Remember how cool being an adult seemed when we were kids? We were idiots. The only part of adulthood that was cool was the part where we became legal adults without acting like legal adults. So that would be college. College was cool.   Adulthood isn’t all bad or anything, but we just have so [...]

Once upon a time, I was an 8 year old girl who was taken to the hospital for a routine tonsillectomy. Or so I thought. My tonsils were removed as planned, and I was sent to a room in the pediatric wing overnight. I was scared to death. I remember crying when my mom and [...]

Oh crap! I ordered a freakin’ Pizza Hut pizza online, and then immediately remembered that I had to come up with some scratch for the driver’s tip. I never have cash. I use my debit card to pay for my whole entire life. So I had to do a mad scramble for coins and hope [...]

My weekend did not include indulging, since all my meals were served in plastic trays. (Like my mice.) Minus the poison. I finally got sick of the crashing apps and wrongdoings of my cell phone, so I went ahead and bought the iPhone 4S. I went to see one of the Oscar nominated films, The [...]

Me: Eeeek! Mouse: Hey lady, don’t act so surprised to see me! It’s fall, and you know that’s when we have our annual convention here. Me: Well, convention time always sneaks up on me and I forget it’s coming. Can’t you just give me a little heads up so I can prepare for you? I [...]

As is often the case on Sunday, I go out to lunch after church, and as is often the case on Sunday, I fall victim to the buffet. Buffet, when translated to its literary origin means “gluttony”, which in turn means the inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires. See? That translates [...]

Last week I spent a delicious couple of days with Krispy Kreme in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for the VIB Blogger Summit. The first day we donned our protective gear and took a tour of the facility. Here’s me and my pal Louise, from MomStart. I was really impressed with how carefully they select and test [...]

I’m a hardcore pessimist, but I stumbled, tripped and fell flat on my face over the propaganda of Y2K. I was fairly well convinced that I’d be living most of the year 2000 in relative darkness and obscurity. So I bought a comically large number of water bottles, and began to collect food and paraphernalia [...]