My cyberfriend, Miss Cellania, celebrated her birthday yesterday by writing about her various horiscopes on her blog. Curious, I decided to check out MY horiscopes, courtesy of her links. The first I looked at was my Southern Horiscope: BUTTER BEAN
Puppy Time Out
Last week, John was looking for Macalester and couldn’t find her anywhere. As he freaked out, she suddenly made an appearance from her hiding place. You can understand why he didn’t see her — she does sort of look like
Six Years Ago
Six years ago, at approximately 9 am, I saw this face for the first time. My friends assured me that this picture was absolutely beautiful. I was stunned and in disbelief. It looked like I was going to be a
Here’s Using Your Noggin’
Hats off to “ceo” from the Organized Scrapbooks forum. She created a personal version of page templates, not unlike the Pages by Design templates you see in some of the scrapbook stores. The link below goes to the forum where
Autumn Moon Festival
We had our fifth annual Autumn Moon Festival party last night. We had a good turnout. It helped that the weather was wonderful. Who would have thought that in Minnesota on September 18th, the temperature would be 84 degrees at
Beautiful Girls
As I type that title, I hear Van Halen (the David Lee Roth version) singing in my head … The Original M.U.M.s (Moms United in Meanness) now have an annual photo event for our kids. Each year, Linda tortures her
Is That a Zucchini in the Dog House? Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Our neighbor Lynn has a green thumb. She grows zucchini and squash that are huge. The plants take over her yard and part of ours as well. It’s a summer tradition. Lynn has so many zucchini this year, she’s decided
When Pre-Schoolers Crash Corporate Events
The company I work for has been in business for 125 years. Today, they had a birthday party for the company, in the streets of St. Paul, from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm. Rachel goes to daycare in the building
Blood Relatives
Our big family joke was that the only blood relatives in our house were the dogs — Macalester I (aunt) and Sydney (niece on her mom’s side). Even the kids got a laugh out of the fact (well, Sarah understood
Got Fonts?
Technical writers have an unnatural obsession with fonts. Probably because fonts are the only “pretty” thing we can do with a hardware specifications document or user guide. Now, make that technical writer a scrapbooker … on technical writing email lists