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How do you email to someone you only know through their blog? So far I’ve only gone looking for an email link from a blog in two cases, where I really should be able to figure the email out if I go looking in my ancient email folders. Still, it seems people expect you to be able to contact them, but don’t make the info easy to find. Is there a secret handshake I don’t know about? Alice
T-Day Minus One
On the task list for today – Toast the bread and make cornbread for the dressing. Mix dressing’s dry ingredients in a big bowl with a lid then set aside. Make the cranberry dressing. Take the giblets out of the turkey and cook them up. What?! It’s still frozen?!! Argh. Fine, get giblets out with a chisel, but get them out and cook them up now cause I am NOT getting up a 3am to make the dressing. Not this […]
T-Day Minus Two
You know how Foxworthy likes to do those “You might be a redneck if…” jokes? I’ve got “You might procrastinate too much if…” jokes. You might procrastinate too much if … …the tools you need to get ready for a party include a pumber’s wrench, a screw driver, a hammer, or a paintbrush. … your child’s teacher phones – yes PHONES – to find out where the reports for the last four chapters went, and you only got your hands […]
T-Day Minus Three
I keep thinking of the time my grandmother dropped the turkey as she was bringing it into the dining room. The minister and his family were present along with the president of the women’s relief society. She said she could cry to have to face them with no main course. Luckly Grandma was a smark cookie. She said “Let me go get the other one” as she picked everything up. She took it into the kitchen, cleaned it up, put […]
T-Day Minus Four
Did you hear the one about the woman who decided to try a popcorn dressing in her turkey? She decided to skip a step. She filled the bird with un-popped popcorn. Everything looked fine until the oven door burst open and the turkey shot across the kitchen, spewing popcorn like rocket fuel. She and her family had their Thanksgiving dinner at a Chinese restaurant. . On the task list for today – poke the turkey and see if it’s still […]
T-Day Count Down
I’m hosting Thanksgiving this year, as I have for the last half-dozen. Usually I recruit my mother and sister to help make the meal, but due to health problems it doesn’t look like it this time. Which means it’s up to me and the kids. When faced with a daunting task – make a list. First on the list is a trip to the grocery store. I almost forgot I had to get the turkey with enough time for it […]
Who is Suzy Homemaker?
You may have noticed that some of my blogs are labeled “Suzy Homemaker”. There is a reason for that. Back when I was in Jr. High and High school everyone was required to attend either Home Ec classes or Shop. The thing is the women’s movement had gotten far enough along that the schools could no longer tell you which one to take, based on gender, but everyone expected girls to do Home Ec and boys to do Shop. One […]
Point of View, I Suppose.
Just out of curiosity, how many people think Goldilocks is the heroine in Goldilocks and the three bears? I’d say she’s the villian. Alice
In Search of Perfection
I have decided it isn’t possible to achieve perfection in writing fiction. For one thing, how do you define perfection? I have never yet reached a point in any of my WIPs that I felt nothing needed to be changed. So maybe that’s because I’m still growing as a writer, but maybe not. Maybe it’s because fiction isn’t like accounting. Mind you accounting can be remarkably malleable. But at least there you can come up with a number that can […]
The Answer to Tag
Is #4 “I once gave a gerbil mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.” Haven’t needed to yet. I’m sure hoping I never do. I sold the house for 120% of what I put into it, including purchase price and repairs. In actuality, though the buyers asked to see the house during the yard sale and had obviously made up their minds, they did have an inspector go through and passed a contract back and forth a couple of times so it was a couple […]
My poor, nearly neglected web site.
Someday I will return. I promise. But not with Front Page and not until after I’ve sent in my Golden Heart entry. Tomorrow I’ll give the answers to Tag, I’m It. Alice
Choices, Choices
Amy Garvey on Romancing the Blog has a few things to say about choice. It recalls to mind a trip to the grocery store. Not just any grocery store. Woodman’s in Madison Wisconsin. They make Walmart foods look like a Quickie Mart. Oh, to have a store like that around here. Alice
Tag. I'm It.
Meankitty tagged anyone who played on her … um, his? … blog, so I’m going to go ahead and do it. Here are five “interesting facts” about me, or at least they are facts if you want to look at it that way. One is a complete lie. Can you guess which? 1] I once sold my home in a yard sale. 2] When I turned 13 my hair went from so limp it wouldn’t take a curl to just […]
Let Them Eat Cake
Cat was wondering if anyone had a good, moist chocolate cake recipe. So I asked my mother. She says the recipe on the back of the Hershey’s Cocoa can is her favorite. She went on to say that where it comes to cake you have do a balancing act between ingredients that tenderize and those that provide structure. If you add more of something that tenderizes then you have to also increase whatever gives structure. The tenderizers are oil, shortening, […]
