From the category archives:
AAAAAAAUUUUGH I don’t like NJ. I’ve never been a fan of NJ, even when I lived there. Or maybe ESPECIALLY when I lived there. By far, the WORST things about New Jersey are all related to driving – the DMV, the interstates, the traffic, the auto insurance rates, etc. But OH MY GOD, this has [click to continue reading...]
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11:24 PM July 28, 2008 Destination TinyLittleTown achieved at approx 630pm. Talking w/my sis ever since. Sorry I stopped twittering in Ohio… my bb battery died! @zbarahona same time zone. possibly a different planet though. @primitivedog didn’t hit any traffic on the whole trip, thankfully! @mollydigger I hope you gave him some modern money. Not [click to continue reading...]
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12:04 AM July 28, 2008 aahhhhh… checked into the hotel, fed and walked Snickers, ordered breakfast, snacking and then I’ll be sinking into the king size bed. @zbarahona STILL???? UGH @mollydigger it waited to start raining today until I was getting in the U-Haul to drive away. What does that mean? NYC likes me, I [click to continue reading...]
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7:30 AM Hour late waking up. Head is throbbing. Walking Snick. No time to enjoy it tho. Snickers FREAKED OUT when I left for u-haul… screaming and howling at the door. He knows it is Sunday. I am not supposed to leave. In the cab to u-haul and hoping that (1) the scheduling works out [click to continue reading...]
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@tollers 17 boxes so far. I keep thinking I’m making progress and then turn around and realize I’ve only done 1/3 of the apartment. I seem to have hit an “I don’t know what to do now” place in my packing. Urgh. @tollers I can’t get random yet. I haven’t done my fragile stuff. overwhelmed [click to continue reading...]
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Two of my very good friends took me out for farewell drinks a few nights ago. The spot we went to used to be one of our favorites. The outdoor bar on Pier 84 only opened last year and it used to be a GREAT spot to hang out, drink, and relax with the dogs [click to continue reading...]
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I’m definitely thinking of resdesigning in the near’ish future, but what about renaming? I’ve been nycgadgetgirl for such a long time, but these days I mostly post about dogs. “Gadget Girl” doesn’t necessarily suit me any more, although the history of how I got the name is still meaningful to me. The fact that I’m [click to continue reading...]
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I love NYC because there is so much to do, so many interesting people, and everything is open 24 hours. I hate NYC because the only time it isn’t too crowded to enjoy is super late at night. I skip things I would like, because of the crowds. I love the lack of scary things [click to continue reading...]
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@Nikkoth awww… Did she move to her second foster today? @zbarahona @jmauro don’t you guys have AC? Sitting in the shade at the dog run, drinking coffee and loving the inus. Headed to the flea market soon, then home to the cool apartment. @zbarahona @jmauro ah. I see. We were outside too, but sitting under [click to continue reading...]
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Note to self: STOP FORGETTING to buy toner for the printer. And thanks for finally buying new socks. I normally stay away from talking politics, but I’m SO HAPPY that Obama won the nomination! This kid from NC moved into my building recently. Either he’s high ALLLL the time, has an IQ of 12, or [click to continue reading...]
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11:00 AM: This day is off to a slow start, but there is so much to do! 3:00 PM: Woof Patrol posted a great interview with my friend Cathy Schine and a review of her book The New Yorkers: http://tinyurl.com/4jhrdk Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Why does everyone assume I will be their personal tech support service? If you pay someone to fix the brakes on your car, would you ask them a month later to teach you how to use your car radio? NO! I mean, you could ask… but to assume they will do it is ridiculous and [click to continue reading...]
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Coffee at the dog run on the weekends… the one leisurely activity I REFUSE to give up for the rescue. I have a tiny Inu in my lap and another next to me. This is the life. Too bad I have to go to the office today. Just solved a work email crisis brilliantly! Walking [click to continue reading...]
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Just slept from 2 to 11!!! Ahhh… Kept the poor dogs waiting all morning, finally headed outside and it started raining before we got downstairs!!! Hoping it will stop. Rain is getting worse instead of better. May have to go up and get a jacket and hat and walk anyway, before Snick pees on the [click to continue reading...]
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just walked by what looks like a BAD thing. Someone said a crane fell? 911 folks from 90th to 92nd on 1st Ave. I haven’t seen this many cops in one place since New Years!! working, battling a headache, wishing I wasn’t going to end up coming to the office this weekend… <sigh> wonders how [click to continue reading...]
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I don’t normally blog about my job – unless it’s also related to Snickers – but my boss, the CEO of Bryant Park Capital, is mentioned in such a flattering light in this article, that I had to share… Interview with I-Trax Chair Frank Martin on Walgreens Acquisition.
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Soooo busy at work these days. As seen on Tech Republic: “10 most annoying programs…” So true, so true! http://tinyurl.com/6lc5tf @mollydigger That was the problem… I was at home working via VPN and the disappeared ‘puter was at the office, so I COULDN’T smack it. @jmauro LOL! Which BB did you get? And which carrier? [click to continue reading...]
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I had a very busy weekend and spent part of yesterday afternoon with a friend whose dog is in the hospital. She may not make it. installing service packs and checking user configurations today. Joy joy. Is anyone else using the Fotobook plugin for WordPress having issues with wp_list_pages? Excluded pages appear when Fotobook is [click to continue reading...]
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1. I love springtime in New York… NOT! 2. Chocolate chip cookies w/coffee, lox & onion omelette with cream cheese, or Challah bread French toast are foods I love to eat for breakfast. 3. It seems I’m always searching for more time in the day. 4. SLEEPING is a great way to end the day. [click to continue reading...]
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Hello everyone… I’ve recently transferred my site to a different server and made huge version jump in WordPress, so I’m pretty sure my feeds have changed. If you read me through a feed reader and you receive this, please let me know. Thanks!
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Snick and I Got to Meet Janet Yesterday Janet is in NYC for the weekend and stopped by our Shiba Meetup yesterday for her Shiba fix. I didn’t know she was coming, so when she introduced herself I was like "oh, hi" and then "wait! oh, hi!" I’ve known Janet online for a few years [click to continue reading...]
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Therefore, I must promote her newest online presence. She’s moving beyond MySpace and Facebook and she’s BLOGGING. Of course, if you’re over, oh, I dunno, 16, you may not find it very interesting, but I’m promoting it anyway! For those of you who don’t know, She’s actually a pro at this online stuff already. When [click to continue reading...]
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Why did I not choose an easier breed to fall in love with and start a rescue for?? It’s bad enough that a majority of dogs (mixed and purebreds) that come into shelters and rescue are under-socialized and under-trained, but combine that with the Shiba Inu tendency to be dog aggressive (a lot) if they [click to continue reading...]
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1. Snowdrops are annoying. 2. I’m going to build a new kind of canine rescue organization. 3. __(ummm…. I just don’t have an answer for this one)__ is a song whose lyrics have meaning to me. 4. Just one sip and I can’t stop until my McDonald’s chocolate shake is all gone. 5. In the [click to continue reading...]
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1. My favorite unexpected event of 2007 was the creation of NYC Shiba Rescue, Inc. 2. I’m most tempted by freshly baked chocolate brownies! 3. Today I want the rain to stop. 4. The last thing I took a picture of was Snickers and Shayna. 5. You and I have memories only of blogging. 6. [click to continue reading...]
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1. This year, I’d like to spend more time reading the books piling up in my apartment, figure out a budget I can both afford and live within, and take an actual vacation. 2. Having time to daydream is what I daydream about most. 3. My daughter is a wonderful person. 4. I would like [click to continue reading...]
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Miss ~T~ just IM’d me with lyrics from a funny song that we both like. I looked on outa the window An’ I started in a countin’ phone poles Goin’ by at the rate of four to the seventh power I put two an’ two together Added twelve, an’ carried five Come up with twenty [click to continue reading...]
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He sent me Alpaca socks! I checked my mail today and I had Alpaca socks (and they are the softest damn socks you ever touched!), the July/August copy of Hobby Farms with a bunch of Alpaca info in it, including an article by Adrian, a brochure with a lot of Alpaca history, which I haven’t [click to continue reading...]
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It has been quite awhile since I’ve posted about Alpacas. (If you missed the original conversation, you have to read about my plan to live in a yurt and own some Alpacas. Well, tonight, I got an email from someone that owns an Alpaca farm in Oregon. He was fascinated by the fact that the [click to continue reading...]
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Read this on CNN this morning and had to share… FREEPORT, Texas (AP) — When the cook on his shrimp boat went into labor 30 miles offshore, captain Ed Keisel grabbed a new roll of paper towels and a first aid handbook and did the best he could. He successfully delivered Cindy Preisel’s baby boy, [click to continue reading...]
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Follow the link for The Misanthropic Shiba, back when it was still funny as hell.
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Fat people meandering along on the sidewalk bother me. Umbrellas in my face really bother me. But, FAT PEOPLE WITH UMBRELLAS??? AUGH! Edit after the fact: I’m not talking about any and every overweight person and I shouldn’t have written the post the way I did, but since I don’t normally believe in editing or [click to continue reading...]
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Saw this over at Janet’s while I was catching up on some blog reading today and decided to take it myself, just for giggles. You are Strength Courage, strength, fortitude. Power not arrested in the act of judgement, but passing on to further action, sometimes obstinacy. This is a card of courage and energy. It [click to continue reading...]
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No time to blog, but I got a kick out of this and had to pass it on. Lamest ‘Value-Added’ Products05.09.07 | 2:00 AMBy Paul Adams As every trillionaire knows, the easiest way to turn a quick profit is to take something that’s just lying around, put your name on it and sell it in [click to continue reading...]
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So, Miss ~T~ and I went to see this with a friend tonight. All I can say is DON’T BOTHER. This could have been a really good movie, but they missed every opportunity for the main character to learn anything about herself. The writer apparently thinks people who are crazy in love with animals are [click to continue reading...]
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…are A Good Thing Today I slept late. Again. Had coffee at the dog run. Came home and did a TINY bit of apartment cleaning (never did it the other night when I said I would). Had more coffee with an old friend. Went to the pet store. Ate a yummy late lunch from new [click to continue reading...]
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I’ve been busy. OK? Just busy, that’s all. Here’s a quick recap of what I’ve been up to since my pre-cocktail pawty post. March 18, 19, 20: Scrambled furiously to complete preparations for the pawty. Tues, March 20: Made contact with a blogger in Georgia that posted about dumping her 4 year old Shiba at [click to continue reading...]
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A few days ago, I logged into Meebo and found this message waiting for me: [12:45] Bibby: Hi, I have been enjoying Snickers Blog for a while. I have a Black and Tan Shiba called Lily, she is 5 months old and we just started puppy classes. Shibas are a new breed to me, I [click to continue reading...]
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Yes, I am certifiably insane. People ask me sometimes how I deal with the whole single mom with two dogs and two jobs thing all whilst living in midtown Manhattan. I usually shrug and go “eh, it’s not so bad,” meanwhile knowing it probably isn’t normal that I (1) almost never sleep more than 6 [click to continue reading...]
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If you live in the city and you don’t go to the flea market, you don’t know what you are missing. You really should check it out. First, there is Chuck. He makes benches, stools, and desks from reclaimed wood and they are incredible. I bought one – custom made to the size I needed [click to continue reading...]
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Periodically, on my way to work, I see a woman walking two older dogs, I think one is a Yorkie and the other, a Maltese. I don’t know how often I pass her – maybe not so often – but periodically for over 3 1/2 years is enough to have a sense of recognition. I [click to continue reading...]
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Check out the box in the sidebar… to the right and down a bit. The gray box that says “chat with me.” YES, that one! Well, what are you waiting for? If it says I’m online, then SAY HELLO!!!
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When your girlfriend gives you a compliment… she’s possibly biased (and may have ulterior motives). When your straight male friend gives you a compliment… he almost certainly has an ulterior motive. But… when your GAY MALE FRIEND gives you a compliment, you can bank on it. Actual conversation, earlier today: him: What wonderfully kinky outfit! [click to continue reading...]
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I’m writing a silly post because I’ve been very emotional about Snickers the last few days. I’ve realized he’s really my “heart dog” (a phrase I found ridiculous until recently, btw) and I can’t bear the thought of what I’ll do without him when eventually leaves me. Tonight, a friend sent an email to Shiba-L [click to continue reading...]
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Well, I was planning on coming up with a whole new template, but it just seemed easier to sort of graft the old stylesheet onto WordPress and be done with it. I’m about half done. Give me another day or so and things might be looking good.
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Well, as you can see, my blog LOOKS horrible. <sigh> However, looks can be deceiving. I actually was able to get into the old Movable Type installation on the server that blew up and export the old blog. I spent the better part of today configuring a new installation of WordPress (over and over and [click to continue reading...]
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I’m porting the blog to WordPress and redesigning the templates sometime in the next couple months. Fun fun. I received some photos last week from a high school reunion that was held this summer. (I’ve never made it home for one.) I’m sad to say I only managed to recognize 4 people out of about [click to continue reading...]
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This is ridiculous. Black Jack, Missouri has a city ordinance that prohibits more than three people from living together in the same house if they are unrelated by blood, marriage or adoption. Wait… did I read that right? I did. WTF??? From Reuters: Olivia Shelltrack and Fondray Loving and their children moved from Minnesota to [click to continue reading...]
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This blog is two years old today. I posted two entries on August 11, 2004. One was a picture of Snickers (of course). It was titled What A Handsome Puppy and I was so happy to get a comment on my first post! The second was A Few Other Photos From Saturday and two people [click to continue reading...]
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This is very cool. Scientists are using x-rays of fossils to piece together full images of what prehistoric organisms looked like and how they developed! Paleontologists have been using acid to dissolve the embryo fossils out of rocks for about a decade, focusing on specimens from the time about 500 million years ago when multicellular [click to continue reading...]
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Seriously… I don’t know what’s happening with me, but I’m apparently getting stoopider as time goes by. Examples: I lose words with alarming regularity these days. I’ll be in mid-conversation with someone and just LOSE the word I need to finish my thought. Sometimes I have to resort to a thesaurus to get my thoughts [click to continue reading...]
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The last thing I EVER thought I would do is put a YouTube video on my blog, but you must see this.
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It seems that I’m always tagging something… tagging my blog posts, tagging my gmail, tagging, tagging, tagging. So, I decided to tag myself – not in the descriptive adjective sense, more in the "roles I play in life" sense. So, imagine if you will, that there is a virtual tag cloud above my head wherever [click to continue reading...]
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No no, not a yurt shaped like a pentagon! This morning I was thinking about yurts again. (For those of you that are relatively new to my blog, I do that occasionally.) The new train of thought started at the dog run a few evenings ago. An acquaintance was talking about buying land upstate and [click to continue reading...]
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IsraelWithout a television, I’m free to form my own opinions about world affairs and seek out news without having the networks feed me whatever their particular slant on current affairs and world politics may be. Over the past year or so, reading personal blogs such as Treppenwitz has helped me finally begin to grasp the [click to continue reading...]
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Walking to work this morning, people everywhere moving to and fro, heat coming from every direction. Like walking through a wok. We’re all just stir fry.
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Posts are blooming in my head again. I like that. Here’s a bit of what I’ve been up to since my last post: enjoying having my apartment (and life) to myself all summer missing my daughter (which goes hand in hand with #1, unfortunately) sleeping late with my snuggly doggie every morning (cz I don’t [click to continue reading...]
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I want to be able to write while I walk. Seriously. Almost every morning on the walk to work, I think of something I want to write about. It’s a 10 to 15 minute walk. I could get a lot of writing done if I could actually walk and write. I’ve joked for years about [click to continue reading...]
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After commenting over at Janet’s a few days ago that I’d fallen way behind on my blog reading lately, she wrote me back and just said “it’s called life ” Well, she’s right. Perusing my own blog tonight, I realized that I haven’t had much to say lately and when I have, it hasn’t been [click to continue reading...]
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Well… I am pretty sure I have the dubious honor of being the first attendee to get HOME from TequilaCon. I called my friend lulu at about 7:00 tonight and told her I didn’t want to go because I would end up staying out too late and drinking too much and then I would sleep [click to continue reading...]
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I recently received an email from Jen over at Run Jen Run, inviting me to join the fun at TequilaCon 2006. Those of you who know me in real life will be amazed to know that I said…. *drum roll*… YES. Group social things are just not, well, my THING. Something about being alone in [click to continue reading...]
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If my blog had background sounds, that’s what you would hear every time you’ve checked here for the past week… busy signals. I had a very emotional Saturday/Sunday/Monday last weekend and a few days of introspection after that. Yesterday and today? TOTALLY BUSY. Tomorrow I have a little down time though. I wrote a LOT [click to continue reading...]
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I’ve been afraid to post anything new today because I don’t want to take away from the fabulous discussion that’s been going on in my last post. Therefore, here’s a quickie… 1) Gravatars are cool. Everyone should go get one. 2) Now go read my last post and add your two cents if you haven’t [click to continue reading...]
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I spent a few hours at a client’s office today, updating computers and fixing minor problems. He told me to go back to college. He’s an executive coach and a pretty smart guy, so I said “OK,” and filled out a readmission application for CUNY tonight. How am I going to find time for THAT???? [click to continue reading...]
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some of my favorite bloggers write so much that I can’t keep up in the little bit of time I have to read. I end up staying up-to-date on the short blogs and never having time for the meaty ones! I have a BAJILLION drafts where I thought of a great post while I was [click to continue reading...]
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I’m just busy, busy, busy these days! I hope I’ll still have some readers when I get back to blogging more than random comments and links. Speaking of links, wanna see a CUTE Shiba Inu? Check out Kishi’s Run for the Money, his siblings and his other pack members.
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Six posts that have made me laugh, cry, and/or think over the past months: pretending not to notice: csi: dan’s room Treppenwitz: Daddy Syndrome Because I Say So!: Cornered (notice: sadness warning) Words For My Enjoyment: The WFME Holiday Party SpriteBoy: Social Crucifixion on the Subway (an old post, but I only just read it) [click to continue reading...]
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Coincidentally, when I went out to walk Snickers last night, the RealFeel temp was EIGHT BELOW! Seriously. Anyhoo… My mom emailed me last night and said I have to see this movie, Eight Below. At first I couldn’t place it, so I looked it up on imdb. That jogged my memory. I saw a trailer [click to continue reading...]
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Oh my word. Who SAYS Valentines Day was created by Hallmark and FTD? If only I had known the truth all these years, I might have been celebrating Valentines Day after all! Someone just sent me a link to the real history of VDay. Here are some excerpts: The original, that is. Before it was [click to continue reading...]
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I think I’m about to take another self-imposed hiatus from the blogworld… at least for a few days. I haven’t been able to keep up with reading my favorite blogs, which drives me crazy. So… I’m going to spend the next few days trying to catch up on my client work (again) and my apartment [click to continue reading...]
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OK, so my sister thinks we should buy Alpacas to roam around on the land she is buying (where I am fantasizing about building a yurt). How cute are these things??? The other night she pasted the following into IM from the site she was reading: Alpacas are never bathed, and they still have no [click to continue reading...]
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… but I couldn’t help myself. I saw this blogthing on Janet’s site and had to try it. For something so simple, the results came out pretty darn accurate. The Five Factor Personality Test Extroversion: You have low extroversion. You are quiet and reserved in most social situations. A low key, laid back lifestyle is [click to continue reading...]
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Back in September, I stumbled across a nifty way of tracking what you eat no matter what type of diet you follow – The LifeStyle Scanner. At the time, the service was “coming soon.” I checked again today and I see that it is up and running. I was thinking of trying it both for [click to continue reading...]
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The firm I work for recently got engaged on a big deal. The CEO called an all hands meeting in the conference room to give us a pep talk about all the long hours we’re about to be working. He drew a great analogy. Forgive me if you’ve heard this; I think he made it [click to continue reading...]
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You know how events can pile on top of one another and you just get so fed up with everything? Losing your cool – ranting, screaming, and hitting things – can sometimes make you feel so much better. I’ve had moments like that building lately, but haven’t quite lost it. Yet. Well, Jack lost it [click to continue reading...]
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IM conversation with a coworker this afternoon. [17:05] me: ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. she’s from So Cal. That explains the extreme (fake) blondness [17:06] he: she was missing something [17:06] he: two things [17:06] he: actually [17:06] me: LOL [17:06] me: maybe she hasn’t lived there very long. she’ll get them eventually. [17:06] he: thats what i’m think’n [click to continue reading...]
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I know, I know. You don’t have to tell me. OK, no, I really don’t know. But I’m guessing. Some of you that have been reading me for awhile probably think I jumped the shark sometime in the past couple months. I hope you’re wrong. (Or I hope I’m wrong that you’re thinking that and [click to continue reading...]
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The Conversation Her (w/Jamaican accent): You whistle like a man. Me: … oh, ok …(sudden extended silence) … … wait. HUH? Her: I’ve never heard a woman whistle like that. I can hear you whistlin’ all over. What the heck does that mean? Whistling ability is gender specific and mine is wrong? I’m really a guy in a girl’s body? Was there [click to continue reading...]
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I’m slipping down the slope into another bout of insomnia. This only happens to me every couple years or so, but when it does it is so miserable. I finally get wound up around 1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon. Then bedtime comes and I can’t sleep. I stay up late. I get in bed [click to continue reading...]
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I wasn’t serious when I said Maybe I Will Live in a Yurt, but believe it or not I’m actually considering it now. T & I have been thinking of leaving the city for a little while. (And, NO, I haven’t heard anything regarding the contract in Virginia.) One of the places we consider when [click to continue reading...]
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I should not be awake at this hour. That is all.
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Emailed in to work this morning and took a sick day. Decided to take Snick to the dog run before going back to bed though. The weather was gorgeous and there was a PACK of dogs there. Ex-boyfriend wandered by the run and hung out with us for awhile. That was nice. Till it wasn’t. [click to continue reading...]
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As you know, T and I have been talking about moving out of the city for a bit. Yesterday I got an email – totally out of the blue – from a recruiter at an IT consulting firm (specializing in the financial services sector of all things) who is extremely interested in my resume in [click to continue reading...]
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While researching dog food for Snickers a few months ago, I ran across Flying Dog Press. The site belongs to a dog trainer (who, according to my sister, is quite well known, but I didn’t know that at the time). The trainer, Suzanne Clothier, wrote a book which was featured on the website. It sounded [click to continue reading...]
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I didn’t even realize it had been a week since I’d posted. I’ve been crazy busy the last couple weeks. I’ve been so tired at night that I went THREE NIGHTS without even bringing my laptop home from the office! A few random thoughts that might have turned into posts had I been online: A [click to continue reading...]
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I created a Gravatar for myself TEN DAYS ago and added the code to my site to show gravatars for commenters, but I am STILL waiting for my image to be rated/approved. I am annoyed, annoyed, and more annoyed. Edited 12/31/2005: My gravatar was finally approved today, so I’m not AS annoyed as I was [click to continue reading...]
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So, T and I are home from Indy. Until this week, it had been a LONG time since I’ve spent time away from the city, so I took a few notes: Left hand turns are inefficient, annoying, and dangerous. Women and girls outside NYC wear WAY too much makeup. Cab drivers are really excellent drivers [click to continue reading...]
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According to this article that I stumbled across after following a link from Jeru Guru’s blog, it is a “blog mistake” to “not stick to your theme for the majority of the entries in your blog.” I’d guess that, other than that, I pretty much “follow the rules,” but do there really need to be [click to continue reading...]
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I got my work done. I got my work done! YAY! (And I bought T’s Christmas gift today too. Sshhhh….)
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I have to take a couple days off from blogging (both reading and writing). I have managed to fall behind on two of my freelance projects over the past week. I’ve barely slept the last two days. I’m about to get a solid 6 hours though. I’ll catch up on my work – and my [click to continue reading...]
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To the 400+ pound guy that was waddling down the sidewalk this morning stuffing your face and dropping crumbs and other food bits all over yourself: Can I just say…. EEWWWWW! And thanks for temporarily ruining my appetite for my second breakfast. (Luckily by the time breakfast was delivered, I was over it.) [Edit: Oops. [click to continue reading...]
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My first driving lessons were in an empty parking lot in a ’56 T-Bird. I’ve been proposed to by five men in my life. I gave two of them a wrong answer. My favorite movie of all time is The King and I with Yul Brynner. I saw him in the stage version in Memphis [click to continue reading...]
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Playing with Google Earth today – “flying” from place to place that I’ve placemarked (home, dog run, where T is right now, work, my folks house, my sis, etc.) – reminded me of A Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. Rereading it just now, it seemed so on point regarding so many discussions going on [click to continue reading...]
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Wow. That was wonderful. My mini me and I just got home from seeing A Soldier’s Play at Second Stage. All I can say is that it was just wonderful. Everyone in it was fabulous. The audience was so caught up in it that you could hear collective sighs, gasps, and clucks at all the [click to continue reading...]
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I have some things to write about that I have nowhere to put, so… I’m building some subcategories into my blog this weekend and the navigation across the top may change a little bit. Each category will have subcats that you can get to from the category page or from the tags at the bottom [click to continue reading...]
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…99% of the time you call for takeout in the city, whoever answers the phone has to run get the only person (or one of very few people anyway) who actually speaks English to take your order. Why did they answer the phone? Did they think it might be someone who (1) called the takeout [click to continue reading...]
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I hovered on the edge of an epiphany today. I must be difficult to be in a relationship with. I feel like I’m never perfect enough to let myself relax and have fun. I always need to get certain things in order so I’m not self-conscious. They aren’t even the smartest things to be so [click to continue reading...]
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Mad props to my friend Beth Benzaquin who created two nifty neato new logos for me… the one you see above this post and also the new one on my business site. Beth and I have worked – and are currently working – on several web development projects together. She also happens to be the [click to continue reading...]
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This whole fake firefighter halloween rape thing has me going crazy. I usually tell my mini me about these sort of things, because I want her to be aware and be careful. With this one, I’m not sure how to approach it. I want her to be careful, but I’ve always told her she can [click to continue reading...]
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A friend just called me and told me about this story. Sometimes, I want to lock my daughter in her room and never let her out. There seems to be more evil in the world than I can ever warn her about. Hoax Caller Fools Fast Food Asst. Managers into Strip Searching Employees
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Andrea Harner has a couple of great posts this week related to feminism and equality. The first one references a Maureen Dowd article in the NYT and the second post references a NYMag article about author Mary Gaitskill. Both articles are about modern women conforming to 1950s-type norms of feminine behavior. I think a lot [click to continue reading...]
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http://www.planarity.net/
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A couple of my friends at the dog run told me about a game they made up a few years back… Name Your Autobiography. A group of them came up with cute names for their own and/or each other’s autobiographies. When they told me about it, my friend lulu decided my autobiography should be named [click to continue reading...]
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I need to write an "about me" page. I put up the page, but I don’t have anything on it yet! Any questions? Suggestions? Help! PS Any comments about the shifting format and navigation would be welcome also.
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And we (the jury) had an interesting incident with the defendant’s lawyer after the case concluded. I’ll definitely write about that soon.
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AUGH!!!! The phrase is "I couldn’t care less," not, as SO MANY people say "I could care less." Do people not think about what things they say mean? (Sorry. Pet peeve just aggravated. Needed to vent.)
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I’m writing this on my lunch break from court. Can’t get online though (that’s a whole other story), so I’ll have to upload later. Jury duty started yesterday. I was sort of looking forward to spending 3 days in the jury assembly room with nothing to do but catch up on my reading and writing. [click to continue reading...]
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I have jury duty later this week, which most likely means three days of sitting around waiting. and waiting. and. waiting. I just called the jury assembly room though and thankfully laptops are allowed. I doubt I’ll have Internet access, but I can catch up on all my writing. And MAYBE I’ll find a cafe [click to continue reading...]
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OK, I’m on a quest. T and I went to get haircuts yesterday and I got highlights for the first time in my life. Wow. Cool. Neato. I had no idea! (I love and trust my stylist. I’ve been going to him for 4 or 5 years now, so I finally learned to walk in [click to continue reading...]
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I’m working on a website for an off-broadway theater in my neighborhood. I was supposed to be finished yesterday, so, of course, I should be rushing, but as I was flipping through CDs full of photos to pick photos for the site, I found a series of the client and her dog goofing off during [click to continue reading...]
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To be filed under: “WHEW! That Could Have Been Embarrassing!” I have a favorite pair of sandals, that, for some reason, make me shuffle my feet like so many of the women I see walking to work in the garment district. Add to that the fact that the ladies room where I work isn’t in [click to continue reading...]
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I’m sorry, but I just can’t get enough of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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I have to upgrade MT this weekend. There’s a plug-in for the new version that helps combat spam. In the meantime, if you see any unsavory trackbacks on my blog, I am so sorry.
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Back in July I read an AP article about teachers being forced to teach creationism in the public schools as an alternative to evolution and I sent my sister an email that said: I’ve decided to start a movement to make public schools teach that the earth is carried through the sky on the back [click to continue reading...]
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What? It could happen! http://yurts.com/
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Technology For All is working to provide computers to Katrina evacuees in the Astrodome. They need volunteers and equipment. Come to think of it, if there is an organization in your town sheltering evacuees, they may need computers too! Ask around! [via Techie Diva]
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If I ever leave the city, I may have this guy build me a house. http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ (not that I’m ever leaving…) [via MetaEfficient]
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Just happened to notice that my blog is one year old today.
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Who goes to someone else’s city and kicks their dog??? Apparently, American tourists do.
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I saw a Lightening Bug at the dog run last night. I have never seen a lightening bug in the city. I felt like I was 5 or 6. I wanted to run get a jar and catch it.
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This is what I say to myself sometimes. GET A F’KNG GRIP! Today was definitely one of those days.
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Really, it hasn’t. More to come.
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