A bored housewife jousts at windmills, pokes fun at everything from leg wax to Miss Manners.
Stolen from Betty Crocker: 1 1/3 cups All purpose flour 1/2 tsp. Salt 1/2 cup Shortening 3 to 4 tbsp. Cold water Measure lour and salt into a medium bowl. Thoroughly cut the shortening into the flour mixture. Sprinkle in water, one tbsp. at a time until dough almost cleans the sides of the bowl. …
Just heard this stupid song for the fifty-seventh time this year. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the lyrics in the link above. Done now? Good. I cringe every time I hear that song. I hate it mostly because it’s contrived above and beyond my tolerance for the contrived. Then there’s this problem …
Leaving her school after dropping off my daughter, I noticed some “safety patrol” kids attempting to shut the heavy outside door on each others’ heads. Safe? I wonder. Fun? No doubt.
Thanks to my pal, Jim, who commemorated me in coin. Not to be childish but…Na na na boo boo! I got commemorated and yoo-oou didn’t! Speaking of coins and childishness, did you know that the GOP is pushing to have FDR’s image on the dime replaced by that of Reagan? What annoying little bitches they …
We had my birthday party a few days early. My loot is as follows: A really nice Zen Garden – This is a perfect gift for me – a garden that I cannot kill through incompetence. Al Franken’s book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Two nice watches which I picked out. – …
I had a bad day yesterday. You may have noticed I didn’t blog. Well, that’s ’cause I was keeping myself so busy – what with all the praying for merciful death I was doing. I woke up with a full-blown migraine. I was aware of the headache in my sleep, and I actually dreamed I …