So we went to Rafferty’s (restaurant) last night, as one will periodically do on a Saturday night. You might [understandably] question why I am posting a photo of Rafferty’s restroom instead of the beautiful salad I had, and I am, of course, happy to explain. Sharon first discovered its virtues, and since we [...]
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The Water Closet (WC)
Posted in Life on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tornado Watch
Posted in Life, Weather on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it seems we have survived some more tornadoes around here, but it was pretty scary for a while there. We had about twelve extra people (friends, relations, neighbors) in our safe (?) and cozy basement. Some stayed the whole night and some stayed until about 2 in the morning when everything had [...]
Homage to a Furnace
Posted in Family, Life, Weather on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“This is what I am talking about,” said Sharon, standing in front of the open oven door. “Real heat.”
We had been cold all day and were never able to quite get toasty enough.
“Do you remember the days of our old furnace?” I asked her, joining her at the oven door. And so we [...]
Pantry Talk
Posted in Life on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It seems we have a chronic problem at our house with food. I told Sharon the other day, “Never have I seen a pantry so full that has nothing in it to eat.”
Some of the stuff really is worthless: like the bag of doughnut mix that Sharon picked up at some bulk food [...]
Contact us? Yeah, right!
Posted in Life on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One thing that really annoys me are these websites that give you a “contact us” form to fill in instead of their email address. You fill it in and ask whatever question it is you happen to have—and never hear from them. I like to think that I am a valuable customer… and [...]
The Forgotten Coupon
Posted in Life on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I found this coupon online for $5 off of my choice of any number of medications (Tylenol, etc.). And so, last night, I got a big old bottle of Tylenol and proudly tucked it into my cart, knowing that this $7.37 bottle would only cost me approximately $2.37. My mistake was in going to the [...]
A Hard Pill to Swallow
Posted in Life on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have just recently been enlightened about something that I feel inclined to share. And by doing so, it will accomplish one of two things: 1) it will either show how ignorant I really was prior to the enlightened moment, or 2) it will give you an insight to a very Clever Thing.I was mostly [...]
Coins
Posted in Life on June 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So I’m counting down my change jar tonight {things are getting a little dire around here}, and I come across a gold quarter put out in 2000. I hadn’t remembered that they put out a gold quarter, but there it was, sure enough. I’m convinced they do things like that to make a person hoard [...]
Take Heed
Posted in Life, School, Weather on February 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So there we were—a group of about a dozen strangers—weighed down with backpacks, wrapped up in coats and mufflers and mittens, red-cheeked from the cold, and wishing—yay, even praying—that the next bus would quickly COME. As everyone stood silently in his or her own little world of cold misery in the “shelter” that offered very [...]
Trapped!
Posted in Life, School on January 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My three-week winter class started today: International Comparisons of Healthcare Systems. The class meets for 3 hours and fifteen minutes per day, five days a week. The professor is really nice, but his delivery isn’t all that smashing. So when he finally let us have a ten-minute break with an hour and a half left, [...]
