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There’s an oxymoron, newspaper SERVICE. If you’re a busy woman like me, most of your news comes from the internet when you find snippets of time to catch up on what is happening in your surroundings. Unfortunately, if for some other reason you want the Sunday paper delivered, the Sunday paper alone, you put yourself in the precarious position of having to be interrupted more often than not to subscribe to a paper everyday of the week.

Look, I like the Sunday newspaper for a few reasons, my reasons being sale advertisements and coupons, the Parade and Neighborhood supplements, and my husband likes to read the comics. Now for those reasons alone I get one paper a week. And since I’m busy and don’t have a chance to stop somewhere during the weekend to pick up the Sunday newspaper, I subscribe. What a fool I am? Don’t chime in all at once… (more…)

Okay ladies, any baseball fans in the house? It is opening day or night really, for baseball. Atlanta and Washington are about to throw out the first pitch as we speak and I’ve got my baseball shoes on. I’m kind of disappointed that it is an evening game on a Sunday evening. How about a nice afternoon baseball game in the hustle and bustle of a busy week to appreciate spring and sunlight? Didn’t baseball always used to start in April? Don’t look it up, I know the answer to that. (more…)

It’s the last weekend of National Women’s History Month and let’s give it up for female ingenuity today!

You know that at home and in your professional life you spend a lot of time figuring out how to do things. Sometimes you are just downright thankful for all the great inventions that have made your life easier. Other times you’re wishing that there was something to make your life even easier. Or even better, wishing you were the one that thought of the latest key invention. (more…)

Sick of the chocolate yet? Have you had a few fistfuls of that chocolate every time you walk by that area of the kitchen, living room, closet, underwear drawer…or wherever you hide it? Or are you bold laying your chocolate out all over the house in open bowls?

Mommies, are you tired of scraping jelly beans off the wood floors or cutting them out of the carpets? Maybe there are gobs of half bitten, half sucked on melted chocolate mussed up somewhere or everywhere…on a white sofa or something pleasing like that. Tired of the chocolate?  Enough is enough already.  This one’s for you.

Well it is Tuesday, and I really have to know who else is as exhausted as I am. I need sleep. Since we returned home from our trip I don’t think I’ve been to sleep before 2:00 a.m. with catching up on work and getting the kids back to school. Spring break, travel, Easter, whooohoo! Is there anything else going to suck the life out of me?

Its not that I’m not tired at night. My husband’s snoring from the other room beckons me to come to bed. Of course when I get there I know I won’t sleep for the snoring. It’s sad really, since unlike men, women are more likely to have sleep disorders. Two times more likely. If I kicked him out of bed maybe those numbers would go down. (more…)