Ridiculous Thoughts

The ramblings of a slightly mad chick with far too much time on her hands :)

Post archive for ‘Blather’

I haven’t written in a while

I’m sad to say this blog has sort of fallen by the wayside with the advent of things like Posterous, Twitter, Facebook and various other social media things I’m involved in. These days, when I have a passing thought I want to release into the wild, I end up doing it on Facebook or Twitter. [...]

Oh crikey

I just looked at the date of my last post here and felt an immediate sense of guilt. Sheesh
What’s happened since I got to hear my awesome daughter sing? Probably the biggest thing is I wrote a book. Yup! Years and years of wishful novel-writing and I finally stopped talking about it and [...]

Balancing act

I’m trying to balance being a good parent who lets their child leave the nest, and a starting-to-worry parent who hasn’t heard from her child in an unusual amount of time right now.
I know what you’ll say. “C’mon Steph, she’s all grown up now and probably just busy with her college life stuff. Cut her [...]

Life

You may not know it from this blog, but I’m pretty active online. The problem is, I’m active in a bunch of different places, like Twitter, Facebook, Posterous, Audioboo, Twitvid, twitpic etcetera, etcetera.
(And shameless plug, but I’ve started a new website with my honey called Doodurls. What the hell is that? We thought it would [...]

Catching up

It occurs to me that I have been neglecting this blog. This blog that I have had since before Google owned Blogger. This blog that has been through so many changes, both cosmetic and in focus.
That’s just it though, I’ve never found a focus for this blog. It’s just been my catchall for my life. [...]

Playing with Wordle

This is a fun little site that creates word clouds based on text you give it. I gave it a link to the blog here and it turned this out

Ouch

Ok, today is a brand new day, so far so good though I’ve only been up for half an hour. Yesterday was all right until this happened:
Half a freaking block from home these guys crunched into me. The corner we happened to meet on was sheer ice from recent snowfall and I can’t tell if [...]