Wendy's Excellent Adventure

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A bit of housekeeping: My friend Lisa gave me the idea to set up a Facebook page for the blog.  So click here to "like" the page...

It's kind of sad that these days I look forward to being at work more than I look forward to weekends. Well, sort of.  If I could sp...

I grew up in a family of sports fans (myself among them).  We watched football, had season tickets to basketball and hockey, played baseball...

  Sometimes I think they've got the right idea in Catholic schools...  As you might have noticed, I updated my reading list to...

I'm 41 today.  Which seems old.  I look back on past birthdays, when the prospect of being in my 40s seemed so remote.  Turning 21 wit...

I'm not a big Valentine's Day person.  I don't hate it or have anything in particular against it.  I'm just indifferent.  Pa...

I'm not really one to listen to music via earbuds or headphones, at least not outside of an airplane.  I get so into the music that it p...

I never played with dolls as a little girl.  I had a Baby Alive once for about 20 minutes, but after the novelty of watching her poop fake b...

The craziness of the beginning of last week continued unabated. First it was supercrazycold and I lost two days of work because I had to s...

There are definite upsides and downsides to being married to a tradesman. The upside is that he knows how to do shit.  Got a new dryer req...

The past two weekends I have taken advantage of J's agreement that in exchange for my efforts during the year and a half he was in Vail,...

Zeke's newest Cool Trick ( TM Yo Gabba Gabba!) is answering the phone.  He's pretty good at pushing the right button and saying ...

Just before the elevator closes, he scoots on.  One of the building security guys.  We nod "hello."  After a few floors of silen...

Last week I had to call the bank that holds the mortgage on our Hawaii house and tell them that I couldn't pay.  Our tenants, who wer...

My dad's brother is in town with his wife (my aunt) and my cousin.  They're staying at the Four Seasons and emailed last week to s...

My life is not peaceful these days.  I'm not saying it's bad or unpleasant, but it's not peaceful.  My daily schedule is jam-pac...

We're sitting in our bed hanging out with Zeke before bedtime.  I'm reading to Zeke while J lies there and listens.  Zeke has had an...

We have a ghost in our house. Mind you, I don't believe in ghosts.  I used to work with a woman who insisted her house was haunted a...

So, yeah.  J went in on Friday and, as expected, was laid off.  Apparently, the guy who was such a dick about the whole workmans comp ...