. I bought said sweater to wea...

Because I have some popping (I almost wrote "pooping," sheesh) in the microwave right now. I have already told you how much I love...

I think Viva could win this award hands down. I love it that when you ask her if she wants a cracker, she says, "No, thank you," ...

why won't Blogger let me add posts? why??? my frustration with technology has caused me to drop all capital letters off my posts.

During the holiday season, I painstakingly assembled, hand-signed and sent out 47 Christmas cards. We have received 23. Clearly, this acti...

We went out to dinner at Sonora Cafe for Sweet William's birthday last night. (Yes, his birthday is right before Christmas. Yes, it mak...

So for those of you that have been following this and who even care, I saw my OB-GYN today. Dr. A is the ideal doctor for me. She is alway...

Today, I found myself really irritated that I am not done with my Christmas shopping yet. Then I looked at the calendar and realized: we are...

Since Sweet William has time off from work between Christmas and New Year’s, we are going to paint our kitchen. Now, while I was on bedrest ...

Viva hates Christmas. Well, let me qualify that statement and say that Viva hates Christmas decorations. She hates the lights, and she hates...

I am just behind the times. Until a couple of months ago, we had a microwave that was manufactured in 1988. It came with the apartment. I...

Who sings that? Patsy Cline? (Why, yes -- here's a sound clip .) So the mysterious health thing continues, with the added annoyance of...

Okay, so I mentioned I would be taking a short break from the blog so I might get some exercise in every day during the few chunks of free t...