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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… Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Well ladies it is time for me to put on my rant shoes because I feel a rant coming on as I’ve just been informed that it is National Women’s History Month. In opening my email this morning, an email from AccessMyLibrary informs me of this…on March 24th. Let me say before I proceed with the foot stomping that I thank them very much for their email and want to point out that this is not a rant against them in particular. Their email tells me that March is National Women’s History Month and I can celebrate by catching up on some reading related to women who have changed our world. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Easter!
I am happy to be home, where spring is approaching faster than in blustery upstate-NY. Sorry mom, not even the promise of leftover lasagna could make me stay the weekend. Yes I did so enjoy the high winds in the evening, the sounds of which can only please a true northerner. Although it has been my dream to return if not to New York, at least to a state that touches Canada, I will take my lot as a Pennsylvania girl for now. At least I missed the rain and enjoyed some sleet, snow and my favorite of course, the wind. Read the rest of this entry »
For all you women in a relationship, who’s the vacation planner? I thought so. For you decision makers don’t you find you need a vacation after you’ve planned and given everybody else a vacation?
I’m going on vacation can you tell. Nothing fancy, except for the lasagna you will make me when I’m home Mom. We are going to visit the families before Easter during our daughter’s spring break. My husband and I have the good fortune to have come from the same town so it makes visiting both sides of the family easier.
But even on these so called get-a-ways there is so much to do. Read the rest of this entry »
We need a BigShoe award for Silda Spitzer today don’t we? Maybe two BigShoe awards. All I can say is there are some big shoes, definitely some stand by your man shoes for sure. As Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned in Albany, New York there she was again standing by his side and smartly dressed I might say, in that black dress (she’d make a great widow). Read the rest of this entry »
It doesn’t get any better than this. Three years ago Amsterdam created a race called the Stiletto run where women race for $15,000…in stilettos for 380 yards. Berlin and others have followed suit with their version as well. Read the rest of this entry »
I would have complained about this yesterday but I was too tired and when I did have enough energy it was spent resetting clocks that didn’t change back on their own. Daylight Savings Time, DST, or as I like to call it Daylight Stressing Time, so did you change your clocks to read one hour ahead? Do you have one hidden somewhere that still reads the time before Sunday when this torture began? Read the rest of this entry »
Here it is a nice cold, windy and rainy day. I’m tired and sick, and I’ve got things to do, lots of things, but the kids are bored. One kid watches some DVD movies, the next wants to play games after, meanwhile the cable remote gets misplaced. Somewhere in all this when mom, oh I guess that would be me, gets sick of seeing one of the DVD’s about ten times in the last year or so I decide that maybe some television or OnDemand might be nice. I’m busy, but someone has to find the cable remote, which would be me again, yes I know we can program the other remotes to operate this that and the other thing, and many of them are, but you see I’m busy! The dang things need to be attached to the TV by one of those leashes like the pens at the bank. Read the rest of this entry »
What woman hasn’t been saved by Chinese take-out? After a late night at the office, no energy to cook a dinner for the family, or perhaps just a weekend splurge; even if the MSG puffs you up it is a warm retreat into puffiness. I know I don’t have to tell you that Chinese food has been Americanized but you really have to hear Jennifer 8. Lee tell it. Read the rest of this entry »
I guess if we were to start this blog off right on any women’s topic, it should be women’s shoes don’t you think? And please don’t think BigShoes is all about shoes…it’s not, but if you came here by accident it is my duty to give you something to read. Read the rest of this entry »
BigShoes is just that, it is about the big shoes we try to fill in our everyday lives. As women we have the pleasure of wearing different shoes for any occasion. Our shoes are full of color, our shoes are full of personality and sometimes our shoes are all about stress and pain! BigShoes, a metaphor for our condition… Read the rest of this entry »
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