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Still Recovering….
April 21, 2012
…. I thought I’d pop in and say HI to everyone, since I have been missing in action lately. I finally finished the income taxes!!! :iquit: Good gravy, I was barely clinging to the sanity can with it all this year. WOW. So my life is sloooowly starting to come back. Everything has kind of [...]
Monday, Monday…
March 12, 2012
Late start to the day. I stayed up far too late last night and slowly crawled out of bed about (unintelligible) o’clock. That’s one of the perks about working at home. It’s also one of the downfalls, because you have no real blood-pressuring schedule and therefore you tend to overwork to make up for lost [...]
Random Toodles #4271
February 13, 2012
Am I the only person on the planet who doesn’t like Betty White? Even if I was the only person, I still wouldn’t like her. Oh, I’m sure she can be a nice person and all, but I don’t think she is very funny and she seems very crude and vulgar at times. *** I [...]
They Grow Up So Fast
February 4, 2012
She insists on squeezing into this thing. How she manages to sleep in it, I’ll never know.
It’s Saturday!!
January 28, 2012
Woo hoooo!!! I have the day off! The first in a long time! OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH what will I DO today? Should I vacuum… yeah, I should. Should I do laundry?? … definitely. Catch up on the exploding dust bunny population? Clean my tornado-stricken desk or bookshelf? Maybe even install the flatbed scanner and the software I’m [...]
A Review of Greased Lightning Cleaner
January 25, 2012
I just LOVE my new cast iron sink! But the thing stains SO easily and it’s such a pain to clean. So when the dudes from Greased Lightning took pity on me and offered to send me a free bottle of their cleanser, I jumped at the chance. See how pitiful my sink is. Be [...]
Livvy and the Spaghetti Monster
January 24, 2012
The other day, I prepared spaghetti for dinner. As I was waiting for the big stockpot of water to boil, I wrested open the box of “Thin Spaghetti” and placed it on the counter. Being a mom, I then rushed off to accomplish a billion other jobs in the meantime. A minute or two later, [...]
Parable of the Day
January 19, 2012
A red-tailed hawk smashed into the side of the house this morning. We were in the living room, waiting for our morning coffee (and waiting and waiting and waiting) and I was also busy working on an ad campaign with an advertiser when all of a sudden we heard a loud BANG. *long silence* “What [...]
I Think I Killed My Stove… And How I Realize I Am a Terrible Blogger
January 4, 2012
Well, over the holidays I took the chance and now I see that it wasn’t the best idea…. My stove was on fire this morning. Yeah. Fun times. Let me start at the beginning since I do so love to tell a good story. I’d baked an apple pie in the oven for Christmas dinner. [...]

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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