The Wheel & Me

When The Teacher Girl moved back home to do her student-teaching gig, she got me hooked on Wheel of Fortune.  Every night, we’d watch it together, solving puzzles, shouting out letters, yelling at contestants.  It is a well-known fact around here, that I cannot be beat.  Why?  Three reasons.  I love words.  I’ve cracked the … Read more

The Closing

The Big Daddy and I closed last week on the Refi.  We had to go to a title company to do it because banks don’t do that sort of thing any more.  They do the gathering of info, crunching of the numbers, stamp it approved, and then send you off somewhere else to close the … Read more

The Wild One

Last week, I started writing a post about where I write.  Specifically, how the room that I write in is a hangout for the animals.  How, even at this very moment, the dog is licking the carpet driving me up the fricking wall.  How Beamer the Wonder Cat sits on the desk with all the … Read more

Comments

Sometimes when I read news stories, I scroll down to view some of the comments.  Geez Louise..  When my own piece ran in the KC Star, some of the comments were eye-opening.  I guess when you’re anonymous and sitting in your underpants at the computer all day, you can be an idiot, but here’s some … Read more

The Week In Pictures

It’s been a long summer around here with way too much ice cream.  I said to Junior, “How about we all go out and get some exercise?” Source: reddit.com via A Speckled Trout on Pinterest   I said, “Mullet, shmullet, put Sissy behind my behind and let’s get a move on.” Source: theblonde.wordpress.com via A … Read more

21

Last week was twenty-one years since my dad died.  I can tell you in vivid detail what that day was like.  I can tell you about waking from a sound sleep by a ringing phone, that the soul can fly away before you even put your key in the ignition, that six siblings and their … Read more

9-1-1 Emergency

The Big Daddy was getting ready for work and turned on the t.v.  He likes to have the business channels on so when they interview the “financial analysts”, he can get pissed off first thing in the morning.  They can’t hear you cuz they’re inside the box.  Oh boy, he says the other day, I … Read more