Trying not to borrow trouble.

Is it my imagination, or does it seem that hurricanes this year seem to be favoring the Gulf of Mexico? 
If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you know that my family makes an annual fall pilgrimage to the beach.  Said beach is in Southern Florida, Gulf side.  So it sort of goes without saying [...]

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What happens when there are no more words?

Stop the presses.  I have nothing more to say. 
I used to be able to churn out hundreds, thousands, of words every day. 
Here lately, I’ll get started on something, get about halfway through it and decide, pfft.  I don’t feel like finishing it. 
I am having an epic battle with The Lazy. 
And also a problem with The [...]

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Spawn: Politician.

On the way to school this morning, the topic turned to politics. 
“Barak Obama?  That’s all they ever talk about on the radio.” 
“Well, he’s one of the people running for President right now.” 
“Shoot.  I wanted that lady to be the first girl President.” 
(I am raising a feminist, apparently.  Good for me.) 
“Mom?  If I got to be [...]

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Some things make no sense, have no answers.

To An Athlete Dying Young   by A. E. Houseman
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From [...]

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The wheels on the bus

I think the time is quickly approaching, when I am going to have to bite the bullet and buy another car. 
When I paid off my car a year ago, there was much happy dancing on my part.  I have not been without a car payment since 1991.  But I finally was able to buy a [...]

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I’ll tell you what stinks.

And it’s not just me after I get home from the gym. 
In order to go work out today, I had to take an antihistamine, spray my nose with nasal spray, and take a couple of hits off my inhaler.  You know, so I could breathe. 
The combination of high humidity, a change in atmospheric pressure, and [...]

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Feline Tally: 7. Well on my way to being Crazy Cat Lady.

And as you know, Crazy Cat Lady can (and does) bitch about the things that irritate her.  So here goes. 
I’ve mentioned this before, but it really bothers me so I’m mentioning it again: people who congregate around the entrance to a building for a smoke break.  I do not smoke, and I do not wish [...]

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Always waiting for the other shoe to drop is really no way to live.

Damn, y’all. 
I think that right at this moment, a zombie is more rested than I am this morning. 
I wish that I could say that right after I finished yesterday’s post, I took my depressed and unhappy ass home and went to bed and slept for about 15 hours, but that would be pretty far from [...]

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Ain’t no cure for the summertime blues.

Every summer I hit a point at which I am unofficially tired of summer.  I’m tired of maintaining a tan, shaved legs, painted toes, and general body image.  I want very much to crawl into a pair of black stretch pants and black turtleneck and curl up somewhere with something chocolately and fattening and just [...]

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Mom of 7-year-old seeks example to set.

I have given birth to a leisurely creature, one who would much rather lie comatose in front of the TV than actually exert any energy.  It’s one of Spawn’s more maddening traits, and one reason I find it thus is that, given the chance to have some free time and left to my own devices [...]

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