Published on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 by Katherine I will never forget my first sweet tea.  Sure, we had unsweetened iced tea as kids with a few spoonfuls of sugar mixed in.  No matter how much you stirred and stirred, it never quite dissolved.  The upside was the huge swig of granulated sugar you scored at the bottom of the glass. Sweet tea though…. REAL sweet tea, is made with love in the south.  I drank my f...

Published on Monday, February 25, 2013 by Katherine Day 24 of the We Work for Cheese Blog Writing Challenge.  My greatest regret?  I have missed two or three days of seeing other's posts... I simply fell asleep.  At the end of this I plan to go back! My first car was a Datsun B210 Hatchback.  I couldn’t drive a stick at the time and rolled back a few feet on every hill I encountered.  Happily, I went from my li...

Published on Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Katherine Imagine yourself driving.  You see a football field ahead of you.  Now, put the pedal to the metal until you get to a good 55 mph. Look to your left and look to your right.  There are other drivers all around you.  The minute your front tires hit the field, CLOSE YOUR EYES.  Drive the entire length of the football field with your eyes closed. Did you make it to...

Published on Sunday, January 27, 2013 by Katherine I have blogged about them before, so I guess I like hats. Who can forget my take on the royal hats as modeled by Tribal Blog members? Sadly, I cannot wear hats because of the monstrous size of both my head and hair.  Damn it all. The women of America simply do not wear enough hats.  Where are the hats on women in church?  Where are the hats on women traveling the...

Published on Sunday, December 9, 2012 by Katherine Imagine four bitches and two studs packed in single cab truck containing one bench seat and a stick on the floor.  That was me, my neighbor, my daughter and three dogs this weekend. My neighbor and I believe our dogs need all the exercise they can get.  So we packed up the puppies and rambled on over to the dog park.  Time to run!  Time to chase balls!  Time to ...

Published on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Katherine My Mom always knew how to do birthdays.  Choose your own breakfast, lunch, dinner and cake.  Presents immediately followed the singing and blowing out of candles.  It was a spectacular day, indeed! My very first birthday cake was angelfood.  My second birthday?  Devil’s food.  Do you think my mother was trying to tell me something? I don’t remember at what...

Published on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 by Katherine My favorite holiday has come and gone.  This year it was incredibly different, and yet somewhat the same.  I knew the day was coming, but when it arrived, it was indeed a bitter pill to swallow. For this year, I had no one to walk around the neighborhood.  This was the year my final trick-or-treater went off on her own with her friends.  Enter… SAD FACE. Refus...

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Published on Monday, October 15, 2012 by Katherine How do you pick?  Sushi.  Angel Food cake with seven minute icing.  Dolmades.  There are so many! Favorite foods often boil down to where you eat the food and with whom, don’t you think?  When I think of these foods, I think of moments in time when I ate them with people I love. One of my favorite food memories involves sitting at the picnic table on the beac...

Published on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 by Katherine Dammit! I had today’s challenge all worked out.  I got someone to help me.  Together we made a plan for a really neat shot.  I take a picture of him on top of the garage taking a picture of ME taking a picture of HIM. The stalker gets stalked. Pretty cool, huh? And then I read THIS in yesterdays STUPID FREAKING COMMENTS wonderful comments: “See, there is o...

Published on Sunday, September 23, 2012 by Katherine GJEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHH... BHHHHHHCCCHHHHHGGGHRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Those are the sounds of bombs flying through the air before landing in grand explosions.  That’s how you spell it, right?  How many of you will actually say it aloud to figure it out?  Because if you do, I love you. I’m here to remind you – yes, YOU - to never EVER forget to play...

Published on Sunday, September 16, 2012 by Katherine Ah yes, my hair.  My wiry, damaged, poufy, split ends hair.  Did you know that if I put a comb through my hair, it would actually reach the height of the world’s tallest skyscraper?  We are talking tower lights so the airplanes do not run in to me kind of high.  NO LIE. That is why I was more than happy to try Dove’s Intensive Care Conditioner.  I am not...