Doreen's Blog

Well, one thing is for sure. Steve and I won’t be buying toothpaste for quite some time, maybe for more than half a year. See, I was going through drawers and tower baskets in the bathroom this past week, and I found about two dozen tiny tubes of toothpaste laying about. I’m not kidding either. [...]

It’s a Christmas miracle! Steve was actually singing a Christmas song this morning! It’s true! I distinctly heard him sing, “Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!” OK, so he was only singing part of the a Christmas song. Still, he was singing! And get this – he was singing while helping me [...]

The UPS guy stopped by the house last night to pick up a package inadvertently sent to our address. He said he might as well take it with him then since he might not be back for awhile. “Oh, you’ll be back sooner than you think,” I told him. “There are five more orders out [...]

OK, so maybe I should have checked the five-day forecast on Thursday morning. That might have made a difference from what it’s like in my house right now. Unfortunately I didn’t check the forecast, mostly because the lovely weather of Tuesday and Wednesday lulled me into the mindset that the lovely weather would stick around. [...]

When I logged onto my blogsite tonight, I had 251 comments waiting for me to approve. Holy moley! 251 comments! What in the world? Boy, was I surprised! What was this all about? Did a slew of readers suddenly have something to say to me? And if they did, what? To quit waiting weeks to [...]

“Duct tape is like the force: It has a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together.” – Carl Zwanzig I don’t know who this Carl Zwanzig is, but, clearly, he has no clue what he’s talking about. Duct tape most certainly does not hold the universe together. It doesn’t even [...]

Remember in the movie, A Christmas Story, when Ralphie’s teacher tells the class, “Now, boys and girls…I want you to write a theme,” and the whole class groans? If I’d have been a member of that class, I wouldn’t have groaned. I loved writing themes in elementary school. No reason in particular. I just loved themes. [...]

Steve can’t stand the aroma of my new Scentsy scent, Coconut Lemongrass. He says it stinks too much like coconut. Well, duh, I tell him. It is COCONUT Lemongrass, and I think it smells good – crisp, clean, light, and airy. Nope, it stinks, Steve says, his manly mind set in its ways. I’m not [...]

Lew Wallace was a great man, a Union general, a leader, an author, an inventor, an all-around good guy. Why, if it hadn’t been for Lew Wallace, Washington D.C. might have fallen to the Confederates. If it hadn’t been for Lew Wallace, Ben Hur would never have been written and Charlton Heston would have never become a [...]

Steve calls it my “cleaning kick,” the day when I go crazy cleaning every nook and cranny of the house and then threaten his life if he dares mess it up. The latest cleaning kick happened on Monday, and I’m proud to say nothing much has been messed up yet. The house is still clean. Cripes, [...]