November has not been a good month for me emotionally. My Done Nesting site has stalled, like everything in my life seems to do sooner or later, due to a lack of funds. October is usually the difficult month for me, but this year it expanded into November. I will not let this be a […]
Black Friday, Shop Local Saturday, Buy Nothing Day and Walmart
If I lived in Bedford Falls I might enjoy the hustle and bustle of Christmas Shopping with the rest of the townsfolk, excluding mean ol' Mr. Potter. But I live in a metropolitan area with over a 1,000,000 other souls and no freeways. I am not your typical American Shopper. I consider shopping to be […]
HOW, Exactly, Arizona Elections Are Being Stolen
Crappola. I want to be a regular old empty nest blogger and non-political writer, but I am cursed with awareness of events and the power that single voices can have. So instead of writing about Pinterest posts that serve as #ff or Follow Friends or Follow Fridays or Friend Feed or whatever the heck it […]
Reorganizing Everything
I've been in such a funk lately that I decided to spend the day organizing… Household Organization First I bought a new shower curtain to coordinate with my old brick wall in the master bath. This helped me get out of my recent doldrums a bit. This didn't really help me organize anything, but having […]
Personal Challenges, Problems, and Sucky Situations
I am frustrated enough to spit nails, as my Mom used to say, although what she would actually say was “mad enough to spit nails.” But only dogs become mad as my husband, in his role as the semantic cop, is wont to say. The vile corruption of our elections by evil blubbery little men […]
What All This Means, Provisionally, In Arizona
Did my early ballot get counted? I have no way of knowing! With the rest of the U.S. showing more Democratic swing than the “polls” captured, why would AZ swing opposite to the same demo tilt that polls showed here too? Oh, over half a million provisional and early votes were not counted. Hmmm…. I […]