Author: The Jody

Him: Mama, can we have a fire in our fireplace to make the house cozy?

Me: You bet!

I love having a fire. It’s one of the things I love most about this house…having a fireplace. My whole life I wanted one. And now my little roommate likes them too. Woo hoo!

You know, I had nothing going on for weeks. The minute I commit myself to writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, BAM, I’ve got three projects going at the same time. Well, today I had to work on two of those projects instead of my novel, and in one way, I’m feeling bad about my word counts, and in another, I’m proud of myself for doing my WORK instead of my “fun” novel. Which, oh, by the way, isn’t so much fun when you have a gun to your head and no idea what you’re writing about.

I got tired of hearing my sister say that she uses Simple Green to clean everything in her house. She likes the “safety” factor, that it isn’t full of harsh chemicals. So I bought some, in my endless search for the perfect cleaning fluid.

Oh GAWD I hate the way this stuff smells. I really do. And not only that, but my chemical bathroom cleaner has LESS of a gross smell than this stuff. I think I got some in my lungs cause I couldn’t stop coughing. And now I’m feeling completely naseated. Just ready to throw up. And I didn’t feel that way before I Simple Greened myself. So that was a complete waste of money, and I’ll be giving this bottle to her the next time I see her, because I don’t want to ever use it again. Blech.

p.s. Heard excellent things about 409 Glass and Surface cleaner. Someone my mom knows said your windows will NOT streak with this stuff. But I can’t verify that. Yet.

Okay, can someone please explain to me why it is currently snowing out?

This is what I was expecting:

Wow, I’ve been quite busy this week. I actually feel relieved that it’s Friday, even though I know I’ll be busy all weekend, too. Busy hands are happy hands. Or something. If that’s not the saying, pretend it is. I do need to look into the spell checker in this blogging software. It seems to have taken a dislike to apostrophes. It said the word “can’t” was spelled wrong. I’m just not mentally prepared to have to defend my use of contractions to the spell checker.

Oh, funny thing, I almost forgot to mention it here. We brought our copy of Disney’s House of Villians to my sister’s house for the kids to watch after Trick or Treating. I actually overheard a conversation between Junior (4) and one of the girls (5).

“Goofy’s a dog!”

“No he isn’t!”

Wow. It starts early. I guess that explains why so many professional comedians tell the same jokes. It starts early.