Lately I’ve been wondering what “normal” means.  I’m told most people eat at an hour earlier than 9:15 for dinner.  Hell, I usually do.  But when I do eat late, is that abnormal? So here’s the deal…I’m going to pose a series of questions and you’ll tell me if it’s normal or abnormal in your [...]

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I have this great post in my head waiting to come out.  But instead I sit here somewhere between thinking and writing, stuck on the inevitable other shoe to drop.  Something will distract me.  That has become the rule of the game as of late and there’s nothing I have been able to do or [...]

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I remember where I was when I heard Princess Diana was killed.  I was at home, at my parents’ house, recovering from having all four impacted wisdom teeth pulled. I remember where I was when 9/11 occurred.  I was at work, leaving a staff meeting, when someone told me what had happened and I called [...]

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This post is a part of 20SB’s Looking Back Blog Carnival, and Ben & Jerry’s is awarding free ice cream to lucky bloggers and readers! ^ That sentence is mandatory to be part of the carnival.  The whole point of the carnival is to post something from the first two months of blogging.  It’s part [...]

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Thoughts in the form of a blogging meme, inspired by this which was inspired by this and which has been copied too many elsewhere for me to keep up with at this present time. I can’t …speak any foreign languages other than French (and even those skills are waning over the years) …focus at work [...]

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Comedy doesn’t just make us laugh, it makes us think and evaluate.  And there have been so many good comedic shows which have made life more enjoyable, more understandable or made the world their oyster.  Here are the Perfectly Cursed Life’s Top Ten Television Comedies of All Time. 10. The Office–The comedy without a laugh [...]

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As if you didn’t see this coming with the mention of “Little Boots,” earlier this week. Come on, admit it…you saw it coming a mile and a half away. Well, I’ll give in to the obligatory admission. Here’s the Little Boots hit “New In Town,” which is plaguing me everywhere I go. (It could be [...]

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This story has gotten me thinking about unintended consequences.  The story, briefly, is that a high school student, walking across stage for graduation, blows a kiss to his family and his principal denies him his diploma.  Suddenly, what was supposed to be a great event turns out to be a big let down.  The kid [...]

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…because my mind is mush and my leg is still swollen. I came up with a new saying today.  If you want to explain something that’s fast, you can say “faster than a cat on fire.”  I’ve never seen a cat on fire, but seeing how my cat Spencer reacts to having a piece of [...]

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Perhaps I shouldn’t joke about breaking my arm to pat my back, because it’s likely that I’d accidentally do something like that.  I’ve seen too many medical professionals lately, and I’m getting sick of waiting rooms and year old copies of National Geographic.  Although I don’t like my job, I’m sick of leaving early to [...]

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