Play Time

They say that a person enters their second childhood when they hit old age, but anybody who looks in my bedroom would think I’ve either never left childhood, or I’m prematurely old.
I have a collection of at least a hundred stuffed animals.  Besides the ones I sleep with (a teddy bear, a siberian tiger, a [...]

I Have No Words

To express the horror and grief I feel about the death of somebody I’ve never met.  Never even heard of until today, as I was surfing the internet.  Y’all might have heard of this story, but this is the first I heard of it.
Back on November 29, in the UK, a man by the name [...]

“All Animals are Equal but Some Animals are More Equal than Others.”

After a couple of days of looking at different stores, MiL finally found an oven today.  It’s a convection oven, with a ceramic/glass top.  It’s got way more bells and whistles than I’ll probably ever use, but MiL’s niece convinced her to go with the convection, saying it’ll help the resale value of the house.   [...]

Learning how to eat

One of the things that always amazes me is that I don’t really know how to eat.  Or maybe, the more correct term would be I don’t really know how to taste.  Or maybe the most correct idea is that I don’t know what really satisfies me.  Let me use an example of the hot [...]

Easy stove top cooking?

Yesterday, while making meatloaf and potatoes, the oven decided it needed to retire.  It just stopped working.  Luckily, even though the meat had been in the oven  for 45 minutes, it was barely warm, and I was able to make “hamburger meatloaf” for dinner by turning the barely warm meatloaf into patties and frying them [...]

Forgiveness

One lesson my parents taught me, and that I learned well, in my childhood was that I’m not worthy of forgiveness.  I’m not worthy of anybody forgiving me, even myself.  Part of this was the expectation of perfection.  I was never perfect (who in this world is).  I always made mistakes.  And worse, I was [...]

Russian comments?

I keep getting comments, in Russian, for one of my posts.  I’ve been deleting them because I don’t speak or read Russian.
Yes, I do try to have babelfish or some other online translator translate, but for the most part, a LOT gets lost in the translation.
Anybody else having a flurry of non-english comments on your [...]

Off to a Very Late Start Today

So I’ll be just giving some links today, instead of a real post.   I’ll be back to normal on Friday!
Intellegent Protocol has a post on the Ad-36 virus that dissects the study much better than I ever could have done.
Both Shapely Prose and The Rotund have posts on ‘fat Barbies’ and advertisement campaigns.
Both Shapely Prose and The-F-Word.org are talking about [...]

It’s not ethical, but why should that stop them?

Psychology Today is running a story about instilling false memories in people, and how that might help them lose weight.
“Although it’s not ethical to create false memories in people, making an association between eating a fattening food and getting ill may be beneficial,” says Elke Geraerts, a psychologist from St. Andrews and lead author on one of [...]

Snow Day

It has snowed here the last couple of days.  Not enough to amount to anything, the city hasn’t even sent people out to sand the streets.  During the days it has gotten warm enough that most of the snow has melted off the streets anyway.  But it sure is pretty.
Last night we had more snow.  Powder is what they [...]