Monthly Archives: December, 2012
My 2012 Resolution Report Card
You know how they say the first step to achieving your goals is putting them down in writing? On January 1, 2012, I published my 2012 New Year resolutions. So how did I do? I DID GREAT!!!!! Here’s the original post, followed by my Report Card: **** I’M GOING BIG Every year …
I Hope He Kept The Receipt
My husband and I are having the BEST disagreement EVER! My sweet and exasperating husband has a tendency to go a little overboard sometimes. Which drives me crazy when it is dicing vegetables or watering the plants. When it is buying me presents – well - I can tolerate it. This year he outdid himself. …
Merry Christmas
FROM OUR HEARTH TO YOUR HEART… MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Jingle Bell Schlock
When we bought a used (sorry, ‘pre-owned‘ is the word; BMWs are very sensitive little creatures) convertible this year, we inherited Sirius radio. Now my husband and I have lots of stations to argue about. He likes the fifties channel and I naturally like the sixties. I think he ought to like the sixties – he …
Teachers
If you’ve read my blog even once, you probably know that I am never serious. I excel at silly, and so I’ve stuck to it. But I cannot – as much as I’d love to – pretend that what happened here in Connecticut last week did not happen. The whole country is heartbroken, including silly …
Lashing Out
So this week’s beauty obsession is EYELASHES. About ten days ago I was watching some interview with some football player and he had EYELASHES. This ridiculously large brute had the eyelashes I have longed for all my life. They were long, dark, thick, curly – they actually threw shadows on his cheekbones – a la …
I Love Him. I Love Him Not.
Recently on a friend’s blog, I commented about romance. To those people still hoping to find everlasting love I gave this advice: “Don’t expect perfection. After many years of marriage, I still love my husband very much – but NOT EVERY MINUTE.” Friday was our twenty-first wedding anniversary. And even on that special, happy day, …
