Ridiculous Thoughts

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

Post archive for ‘Blather’

Thankful

The thing to do today, apart from consume turkey/tofurkey and sweet pickles, is to somehow acknowledge the things you’re thankful for as well as be with people you love. This is me doing the acknowledge thing. I’m thankful for my beautiful daughter.  Every day she surprises and delights me. I love the relationship we have, [...]

Sundays

I’m sitting in Galaxy laundry on a Sunday morning doing a hated chore but it must be done because I’m out of knickers Life is a funny thing really. A neverending tumult of experiences and joys. Enormous highs and terrible lows and I seem to have encountered it all in the past few weeks alone. [...]

I Touch rocks

So I’m writing this on a teeny iTouch keyboard. It’s not too bad apart from needing twiglike fingers. I never gave the Touch a second thought because I thought it was mostly just an organizer, and I learned my lesson with the palm pilot, in that I knew I wouldn’t use it much. But then [...]

California ’08

I was trying to think of the best way to approach the recounting of our trip to California to see my baby sister get married. Had trouble figuring out how to keep myself from blathering for pages of scroll Decided to take my tweets from the trip and repost them here and maybe expand a [...]

Late night sleepy post

So I now have a decent pair of glasses. I just got them today and couldn’t wait to wear them. Normally, I hate wearing glasses. but after several years of just wearing contacts, sometimes I just don’t want to mess with them. I have wretched vision, so either contacts or glasses are a necessity. After [...]

Stuff

I’m in a bit of a lull right now of New and Exciting things going on, gearing up for a busy October. My biggest decision of the month involved dropping the massive cable package I had because other than watching Project Runway, I was not watching television at all. Shannon was, but everything she was [...]

No credit

I just read a blurb on Lifehacker about a family that went “cash only” and saved money. Well duh. I don’t have credit cards. The last time I had a credit card was ten years ago when i lived in England, and Barclay bank just handed me one with my new account. I felt giddy. [...]