tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19304066478642755602024-03-13T22:33:53.806-04:00Channeling Dorothy Parker"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words." DPJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-46087209246167400522009-05-19T12:52:00.001-04:002009-05-19T12:53:41.938-04:00Free ArtGo see my friend Delilah at The Unruly Helpmeet. She is giving away free art!Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-44000567208086662112009-05-13T21:07:00.005-04:002009-05-15T09:31:32.874-04:00PulpPulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies. I love the timing of it, the back and forth from future to past to present so that you aren't really certain where you are in the story until the end. The acting is incredible as well. So I own a copy, of course, and there are deleted scenes on the end, of course. I think this one is a little gem and love the questions that Mia asks of Vincent... OhJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-8530476938974645512009-05-12T13:51:00.002-04:002009-05-12T14:03:12.886-04:00Blog SchitzophreniaOK, I have been a terrible blogger. Mostly because I haven't been able to decide on a genre, I think. I am NOT a knit blogger, because I just don't produce enough. I knit here and there and occasionally DO finish something, so I think I may continue to share those few and far between finished objects here for those of you who care. But I really don't think it is interesting to note that I Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-17761453171628331142009-05-11T18:50:00.005-04:002009-05-11T19:47:42.938-04:00Bawls*Notice - this post is going to be a little more risque and foul mouthed than usual, so if this is going to offend, please stop now. Don't flame me in the comments when I have given you ample warning!My friend Katiri had a teaser of a post wondering about the appropriateness of using the word pussy. It is really a word I think is only appropriate in the bedroom and not a word to be used in a Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-30556607495559171262009-04-15T16:47:00.002-04:002009-04-16T11:48:27.926-04:00THE Great ReadDo you have any books that you re-read over and over again? And I don't mean the ones that your children might make you read for them. I think a book that you dive into more than once is the sign of a great read. The story never gets old, even when you know how it is going to end. I thought I would share a few of my favorites with you - and hope that some of you might give me your favorites.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-9252698203866545892009-04-05T23:22:00.002-04:002009-04-05T23:27:29.299-04:00BlindnessI just finished reading Blindness by Jose Saramago. Amazing book. Although I did it backwards. I saw the movie first (imagine me hiding under a chair in embarrassment here). I have to admit, the movie was incredibly true to the book and I think I liked it better than the book. It may have been the writing style. It was kind of free flowing, no paragraph breaks or quotation marks to break upJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-29864823434203591332009-02-26T11:32:00.002-05:002009-02-26T12:00:38.558-05:00A Special Place in HellEven though I don't believe in hell, I think there must be a special place for those lost souls that light other people on fire - or throw hot grease on , dip in boiling water, or put their body parts on hot stove/oven/grill surfaces.Can you tell I am still spending far too much time working in the Burn Unit? Special kind of evil, there. Shooting someone? Stabbing someone even? But to BURN Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-87079119012444033302009-02-22T19:55:00.000-05:002009-02-22T20:10:21.954-05:00FO: ClapotisDo not get excited. I finished this last summer, but I finally have some great pictures of my goddaughter in it. Pattern: Clapotis by Kate GilbertYarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Luscious Single Silk in Rook-YMods - noneProblems? Um, had an issue with dropping one of the stitches down and ended up having to cut a bar of yarn and then spit splice it back together. I think she likes it. Her mom saysJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-11837410658370214642009-02-21T16:17:00.000-05:002009-02-21T16:57:44.792-05:00Do not read if the f-bomb is going to offend...I am in my winter slump. After the holidays I can't seem to get anything done. It is the same way every year but for some reason I forget about it until I am in it again. And fucking February is the worst of it. The crocuses and the daffodils are blooming, but in case you haven't heard, people, IT IS STILL FUCKING WINTER and I HATES it. This pervades my entire existence. So I haven't Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-21365181172325334712008-12-17T17:38:00.000-05:002008-12-17T17:59:36.993-05:00All Time Favorite GiftsNora wrote this post about favorite gifts you have given or received. I loved the idea and I have been dredging up the ghosts of Christmas past to come up with my favorites...1. Last Christmas my mom put a black shawl on her Christmas list. Just one to throw over her shoulders in her cold church on Sunday mornings. She was never so surprised at a gift than when she unwrapped one that I knit Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-92060796919840422662008-12-16T22:50:00.001-05:002008-12-16T22:55:37.157-05:00A Finished ObjectThis little sweater has been done for awhile, but I finally managed to get Paddy-O to upload the camera so that I could share a photo...The Wonderful Wallaby knit for the Sproglette from Blue Faced Leicester hand-dyed in the Coastal Sunset colorway by Morwenna at Mosaic Moon. Took me about 3 weeks of bus knitting to knock this little baby out. She had the gall to say to me afterwards that she Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-58620040092693263032008-11-14T12:49:00.000-05:002008-11-14T13:05:04.285-05:00An old love...I am so bad at this blogging thing. Mostly, I think, because I have had so little to say and yet my life has been so full.But one thing I wanted to share is that I seem to have found my reading mojo again. It has been gone since Sproglette was born over 4 years ago. Gone in a bad way. See, I used to read constantly. Ever since I learned to read I have always had a book with me. They were myJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-82905373479382231912008-10-16T16:32:00.000-04:002008-10-16T16:50:15.210-04:00Book ReviewHave you read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein? I always thought, as a child, that it was a lovely lesson in giving and being selfless. We read it to kids at summer camp as councilors to teach about sharing and as a parable of Christ's sacrifice for humanity.I pulled out my old ratty copy the other night to read to the Sproglette. As I turned the pages I grew more and more horrified. That Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-82783671326696875072008-10-16T15:55:00.000-04:002008-10-16T15:56:37.312-04:00More Politics...This is hysterical...Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-72243265172437999602008-10-15T23:41:00.000-04:002008-10-15T23:42:22.442-04:00What ICU Nurses Think About...Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-11830204494861120652008-09-30T19:10:00.000-04:002008-09-30T19:15:09.068-04:00teeny school rant...OK, what responsible adult thinks that putting a sharp, real, metal paring knife in the hand of my just-turned-four year old is a good idea?Fortunately, the pediatrician said she didn't need stitches in the flap of skin she cut off while cutting veggies for soup at school today. That's right. School. Now I admit to knowing about the knives, but I was assured that the knives were for the "olderJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-22569913487599797792008-09-30T19:02:00.000-04:002008-09-30T19:10:02.909-04:00teeny work rant...So I am in the Intensive Care Unit float pool at work. That means that on a given day I go to whichever ICU or stepdown unit needs me. As of today, I also may be called upon to work in the Emergency Department (ED). As I am getting paid an insane amount of money (in nursing standards) to do this, I am trying to go with the flow.But as I toured the ED here all I could think was how crowded, Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-51030101086246464152008-09-28T13:49:00.000-04:002008-09-28T14:07:03.656-04:00Musings on Mothering part 1You know those women that seem born to be a mother? My sister in law is one. Four kids. When the twins were born, their older sister was almost 11 months old, and their older brother had just turned three. I know now that I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old that I would not have survived it. Folks, I would have dropped my basket for real. There is no way, no how, that I would have been Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-41957107181291270462008-09-25T15:24:00.000-04:002008-09-25T15:25:14.185-04:00The Fairy Tale They Should Have Told UsFrom my friend Gigi...Once upon a time, in a land far away...A beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle.The frog hopped into the princess' lap and said "Elegant lady, I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-69366391302623981852008-09-25T14:29:00.000-04:002008-09-25T14:40:47.427-04:00Politics...I promise I am not going to do this, well, not often anyway...But here are just two little nuggets from me on the current political scene...One is from my friend Jon...The other is my observation that Sarah Palin is disturbingly reminiscent to Dolores Umbridge. OK, maybe she doesn't exactly look like her, but she sure is acting like her!Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-22045674340587787962008-09-21T16:33:00.000-04:002008-09-21T16:42:09.216-04:00A Door ObsessionI found this at work the other day...You will have to excuse the poor quality picture, I only had my phone to take a picture with. I don't go armed with the big gun camera to take care of sick people. I usually don't have time for lunch, but this door to nowhere really grabbed my psyche and I couldn't stop going to the end of the hall to look at it. In case you can't tell, it is a door, on theJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-48645954424366872522008-09-10T13:57:00.001-04:002008-09-10T14:00:06.419-04:00How Crazy am I? Personality Disorder Test Results Paranoid |||||| 30% Schizoid |||||||||||||||| 62% Schizotypal |||||||||||||| 54% Antisocial |||||||||||||| 58% Borderline |||||||||||| 46% Histrionic |||||| 30% Narcissistic |||||||||||| 46% Avoidant |||||||||| 34% Dependent |||||| 26% Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||||| 54% Take Free Personality Disorder Testpersonality tests byJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-83020564417850243492008-09-08T11:46:00.000-04:002008-09-08T11:58:32.795-04:00A New BeginningThe school year has begun. The Sproglette is going to a local waldorf school five mornings a week and it is bliss. She happily skips off to change from her sparkly pink shoes (so un-waldorf) into the slippers she wears in the classroom. She likes her teacher and is getting into the rhythm of the day.I have to admit to being a bit apprehensive. She is the youngest child in the class of 4-6 year Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-78136612146448308772008-08-27T21:40:00.001-04:002008-08-27T21:50:27.433-04:00PSAI thought that we had made it clear to our families, four years ago, that plastic toys - especially talking, beeping, noisy ones - were verboten as gifts to our children. Well evil found its way into our home tonight, wrapped in "happy birthday" paper. Let me introduce you to the "Diego Talking Rescue Pack" Look at the picture. Look at it hard. Memorize this. Do not, I repeat, do not, allow Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930406647864275560.post-66363567548852082762008-08-27T16:38:00.000-04:002008-08-27T17:04:04.846-04:00The Best and the WorstTwo years ago today, this little sweetheart entered the world. Not without putting mama through the wringer first though... I think he has made up for it by begin the sweetest, cuddliest, most even-tempered baby/child since. With the Sproglette, I had a pretty zen labor - as zen as you can get after 66 hours. Booker's labor felt wrong. I just knew something was not right in there. I spent 7 Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04757517324745963050noreply@blogger.com0