My daughter and I recently finished up a couple weeks of serving meals at The Hope Center. It was part of her community service requirement for her Citizenship social studies class this year. We put in six hours serving hundreds of chicken patties and hot dogs, huge metal vats of mashed potatoes and green […]
just humor me
Blond and Buff Are Not in My Future
Reality Bites
I was listening to NPR the other morning while coming back from driving my kids to school (those spoiled little brats won’t take the bus anymore) when I heard an interesting little news tidbit: Reality TV is waning. So soon? Gosh, it seems like just yesterday I was riveted by the realistic humans […]
Thriller! Thriller Night
I was groovin’ to Michael Jackson this week. Not new creepy Michael Jackson; young, hip Michael Jackson. If you’ve ever seen the Thriller video – and if you haven’t, you’re either just emerging from a Unibomber shack in the woods or you’re 4 – look at one of the zombies dancing behind Michael. That […]
Cornhole, Schmornhole, It’s Bean Bag Toss To Me
I was reading in the paper yesterday that State Rep. Bill Farmer wants to designate cornhole as the official Kentucky state game. Alrighty, then. For a long time, I thought I was the only one who had heard the term ‘cornhole’ as it referred to something else. Something you wouldn’t play at a picnic, […]
Shop ‘Til You Drop Your Starbucks Cup
I hate to shop. I realize this adds to the list of things that make me not really a girl. The list is short but hefty with evidence. For the most part it’s PG rated, but for reasons you can imagine I won’t list them all here. I could get kicked out of the […]