Plinky...

I originally started Meander 3and a half years ago as a way to write more often. Then life intervened. I still would like to write more often, so sometimes I am going to cheat. Plinky is an online writing prompt generator. Sometimes I am going to steal their topic ideas and post them here. (See below.)

When I realized I was a grown-up

In small ways I realized I was an adult only when I had a child. I still have flashes of feeling so much like a kid though that I believe my home, child, and husband are all part of an elaborate game of house that little girl me is playing.

Hey There!

I am really reaching for posts so I am going to give you some lists:

In honor of the cold, top five ice cream flavors:
1. Neopalitin (Breyer's only.)
2. Rainbow cone
3. Butter Pecan
4. Vanilla Bean
5. Rainbow Sherbet
(None of that new-fangled crap for me.)


Favorite books that I read in 2008:
1. Black Swan Green (David Mitchell)
2. Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3. Everything else I read that wasn't part of the Twilight series


Top five playcount on my iPod:
Blue Danube Waltz (makes Dex stop crying)
We Are the Dinosaurs (another Dexter fave)
Breakable (Ingrid Michaelson)
Gray or Blue (Jaymay)
Sweet Thang (Rufus and Chaka Khan)

I cringe when people (including me) say:
LOL
LMFAO
24/7
touch base (or worse, touch bases)

I am not very talented at:
cooking
painting
drumming
clapping along in time to music
minding my own business

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

It's snowy and very cold here. I could sit here and make a bunch of excuses about why I haven't posted in so long, but you've heard them all before.
I guess it was easier to post when I had a baby who rarely slept, but didn't move around a whole lot. Now I am taking care of this little person. Oddly, he makes demands of my time. Imagine that!

Oh yeah, and Facebook is partially to blame as well.

This is the Harry Lauder's Walking Stick plant from Martha and David. I think it looks cool in all seasons, but my favorite is the winter.
I think the plant looks sort of how my brain feels. Which is why sometimes you'll ask me a question about what I am doing this weekend, or if I've seen your keys lying around and I'll respond with some crazy non sequitur like "Shop Vac!"

Dex and Lenny are still as cute as ever in a new season. Now they go to school together and so far, so good. They could have stayed out shoveling for hours but mom and dads got cold.



If you promise not to get sick of looking at pictures of my kid, I'll do a better job of giving you something to see.