Ridiculous Thoughts

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

Post archive for ‘All good things’

So…

I’m about to leave California after a wonderful visit. I haven’t blogged the trip, instead I tweeted it. You can read all that stuff here. I could have blogged it after we got the the hotel because, yay free wifi. But sod that! I’m in California! I actually didn’t want to be online apart from [...]

Nice weekend. Crazy week.

Last week at work was completely crazy and exciting and fun, and is the reason I’m happy to be working in the news biz. My town gets a big story, one that went national, and my newsroom just mobilizes and gets good quality coverage. Even I got to be a part of it, working with [...]

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 [...]

Going to the gym

There’s something you don’t hear every day – from me. I joined the YMCA a couple of days ago. I’m incredibly excited about it. I’ve never joined any sort of gym before and now I get to be one of “those” people I’ve been trying to lose weight. And I’m trying to do it right. [...]

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. [...]

Congratulations Jack!

My friend and coworker, Jack, has been training for the past three months to run in his first marathon, the Bill Seymour Half, which was this morning. He blogged his trials and tribulations for the paper and had a lot of people rooting for him, myself included. If you get a minute, check his blog [...]