I like Thanksgiving.  We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in England, so the holiday is still somewhat of a novelty to me.  I take the holiday somewhat seriously, and in that spirit I've made a list of the things I'm thankful for. I'm thankful that I'm not alone for this holiday.  I spent last Thanksgiving separated from the ones I love the most, and it was, to be blunt, a sucky holiday.  So, I'm thankful that my husband is home this year (he has to work, but that's okay, we c...

I don't have anything to write about, so I'm going to write about nothing. This weekend was an exercise in relaxation.  We ordered chinese takeout, watched TV, slept in.  We were going to take the kids to the movies to see 'The Incredibles', but one of them decided to be obnoxious - so we decided that we weren't going to reward bad behaviour and we all stayed home. D and I spent some quality time together after the kids had gone to bed Friday and Saturday night.  Things have...

My husband got himself a blogging ID a few months back.  He did it so that he could respond to my articles when he was in the Arctic and I was in the US...it was another method of communication for us. Since he got back, he hasn't used it. I'm trying to persuade him to start.  I think that there are some fabulous folks here, people that he'd do really well with.  I think that he's incredibly intelligent and that more than a few people here would be interested in what he...

A few weeks ago, I advertised for a grandparent.  I lost all of mine when I was younger, and I wanted to adopt one.  Manopeace applied for the position, and was immediately hired!  He sent me this picture of himself this morning, and graciously agreed that I could share it with y'all.... That's my gramps!!!  Isn't he handsome?!!  

I'm making a big pot of beef stew.  Loaded with carrots and onions in a delicious gravy...the smell permeating my house is wonderful.  Add to that the aroma of home-made bread-bowls baking in my oven and you have an idea of what my kitchen smells like! I'd have to say that beef stew is my comfort food.  I remember my mom making it on cold and snowy days...coming home from school, walking into a warm and fragrant kitchen...nothing could compare to that.  If I'm stressed or ...

I applied for a job today. It was a spur of the moment decision.  I'm happy staying at home, but I have always said that if the right job came along at the right time I'd be just as happy going back to work. I think the right job has come open. It's a receptionist/secretarial position in a chiropractor's office.  The Dr also practices holistic therapies and is looking to branch out into Oriental medicine.  I'm pretty familiar with holistic medicine and chiropractic c...

The current consensus seems to be that once this election is over, a lot of blog sites will cease to exist, because people will have nothing left to talk about. Will JU fall prey to this phenomenon?  Are we really so politically charged that once the results are in we all shut up and fade away? I don't think so.  I think that the people here are multi-faceted.  I think that there is more to us than our political persuasions.  I think the the JU community is strong now, ...

I've been wonder who's been reading me....not the regular JoeUsers, but people who, for whatever reasons, make a point of coming here to read the garbage I turn out on a regular basis. I'm going to leave this article open...anonymous users can respond too....so, if you're one of my lurkers, could you please leave me a post?  You don't have to tell me who you are or anything about yourself if you don't want to, just tell me what led you here and why you come back. Registered users...

I don't care what other people think of me. I don't care what other people say about me. I don't care that other people are advocating my demise.  When I first started blogging, such a suggestion would have crippled me emotionally.  I would have been wounded; I would have obsessed about it. Now, I can say with all honesty that I really don't care. If the comment had come from someone I respected, from someone who's opinion I valued or someone who I cared about, then I w...

It seems that we have a blog spamming outbreak on our hands. First, poor Miggy got hit, and she got hit hard.  More than a half-dozn of her articles were violated with spammy trash inviting us to play online poker or order controlled substances via the internet. Miggy fought a good fight, asking them politely to please stop...but to no avail.  They kept on. Today, I saw 3 more articles that had been spammed too.  Miggy is not the ony victim of this awfulness, ...

You know, I am  amazed at the lengths people will go to to make each other's lives miserable.  Is that all they do?  Spend their every waking hour thinking of new ways to be mean to someone else?  Plan to the letter what they will do and what they will say to hurt someone else?  How do people like that live with themsleves?  And, more to the point, why do they do it?  Are there feelings of inadequacy that they feel they have to overcome by being vin...

I'm going to ramble here.  Just so you know.  If you want, you can leave and not read; I won't be offended. There is nothing going on around here.  Nothing notable, anyway.  Not that that's ever stopped me from blogging about it before...I mean, I wrote a blog about pie crusts, for crying out loud!  This time, though, I really can't think of a single topic that's deserving of an entire article all to itself, so I'm just going to let my thoughts meander and blame it on...

I just saw this: Link And I was wondering if it meant that they'd be staying away from here....seeing as how we're 'the enemy'.  I wonder too if we can report any of their henchmen for fraternizing or interacting with us?  This all sounds to good to be true.....  

It's true!  All the assumptions that have been made about me by certain fictional characters are true. I am a housewife. I stay home and take care of my home and my family. I am the queen of the kitchen, the mistress of the mop, the CEO of the toilet bowl. I am a nurse, a doctor, a pharmacist, a chef, a maid, a teacher, a landscaper, a chaueffer, a veterinarian, an interior decorator, an accountant, a seamstress, a nutritionist, a mechanic, a maintenance person.... I...