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

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. [...]

Leave That Sleeping Teen Alone!!!!!

I posted part of this a couple of years ago, but it’s the weekend and I think it bears posting again because when I think of all those exhausted teens being dragged from their beds because some adult thinks that because he’s up, everyone should be up, I get really angry on behalf of the [...]

Rambles With No Easy Answers

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 [...]

Things I Haven’t Done Yet

Mamacita says:  I’m listening to Straight No Chaser, and it’s impossible to be completely whiny when those blazingly, almost impossibly, talented guys are singing straight to me and me only. . . .
I know they’re big stuff now, and I’m glad because they so totally deserve to be big stuff, but let it be [...]

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 [...]

Six Word Saturday

Six Word Saturday is something new for me, but already I like it. Thank you, Show My Face. You don’t know me, but I found you on Magical Mystical Teacher.
Saturday afternoon, and I’m finally awake.

Exhausted Freak Show

Mamacita says:  It’s after 3 a.m. and I’m still up, but this is the time of “day” when I’m at my most alert.  I always revert back to my normal body clock when I’m on vacation.  It doesn’t take very long at all.
Today, it took about two hours.
When I got home at 4-ish today, I [...]

I Joined A Gym

Mamacita says:  Whenever I wear sneakers, my feet feel really bulky and heavy.  I feel as though I’ve got two barges on the ends of my legs, or maybe those gigantic slippers that look so much like real furry animals, they scare people when they open the closet door and see them on the closet [...]

Things I Haven’t Done Yet

Mamacita says:  I have actually lived a very provincial life.  I haven’t been much of anywhere, and all I do is work.  I’m not extraordinary in any way, and I haven’t any outstanding talents.  I love to sing, but shouldn’t.  A sadly accurate description of me would have to include words like “mousy,” and “insecure,” [...]

Things I Haven’t Done Yet

Mamacita says:
1.  Family snapshots are still strewn all over the living room floor.  They’ll be there until the family gets here to go through them.  A word of advice:  label all of your pictures while you still remember names and dates.  You think you’ll always remember, but you won’t.
2.  There are very few good pictures [...]