Shake your (baby) bootie ...
   It's official. I definitely prefer going to parties over throwing them. I actually came to that conclusion after my parents' joint 50th birthday party in September but that didn't stop me from planning another. I'll be an aunt ...

Some New Year's trivia. It'll make you that much smarter in '09.
I really couldn't tell you what it is that I find so mesmerizing about that sparkling, lighted ball dropping in Times Square to signify the start of the new year. I mean, really. If you think about it, it's just ...

10 ... 9 ... 8 ... it's about that time again!
 Walk into my apartment and you'll find a Nintendo Wii propped at my TV, a bag of chips by the couch and a tall blond hanging out with my dog. Yep, my 14-year-old "little" sister is in town for ...

Puppies and pumpkins
   A pumpkin never comes out the way you expect it to. Well, mine never do, at least. On Saturday some friends and I, along with a whole gang of little girls, decided it was time to carve our ...

So I need your help ...
 OK, this blog is going out technically on behalf of my mom. She's working on a Halloween costume for my 13-year-old sister, Sydney, in Laredo. Sydney is one of those girls who isn't satisfied with grabbing a pointy hat ...

Let's go to the hop!
I've had a couple of blogs in the back of my mind for a while now, but haven't been able to blog for confidentiality reasons. Strictly confidential. Well, not really. My dad just didn't know about it and I didn't ...

Light painting? Count me in.
I've always been fascinated with taking pictures. When I was little, after church I'd get all the kids together and we'd play what I called "magazine covers," where they'd make up a magazine name and then I'd arrange them for ...

Obedience Class, Part Deux
 So the mutt and I have once again signed up for obedience class.  Same place, same instructor - heck, even same CLASS - but just a different group of people/dogs this time around. See, Marley just doesn't do well ...

One - OK, the ONLY - good thing about Ike
So it appears Ike might be my first hurricane experience. See, northern girls don't face hurricanes. We see ice storms, blizzards and the possible tornado warning. Snow days were the best.  But hurricanes? Not so much. So I think I'm ...

A digital mess
 You know that whole housecleaning ritual? The dusting and the decluttering and everything else you're supposed to do to avoid looking like a total slob? Yeah, that one. I don't claim to be perfect when it comes to staying neat (Just ...