March 14th, 2010 07:18pm
by Disparate.Housewife
I have to agree with what the wise old Indian had to say about Daylight Saving Time, “Only a white man would cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it on the bottom and think that would make a longer blanket.”
Daylight Saving Time has never made sense to me. Isn’t time based on something bigger than us, like when the sun is directly overhead at noon …
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March 7th, 2010 09:42pm
by Disparate.Housewife
When a natural disaster such as the earthquake in Haiti occurs, I have an impulse to want to help. But I also want to know that any donation I make is really going to the people who need it. I guess I’m just not comfortable with texting money into cyberspace and not knowing precisely where it lands.
That’s why I really appreciate the Buckets of Hope program. It is a very …
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March 1st, 2010 12:53am
by Disparate.Housewife
On one hand…or make that on one needle…I certainly understand Councilmember Tiffany Renee’s compulsion to knit while listening to the public comments in the February 8 city council meeting.
Those of us who knit are always looking for opportunities to whip out our knitting needles and add a couple more rows to a project that we’re working on. If you can’t do anything else but sit and listen, it’s a way …
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February 21st, 2010 09:08pm
by Disparate.Housewife
Recently, I’ve noticed a lot of TV commercials for products that promise “strong hair.” In these ads, there are lots of beautiful young women with Rapunzel-like hair being tied into knots. Watching all the yanking on the hair that happens in these commercials, I almost expect them to use one of the model’s hair for a game of tug of war.
As I’ve watched these ads, I’ve puzzled over marketing shampoos …
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February 15th, 2010 12:11am
by Disparate.Housewife
On February 9th, our daughter Valerie celebrated having her driver’s license for one year. As a parent, this is one of those good news / bad news moments.
In case you aren’t familiar with the rules regarding teenage drivers, the DMV issues a provisional driver license that has certain restrictions.
For the first year that a teenager has their license or until they turn 18, they can’t transport anyone under the age …
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February 7th, 2010 04:59pm
by Disparate.Housewife
I read a quote in the Wall Street Journal last week that rocked my world. And it wasn’t about the size of the national deficit.
It was concerning a subject much closer to home: laundry. Here’s what the cofounder of Seventh Generation which manufactures environmentally safe household products had to say about laundry detergent, “You don’t even need soap to wash most loads” because the agitation of the washing machine is …
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January 31st, 2010 06:10pm
by Disparate.Housewife
As part of our effort to not get stressed out and lighten the mood in our household, our family went to see a comedy heavyweight…Gabriel Iglesias, who by his own admission, tips the scales at 400 pounds. We saw the earlier of his two Friday night shows at the Wells Fargo Center.
We first became aware of Gabriel Iglesias when my daughters were flipping channels one night and landed on Comedy …
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January 24th, 2010 10:42pm
by Disparate.Housewife
Does anyone make their own clothes anymore? I’m talking about the kind of sewing that involves choosing a pattern, buying fabric and constructing an entire piece of clothing at home. And the women wearing the very homemade-looking shirtwaist dresses in that weird polygamist Mormon cult don’t count. They obviously know how to make a sewing machine work.
My question about whether anyone still sews came to mind when I was in …
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January 17th, 2010 08:55pm
by Disparate.Housewife
The horrific earthquake that devastated Haiti and the – by comparison – the seismic love tap that Humboldt County recently experienced have renewed my appreciation for my situation. I experienced the 1989 Loma Prieta temblor that at one point closed down both the Bay and Golden Gate bridges and I remember the feeling of shock and disbelief I felt at the time. Yes, these feelings hardly compare with what the …
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January 10th, 2010 07:30pm
by Disparate.Housewife
A few months ago, Valerie told us about this really funny comedian who she had seen on a DVD at a friend’s house. So we looked him up on YouTube, and after watching a few of his routines, everyone in our house was a big fan of Brian Regan.
At about the same time, Steve and I had been talking about looking for opportunities to lighten the atmosphere…or as Steve calls …
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