Happy Hallowe’en!

Last night the Great Pumpkin brought us the news that our house is now worth £15,000 more than it was when we bought it.  Thank you Great Pumpkin!
Last night I also baked a ton of sugar cookies with grey icing with the assistance of my friend Paula and the unassisstance of the 2 bottles of [...]

There comes a time

when you look at yourself (and by you I mean me) and realise that your gut has gotten, maybe, possible, the tiniest bit out of control.  And this will cause lamentations because you are prone to breaking when you exercise, and, as we all know, exercise tends to help guts reduce.  So you make a [...]

Carolyn is full of hate

I am grouchy today.  I am not totally over the cold that kept me in bed all day yesterday and I would really rather be at home but I am not sick enough to be at home and as the supervisory type person I have to set a good example and I hate setting a [...]

Bringin’ da culture, bringin’ da noiz

I need to figure out a more street way to write culture.  Maybe with a k?
Anyhow, this past weekend Jeremy and I decided to be tourists in London which meant, among other things, going to look at art.  We saw the current exhibit at the Royal Academy and it was really good.  I’ll be honest and [...]

Odds and ends

I just bought the new TV on the Radio album Dear Science and have become obsessed with the song Family Tree.  I think I listened to it three times in a row this morning and would have played it again if the damn UPS man hadn’t showed up.  He wasn’t even bringing me presents, just [...]

Oh, snap!

Plans for Thanksgiving are afoot!  How better to celebrate surviving that first bitter American winter than by going to a roller disco?  There is no better way!  Turkey pales in comparison to roller skates and disco music!
i cannot wait.

Random

I am on day 2 sans painkillers.  This is not to say that I am sans pain, oh no, that would be asking too much.  But I am at a low enough level of pain that I do not require the stomach killing Cocodamol!  Hooray!
There is a small kitchen / tea point at my office [...]

a song i like

I don’t much care for Snow Patrol, but this song kills me.  I think it’s the addition of Martha Wainwright that does it

What should I be for Halloween?

The headless nun of Nunhead?
Sarah Palin?

Either would be relatively easy, although I’m not entirely sure how Palin makes her hair do that.

Shameful moments in expatriate grammar history

So yesterday I was doing some knitting and watching some X Factor (because I am your English grandmother) when the following commercial came on:

Upon watching this commercial I said the following to Jeremy:
“That’s him from the Sex Pistols, isn’t it?”
 Jeremy just stared at me and said, “Yes.” And then I realized [...]