Author: The Velvet Zebra

That was my weekend. Saturday was a wedding, Sunday a funeral. Saturday was one of those days where you’re forced by polite society and good manners to do something you’d really rather not do, but you do it anyway because we desire a polite society and we have manners. It was a wedding, at 3:00…

I was waiting for Volkswagen to reveal the new Beetle design, to see if I’d want to trade in my 2002 for something shiny and new.  I was on the verge of trading in last year, when I heard they were discontinuing the New Beetle in favor of developing a car with a “wider appeal”.…

It is April, right?  Around here the temperature should be in the upper 50’s, low 60’s, with the occasional spurt of sunshine among the cloudy, raining days. Yesterday, it SNOWED! Well it hailed, really, although on the car windshield it looked like snow. It actually started to accumulate, enough that I took a picture with…

Yep, it’s my birthday, and in keeping with tradition, I’m taking the day off work! I’ll be sleeping in, then spending the day on the couch  with the PS3 on, guilt-free all day.  For those of you unlucky enough not to have been born on April 1st, I give you an LOLcat. Enjoy.

OMG I was so bored and lonely today I could have screamed! I know that sounds lame, but with my sister back to work starting today (hooray!) and the boss out all day, I was literally ALL ALONE. There’s a bunch of you out there right now rolling your eyes, thinking if you could have…