MissMeliss: Escribition

I have a note to write about “baby jogger city mini bike bars” and I don’t remember what all that means, except for the bike bars.
Our friend Ben told us about them earlier this evening. Apparently, they’re a “thing” in northeast Minneapolis during warmer weather – they involve three to sixteen people cloistered around [...]

The problem with winter is that it dries out your skin, and even when you moisturize and scrub, the cold and dryness conspire to make you look like a candidate on a reality show to determine who can devise the best home remedy for acne.
Looking in the vanity mirror above the antique desk where I’m [...]

I don’t know if anyone has done a formal study on the colon cleansing benefits of stress, but I can tell you there’s definitely a connection. My stomach, and my husband’s, have both been tied up in knots for a week and a half. My sister-in-law is having serious belly pain. Everyone has been guzzling [...]

Today, standing in an Aveda store, replacing a favorite product that I’ve run out of while away, I took the time to have a hand-massage. This winter weather has been wreaking havoc on my skin. I feel dry and scaly, like a cast of snake-skin, except it’s all still attached.
As warmed lotion was being [...]

All the weight loss supplement reviews caution us to eat balanced meals, drink lots of water, and get plenty of sleep. I’ve not been sleeping well. Partly this is due to my own bad habits, partly due to being away. The bed in my sister-in-law’s guest room has seven blankets – we needed all of [...]

We’re still away from home, but I’ve been storing up things to say, so this is the first of some brief posts.
Grief is, apparently, an excellent sort of weight loss formula, because my sister-in-law has lost over 20 pounds since her husband began his decline in December. We kept trying to get her to [...]

They say sleep is nature’s own fat burner, and I’d love to test that theory, but yet again, I’ve been up all night, this time working on some blog projects I needed to finish – like catching up with my huge backlog of un-reviewed books over at Bibliotica and answering email I’ve not had [...]

2009 had some good moments, and some moments of complete and utter suckage.
Let’s hope 2010 has more of the good than the bad.
Happy new year, everyone.

…and yet I’m too tired to think, to blog, to do anything. I overdid everything earlier, cleaning to get things ready for my mother, grocery shopping, then waiting in the airport, and finally cooking a far-too-elaborate dinner, and now everything hurts more than it did this morning. I feel like my ribs and diaphragm are [...]

Just a quick week in review:
– Spent far too much time troubleshooting the sudden death of wifi in Windows Vista, finally resulting in having to back everything up and load a clean image from the recovery partition. (Tasks like this are why I left tech support for other fields of employment.)
- Did some actual [...]