Automatically flushing toilets. Ok, I can see the point. But do they have to flush THREE times while I’m sitting there?
That is all. Carry on.

Over on that’s my answer today, one of Indigo’s questions was “What’s your favorite comic strip?” My first thought was, “Yay! Fun question!” My subsequent thoughts were all to the tune of, “How the heck can I pick A favorite?”
I mean, there’s Doonesbury with wicked political humor. And Cathy with her “that is so like [...]

Or apparently not, in my case. I’ve always maintained that I didn’t feel as old as my drivers license claims I am. According to this quiz, it’s worse than I thought… I thought I was 30-something. This is a pretty darn big spread, seeing as I turn 50 in 69 days.

You Act [...]

…has taken a left turn somewhere. We’ve turned into the kind of people we shouldn’t want to be when we start treating American citizens like terrorists simply because of their heritage.
Ramak Fazel had a fabulous idea. He’d do something with his childhood stamp collection… see the country and turn the stamps into art. [...]

a meme from Five on Fridays…
1. What is your favorite hot beverage? Chai. Used to be, I thought the idea of putting milk in tea was totally horrifying. In an EWWWWW kind of way. But once I tried it, I was hooked!
2. Describe your favorite hot food? It depends. Do [...]

I’m finding there are some of these that are really fun! This one is called the 5-Book Meme, where you grab a sentence from each of five books and turn them into a paragraph. Here’s my paragraph:
The back of the table captain’s cream-colored evening jacket had just turned away when Stephen Hopkins leaned [...]

Picked this one up from Kwizgiver, who swiped it from Cat. And for the record, I also made a post on my art blog, too.
1. EVER BEEN GIVEN AN ENGAGEMENT RING? yes
2. LONGEST RELATIONSHIP? nine and a half years and counting
3. LAST GIFT YOU RECEIVED? a cassette tape deck for my PC
4. EVER DROPPED [...]

Psych!
I don’t make resolutions any more. Why bother? It’s a set up for a let down, if you ask me. Why say I’m going to exercise every day, when I know I’m not going to go out of my way to exercise until the weather turns nice again? Why say I’m [...]