Every Easter, I give our secretary a little something. Since she’s been on a low-carb diet, the usual cute little basket of candy is out. This took 15 minutes to make. I gradually put some craft glue down one side of the bottle, and just wound the yarn (Cascade 220) around the bottle. Then I grabbed a felted flower that I had laying around and glued it and a bead on the bottle. Easy peasy. I could have gotten the yarn a little straighter, though. I mean, this is first grade stuff! Still, I like how it turned out.

I’m also sure it will show up on my pink flower blog.

Okay, you’ve got to read this article about how toxoplasmosis is linked to schizophrenia and then wonder if that’s why there seem to be a whole lot of crazy people with a whole lot of cats.

You get toxoplasmosis from emptying litter boxes or otherwise coming into contact with cat poop. Perhaps a kitty door is in order.

Take some baked chicken and chop into bite
size pieces, add a package of frozen mixed vegetables (or whatever leftover veggies are in
the fridge) and a can of cream of mushroom soup.
Put in a baking dish and put on top a biscuit mixture made from one cup of biscuit mix (e.g. Bisquik), one-half cup milk and a beaten egg.
Bake at 400F for 30 minutes.

Found this in some comments over at The Simple Dollar. It’s a totally East Texas kind of dish. I think I’ll buy a rotisserie chicken and make it redneck.

I haven’t felt like writing over here lately. Just haven’t. I think I’m going to change things up a bit and start using this blog as a bit of a notebook for some random thoughts, well, perhaps more random than usual! I also apologize for not stopping by much lately. I haven’t felt like being on the Internet as much. As a consequence, my house is MUCH cleaner!

My back is fine now, thank goodness! Thank yall so much for wishing me well. Sage is all better now too.

I keep laying in bed at night thinking of teaching stories. I think I’m going to start a teaching blog. Some of this stuff is too good not to share. I want to put it somewhere more specific than over here, though. Watch this space!

I don’t know how many times I’ve done the “6 Random Things About Meme,”, and I really don’t care, because after all, isn’t having a blog all about talking about yourself and the things YOU like? Well, it can be, anyway!

I’m doing this one for two reasons: I like Pacian, and I like the little badge you get…for participating? Anyway, I know I’m a Kreative person, so I’ll take it.

You can have one too, because you are also a creative person, unless you are one of those blog spammers, in which case, boy do I have something for you!

Anyway, here are the 6 Random Things.

1. I am less tolerant of bullshit than I used to be. I am not getting mellow as I get older.

2. I LIKE spending lots of time by myself. For a while, I wondered why I didn’t have more friends. I finally realized that it is because I don’t WANT any more, because that would entail doing stuff all the time when I’d rather read, write or do crafty stuff with Sage.

3. I believe (apparently) that technology is more effective than therapy when it comes to curing agoraphobia, because I just bought a data plan so I can take the Internet with me on road trips. LIVE PANIC BLOGGING, yall!

4. I really love the color pink and a bunch of “girly” stuff even though I don’t seem like the type in person.

5. When it’s cold in the morning, I sing old 80′s songs (poorly) and dance around the house. My family is used to it now.

6. Despite all the good reasons not to wish this, I often wish I had been born a hundred years ago. Or maybe fifty, anyway.

So there’s mine. You too can do this meme. You know you want to. Here are the rules that I did not follow:

The Kreativ Blog award rules are: Link to the person who tagged you. Post the rules on your blog:Write 6 random things about yourself. Tag 6 people and let each of them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. Go back to the awarder and let them know that your entry is up.

So there you go! Have fun!

I’ve done this meme once before, but I love it. Actually, the last time I did it, afterwards, I found myself doing the same thing with several more books. I’m doing it again thanks to Ken over at Teaching and All That Jazz. Thanks Ken!

Here are the rules: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal/blog along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Tag five other people to do the same.

So here ya go:

“His eyes, wen they caught his father’s, turned defiant. As if on its own, his hand shot up and in a single swift motion seized the gun.”

I cheated. The nearest book is the Cub Scout Handbook. The excerpt above is from A Patent Lie, the second nearest book.

Here’s what the Cub Scout Handbook has to say:

“A scout is obedient to the rules of his family, school, and troop. He obeys the laws of his community and country. If he thinks these rules and laws are unfair, he tries to have them changed in an orderly manner rather than disobeying them.”

So I wonder if Sage will ever join NORML.

If you want to do it, go for it!