Put down the iPhone, turn off twitter, close your feed reader…

Shut it all down, shut it all off and go be good to yourself for an hour. You do not have to do that one more thing, take care of this one last item. Just… pause. You’ll thank yourself for it, I promise.

So, anyhow. I was insane busy today and when I finally stopped and looked at the clock and realized it was almost five and I hadn’t eaten and I was feeling like shit, I hit the pause button.

And because I’m retarded I took a video of how my coffee machine makes cappuccino.

And now I’m sharing it with you.

Because coffee makes me happy. And I’m retarded.

Still, I am cleaning and writing reviews, even if I am doing it juiced on Theraflu and VapoRub and wearing a flannel shirt four sizes too big for me.

It’s bad enough my snootch is out of order, I don’t need a cold/flu on top of it, damn it!

And, man, let me tell you, having the snootch out of order is the suck. It’s like it’s sucked everything sexual right out of me.

So I’m on my lunch break, sitting outside on my balcony with the laptoppy, a steaming mug of french vanilla java, homemade chocolate chip cookies, a smoke (yes, I started again. shame. fuck off) and the urge to sigh a big, huge sigh of relief.
You would think that working from home would be easy.
And, yanno, [...]

So I’m an incredibly logical person, yanno?
I know there are shades of gray all over the place and that most people are ruled by their emotions.  I still see things in fairly black and white, logical terms most times.
I’ll argue both sides of the coin more often than not.
And it makes it really, really hard [...]

 
So y’all know I’m a housemouse, right?
 
Being a housemouse, I have no real set bed time or wake up time.  I get up every morning to wake up the Teen but he’s way old enough to shower on his own and get off to school without me having to stay awake — and so I [...]

So today I dug all the weeds out of my garden — which I didn’t plant anything in last year so it had a years worth of weeds in it — and threw down some mulch and planted some seeds in those nifty little dome things in the kitchen.  Shortly I will have tomatoes and [...]

Attention.
We all want some sometimes.
Some of us want more than others.
You know the type.  Attention whores.  
Everything they do is done to garner attention.
It’s another thing I just don’t get.
Now I’m not going to say I never look for attention.  We all do.
Blogging itself is an attention seeking behavior.  We put our lives, our pictures, [...]

So I’m sitting here and Taylor left the t.v. on when he went in the basement.  I never have the t.v. on during the day.  It irritates me.  But anyhow…
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart comes on.  I’m not really paying any attention to the t.v. cuz my desk doesn’t face it and it wasn’t me [...]

“ The  fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
 ~J.B. Priestley

I love snow.
I love sweaters and long johns and coffee [...]

I love Sundays.
Sundays are our “nothing” days.  We lounge around in jammies and do as little as possible.
Sunday’s in the winter are even better cuz it’s cozy and warm in the house and blustery outside and I feel, more so than any other time, the tight knit closeness of our family.
Today the kids Taylor and [...]

…with a pretty package and a catchy name, but Folgers coffee is still Folgers coffee.
Nearly undrinkable, stale and nasty.
“Fresh beans” apparantly means nothing but unground beans and the only person who could possibly find them fresh would have to have been stuck on a deserted island for the past ten years with no coffee at [...]

So…I picked up a pod brewer today. You know, for coffee.And I’m in love.60 seconds to hot, strong, really fucking decent coffee with just the tiniest bit of crema like you get with good espresso.
And it’s only a Mr. Coffee brand. I can’t even imagine how much better the Senseo is – or a Gevalia [...]