Pictures of your home will never grace the pages of Martha Stewart Magazine. According to a spokesperson for the magazine, “In addition to being banned from their pages, the editor issued an APB on Pinterest “prohibiting you from posting pictures of your house.” The editor went on to blast “Your jihadist housekeeping ideology” and said, “You… Continue reading
Date Archives → February 2011
I Got Snaked by a Plumber.
Image via Wikipedia A Real Story w/ Real People. Really! In a community far, far away, a streaming thought video broadcasts from my brain. INT. HEAD – MORNING A water pipe breaks. The drips are less than a second apart. Water leaks beneath the kitchen sink and seeps below to the garage. I call… Continue reading
Dog Steals Ham. It’s Virginia. Not the Dog.The Ham.
Last night Jenny stole a pound of deli ham from the counter. One second it was there, the next – poof, gulp slurp. She had scarfed it down, a groovy Scooby snack. For Jenny, food layovers are never out of bounds and certainly never out of reach. It’s hunting after the fact and more like… Continue reading
Waxing Poetic – A House Personified.
Jayne, the brains behind the always inspiring and entertaining injaynesworld, took the path that leads from Magpie Tales into a writer’s mind and produced a wonderful vignette from Magpie’s picture prompt. Today, I take the same path but with a different picture. A House Personified. A window gazes out onto slippery snow white, a coverlet… Continue reading
Why Power Owtages Hurt?
Image via Wikipedia Imagine Life without Heat, Hot Water or HBO. Last Sunday while watching a pharma commercial on depression, the TV suddenly went dark along with the rest of the house. Since it was morning, the dark was more of a dim white – not a dim wit. The dogs seemed rather nonplussed about the sudden… Continue reading
10.0 Hormonal Quake!
According to the Richter scale, a 10.0 quake (15.0 gigatons) has never been recorded by humans, at least until now. Image via Wikipedia This week, hormonal seismic activity is off the charts. Humans scare me. I only interact with creatures with four legs or more. Words I once used with ease like “hello.” Now get tangled… Continue reading
19 Questions to Stress Over or I’ve got a Memegraine.
I got tagged by Rebecca at The Snee, who is a hilarious satirist, fella New Englander and bloggy buddy. My assignment. To answer the following 19 questions to the best of my abilities or to the best of a highly intelligent amoebae’s abilities. 1. if you have pets, do you see them as merely animals,… Continue reading
A Note to Satan from a Dissatisfied Customer of God.
Image via Wikipedia Dear Satan, Is Satan correct or do you prefer Lucifer (very dashing), or The Antichrist (kind of formal) or Jezebel (a bit feminine but not as bad as Leslie)? If I pissed you off, feel free to shower my lawn with fire and brimstone. A brief explanation follows. Since the beginning of… Continue reading
A Note to God from a Dissatisfied Customer.
Dear God, This is my last attempt to contact you after hundreds of emails I sent bounced back, “Mailbox full.” I have to say that lately, your customer service record has been less than sub par. Over the past month, it has become apparent that you’ve increased your precipitation deliveries from a monthly to a… Continue reading