Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Guest blogger! Diana Holquist!
I have never had a guest blogger before. I felt like I should clean up the joint a little bit, maybe do some dusting and vacuuming before she arrived, put out the fresh hand towels. At least get the internet connection to behave itself.
But of course everything went wrong–and after fighting with the internet for […]
1 Comment » - Posted in books, fiction writing, humor, virtual blog tour by sandi
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Dinner rolls that make strong men weep
Like most people, I’ve been recovering from Thanksgiving–which was fun and all, and shouldn’t require any recovery. Except that we handed out head colds along with the turkey dinner, and so it’s taken everybody a little bit of extra time to get over the festivities.
Which must mean that it’s time for another recipe!
Whenever I look […]
4 Comments » - Posted in cooking by sandi
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
I may have to contact The Ethicist about this
We have suffered an outrage, my little circle of friends and I. An ethical outrage.
We’ve had our hearts broken by our favorite consignment shop…and while I know lots worse is happening to people every minute and this wouldn’t even make the Top Ten of Bad Things that happened, probably even on my street, still…when your heart […]
9 Comments » - Posted in real life by sandi
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
The raining of frogs is about to begin
It’s fall, and I don’t know anybody who’s feeling really GREAT right now, between the nose-sucking virus that is going around (I still have not recovered sufficiently from that), and the fact that oil prices have skyrocketed to the point where we all are going to have to start burning our junk mail to heat our homes this […]
4 Comments » - Posted in humor, real life by sandi
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
And now, time out for a unicorn moment
If you are a reader of the fabulous blog Boing Boing, you know that every now and then things get so gross that they have to run a unicorn chaser, which means they run pictures of happy unicorns, hearts and flowers just to clear everybody’s mind of the horrifying images they’ve put there.
My friend Nancy […]