by Lovely on November 26, 2011
I’m a resource hound. I collect patterns, books, materials, how-to stuff for crafts, writing advice and books. I subscribe to blogs and read guru advice on just about any topic that tickles my fancy from decorating to writing to how-to-live-a-good-life.
Yes, I admit that I read self-help stuff and what I call guruing (pronounced grew-ing).
Guruing: Advice and how-to ramblings from self proclaimed gurus.
And have you noticed just how many self-help-live-the-good-life gurus are online these days? There’s a nonconformity guy, a getting-things-done guy, an itty-biz gal, a big leap dude and a gazillion folks telling you how to get rich with a blog or two or three.
Most of the gurus have tidbits here and there that can improve whatever it is they’re guruing on about. That’s why I read ‘em, right?
You have to be careful with these gurus, though. Some of them are sooooo good at pushing those emotional buttons and manipulating their readers.
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by Lovely on October 9, 2011
The USPS is going down because they hate their customers. It’s true, read on for the evidence.
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by Lovely on September 17, 2011
HGTV's 2011 Design Star Winner, Meg Caswell
Confession. I stopped watching this season’s HGTV Design Star around the third or fourth episode. Same with the Next Food Network Star. As I said before, these kinds of competition shows were stressing me out and I didn’t need that.
Just now, though, I caught the Design Star finale followed by Meg Caswell’s new show, Great Rooms. She did a kitchen and OMG I love it!
Congratulations, Meg! You obviously deserved the win. Oh, and please, please, please come to Colorado and do my kitchen!
by Lovely on September 3, 2011
LC has white whiskers. She has grown into those huge ears. (iPhone photo)
One fine Sunday in July, hubs and I went out to breakfast. On the way home, we spotted a yard sale and swerved through traffic to get to it.
That’s where we found a cage full of kittens – among them was LC (Little Cat). ~~>
Aw, she cuddled instantly and was only $15. How could I possibly resist? “Pay the nice girl,” I told hubs.
The quickest way to torpedo a budget is to adopt a kitten. To really blow it up, adopt two!
When LC turned out to be so sweet and so well behaved – not one piddle on the floor, and when she was clearly lonely at home alone* while the humans are at work all day, we went back the following week to adopt her equally sweet sister – who we aptly named Sister.
Yep, that’s what we did. Me, the one who wants to save every dime for our next home. Me, the one who constantly harps about being realistic and frugal. Me, the one who makes fun of people who do stupid stuff like this.
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by Lovely on July 24, 2011
We took mom to breakfast yesterday and true to form she started complaining. Yesterday’s bitch session included the ever fun topic of kids-these-days. Kids have no respect for their elders, mom said. I guess some youngster had the audacity to call her by her first name last week. How dare they! It’s ma’am, damn it!
I just laughed. It’s the best way to deal with mom’s bitch sessions.
Then I remembered the first time some youngin’ called me ma’am. I swear, I wanted to slap the fresh-faced little kid. I was in my 30′s at the time and I think the kid was 10 or 11.
Ma’am is something you called old ladies. I am was certainly not old. Don’t you dare call me ma’am!
So, yeah, it probably isn’t American kids-these-days being disrespectful to their elders. I think adults stopped teaching kids to say ma’am and sir, because adults don’t want to feel like elders.
I mean, I’m positive the kid sensed my reaction. I recovered the best I could and told him to call me by my first name. He did, but prefaced it with Miss from then on. That was sure better than ma’am! His parents were old-fashioned and strict. I’m sure the kid continued to address women that way. But any other kid, who got a reaction like mine, may have thought twice about using the word ma’am ever again.
It makes me wonder what else we give kids mixed signals on based on the generation we belong to. Maybe we should blame their behavior on adults-these-days.
