My fantasy WILL CRUSH your fantasy

I was prattling about Twitter one dayChatting in my catty, catty way When I was taken by surprise By a blogging blogger guyyy…And it got me to avoid work all day!
More to the non-rhyming point, the Beehive’s witty and ever-so in touch Mike Osegueda (elsewise known as Oz) threw [...]

OhGAWD– That’s ME?!

My biggest fear about growing old was growing boring. As I watched my parents age, it seemed to me they never did ANYTHING. I mean, they went to school events and drove us places. They went to church. But they never actually DID anything, you know, FUN. And from my 13-year old perspective, it seemed [...]

Help a Mutha Out: Random notes on saving money

My ridiculous MUST SAVE MONEY FOR GAS price shopping has taken me across town to all kinds of stores, clipping coupons from the paper, scouring sales ads in print and online and hunting high and low in-market to find the best deals available.
It’s not that I am cheap.
It’s that I hate finding out I spent [...]

How not to manage your finances

1) Visualize that your ATM card is connected to a gigantic pit of money.
2) Use the little transaction record book to balance out the wobbly leg on your kitchen table.
3) Go out to movies, buy new clothes, and sign up [...]

Faces of Goodbye

The blood pulsed through my head like a bullet train.
I was sitting on the floor in the bathroom, staring at my wall but not really seeing it. The little plastic stick sat feather-like in my hand, yet the blue plus sign at its tip weighed a thousand tons. My vision was swirling as my world [...]