General/Miscellaneous Archive

  • “A Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes”

    “A Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes”

    Ever heard that age old adage, “A cobbler’s children have no shoes”?   I’m here to tell you that it is absolutely the truth.  Okay, not literally the truth as myself and my children do, in fact, own plenty of shoes.  Too many, actually.  Myself, an embarassing amount, if I’m being truthful.  Which is a [...]

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  • **Crickets**

    **Crickets**

    Um, hello?  Hello?  Anyone in this blog?  **Crickets** Whew doggie, has it been quite a long time since I have stepped foot into this beautiful blog o’ mine.  If I didn’t know any better I would swear that I had been transported to some alternate universe where time slowed to a fraction of its original [...]

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  • It’s Been A Week.

    It’s Been A Week.

    Hey folks! It’s your happy housewife checking in here.  Ha. I should probably clarify that to your “harried housewife” but that just leaves me with visions of a frizzy-haired woman with the back of her housecoat stuck up in her pantyhose and a Marlboro hanging haphazardly from her lipstick stained lips.  Which is totally not [...]

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  • Back to “Work”

    Back to “Work”

    So I went on a little vacay, a brief hiatus from my daily obligations, if you will, and within 33 seconds of my arrival home I was thrust back into the trenches as if I had never left.  Ain’t that just a son-of-a-gun? My parents are Snow Bird wannabes and have been in Arizona for the [...]

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  • Justin Beiber…a lesson in love

    Justin Beiber…a lesson in love

    The year was 1987 and the Summer weather was balmy.  The sunny days were bright and my bangs were tall.  ”Tiger Beat” magazine and “Sweet Valley High” books littered my bedside table, adorned with half-used tubes of Bonne Belle lipgloss and Love’s Baby Soft perfume bottles.  I was one Rave hairspray-using, blue eyeshadow-wearing, acid washed [...]

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