This is my first hand vacuum cleaner. I have wanted one for so long. I’ve mentioned before that my computer keyboard is the Chia Pet of cat hair. :-? I have a regular vacuum, but it’s such a pain to haul the huge thing out, strap on the attachments, insert the ear plugs and take [...]
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You KNOW You Want To
November 6, 2009
I know that I do. I have ALWAYS wanted to do it. Microwave weird stuff. Like crayons. Or gum. Or a football or glue or soap!!! I have always wanted to do it. But I can’t. You see, I don’t have a scientific research grant where I can do all sorts of dumb and wacky [...]
The Curse of the Vacuum Cleaner- Is It Over?!
February 27, 2009
If you’ve been following this blog and my other blog, New York Renovator.com, you’ve seen me moan and groan about my plight with defunct vacuum cleaners. And I am starting to get mighty suspicious if this defunctness (is that a word?!) is a curse of vacuum cleaners. THEY NEVER WORK FOR ME!!! Argh!! I research [...]

I’m a married mom with 4 kids. We live in Upstate New York in an old 1855 house with our five pets (yes, five, *sigh*). Life is never dull, and exciting things just seem to always happen to me... why me... when I'm not running around the house fixing things, I do freelance writing and blogging. My work and opinions have appeared in Salon.com, USAToday, eHow.com, iMedia.com, the Associated Press and I've even been interviewed by TIME and The Wall Street Journal about blogging. Can you believe it?! Here is where I express my zany, creative, motherly side. 










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