Author: The Jody

Boy, my post about de-cluttering got more comments than anything else I’ve posted recently, although I notice nobody volunteered to come and clean for me. This tells me two things.

1. You guys are concerned that we live like those people who you read about because after they died 35 years’ worth of newspapers, magazines, trash and cats were found covering every free surface, so that entire rooms were blocked off. It’s not quite that bad. We don’t have any cats.

2. People are actually reading my site.

Both things warm the cockles of my heart. And I’ll have you know, the cockles of my heart needed warming. (The ADD side of me wants to go off and conduct a half-hour internet search to figure out exactly what cockles are, why they are in your heart, and if they need warming)

Oh, ADD-girl won! Cockles appear to be Mollusks, “Corculum Cardissa”. Here’s a great explaination on possible sources for this phrase. I think I can carry on now, you little ventricle-warmers, you!

Okay, if I say it here publically, will it make me work on it this weekend? I’ve got to do some decluttering of the kitchen and my bedroom. I have all the summer clothes lying out, waiting to be put away, but I don’t have anything to put them in. I need to do something with them, even if it’s to shove them in a garbage bag under the bed. Which is a whole different level of clutter, but out of sight, out of mind.

So on Monday, feel free to harrass me if I haven’t worked on this.

Don’t forget to read the NaNo Journal to read all about my novel-writing adventures. Today we talk about the crap that ends up on the page when you practice “sleep writing”, in which you bring the notebook computer to bed, and then start falling asleep (eyes closed) while you type.

It’s fun for the whole family!

This is the best laugh I’ve gotten all day. A Lileks-esque take on album covers. When you look at these, think carefully to yourself, Someone, somewhere, thought this was a good idea.

[Update: This is the page those came from and plenty more! I’m a happy girl. Of course, it’s keeping me from making my word count today.]

Saw a Reuters’ headline that Sister Sledge Visited the UK Parliament to talk against guns, or something like that. I just skimmed the article. But my God, Sister Sledge in the headlines? Aren’t they more like “Grandma Sledge”? And the cute little lead singer, does she still have braces? Because I think that was a large part of the group’s appeal.

I know that people dump on celebs for getting political; I personally don’t see what the big deal is. It seems to me that the problem people have is not that the celebs are political, but that the press picks up on it and splashes their faces and the stories across the newspaper.

Anyway, I’ve got to say that putting Sister Sledge in the headlines, for whatever reason, is absolutely mind-boggling. Who at Reuters decided that we even care?