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It’s not a riddle, it’s a legitimate question.
I haven’t been following the whole crazies-down-in-Texas thing too closely, until today, when I read up a little on the madness going on down in Cultville. Here’s what I’m thinking:
1. Teenage girls marrying grown men is bad.
2. Abuse of any form is bad.
3. [...]

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Here’s what I think about Dancing With the Stars, a show that I’ve never watched but thoroughly judge with harsh and hateful eyes.
Dancing With the Stars, heretoforewith known as Solid Gold With Formerly Famous People (SGWFFP) is kinda crap. And you know it. Yes, even you, the ones who cry over uplifting dances [...]

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I know you’re here. I can see you. Well…not see per se but I know who you are. So let me address some of your search phrases right now. We’ll clear the crazies out with one swoop:

“sweaty girls”
Thanks. I try.

“what are the crackers with rachel ray on the box”
Let me [...]

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If you are atheist, agnostic, voo-doo believing, heathen or a worshipper of Zeus, click here.
If you come from the traditional Christian faith and are 100% sure everything you believe is 100% true and you never have and never will doubt anything ever and don’t ever question me because I know I’m right and you’ll go [...]

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Hey ladeeeeez….this one’s for you.
First off, Happy Mother’s Day to you and yo mamas. Being a mutha is hard, yo. Half dream job, half prison sentence, motherhood is a complicated adventure. So is fatherhood, but it’s not June so let’s forget the babydaddies for a minute.
Excuse me for a moment while I [...]

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…but I *hate* Pride and Prejudice.

“I say, do you believe the rain shall make the flowers grow?”

“Quite. One is most pleased by the flowers in bloom.”

“Indeed. One is most certainly pleased.”
I’m quite the fan of quiet BBC films. I’m like a little old lady in this respect. Give me Miss Marple [...]

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Dear Diary,
I am getting SICK AND TIRED of OSAMA!!!! GRRRRRRRRRR! I told Osama/bama that I was going to Selma. Me. And what does that fool do? Steal my thunder. My great-big-African American thunder. Even after I leaked the slave story. First he stole my Hollywood [...]

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It’s time for another invented queme. Quiz + meme. (I change the name of these things everytime I do them…that’s what makes them fun.)
Ten Unexpected Things
This one is different. It’s not ten things you don’t know about me, or ten ways that I’m better than you. This is ten things it [...]

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Homeschool kids require socialization. Yes? Yes. So we signed our babies up for a little Bible club called AWANAS. Don’t make fun, they love it. Yes, they wear dorky little vests. Yes, they earn goofy little patches which I sew on with my craptactular sewing skills. And yes, [...]

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Otherwise titled: Confessions of a Newly Minted Weather Snob

Run for your lives y’all! It’s 32 degrees!!!!!!
San Antonio has to shut down the highways, schools and all forms of San Antonian merriment during a freeze. This is because the city does not have the de-icing capablilities it would take to make [...]

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