Well, I did it:  I bought myself an early birthday present!

I was SO sick of not having a cell phone, and this one came with double minutes for life, so it’s turned out to be a good deal financially for me.   Granted, it’s not as significant as, say, making sure my home owner insurance premium […]

As if Monday’s encounter with the bureaucrats from Hell wasn’t bad enough, I had to return to the State Office building today.  I swear these people need to play yoga DVDs on some kind of continuous loop to keep we mere mortals from going insane.
Next Wednesday (March 12th) is my 50th birthday. In West […]

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but if you’re a bureaucrat, I can’t stand you.
Nothing personal, mind you, but you work for a system that is designed to frustrate, aggravate, and belittle the rest of us. You are the tool of the devil.
Have you figured out yet that I had a rather nasty […]

I have to admit it:  I’m more than a little frightened by this latest development.
Every time I go into the bathroom now for any reason at all, the bird flies onto the top of my head.  No, really — he sits on my head and plays with my hair.  Then he flies back to his […]

It’s been exactly a year since I first wrote a post and entered my activity within the blogosphere.
The reason I began this adventure is directly tied to my dear friend Marisa.  She had, of course, been blogging for years, and she had told me many times about the money she made, the friends she met, […]