I really needed to write about this evening with my kid. It was at the end of another frustrating day where I didn't manage to get enough work done, I wasn't able to secure help with getting our kitty down to the city for her daily radiation therapy treatment for her… Read full post »

I don't know whether or not this is normal, but it seems as if the older I get, the more I struggle with understanding or relating to those of my own sex. Sure, I've written about it before. A few times. This is not news. Yet old age and menopause seem…

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Last year's Halloween photos:

This year's photos:

I'd say this constitutes improvement!

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I'll admit it. I've never really understood or gotten along well with most women. Except for my shoe fetishism, I just don't have the female hardwiring. I never have.

Evil Mother socialized me in a more gender neutral manner (though there was occasional emphasis on being ladylike...somethin… Read full post »

I've finally gone and lost my mind. I've become that mom.

What did I do now, you ask? Well I've entered Zara in the Gap Casting Call contest.

Start throwing the tomatoes now. At least it wasn't Toddlers and Tiaras!

This decision is probably a combination… Read full post »

Let me start out by saying that this is definitely a high rent problem to have. No question there. I’m fortunate to be able to even have this bit of a whine-fest. I know this and I know it well. Yet and still, I’m feeling an assault to my divatude that… Read full post »

For some reason (I am unclear as to why), I've been doing a lot more cooking than usual these days. I've always liked to cook, but in recent months, I've had the energy level of a hibernating giant sloth (that is if giant sloths do indeed hibernate). So the fact that… Read full post »

The rumors of my having dropped off the face of the earth have been greatly exaggerated.

I'm still here.

The blog is not dead.

There will indeed be more from the Dollhouse in the near future.

But for now, to end this… Read full post »

I think I'm in danger of getting my daughter kicked out of her daycare center for being that mom. And considering it's a pretty amazing daycare center that she attends, that would be a really sad thing to have happen. But unfortunately I'm just one of those people who can't…

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I was visiting Jodi's blog over at MCPActions and came upon one of her posts from a few days ago entitled, Your Camera Takes Great Pictures. As it frequently happens, she reports, someone gushing over her pictures will say, "Your camera is incredible. Every time I see your pictures… Read full post »

 

My husband has a disorder. Nah, it's nothing major, though I don't think it has a name or is described in any medical or psychological textbook. And despite it's relatively innocuous clinical presentation, it still bugs the ever living crap out of me! Mostly because it is so insidious… Read full post »

I feel like I've got to do a little seriousness recovery after my last post. Phew, every time I go talking about Mumzie, I've got to get a little air and decompress. So here I present to you the latest fruits of my labors: my Photoshop Picture Plays! (In other words,… Read full post »

Just the other day I was combing through the Dollhouse archives. And if you've been blogging as long as I have (since 2003) that's a lot of combing.

Someone had approached me about linking back to my blog tales about my infertility journey. There aren't a lot of black… Read full post »

My special effects class for Photoshop is going well at Jessica Sprague. Even though I'm a week behind, I've done some cool things with the program that used to scare me to no end, i.e. Photoshop CS4. The first project was easy. I took this:

and added a frame,… Read full post »

That's a lot of shoes. Methinks I have a problem...

I made the mistake the other day of counting the pairs of shoes that Zizi has in her closet. I knew that she had a few...hell, my OCD insists on color matching with outfits, for goodness sake, so… Read full post »

No, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth...really. It only seems that way. And no, the prospect of Boundary Crossers didn't run me off. I've just been drowning...work, life, you name it. It's been sapping my reserves.

But first things first. I want to thank all of you… Read full post »

 

 I belong to an Open Adoption Blogger webring. Some of you might find this curious since, of late, I rarely seem to blog about adoption. Sure, I'm very forthright about how our daughter joined our family and have no shame about adoption or infertility. It's… Read full post »

This was just so stupid that it was worthy of a quick post.

A couple of months ago, in my quest to be more Earth-friendly (yes, it is a little quest, not a big quest, mind you...baby steps), I bought a cleaner product that was touted as being "plant-based" and more

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Sometimes you find the most intriguing information on Twitter. Not too long ago (OK, it was about 2 weeks ago, but you try to find time to blog coherently with a job as nutty as mine has been lately) a tweet from Feministe popped up giving a teaser for a new… Read full post »

 I was going to write about my birthday, turning 46, and spending the weekend in New Haven celebrating my 25^th college reunion. Unfortunately while down in the cafeteria just now grabbing lunch, I got derailed...really derailed.

As I stood at the grill station waiting for my sub to be ready, I… Read full post »

It's been kinda funny getting into a hobby when you are an old, reformed-perfectionist, Type-A nutbar recovering from chronic insecurity. On one hand, you are totally jazzed when you find that you understand another concept or (as they like to say at my job) new learning. Yet that low self-esteem, yo… Read full post »

This post has been sitting in my draft folder for almost a week now. Why? Because I was insistent that I wasn't going to post it without the video and I just could not get the video to behave properly here on OS.

 

Earlier this week I visited the Apple Store to order the full version of Tozzle, one of the iPhone games I've found that is like baby crack to the toddler set. Zizi is enticed to sit on the potty with either a book, watching Dora, or one of the toddler/… Read full post »

This is going to be a quicky from me tonight, my friends. The weekend was unpleasantly spiced with coupleship drama...again. Not.going.into.it. Even Zizi decided to take out my very last nerve and stomp on it. I'll be picking up my discipline (not the fun sexy kind of discipline...minds out of the… Read full post »

 

This is a mini little goody from today's entry in my Never Not Knitting! Page-A-Day knitting calendar:

I have a rule. I'm not knitting anything for any object that can't appreciate it properly. This rules out wine bottle covers, tea cozies, and steering wheel covers. I know that

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