The Saga of the Butterfly Bush Continues…

| January 31, 2012

Alternate post title: He Did It To Me Again. The butterfly bush (or as my husband refers to it… “that butterfly monster”) turned out to be the fastest growing, most furiously blooming plant I have ever encountered. It smells wonderful, attracts butterflies by the hundreds through the spring/summer but has to be trimmed back several [...]

A Very Merry Birthday to Me!

| January 30, 2012

I turned 36 last week. Seriously, 36… and I’m just not vain enough to lie about my age. Mostly because I’m not noticing any new wrinkles or crow’s feet and I’m okay that the reason for this is simply because my face is just pudgy enough to fill them out. Gray hairs… nope. None of [...]

Sewing Notions

| January 23, 2012

I used to spend hours happily plopped next to my grandmother while she sewed. She taught me to sew with needle and thread and always gave instructions on how to use the sewing machine. I never really got to use the sewing machine because I was too little, but I did get a decent idea [...]

Grid Thoughts

| January 21, 2012

Are there cheap electricity companies in Texas? Do people in Texas have a choice over their electric companies? Do you have a choice in electric companies where you live? I don’t know why this interests me or piques my curiosity. I can only say that it is a completely new thought for me because here [...]

Celebrating Friday… by unloading a little.

| January 20, 2012

I cannot stand clicking on a video of a PREVIEW of an upcoming episode of a show I watch only to find a commercial before the preview. A PREVIEW is a COMMERCIAL. So now, we have commercials FOR commercials? This sends me into whirlwinds of pissed off that I can’t even begin to describe. For [...]