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Sunday Songlist, Territory, and the. . . . RED PEN

Mamacita says:  the weekend is almost over – indeed, on Sunday afternoon, the weekend is as good as over because that’s when the depression starts, although it’s not as bad as it used to be.  More than anything else, it’s the “have to get up in the morning as normal people always do” that hits [...]

Happy New Year 2010

Mamacita says:
Happy New Year to all of my Blogosphere friends.
We’ll be spending New Year’s Eve, as we have done for the past many, many years, with our best friends, playing euchre far into the night and talking about everything under the sun.  It’s a mixed metaphor kind of evening: the very best kind.
I hope all [...]

The Twelve Rules of Christmas

Mamacita says:
. . . interrupting my post-Christmas blues, my wallowing in Love Actually, my longing for visits from family, and my dread of taking down all my holiday decorations, with the Twelve Rules of Christmas, just for you:
1.  Christmas is always better than you thought it would be, even if it’s not.
2.  Christmas brings people [...]

. . . and Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will

Mamacita says:  Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Fruitful Kwanzaa. Happy Holidays. Peaceful December. Happy Solstice.
Please pick one, or two, and apply them to yourself and to your family.
Christmas Eve is such a magical time. It’s all ahead of us, you see. To paraphrase Katie, age 8, in What Child Is [...]

Quotation Saturday: Christmas, Pt. 1

Mamacita says:  I love these days leading up to Christmas more than any other time of the year. I love the planning. I love the baking. I love the making lists. I love the shopping, which I actually do all year long. I love the Amazon super-secret-discount-deals. I [...]

Wherefore Scheiss? Oh, and I Do NOT Have A Dead Bird in My Pocket.

Mamacita says:  I was reading my dear online friend Judy’s blog tonight and stole this meme idea from her.  Thank you, Judy.  I haven’t done a meme for a while, mostly because I loathe them, but this one appealed to me so here goes:  How I Named My Blog.
Back in early 2004, my friend Wes [...]

I Agree With Mr. Horse. We Don’t Like It.

Mamacita says:  part of this post is from another post that I deleted before I wrote down the date.  I’m so tech savvy and organized.
This semester, I will have to say that most of my students have been exceptionally fine.  Lovely, hard-working, sincere people who genuinely want to improve themselves, so they can improve their [...]

Thises and Thats, Part 799

Mamacita says:  I would be very grateful indeed if you would go look at my review on this here other blog and comment.  Please?  I do not do paid reviews on this blog, as it is my personal journal and I just would not DO that to my readers, but on that other blog?  Bring [...]

BlogIndiana, WordCamp, BlogHer, BlogWorldExpo, and Pickles

Mamacita says:   In a few days, I’ll be off to Blog Indiana – which you don’t have to be from Indiana to attend, why don’t all of you sign up, too?
I’m hooked now on writing conferences.  Social media get-togethers have become my crack cocaine.  No longer do I have to cook my meth in [...]

Seven Things I Love

Obi’s Sister has tagged me for a meme.  It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, and I will have to say that not only do I learn things about my friends that I honestly didn’t know before; I learn things about myself that I probably knew but had filed away somewhere and [...]