A whole day without blogging! Oh my! I’d blame it on the apple pie, but I can’t. I did make apple pie on Sunday. It’s now almost gone. I use the recipe on the Pilsbury dough box. Once I made pie from the Silver Palate cookbook. Mr. Geeky hated it. And since he’s the reason…

So, when we last left our heroine, she was attempting to corral the chaos that is her home. Can she do it? Or will the stacks of papers and books and socks(?!) self-organize into a monster of horrifying power? So far, so good. Videos are put away (though some should just be sold). Chairs have…

I took the kids shopping for Halloween costumes this evening. Geeky Boy is wearing the same thing as last year–grim reaper outfit. Geeky Girl, however, is going as Sydney Bristow. First, we went to the Halloween store in the mall. Geeky Girl refused to go in and stood behind a pillar while Geeky Boy and…

I’m on a girly kick. This started a few months ago, sometime over the summer. I started wearing skirts, heels and makeup. It’s really been an evolution, a sort of gradual shift. When I was in college, I rejected all of this stuff. Because, back then, girly stuff was a marker that you accepted the…

Earlier this week, I made a smart playlist of songs I’d never listened to. There were 199 of them! Many of them are Christmas songs and since it’s not Christmas yet, well . . . Some of them I just don’t like and I’m ridding myself of the truly horrible ones. But here’s a list…

There were two good posts from yesterday concerning the defining characteristics of the elite. The first, from Laura at 11D, tries to explain the cultural differences between the elite and the not elite (for lack of a better term). I can completely relate to her situation. We also live in a blue-collar suburb of a…

Yay! I just found out that tickets for Iron & Wine go on sale this weekend. Death Cab for Cutie is playing next week. Why, oh why do they have to have these shows in the middle of the week? Maybe they’ll come back? Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen…

My battery in my car died a few weeks ago and we had it replaced. Unfortunately, we have one of those stereo systems with theft protection. When the power was disconnected, it went into lock mode and of course, since we bought the car used, we don’t have the code to unlock it. So I’ve…

I hate it. Going back to standard time will help temporarily, but eventually, it will always be dark at 6:30 am. And it’s cold. Of course, in anticipation of seriously high fuel bills, we are waiting until the last possible moment to turn on the heat. So far, we haven’t. The coldest it’s gotten is…

That’s my house. Or at least how it feels despite all the organization I’ve done. The amount of stuff coming in and needing to go out is astounding. Seriously. Mail, papers from school all needs to be processed. Garbage, donatations, recycling all need to be taken somewhere. Everywhere I look, there seems to be more…