Archive for January, 2012



Kids home!!!

Published on January 22, 2012

Had visitors this weekend, took a vacation day to spend more time with my daughter and her children. It started out with a wee bit of snow and slush and cold weather and ice on the roads, which caused me some stress because I’m a worrying freak, at least where the kids’ safety is concerned. […]


Autumn Flutters

Published on January 20, 2012

Doesn’t have a damn thing to do about the local weather – predicting snow (pardon me for using that particularly heinous 4-letter word) overnight, mixed with sleet. Then rain tomorrow, and snow/sleet for tomorrow night. As I have enough yarn and chores to keep me busy until hell freezes over, this wouldn’t bother me at […]


Lead us not into temptation

Published on January 16, 2012

And temptation’s name today is Kohl’s. It all started innocently enough. A co-worker was looking at the Sunday paper at work, and at the Kohl’s flyer. “Oooh,” she says, “I have that!” and I asked her what she had. It was a FoodSaver machine, designed to seal leftovers for freezing in air-tight packages that keep […]