Ridiculous Thoughts

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

Post archive for ‘All good things’

Dr. Horrible is Live!

We will return to normal bloggin soon, but I had to spread the love. Go. Now. Watch. (Site may be slow due to the millions of people experiencing the awesomeness that is Dr. Horrible Sing-ALong Blog.)

Happy birthday Kidlet!

Except I guess you’re not such a kidlet anymore. Seventeen. The big 1-7. You are now allowed into R-rated movies without adult supervision. Congratulations! Man. I can’t believe I have a 17 year-old daughter. Seems like yesterday that you were parading around in pigtails and your Disney princess jammies. I remember your first steps when [...]

Back in the saddle

Ok, back now. Calmer. I probably can’t/shouldn’t talk about it online much but the long and short of it is the paper went through some layoffs this past week, including 2 single moms, a guy who had just gotten married, and my very good friend. Two of the layoffs happened in the Online department, so [...]

A break

Taking a few days’ break from blogging and stuff. Actually what I want more than anything is to vent my spleen right now, but it’s probably not a good idea. Will be back in a few days or so.

Goodnight Laceygirl

My sister called me to let me know that Lacey died tonight. I don’t know what to write. I’m sad. I should probably explain who Lacey is, was, rather. She’s a cat. But she’s more than that. We took her in when I was still in high school, and she was maybe a year or [...]

Just for Cousin Hanna

Hannah sent me one of those very long, very random memes the intertubes are full of, so since I blog more than I email, I figured I’d answer it here. It was a fun one. But long. 1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? “Melia”- which is my middle name – is a sort of family [...]

Stagger Lee

I love this song. Lloyd Price’s version. Tonight I learned that the song was based on some historical events back in the 1800s or something (I’ll have to wiki it in a mo) and there have been numerous versions of the song dating back to at least 1923. This is why I love the 50s [...]