Top Comments 6/11/10 - Up on the (Green) Roof
Every night, we who post Top Comments open the Gmail inbox at TopComments AT gmail DOT com to see our "gifts" - comments of the day as chosen by you. Some days are diamonds, and we get lots of...
View ArticleTop Comments 6/18/10 - Friday Fluffitude
Every night, we who post Top Comments open the Gmail inbox at TopComments AT gmail DOT com to see our "gifts" - comments of the day as chosen by you. Some days are diamonds, and we get lots of...
View ArticleTop Comments 6-28-10 - Monday Minutiae
Every night, we who post Top Comments open the Gmail inbox at TopComments AT gmail DOT com to see our "gifts" - comments of the day as chosen by you. Some days are diamonds, and we get lots of...
View ArticleTop Comments 7/6/10 - Living in the Safety Net
Every night, we who post Top Comments open the Gmail inbox at TopComments AT gmail DOT com to see our "gifts" - comments of the day as chosen by you. Some days are diamonds, and we get lots of...
View ArticleTop Comments 8/3/10 - Innertubes Edition
Last night's emergency fill-in diary (thanks, brillig!) reminded me of tubing down the Salt River a few years ago. This was a fun, and yet relaxing activity shared by a group of us.To get there, we had...
View ArticleTop Comments 8/13/10 - How to Quit a Job
I know what you're thinking. You are thinking I am going to be writing about that flight attendant who bailed out of the plane via emergency slide a few days ago.Nah, that's not it. I must say, that is...
View ArticleTop Comments 8/20/10 - Monsoon Season
Every summer, the desert southwest has a rainy season. Though it's been renamed the "summer rains" in recent years, locals still call it the monsoon. In the best of years, we get most of our annual 11"...
View ArticleTop Comments 9/4/10 - Going Batty
We're going batty chez emeraldmaiden. Literally batty.Yes, this tiny delicate creature (and his/her relatives) have been worrying us for nearly a year.
View ArticleTop Comments 10/1/10 - All the News
Yup, I took almost the entire month of September off from Daily Kos, needing a break. Of course, I had to continue my streak of Top Comments diaries, having done at least one a month for years now.So,...
View ArticleTop Comments 10-9-10 - Topsy Turvy
Recently, my husband started a new contract (read: temporary) job. Now, unlike me, he is a morning person. Just naturally wants to get up at the buttcrack of dawn and start doing things. I am naturally...
View ArticleTop Comments 11/3/10
It's the day after Election Day, and everyone's busily dissecting yesterday's results. With, of course, lots of emotion and burst bubbles and fire & brimstone.Well, not me. I'm moving on. Gonna...
View ArticleTop Comments - November 8, 2010: Happiness Is ...
Remember the old Peanuts comics? "Happiness is a warm puppy." While I do enjoy puppies (much more that actual adult DOGS, thank you), I must insist that, in my house, happiness is generally an armful...
View ArticleTop Comments 11/19/10 - Fun with Rubber Bands
Or, physical therapy can be FUN!As many of you know, I've been struggling with hip and back pain for years. We were finally able to get some insurance, and so I embarked on the journey of finding out...
View ArticleTop Comments 11/27/10 - Tis the Season
Shopping season, that is. In my circle of friends, we're shopping for Giftmas, because the holiday seems to be more about consumerism than anything else.Did I go out on Black Friday? You bet I did! But...
View ArticleTop Comments 12-1-10: Welcome to December
Today heralds the first day of Panic Season. Since I handmake most of the gifts we distribute, and I'm way behind, I'm in a higher gear of panic than usual at this time of year.Every year I tell myself...
View ArticleTop Comments 12/5/10 - Cat on a ... Roof
I love my cats. Really I do. As a matter of fact, there are few cats that I've met that I haven't at least liked.Pumpkin, of course, is a mama's boy, and is my favorite of all cats. Earlier this fall,...
View ArticleTop Comments 12/19/10 - Hairy Eyeball Edition
This is Zoe.Zoe is a 22 year old Maine Coon cat, who lives behind me. Well, she doesn't live there alone, of course. Her human mom, a feline "brother" named Timothy Titus, and a rescued greyhound named...
View ArticleTop Comments 1/9/11 - Tears in Tucson
I think most of you know that I live in Tucson. As a resident of this beautiful town, yesterday's shooting is very much on my mind today. I hope you don't mind yet another diary about it.Mr. Loughner's...
View ArticleTop Comments 1/13/11 - Slacker Thursday
Yup, I'm a slacker today. Other than a minimal amount of exercise, I pretty much sat on the sofa today. Some days, you just need to sit.I'm even slacking on going to my regular Thursday night knitting...
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