It’s the middle of my vacation and an urge has come over me. And not the urge to: go to Umi Sushi and eat all the avocado and chicken teriyaki rolls eat an entire pint of Ben & Jerry’s Mint Chocolate Cookie with a soup spoon in one sitting drive down to Imperial Buffet in … Continue reading »
Blacklight Needs A New Thermostat
It’s spring in New England! And Blacklight is trying to roast me alive LIKE A CHICKEN! Okay, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration. But at 4 am, when you wake up drenched in sweat, every single cover flung away from your side of the bed, and your dear darling spouse stumbles into the … Continue reading »
Vacation!
Since Friday at 3:16 pm I have been on vacation. <cue Connie Francis singing “V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N”> But what to do with the glorious nine days before I stumble out of bed, into the shower, fling on white tshirt, black yoga pants and ruffled cardigan and blink blankly at Mr Desktop? Part of me (the slug/sloth) says … Continue reading »
How to Torture Your Neighbors (and Blacklight!): The Duran Duran Edition
Take a day of from work due to a snow/ice storm and person of the female persuasion born circa 1972. Add YouTube. Add iTunes. Add New Wave. Shake up and put on Mr Couch with Mr Blankie for several hours. Sounds fun right? That scream? Oh, that’s Blacklight slamming the bedroom door and muttering some … Continue reading »
Snow Day!
Did you survive Snowpocalypse 2011? Did you make snowmen? Or spend the day digging out your driveway and sidewalks? Or did you do what I did and curl up on Mr Couch with Mr Laptop and take full advantage of your Netflix account? 7:00 am Eddie Izzard: Glorious. Eddie at his peak. Man the snow … Continue reading »
Give Until It Hurts!
Right now I’m on Mr Couch watching it snow so hard that I can barely see the basketball court at the park or the parked cars. It’s Snowpocalypse 2011, y’all! Some lucky gal (me) gets to (me) dig out (me) TWO cars once this heavy snow (me) lets up. Blacklight is all set for being … Continue reading »
Maybe They Should Call it Junkie Cup!
For the second time in the last three days I’ve done the nice wifey thing and stopped at the local Dunkee Cup to get Blacklight his breakfast (extra large coffee with 1 skim milk, one sugar) and veggie flatbread sandwich. And I’ve also had the Dunkee Cup staff exclaim “Wait, I know who this order … Continue reading »
Watch Instantly, Waste the Weekend!
Right now I’m on Mr Couch stuffed to the gills with peanut butter toast and Hershey’s Kisses. I should be Doing Stuff like cleaning snow of f the cars, returning library books, going to Aldi’s for groceries and running to Target for the light bulbs I forgot to get last night. Or even finally ironing … Continue reading »
SNAP! Give Me Sessy Tiger! GROWWLLL!
I learned something new at Target this morning. Besides the fact there are THREE kinds of some awesome wasn’t available in America for the longest time hairspray. I might have to break down and spend $5 on the mini can to see if it really is the sex. See I was running errands today and … Continue reading »
The Boyfriend List
Robert Downey Jr, Dr Orpheus, Ming the Merciless, Ioan Gruffudd, General Melchett, Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart woof woof, Samuel Vimes, Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh MC, Edd Ricketts, Richard Blumenthal, John Singer Sargent, Patrick Warburton, Phil Hartman, Viggo Mortensen, Brendan Fraser, Crispin Glover, Mike Rowe, Hans Gruber, H.P. Lovecraft, Jasper Fforde, The Monarch, … Continue reading »