This is the time when I do my annual rant about how much I hate Texas in the summertime. I hate it so much. I’m not an outdoors person and the heat is just grueling. I stay in as much as possible, but even then it’s miserable just going to the mailbox or walking into [...]
A couple of days ago, I got a phone call from my Honda Dealer. They want to buy my Civic and sell me a new car. It was a sales gimmick, but I’ll consider it. Heh. He said they need more used cars on the lot because they mostly got cleaned out during the Cash [...]
My hairdresser died yesterday. That probably doesn’t sound like much, but Debbie was special. I met her for the first time in 1977 when I was 17. She gave me a Farrah cut. It was the beginning of a lasting friendship. Until Debbie got sick with cancer almost three years ago, she was the only [...]
I want to express my sorrow on the loss of Patrick Swayze today. He lost his battle with pancreatic cancer and died peacefully. My favorite character played by Patrick is Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing. If you haven’t seen that movie, please watch it. It’s one of my all time favorite movies. Naturally, all of [...]
I still use stamps to mail a couple of bills every month. Mostly because of my chronic nostalgia, but whatever. And good grief. Every time I try to buy stamps on the post office’s website, it gets all screwed up. Either it won’t let me log in (because they always want wonky passwords and I [...]
Good grief. I discovered The Sims 3 a couple of weeks ago. Now I own the game and I can’t stop playing it. It’s so bad that I’ve started a whole new blog just for that story. Although it’s crazy fascinating to me, I realize that it will probably bore most of you to tears. [...]
I’m from the Old School method of typing education: two spaces after sentence-ending punctuation. Always. I took many typing and business classes in the 1970s and the proper spacing for punctuation was branded into my brain. Branded, I say! All writers on the JIG website recently got an email from Jay asking us to use [...]
I went to Walgreens tonight to pick up a prescription and get some toiletry items. Let me say here that I love Walgreens and we’ve been going steady ever since I broke up with Eckerd’s many years ago. I almost never have a bad experience at Walgreens. Tonight’s experience wasn’t bad. It was more funny [...]
You know you are in Texas in July when… The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground. The trees are whistling for the dogs. The best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance. Hot water now comes out of both taps. You can make sun tea instantly. You [...]
I have a strong aversion to any outdoor activity. It wasn’t this bad when I was younger. I used to go swimming, bike riding, walking, to the zoo, to Six Flags… which are all outdoor activities. But no more!! Nope. Not at all. Especially in the summer because it’s Texas and it sucks so much. [...]
