So what is it, Murphy’s Law or something that after you clean your rugs your dogs will immediately find some poop to walk in and track through the house? My house has a large utility porch where the dogs hang out when we’re not at home. It has its own doggy door and a little [...]
Archive for February, 2008
The Idiot in the Plastic Bubble
Posted in Politics, Ranting, tagged Bush, Politics, Ranting, Recession on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I saw this headline on Yahoo this morning that says Bush says the US is not headed for a recession. You just keep telling yourself that, Dude. Go on. Make yourself feel happy. Keep living in your insulated bubble. Why don’t you take a beer or some coke in there with you. Enjoy. We’ll stay [...]
Random Period Rant
Posted in Personal, Ranting, tagged Breasts, female, Period, Personal, Ranting, woman on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Periods suck. Yeah, yeah. I know. I’m supposed to be all proud for my gender that I can give birth and shit and blah blah blah. But I hate that I turn into some sort of mental fucking freak show for ten days or so a month, that my boobs feel like they are in [...]
Gods
Posted in Animals, Family, Friends, Personal, tagged Animals, dogs, Friends on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dogs. I swear part of the reason they live with us is to cheer us up. Yes, I know that is totally human centric, but it’s true. I have spent all morning in a funk. My little pack has been sitting around me, hovering and waiting for pets and lovies. Just now I got up [...]
Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick
Posted in Personal, Random Thoughts, tagged Personal on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How is it that I’ve arrived at 10:11 a.m. and have accomplished virtually nothing of substance? I updated my about page. I took my child to school. I went to the post office. All of that was done by 8:45 a.m. Now I’ve spent a good deal of time at the computer and am in [...]
Our Non-Traditional Family
Posted in Animals, Children, Family, Personal, tagged cats, Children, dogs, Family, Personal on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sitting here at my computer doing my thing and my dogs are all hovering, their personalities evident in the hovering each of them does.
Molly, the half lab half border collie, is standing next to me, her head half down. Every so often she’ll glance up and then look back down at the floor. I’m [...]
A Million Little Thoughts
Posted in Books, Health, Personal, Random Thoughts, Society, Writing, tagged addiction, alcoholism, behavior, delay gratification, James Frey, labels, language, Million Little Pieces on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was thinking about the book A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. I found the book to be an entertaining read. James got into a lot of trouble for embellishing some of the book and not admitting it up front. I wonder what he was afraid of that he didn’t just put in some [...]
Random Rant of the Morning
Posted in Ranting, Writing, tagged American, British, Grammar, punctuation, quotation marks, Ranting, usage, Writing on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why the hell is it people can’t figure out basic punctuation rules when it comes to quotation marks and things like commas and periods? Even if you’re quoting something, the punctuation mark goes INSIDE the quotation marks. Everyone seems to want to pretend to be British these days, where they stick the punctuation outside the [...]
Drip Drip Drop Little Rain is Falling
Posted in Media, Personal, Random Thoughts, Science, Society, tagged Community, Connection, deception, dishonesty, Media, NPR on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our local NPR station is doing one of its annual membership drives. They bug the hell out of me. First of all, they keep going on and on about my having not called, but how do they know? Maybe I did. Yeah, I know. It’s meant for people who haven’t called, but still. Anyway, today [...]
The Customer is Always Replaceable
Posted in Personal, Ranting, Society, tagged Corporations, Customer Service, food, Personal, Ranting, restaurants, Society, Taco Bell on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Customer is Always Right. I used to see this sign in businesses. The theory behind it is a pleasant one, although I usually only saw it invoked as a means for bullies to treat customer service representatives like crap. But today, it seems the idea has gone completely out the window. It’s like stores [...]
I Apologize in Advance for My Lack of Brevity and Wit
Posted in Children, Family, Humor, Personal, Random Thoughts, Ranting, Writing, tagged Art, Children, Exclusion, Family, Humor, Inclusion, Liberal, New Age, parenting, Parents, Personal, Random Thoughts, Ranting, Waldorf School, Writing on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My daughter goes to a Waldorf school. There is a lot I love about the school. She has learned to knit and she is only 8 years old. She can do math word problems like no non-Waldorf 8 year olds I know. And she’s been learning music for years now as well.
But sometimes, if I’m [...]
My Poor Ass
Posted in Family, Health, Humor, Personal, Random Thoughts, tagged aerobic, biking, Cancer, childhood, Exercise, exhaustion, horses, jumping, radiation, running, strength training, weights on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the best reasons in the world not to stop exercising once you have started is that you will have to start again. It’s hell on the body and seems to get worse as one gets older. I have always been active, had to be for sanity’s sake. I just have one of those [...]
David and Goliath (the time when Goliath squashed David)
Posted in Politics, Ranting, tagged activism, activists, China, Congress, Darfur, dictators, money, peace, Politics, Sudan, trade on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I get these political emails in my inbox urging me to take various political actions on a variety of causes. One informative piece I received this morning informed me that China trades with Sudan, that wretched African dictatorship turning millions of refugees out to fend for themselves amid violence and chaos. The email sender urges me to contact Congress, along with thousands of others, and [...]
Truly Random Thoughts of a Stream of Consciousness Insomniac
Posted in Dharma, Humor, Personal, Random Thoughts, Writing, tagged Dharma, dogs, Insomnia, money, moving, pets, sleep, stream of consciousness, sun, warmth on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My brain is normally overflowing with words. I can hardly exist sometimes with all the words leaking out my ears and nostrils. But for the last few days, my brain has been remarkably quiet. I’ve thought of a few things, but nothing like usual.
Okay, non sequitur here. But I’m sitting and typing this and my little [...]
America Junior High
Posted in Media, Politics, tagged America, Hillary, Huckabee, lemmings, mccain, Media, obama, Politics, polling, pundits on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this blog on the front page of wordpress this morning that says a vote for Huckabee is a vote for Hillary. I love how the writers of the post assume Hillary is going to be the Democratic candidate. Why isn’t it a vote for Obama? Or have the pundits all decided who the candidates are?
I [...]
Derek
Posted in Dharma, Family, Personal, Random Thoughts, tagged AA, addiction, brothers, choices, Dharma, drugs, Family, jail, pain, prison, probation, sadness on February 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So today handed me my first how well can you deal with this new mentality of living in the moment when the moment is shit event. I knew all along that the real test whether I got it with the living here and now and watching the thoughts but not acting on them would be [...]
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