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Signing Off, Signing On, Test Patterns, and the Peacock

March 7, 2010 – 12:38 am

Mamacita says:  Most of you have never seen this picture before. Most of you have never known a time when television wasn’t a 24-hour marathon of programming.  This is a test pattern.  If you turned on your television after midnight, this is all you saw.
The fact is, things used to have down time. [...]

By Jane Goodwin | Also posted in Indiana, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Mamacita, Mamacita Jane, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Night owl, Scheiss Weekly, religion, southern Indiana | Comments (8)

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

February 28, 2010 – 5:20 pm

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 [...]

By Jane Goodwin | Also posted in Family, Friendship, Humor, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Jobs, Mamacita, Mamacita Jane, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Oh No She Dinnit, Scheiss Weekly, Sharing, Sunday Songlist & Singalong, The real Mamacita, Things Nice People Already Know, children, random playlist, teenagers, writing | Comments (2)

Why Are We Allowing Schools to Punish the VICTIMS of Bullying, and Not the Bullies?

February 15, 2010 – 12:10 am

Mamacita says:  There is nothing on the planet as important as our kids, and we really need to keep aware of what’s going on in their world. Even when we don’t like to admit that these things are happening.
Oftimes, those things that are the hardest to believe, are the very things that are really happening.
Look [...]

By Jane Goodwin | Also posted in Education, It's Outrageous!, Jane Goodwin, Mamacita, Mamacita Jane, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Political Correctness, Politics, Scheiss Weekly, Things Nice People Already Know, Uncategorized, children, etiquette, parenting, schools | Comments (3)

Flatulence won’t fill the tank.

February 6, 2010 – 7:27 pm

Mamacita says:  When I was a little girl, Dad would often wink at Mom after dinner, and say “Now I’ve got gas; I guess I’ll go out and sit on the car.” And she would roll her eyes and say that HER family didn’t talk like that.
And I would be all happy because, hey. Free [...]

By Jane Goodwin | Also posted in Family, Humor, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Mamacita, Mamacita Jane, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Oh No She Dinnit, Scheiss Weekly, The real Mamacita, Uncategorized, nostalgia | Comments (1)

Rambles With No Easy Answers

January 12, 2010 – 11:52 pm

Mamacita says:  Women who had difficult labors probably hate me already right now, but I’ll go ahead and make it worse: I loved being pregnant. I felt GREAT.
Even when I was sitting still, doing nothing, I was still doing something wonderfully productive.  I was euphoric.  I felt very off-balance, but I’m so inclined that [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Shades of the Past!

January 10, 2010 – 4:08 am

Mamacita says:  “Shades of the past” is an expression I occasionally use.  I’ve said it several times these past holiday weeks, in fact.  So I thought, well, why not use it as the theme for this week’s Quotation Saturday?
I know it’s Sunday now.  Shhhhh.
How very seemly to quote about the past when my deadline is [...]

By Jane Goodwin | Also posted in Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Mamacita, Mamacita Jane, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Memes, Quotation Saturday, Science in the Rockies, nostalgia, quotes | Comments (0)

Happy New Year 2010

December 31, 2009 – 6:53 pm

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 [...]

By Jane Goodwin | Also posted in Christmas, Friendship, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Mamacita, Mamacita Jane, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Scheiss Weekly, Traditions, holidays, love | Comments (3)

The Twelve Rules of Christmas

December 29, 2009 – 12:21 am

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 [...]

By Jane Goodwin | Also posted in Baking, Christmas, Family, Friendship, Humor, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Mamacita, Mamacita Jane, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Movies, Scheiss Weekly, The Things We Do For Love, Traditions, children, holidays, love, nostalgia, religion | Comments (2)

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

December 25, 2009 – 12:48 am

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 [...]

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Quality Television? Bring Back Variety Shows!

December 22, 2009 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  Do you know what I miss, especially at this time of the year? Variety shows.
Those weekly shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Andy Williams, The Smothers Brothers, Sonny and Cher, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Perry Como, Flip Wilson. . . Laugh-In. . . The Muppet Show. . . . John Gary. [...]

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