Searching for Direction & Purpose in Life's Sea of Opportunities
Random Stuff catches my fancy. I hope it can make you smile.
It's been eight months since I got married, and I'm at a weird transition point: I've decided to take DH2U's name, and while most places now have me under the new last name, there are a few hold outs. Conducting a name change is not for wimps - or for people with no spare time.… Continue reading More Complicated Than It Sounds
Last week, my favorite novel writing pen died. Strangely enough, it wasn’t normally a pen I would grab: It wasn’t retractable and it had a much wider point than I usually like. This giveaway pen had found its way to the bottom of my purse at some point, and once when I desperately needed… Continue reading Playing Favorites
DH2U came up with the term "Extreme Gardening" to describe my accident.
I hate clothes shopping, but got lucky on a recent shopping spree.
Once again I prove that I am a medical freak of nature ... with a soda addiction.
Writing about my foreign zoo experiences (Paris and Berlin) made me want to share some of my encounters that were closer to home. While I was in graduate school the first time, I bought a membership to our “World Famous” zoo in lieu of one for a gym. On days that I didn’t have class,… Continue reading Zooful Memories
Back in 2008 during the Great Recession, Americans received a $600 rebate when filing taxes with the hopes that everyone would spend it and stimulate the economy. Me being me, and having had my wages cut substantially, I saved mine. I did, however, adopt the expression of “stimulating the economy” to mean shopping. I am… Continue reading Stimulating the Economy
Recently I was able to find a new oil changing place I feel I can trust. After my previous bad experiences, trust is big with me. When this new place was done, they let me know that all the fluid levels were where they should be, they’d replaced the oil, vacuumed out my foot wells, and… Continue reading The Time I Set My Car on Fire
As I was writing my blog post about my mandolin, I started laughing as I described the frustration of trying to get all the pieces back in place. It reminded of a similar experience I’d had many years ago with Ma during a visit home. Ma was enrolled in a recipe club, where bunches of… Continue reading Spatial Relations Fail
Today is Pi Day. I love my annual reminder to do a space post in honor of this incredibly geeky day. After my love of The Martian, I was super excited when I heard about The Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein. I was drawn into the story from the first pages, and I… Continue reading Pi Day Again
Grown Up, Now What? 