One year, eight months, 16 days Posted By Lorena I've been a widow now for one year, eight months, and sixteen days. Twenty months and two weeks, if you call it by the way...
Dear Tim; who were you, even? Posted By Lorena CW: grief, confusion, anger, you know, all that stuff that comes with death of a spouse and being a widow. Dear Tim; Sometimes I wonder......
What it’s like to advertise as a small, one person, maker/artist/craft business Posted By Lorena In short? A f'in nightmare. Print advertising seems like it's hardly worth mentioning. I'd love to be able to afford to advertise in my favorite...
This Week in Vacation Planning (10/22/23) Posted By Lorena At this point the dates for my vacation next year have changed so many times, I've started not even telling my friends with whom I...
Rants Not the question I was asking, dude. Posted By Lorena Why, when asking for advice on something... say, "are these apples any good?" is the first answer some people go to something along the lines... Read More
Rants Did you get the number of that bus? Posted By Lorena For about the last week, I feel like I've been gently hit by a bus. Not really full-on smashed into, but more like... clipped, and... Read More
Rants Maybe your comfort zone isn’t holding you back; maybe it’s your place of power Posted By Lorena Lately I've been on a rant (I know, when am I not, right?) about those memes that go around... I know you've seen them... they... Read More
Rants Christmas spirit Posted By Lorena I'd say I'm not feeling the Christmas spirit yet, but if you work retail you probably know I'm feeling the Christmas spirit alright, but it's... Read More
Rants Today can already suck it Posted By Lorena As I was getting my coffee ready I was planning out my blog post, where I was going to talk about how I didn't feel... Read More
Rants It’s never enough Posted By Lorena I was hoping to be able to copy and paste parts of a blog post I wrote years ago about all the volunteering I've done,... Read More
Rants Sweet Zombie Jesus, I just wanted a phone that works Posted By Lorena So, I get this text message from Verizon yesterday. It says, in a nutshell, that they are no longer going to make or sell the Note... Read More
Rants My weather is worse than yours is. Posted By Lorena This post is brought to you by the fact that anything below 61 or over 86 and I become a raving, angry crankpot who can't... Read More
Rants Count the hours Posted By Lorena I'm cranky and haven't slept well the last couple of nights, so feel free to not even read this Ranty McRantyPants post. I have about... Read More
Rants I feel like I’m going to have this cold for the rest of my life Posted By Lorena I'm sick of being sick. I've been on-again-off-again sick since JANUARY 3rd. That's TWO WEEKS. Sweet Zombie Jesus. It's been the same sore throat/post nasal... Read More
Rants Help me, I’m buried in email Posted By Lorena Oh, Gmail. You might have thought it was helpful to start dividing into five tabbed categories, but really, that just gives me five times as... Read More
Rants Ruminations on Self-Employment: Staying Upbeat… or, not. Posted By Lorena One of my old Regional Managers, back when I worked at a Big Box Bookstore, used to say that "energy comes from the top." Meaning,... Read More