If there’s one thing Southern gals know how to do, it’s gab. Silly or serious, all it takes is a glass of iced tea and time. Pull up a chair, kick off your shoes, and make yourself comfy…get ready to dish!
That Last Post? Forget I Said Anything.
So last night we’re at church for the kids’ program. Fine. DS (also known as Frick, as opposed to his sister, Frack) brings a friend. Also fine. I’m cleaning up after dinner when Friend comes in the dining room. “Um…mimi? Frick bit through his lip? And we need some ice?”Not so fine. The words “bit through his lip” don’t sound promising. I get upstairs with paper towels and ice. My son is standing over a sink, bleeding profusely from his cut lip. More fun in store: one of his front teeth is...
read moreIn Springtime, the Only Pretty Ring Time…
Birds sing…hey ding a ding a ding…sweet lovers love the spring!(If you recognize these lyrics, you were either paying really really close attention in your Shakespeare class, or you’ve watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory a gazillion times. In either case, the weather here has been worth singing about. We’ve had a couple of nights and early mornings in the 50s, warming to mid-70s in the afternoon. This almost never happens in April in Central Florida, so we are counting our blessings.Florida still rocks!
read moreThe Truth, or Something Like It
Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur is one of my favorite comics, probably because it skates just this side of completely oddball, and also because it’s so sharp. Today’s strip is a zinger aimed right at the heart of publishing.Danae, the strip’s erstwhile heroine, is young and way too smart for her own good. Today, she’s gathering material for a science fiction story, traveling to prehistoric times, then meeting up with aliens. Once she starts writing, though, she says she’s changing her story to a memoir, since,...
read moreCool Chick: P!nk
You can tell that P!nk will develop into a gutsy broad one day (she’s already stomping all over the chick/broad line), but for now, she’s a very, very cool chick. Outspoken and honest, she’s the kind of gal who probably got sent to the principal’s office a lot while the quieter and tamer girls in the room looked on with a mix of envy and horror. Her music’s a great mix–fun, danceable, and surprisingly smart. Check out “Stupid Girls” for a scathing commentary about our embarrassing fixation on...
read moreTagged! On Your Mind
Happened by Diana’s Diversions and read this, so I consider myself tagged. Consider yourself tagged if you’re reading!You’re feeling: A little tired. It’s the end of a long day–they’re all long when they start at 5 am!–and I still have cleaning and such to do before I can curl up and sleep.To your left: a notebook, a pile of paper (so what else is new?), the love seat, DD drinking ice water, and the Brittanys.On your mind: grading papers and my messy house.Last meal included: salad, teriyaki chicken...
read moreTen Favorite Actors and Actresses
Ooo, a toughie! DH and I love movies. We don’t always agree on what we like, but we love movies. Here are ten faves (not all of the faves, of course, but the ten floating in the front of the cortex at the mo).Ving Rhames – Love his voice, love his attitude. Delivers some of the best one-liners in the business.Edward Norton – I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bad performance by him. He absolutely disappears into a character and makes you believe him, whether he’s playing sadistic (American History X), psycho...
read moreFlorida Rules!
Gotta love living in Florida. Today after lunch, we all look at each other and decide, “Beach!” We throw some towels and sunscreen in the trunk, put on suits, and head over to New Smyrna Beach. It’s gorgeous–not too hot, nice breeze. After a couple of hours on the beach, we drive down past Bethune Beach and have some seafood at JB’s Fish Camp. Having to eat fresh seafood by the river on a gorgeous night. Yep, sucks to live in Florida.
read moreIt Waz the Bst of Tmz–
Gotta love today’s Zits cartoon, drawn by the fabulous Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman:I cannot text to save my life. My friends Barb and Ans can send the US Constitution back and forth without even looking at their thumbs, but I plod away, letter by letter, two clicks for “b” and three clicks for “l” and so on (predictive text gets me no end of weirdness). Writing a novel like this would be torture. Of course, writing a novel the regular way gets dodgy at times. Still, the idea’s hilarious to think about! What...
read moreSpring Cleaning
Remember reading about spring cleaning in all the Little House books? You know, drag everything out of the house, scrub the floors, black the stove, wash everything, wash and starch and iron the curtains, unpack the strawticks and wash them, restuff the straw ticks, tighten the bed ropes, etc., etc., etc.?? Seemed like backbreaking work (and probably was), but I’m not sure that those Ingalls girls had it any worse off than we do.For one thing, they traveled a lot lighter and had way fewer possessions than we did. No computers. No stacks...
read moreThat Figures.
Spring Break’s starting.It’s gorgeous outside.I have a temperature of 102 and have to go to the doctor.Is it just me, or do the karma gods save up this stuff and laugh their metaphysical asses off at us?
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