Testing, 1 2 3 …

Ok… This is just a test to see if posting from my blackberry works. I know there are thousands of people who blog from handhelds, but I thought I ought to do a test run before I write a post that I will be sad if I lose.
Hooray for snow. It is so pretty outside [...]

The phone quandary, solved at last

After months of going back and forth over it, I’ve finally made (and acted on) a decision about what to do about my phone situation. Sure it was a lot more fun last time I got a new phone — after my cute little purse took an unfortunate swim in a fountain at RumJungle in [...]

Someone please take these girls out for a drink and listen to them vent.

Over the past week or so, I have gotten hooked on CraigsList as a source of entertainment. I have used it before for practical things like apartment searching and seeing if a lost cat I found had been reported missing, but now my curiosity (and admitted schadenfreude) have led me to click on random categories [...]

Chris quote of the day, prompted by my playing around on WebMD

Apologies to his little sister, but this one might take the cake:
Him: “Maybe you’re dying. I’ll have to go to the pound to get a new girlfriend.”
Me: “Oh wait, no, I just have allergies.”
Him: “Maybe I should go get a spare anyway, just in case.”

Here we go,

It’s past the time change of Daylight Savings, so now we are in for five months of short, dark days here in northeast Ohio. I’ve spent most of my life here, but it always surprises me how early it gets dark all of a sudden around Halloween… and earlier and earlier until around Christmas when [...]

For the first time in a very long time, today I feel proud to be from Ohio

Oh. Hell. Yeah. We finally got it right. 
I can’t even find words for how hopeful I am. I have no delusions that all problems are going to be fixed and everyone will be happy, but we are so much closer simply after what happened last night. 
Maybe I’ll say more later… but that’s it for now. 
(grin….)

“Oh, I am tagged!”

Get it? That’s a Hamlet allusion. You know, when Polonius was stabbed behind the curtain, his last words were “O, I am slain!”…? No? Sorry, I’m a nerd. Back to the point: Another meme…
Ten years ago I…
Was a senior in high school
Didn’t have a clue that by the age of 27 my life would be [...]