For those of you who don’t know, Costco is one of those membership only, discount warehouses… one of those places where you can get tartar sauce in a convenient 8 gallon “party pack.” (You never have to embarrass yourself at a fish-fry again.) It so happens that my in-laws are members, and we take appropriate advantage now and again. Yesterday afternoon was one such…
Have you ever faced a deficit of will when it came to mowing the lawn? This is the time slot for my weekly appointment with the yard, and I’ve got to tell you… I really don’t want to go. The house feels so cozy inside. I could… GASP… even be content doing housework all day.
What is wrong with me? My desire to avoid the lawn is perfectly in line with my history of…
I love gift certificates from my favorite online retail establishments. It’s one of the few places or occasions when I find I have a credit balance. You may think that a gift certificate is restrictive… that there’s more freedom in cold, hard cash. If you take a hard line, emotion free view of life and gift giving, this is true. Yet when I pull up iTunes or eReader.com and see my…
I haven’t been particularly lazy this last month or so, and I’ve been doing just as much reading as ever, but one of the last books I tried reading was a terrible bore. I say this because a new book recently appeared in the recent reads portion of this site, and the length of time between updates has nothing to do with the book that was added (“Benighted,” by Kit…
With an election looming, we’re hearing a lot about questions we think about every day. Whoa nelly… I knew that little bottle with a child proof cap wasn’t a single serving bottle of Kool-Aid. (They’re making it really thick these days, eh?)
O.K., so we’re not hearing a lot about day-to-day, nuts and bolts, regular life stuff. This is where I come in…. This…
I saw a newish Caddy yesterday when I was driving home with Adam from Meh-may’s house (insert standard French disclaimer here). It was one of those STS jobs that’s all the rage these days. It had a silver hood, chrome grill… and no bumper. I thought to myself, “that’s a damn shame, wasting a perfectly good Caddy like that.” As we drew closer and passed each…
I’ve got a New Year’s Resolution that can’t wait for the New Year. I’m positively giddy with anticipation. I resolve to make the word “rhinorrhea” part of my regular vocabulary. I’m not convinced it’s a real word (it’s just too good to be true), but that hasn’t stopped me before and it isn’t going to stop me now.
I can’t wait…