Sleep, glorious sleep. Everybody and every body needs it. Your brain definitely needs it. Different ages need different hours – it’s interesting how newborns need about 18 hours per day, and as you get older you need less and less…until you get older, then it reverts back to needing more. Princess Nagger is not a…
Before the holidays I had been doing the usual barrage of shopping for gifts. After a whirlwind of several stops and fruitful shopping, my final stop of the day was a combination of a few returns from what I’d ordered online followed by a perusal through the entire store to buy more gifts (and a…
Everyone has their own unique way of pronouncing things. Depending on where you grew up, where you live, where you’re from, how you learned, the English language is quite diverse. Or at least that’s how it seems. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, we referred to things like Pepsi, Coke, Root Beer, etc. as pop…
When I was growing up, one of my favorite places to shop with my allowance was the 99-cent store. They had signs emblazoned with “All items 99-Cents All the Time!” Of course they did have other items on the tippy-top shelves that were more than 99-cents, which made us kids question (and get no answers)…
Holy cow this week went by fast, didn’t it? Forget about the week, this year has gone by fast. I’m almost done with my Christmas shopping – usually I try to have all of the shopping done by Thanksgiving so I can spend the weeks leading up to Christmas wrapping presents and enjoy the…
One week from today we’ll all be lamenting our over-indulgence the day before (or not), and quite possibly a number of you will be in crowds like this: I haven’t decided if I’m going to join the masses or not. I did it a couple of times years ago, but both times swore I’d never…
Can you believe that Thanksgiving is a mere two-weeks away? Well, if you want to be technical about it, it’s really only 13 days away. I love Thanksgiving. It’s kind of a bummer that Thanksgiving tends to get pushed to the background now that Christmas starts loading up the shelves at or before Halloween. I…
