My father wore his high school class ring just about every day of his life. It wasn’t until he was much, much older that his ring was replaced with a ring from the Knights of Columbus, and I don’t think that happened until after he married Ann. I just always remember the Bishop Neumann class…

Last year, inspired by the many gruesome and grotesque pumpkin pictures being emailed over and over on the web, Jim decided that we needed to adorn the front of our house with the sickest, most gory pumpkin display the world has ever known.  Small children were afraid to trick or treat at our house last…

So, I got a phone call yesterday afternoon from an agent in our real estate agent’s office.  Someone wants to come see our house today at 11 AM.  Plenty of time to spic and span everything, make sure the world inside our house is shiny, sparkly, and smells like love.  Then he calls an hour…

The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes,…

Someone in this family (Jim) who shall remain nameless (Jim) has blogged on his blog (Jim) about my affection for the scent of Axe shower gel and body spray products for men. Not true. There is a picture on the bottle of the Axe products that shows a man, after spraying himself with Axe, finds…

I’m having a crappy day today.  I have a terrible headcold, which woke me up this morning with a pounding headache, a stuffed nose, and a sore throat.  I had gone to bed early last night – about 9:15 – after taking some Nyquil, hoping I woule wake up cured.  I didn’t. Then Jim called…

Love this movie for what it is.  What it is is a good, wholesome, feel good, family movie.  You can go with your 6 year old, your grandmother, your new boyfriend or your old husband, and nothing in this film is going to make you crawl under your seat with embarassment.  What it is not…

I can sum up this movie in one sentence.  There is naked fighting with Viggo Mortensen.  Okay, okay, I can see that some of you are not in your cars yet, on your way to the theater.  And of course, you should be based on that alone.  But for those of you who need a…

It seemed like a good idea at the time.  Labrada Rockin’ Roll protein bar was next to the Power Crunch bars at the Vitamin Shoppe.  I’m always on the lookout for something, please God, that will taste good, not be sickeningly sweet tasting, and not contain so much sugar that you get a bottle of…

It does seem at times when it rains, it pours.  Bad news has a tendency to be like that.  On the minor bad news front, our real estate agent emailed me yesterday to suggest we drop the price of our house by $9000 to try and attract more visitors and increase the likelihood that it…