So I finally have something for which I can use the poll tool. Here’s the story: My boyfriend and I have been packing and cleaning like crazy–all during the holidays, mind you, with the attendant gift and family gatherings and whatnot–and working to get his stuff ready to go to New York. Mine is packed. [...]
Archive for December, 2008
I Get to Try Out the Poll Tool
Posted in Family, Love, Personal, Ranting, Relationships, life, tagged Children, Family, life, Living, Love, men, Personal, Relationships, Sharing, Women on December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
How to Get Salt Stains Off Your Shoes
Posted in Animals, How to, tagged Animals, Horseman's One Step, horses, How to, Leather, Salt stains, shoes, Snow, Tack, weather, Winter on December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ever gone walking around in the snow only to come home with weird white goo on your shoes? The white goo is salt deposits. Salt is poured on snow and ice to melt it so people don’t slip. But it makes kind of an ugly mess on shoes that will not dissolve when wiped with [...]
Holiday Season
Posted in Love, Personal, Travel, life, tagged Children, christmas, Family, holidays, life, Love, moving, Personal, Portland, Snow, Travel, weather on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m learning how to be. I’m seem always to be failing at it. Maybe I need to change my standards. I don’t know.
Last night was infiinitely better than yesterday. I finally opened my mouth to the man I love and once we started speaking, things were better. I find it odd to have roles reversed [...]
I am a Banana!
Posted in Funny, Humor, life, tagged Animation, Bananas, Cartoons, Funny, Humor, life, Personal, Spoon on December 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My spoon is too big. My spoon is TOO big. My SPOON is too big. My spoon is too BIG.
Dear Oprah
Posted in Environmental, life, tagged Africa, Environmental, Ghana, life, Oprah, Society, Water, Water treatment on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I read today of communities in Ghana where people die daily from dysentery and disease because they do not have clean water. The watering holes are foul and bacteria laden. There is no fuel for citizens to burn to boil the water and kill germs. What these people need are water treatment facilities. I got [...]
FREE THE SHOE THROWING JOURNALIST!
Posted in Personal, tagged Bush, free speech, Politics, Shoe thrower, speech on December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I support the Iraqi shoe thrower. I know shoe throwing isn’t protected speech, but I still support his action as an expression of distaste, disgust, and despair, and whatever else he was expressing. It was perfect.
FREE THE SHOE THROWING JOURNALIST!
Good Riddance, Pure Med Spa
Posted in Personal, Society, tagged bankruptcy, Botox, Business, Cosmetic Surgery, Customer Service, GRF Medspa, Health, Lawsuits, medicine, Personal, Pure Med Spa, Pure Med Spa Complaints, Society, Spa on December 14, 2008 | 23 Comments »
See my previous posts on Pure Med Spa here and here.
I am writing an article on Pure Med Spa. For info, please click here.
Last summer, I stopped into a local spa to inquire about Botox treatments. After being told the price, I asked to schedule an appointment. I was informed that I would need to [...]
Thank you, Boyfriend
Posted in Personal, tagged life, Love, Personal, Relationships on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You know who you are. This quickpress is for you. You are easily one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Although it may have taken a lot of heartache and time to get here, I am so grateful we found each other. Thank you for being brave and [...]
My QuickPress
Posted in Personal, tagged change, obama, Society, USA on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lately I feel like nothing I say will be different from the worldwide cacophony already out there. Everything is such a mess. I don’t know if a simple administrative change can undo so much of what has been done. The US and the world are in a shambles. Obama might want [...]
New York
Posted in Children, Family, Music, Personal, Society, Travel, life, tagged Apartments, Children, Customer Service, Family, Hospitality, Hostels, Jazz, life, Love, New York, Personal, Sugar Hill, Travel, Waldorf School on December 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I am sitting in a Starbucks in New York. I just had a tour at the Waldorf school here because Milla has always attended Waldorf schools and I would prefer she continue to always attend Waldorf schools. I only hope we get financial aid because the school here is about twice the tuition as the [...]
On a Plane
Posted in Personal, Society, Travel, life, tagged airplanes, Jetblue, life, Personal, Travel on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a first for me. I am writing this while I fly on a plane to New York. I am going to find an apartment for Boyfriend and me. I am pretty excited about doing this. About the only thing that would make it better is if he or Milla were here with me, [...]
Cranberry Sauce
Posted in Family, Friends, How to, Personal, Society, life, tagged Cooking, Cranberry Sauce, Family, Friends, holidays, Home, How to, life, Parties, Personal, Society on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The local Boulder weekly paper published this article with advice on how to make holiday parties easier. Among the ideas is the suggestion to buy certain foods rather than making them yourself, including cranberry sauce.
Advising someone to buy cranberry sauce to make preparation easier is like telling someone to buy bottled water instead of using [...]
Imagine
Posted in Personal, Society, tagged Healthcare, Personal, Ranting, Society on December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Imagine a world where health care reform meant doing away with insurance companies entirely. Why have the middle-man? Or, if we needed some sort of payer investment system, imagine it as a non-profit. I don’t think we should use tax dollars to line the pockets of insurance companies. I would rather that money go to [...]
No Wonder People Go Postal on the Post Office
Posted in Personal, Ranting, Society, life, tagged Complaints, Employees, Personal, post office, Postal service, Ranting, USPS, Work on December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
And I don’t even care if I sound like a lunatic. A more incompetent bunch of losers never occupied the earth (oh wait, there was the last US administration). Useless useless useless. You might think I would be sympathetic since my mom works there. I’m not. They steal every second the possibly can from her. [...]
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