Monday Musings: March 1, 2010

OMG. The very young ‘new guy’ at work just told me that I remind him of Erin Brockovich. What am I supposed to make of that? Especially since I got a major hair style and color overhaul on Saturday, to what I refer to as my ‘cougar’ or Angie Dickinson look.

I must have gotten a panicked look, since he quickly added that it was ‘a compliment’.

When I told my step-daughter about it tonight, as she drove home from work over in the Bay Area, she asked me “did he mean Julia Roberts?”

I wish.

Yikes. So this is the way I’m starting the week, and the weekend wasn’t much better. It was one of those lost weekends where nothing - zip - got done.

The kitchen floor looks like the dog and several racoons ( we have a doggie door ) partied hardy at the midnight hour.

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Ann Onn moves to This is RENO

I was sorry to see my blogger friend, Ann Onn as in Ann Onn Everything end her blog, having moved on to something new. She was the first person to comment on my infant blog way back last fall. I was so jazzed that anybody was actually reading it, and she made great comments about the recipe I’d posted … ala Julie & Julia. I felt so cool. I was now a real blogger, since somebody knew I was there!

As the old year blended into the new, we jibbed and commented back and forth, keeping each other bucked up and honest, and lending support. Laurel, as Ann Onn is known in real life, got me to meet other area bloggers, told me who was who and what was what. To that end, she has moved on to a new venture that looks really intriguing.

This is RENO- A New Kind of News for the Truckee Meadows and Beyond - offers bloggers, writers, activists and others a very snazzy new venue and forum

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