Super Bowl Sunday

I’m not one for watching the Super Bowl.  Not even when I was living in the Chicago area and the Bears made (and won!) the Super Bowl.  Football (and well, any sport really) just isn’t my thing for watching.
But one thing I love is seeing all the yummy snacks people come up with for Super [...]

Techniques for Building Self Esteem

A while ago, Starfish asked for techniques for evicting negative voices when they showed up.    So, here goes my ideas!
Please remember that I am not a trained anything (counselor, psychiatrist, etc) and so these suggestions I make are only that, suggestions.  They are what has helped me in the past, and still help me today.  [...]

It must be a slow news day

You’d think with all the changes President Obama is making, they’d not rehash old news.
Apparently, the Today Show is reporting on the adenovirus that may increase people’s chances of “catching teh fatz!”
For once in my life, I actually wrote on something BEFORE it became the newest thing!   Fat Virus?  At the time I wrote on [...]

Miss America, 2009

After a long day Saturday (up at 6:15am, finally to bed at midnight or so), I had planned to sleep in on Sunday.  I managed to do just that, until the power went off.  I use a CPAP to sleep at night (altitude induced sleep apnea), and when the CPAP went off with the power, [...]

Saturday Fluff — Video game review

This is an old video game, it’s been around for years on Neopets.  The game is called Ice Cream Machine.
Now, with a name like that, you would think the story going with the game would be about making ice cream, maybe the ice cream machine goes haywire or something.  But no.
Ice Cream Machine:
Adee the [...]

The Trouble with Falling off the Horse

Is that it’s so hard to get back on.
For me, self-esteem isn’t easy.  I had to fight for every inch of ground I took.  It took many years to get to the point I’m usually at, and I’m usually happy I’ve gotten this far.  The problem is, when I fall off that horse, it’s so [...]

Better Dead Than Fat

I like reading the search engine searches that lead people to my blog.  Sometimes, it’s entertaining to figure out how a search engine would use the criteria and point to me, like the one for “carribean fruitcake”.   Then there are the WTF moments, like the one asking for a specific porn. 
But then, there are the ones [...]

“I Have a Dream”

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr said those historic words.   His dream was one that many people thought impossible to see in their lifetime.  I wasn’t even born yet, and have only seen the old tapes of that speech, heard other orators give it on Marting Luther King day.
Today, we in America celebrate a [...]

Saturday Fluff — A mix of things

I know I’ve not been writing regularly since the holidays.  I apologize. 
The holidays were filled to the brim with doing stuff and visiting people, which is the way holidays should be, but makes internet time difficult.  Add into that one elderly aunt-in-law going to the hospital twice in a two weeks span, and numerous doctors [...]

Mirror Image

I’ve been going to physical therapy for a while now for my left elbow.  It’s being a pain.  Literally.
First, I thought it was tendinitis, because it felt similar to something I had in my left knee during the summer.  Only, in my elbow.  It turns out it’s actually tennis elbow and it’s taking longer to [...]