A Few Notes From The Trip, Including What The Presents Were

I hope that’s a good picture, I had to go online to find one since nobody’s around to take one for me right now and I don’t trust myself to get one with the whole cover visible. Anyway, what I hope you’re looking at is the cover of the book my brother got me for …

Thoughts Knocking Around In My Head

I have more random thoughts. I must be in a thoughtful mood since I’m here all alone. Maybe it keeps me from talking to myself if I write on the blog. Na, I’d probably talk to myself anyway, and hey, if I’m talking, I could be talking to the Trixter. What I did find myself …

An Early Merry Christmas

Well, today’s the day. In a few hours I’ll be heading out for 10 days of birthday/holiday season insanity disguised as a Christmas vacation. By the way, if you need something else to read,here’s an old post I wrote about why I hate the term Christmas vacation and the troubling concept of frozen SpaghettiOs. But …

I’m Running Out Of Names For These Thought Posts

Here comes another thought splatter. Enjoy. Silly Trixie has a new morning habit. She usually sleeps out in her bed in the living room. I have no idea why. But at some point in the night, she gets up and comes to the bed by me. But she used to just come in and lay …

Another One In The This Stuff Only Happens To Carin Files

Something weird happened to me that I’m amazed doesn’t happen more often. I was walking down the street. I knew I was close to a store that I wanted to go into, but I didnt’ feel like opening every door going “Excuse me, are you Store X?” So I did what I always do. I …

Facebook Meets Faceless Insurance Company

This is so depressing. On one hand, it took a lot for me to even look at this story, because I didn’t want to read about a company being such pricks. But that’s exactly why I needed to look at this, and post about it. Nathalie Blanchard was off on sick leave because she was …

Christmas Ramblings

I figured I’d write a few Christmas-related thoughts. Holy crap, I’m actually getting my Christmas shopping in order. I just need to pick up a few things, and get a couple more ideas, and I’ll be done. Of course, a lot of this stuff has to come through the mail…so there’s still a lot of …

They Like Us! They Really Really Like Us!

Ro gave us a Thanksgiving award thingy. What a sweety. I swear we’re the same person sometimes. I’m happy we never scared her away way back when she started reading our crazy stuff. So the rules are you’re supposed to pass this award on to five other blog authors who you think deserve a little …