Decembers theme is going to be: Cataclysm, the newest expansion to World of Warcraft. It goes live December 7th and so much has happened that I should have plenty to talk about. This month should be a good month to write some blogs. If you read this blog and don’t play WoW, I promise I …
Category: My Thematic Experiment
Nov 30
Last Blog of the Month
Well it is the end of the first month of my thematic experiment. I know I should be a viking and try to squeeze out another 500 words about Thanksgiving but I am not. I could do it if I tried; I know I could, but I am not going to do it. I did …
Nov 27
Black Friday
People are insane I mean really flipping crazy One of my friends posted that he was out at 3 am waiting in the cold to buy a cheap laptop. I hope Angela knows that she has a good man there. He may be stinky, a little loud and crass, and not quite housebroken, but any …
Nov 25
What I am thankful for
Or “For what I am thankful” for you grammar nazis out there. Oddly enough today I am thankful that my website was down this morning. Here is why: This morning I was not thankful. I was grumpy and unhappy and I had nothing positive to say. I had little sleep for reason I was not …
Nov 23
Why I would fail at Thanksgiving.
I know I am almost 30. I get that. I know it means that I should have more of an idea of what a grown up woman does, but I am single and childless and I do zero entertaining. I go to other people’s houses for gatherings. Now, in my defense, when I go over …
Nov 20
Woah Turkey is Srs Bsns (Serious Business)
So last night I was lacking inspiration for today’s blog when I decided to google “turkey recipes” (yes, I did just use the proper noun Google as a verb; Dr. Logan taught me that it is called verbing and it is ruining our language but I like it) and clicked on www.allrecipes.com. I had no …
Nov 18
You Learn Something New Everyday
Once again I did some research for today’s blog and learned some interesting stuff. I get the feeling I am the only person who did not know this stuff. I got my information for today’s blog from two sites: http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/BiographyTisquantum.php, a short and concise entry on “Squanto,” and http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/squanto.html?c=y&page=1, a fascinating article by Charles C. …
Nov 17
The Pilgrims
I was doing a little bit of research to augment my knowledge of our favorite residents of Plymouth Rock and I found out something that I found fascinating. They thought the Puritans were too liberal. What kind of person looks at a Puritan and thinks they are not taking the whole holy thing far enough. …
Nov 17
Crappy Blog Post because I wanted to go play Star Wars tabletop rpg
elcome back to another adventure into Thanksgiving past. Next week I am going to write something other than my family memories, well maybe. I am going to share one of the more interesting memories for me personally. It was my first Thanksgiving in college and my family decided to stay in Oklahoma for the holiday. …
Nov 17
Unsalted Butter
A tale of a Thanksgiving roughly eight years ago: My sister got married in 2000 and with that my mom and I stopped going down to Louisiana for some strange reason. It does not actually make much sense but not much in my family does. Two years later, my parents and I went to Dallas …
Geeks a Geeking