April 2008

Makes You Want To Turn Off Comments

April 29, 2008

Oh, children. Someone who calls him/her self “realist in Denton” commented on my post about the Denton Jazz festival. Do y’all ever get comments that make you want to twist someone’s head off? I just have to share with you. This is what the goofball had to say: Either you haven’t been to a concert [...]

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Aww, Delbert, Say It Ain’t So

April 28, 2008

I’ve been to enough outdoor festivals that I should know these things by heart. Items to take to an outdoor festival: chair camera binoculars blanket or jacket bottled water sunscreen mosquito repellent antihistamine! taser gun for zapping unruly crowds! I know them, but I still forget. I had told y’all about the horrible crowds at [...]

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Denton Jazz Fest Blues

April 25, 2008

That’s the tune I’m singing, folks. I’m so disappointed. We went to the Denton Arts and Jazz Festival, but came home early. The music was stellar, but I don’t “do” uncivilized crowds very well. Oh, at first it was fine. We arrived at about 5:45, and staked out a small area about 15 yards from [...]

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Foiled Again

April 25, 2008

My daddy loved to cook, whether we were on a camping trip or at home. My momma was always delighted that he did, because she wasn’t what you would call a “domestic goddess.” Not by a long shot. She never learned to cook until after she married, and (as much as I loved my momma) [...]

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Bananas Make Baby Boys?

April 24, 2008

That was the headline for a CNN article, and you know I had to read it! I was wondering how a banana could do that. Turns out you have to eat them. It seems that researchers in England spent untold amounts of money studying to see if what a woman eats before she conceives will [...]

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Gentle Rebellion–Finding Balance–A Group Writing Project

April 23, 2008

The last many months for me has been nothing but go. . . go. . . GO! Every woman out there knows what I mean, and I believe that most men understand it, too. Some of us fill our lives so full that we barely get to enjoy the things we do. I’m one of [...]

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We’re Pals Again

April 20, 2008

Update: The fund raising has ended! PayPal and I had a brief moment there, when we just weren’t BBFs. Before I could get good and rolling, my attempt to raise funds to send children to Camp Sanguinity Cancer Camp hit a snag. I tell you what, I was so discombobulated by PayPal, so terribly stressed [...]

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Yoga to Relieve My Stress? Not for THIS Wimp.

April 19, 2008

Hi. My name is Shelly, and I’m a stress addict. In unison, everyone, “Hi, Shelly.” Yes, folks. I don’t know how it happened. I just had a couple of projects going, and added a couple more. I have deluded myself into thinking that having several things going at a time keeps me interested and focused. [...]

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An Idea for Alltop Categories

April 18, 2008

Do you ever have time to blog surf, and just don’t know where to find blogs? I’ve told y’all before about Alltop.com, which is THE place to go to find a wealth of fine bloggers. It was started by Guy Kawasaki, and if you don’t have Guy’s blog in your feed, you should! He’s got [...]

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World’s Funniest Joke

April 16, 2008

Somehow I missed this back in 2002. Researchers in England collected more than 40,000 jokes and put them on the internet for some testing. How did they do that? Well, people from all over the world rated these jokes with a “Giggleometer,” with five-point scale ranging from “not very funny” to “very funny”. The data [...]

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NOW You can Donate to the Camp Sanguinity Fund

April 15, 2008

UPDATE: THE FUND RAISING HAS ENDED. Whoot! NOW we are in business! I’ve told you about it, and it took me several tries and several days to get a PayPal fund set up. You will be seeing this image on my sidebar for the next several months. You can click it to donate for the [...]

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VaVoom-Chicky-Chicky

April 15, 2008

His disembodied voice rang eerily from the speakers of my computer. Even my cats were mesmerized by the sound, and stared at the speakers as if they could see a story unfolding. I listened to my old friend’s voice as he told a story, one of his “signature” stories called “The Star Stealer.” He laughed [...]

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I Hear As Slow As I Talk

April 14, 2008

I’ve told y’all that I’m a Texan. For the record, that means that my version of “English” might not sound like what the rest of the world expects. I. also. hear. as. slow. as. I. talk. That creates a problem sometimes, and makes me wish I was bilingual. I told you that I’m tongue-tied. In [...]

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I Dream Big. Let’s Send Some Kids With Cancer To Summer Camp.

April 9, 2008

UPDATE: THE FUND RAISING HAS ENDED. I want to raise money to send some children with cancer to a summer camp. We only have three months to do it. Yes, I’m crazy, if you have been here before you already knew that. I want YOU to help me. Are you crazy, too? Let’s get crazy [...]

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Throwing In The Towel

April 8, 2008

I give up. I’m throwing in the towel, so to speak. There are some days I just can’t do anything right, and yesterday was one of them. Y’all I thought I was doing so good. I thought I was helping the environment. I washed my car Monday afternoon for the first time in a year. [...]

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My Galveston Weekend.

April 7, 2008

As I headed across Texas last Friday to tell stories at a festival in Galveston, I didn’t think it was going to be a wonderful adventure! It was raining and the weather was icky (that’s a bona fide meteorological term). It turned out to be a pretty enjoyable trip! I took a lot of pictures, [...]

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How Many Aggies Does It Take To Make A Comic?

April 5, 2008

You thought that was going to be a joke didn’t you? It’s not! I’ve been planning this post for awhile, and want to put it on-line before the Sunday edition of a very special comic. On St. Patrick’s Day, I got this bit of blarney in my inbox: Howdy! I realize this is kinda tacky [...]

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Gilberto’s Restaurant in Fairfield, Texas. It’s Worth The Stop.

April 5, 2008

I was hungry on my drive down Interstate 45 in Texas. My car needed fuel, too. Now, ordinarily, when I’m driving from the Dallas area to Houston, I’d stop in a town called Madisonville to meet my needs. It’s easy to get on and off the highway there, and I can gas up and eat [...]

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Not So Excellent Adventure

April 4, 2008

My day started pretty well. I visited Jupiter House before I got on the road. It’s my favorite little coffee shop on the square in Denton. J.C. is one of my favorite “coffee artists.” He makes such beautiful design on the mochas he makes for me, that it’s almost a shame to drink them. Ten [...]

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Denton Is Jazzin’ It Up!

April 4, 2008

Y’all, I’m so excited I can’t sit still. I’m poppin’ around like corn kernels in a frying pan! The Denton Arts and Jazz Festival is just around the corner, and I just found out who will be playing! DELBERT McCLINTON! I’ve told you I adore Delbert, and even got to meet him once. It’s on [...]

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