I was so successful in cleaning up old files off my work computer today, that I got a “warning” email from the system alerting me that I had deleted a large number of files.  Yes! I am the Queen of Computer Decluttering and I win National Clean Out Your Computer Day (February 12)! It’s more…

I don’t think of myself as a terribly sciency person, but I literally have a Masters degree in Science, so I can celebrate that on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science.  It’s a Master of Arts degree in Library and Information Science, but the word “science” is there.  Despite it being my…

Happy Flannel Day from me and my sherpa-lined flannel shacket! I’ve had this shacket for almost exactly 3 months (delivered by Amazon on Nov. 9) and it has brought me immense comfort and coziness.  However, I didn’t even know it was a “shacket” until I heard the term come up at a neighborhood bingo outing…

I’m not a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.  Obviously–I’m not a teenager, or a ninja, or a turtle. But I feel I really stray from the path of the TMNT because I don’t eat pizza very often.  But the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles love pizza, so I’ve been thinking about them on National Pizza Day. This…

After Chad and I graduated from college, we packed our bags, and headed off to…Iowa.  Yeah, sometimes I wish we had ventured off to someplace considered more exciting and glamorous, and that we had spent our youth being slightly more adventurous.  But Iowa was good to us. (And, if I had lived somewhere farther away…

I’m a runner.  Nothing too exciting or revelatory there, as I talk, post and blog incessantly about running. Still, accepting that identity was a process, as I had to wrestle with questions of if I ran fast enough, or seriously enough, to claim the “runner” label.  I’m a runner, and I think anyone who runs–whatever…

Hey there, Reader of My Blog Post! You clearly have great tastes in blog reading! Happy Pay a Compliment Day! I love being complimented. I may love it a little too much, and I may have a slightly unhealthy desire for praise and affirmation. I’m sure this is related to my love of performance…you can’t…

I don’t have as much appreciation for the Clash as I ideally should. I did get more knowledgeable a few years ago when we were in a student Clash cover band, but I’ve never really thrown myself into a Clash Consciousness Project.  So to observe International Clash Day today, February 5, I’m pondering a song…

I think I literally jumped for joy.  It was nineteen years ago, so my memory of that detail may be suspect, but I was definitely extremely happy when the bus arrived to take me and my friends to the Liberace Museum outside of Las Vegas. My friends were certainly surprised and amused by my exuberance. …