I used to blog at theweirdgirl.com. All of that writing lives here now.
On punks and braggarts
The last couple of weeks have been a little rough for Chance at school. See, and right after I wrote about how well he was doing. Sigh. First, it was [...]
Cakes & Clothes: Hurray for Small Businesses!
Thanks to American Express for sponsoring my writing today about small businesses. American Express is presenting Small Business Saturday, a way to honor the local merchants who are the backbone [...]
Letting go of blogs doesn’t mean letting go of bloggers
I have to clean my blogroll. It hasn't been updated in forever. It's one of those tasks that I think is important but I put it off because so many [...]
30 Days of Truth – Days 3 & 4, Now with extra bitterness
I'm doing this one together so you can really see the hypocrisy! Day 03 - Something you have to forgive yourself for I'm still in the middle of this so [...]
On pies and turkeys and other crap on my phone
I know I'm supposed to working on the whole 30 days of truth thing (and I'm gonna get back to that - quit nagging!) but Keen, somewhere, stumbled on the [...]
Brenda’s strange obessession was for certain vegetables and fruits
In the mail I've received a catalogue entirely filled with socks. It is aimed at teenagers. I am enthralled. I love socks. I love socks hard. (That's what he said.) [...]
Happy Halloween!
We bought 12 bags of candy this year and we still ran out. Sorry late-going teenagers! Hope all of you had a great Halloween! Love & candy, wg, Keen Dad, [...]
30 Days of Truth – Day Two
This week has been a little nuts. We had some tantrum episodes because once I typed about how things were fine, I jinxed myself. Again. I really gotta stop doing [...]
The Grumble List
The title should be self-explanatory, no? 1. Spent an afternoon rushing from the party store to the $.99 store comparison shopping to save money on party plates (savings = $4.00!), [...]
30 Days of Truth – Day One
I've been feeling a lot lately that I have the blog from blah hell so I'm going to give this a go. There is a list at Avitable's, but I'll [...]
Robot Building part 2
I am not done with the robot yet... ... but I'm almost done. A few more details (kindly disregard any pieces of tape you see) and I gotta bolt everything [...]
S is for Superstitious, M is for Meow
I'm becoming superstitious. Every time I write something here that is in the least little bit prohetic (or just optimistic) I jinx myself. Such as, "I think we're getting better!" [...]