Punxsutawney Phil said that we would have six more weeks left of winter. Humbug. Today felt like spring. Even the showers reminded me of April. In fact, it was so warm (mid to upper 60s) that I pulled out my pair of red flats and wore them.
It’s funny what a pair of shoes can do. [...]

Received my grades for my communications theory grad course. Got an “A” (woohoo!).

I finally cleaned my desk. I’m so happy. I have space to move my mouse, and I don’t have to prop my keyboard on top of papers. (The desk on the thumbnail photo isn’t really my desk. My desk was never THAT messy. Okay, so it might have been about 80 percent of that mess. [...]

We celebrated Brandon’s birthday on December 15. And although he’s now a whopping 29 years old, he still looks 17!
And since no birthday is complete without a birthday cake, I had a wonderful lady create a custom Technics turntable cake. Awesome, eh? The silver icing was ever-so-sweet, and the actual cake itself was Mountain [...]

Carroll Shelby’s Texas Chili is perfect for cold winter nights. Yum!

It’s official. Christmas time is near. I’ve set my car radio to the totally-Christmas music station. And what a blessing…the first song I heard was Aaron Neville’s version “Come Home for Christmas.” Gotta love that cocoa-buttered troubadour and his crazy half-vibrato.
Now that the season has been kicked off by Aaron Neville, the decorating has begun. [...]

Took a trip to Petsmart this evening with the hubby to buy some more food for Otis and a new litter box for Miu-Mius. And boy, did we find a litter box! Miu-Mius now has a very stylish pink “Booda Dome.” It’s got a huge bubble that looks like it might be some martian habitat, [...]

It’s a cold day in December. I’m sitting at home, sick with a sinus infection and a bellyache. And to top it all off, I can’t even speak. This happened last year around the same time. I got laryngitis and couldn’t talk for two weeks (doctor’s orders). I’m hoping this time it won’t last long.
I’m [...]

Oh my goodness. It’s that’s time of year when stress levels and anxiety reach great heights. I can’t believe that Thanksgiving is next week, and to date, I still have no clue what our families are planning to do. There are rumblings of a gathering at our house, and there’s also talk of going out [...]

A quirky trait: I love hard-boiled eggs. Not necessarily for eating, but for cracking. I love taking a hard-boiled egg and cracking the shell and peeling it off. It’s like a game to try to keep the shell as intact as possible when it comes off the egg. After de-shelling the egg, I like to [...]