It's Just the Coffee Talking It's Just the Coffee Talking Behind every successful woman... is a substantial amount of coffee. It's me, chatting over morning coffee with my readers about any topic from apologetics to zero gravity. 
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Chit Chat Over Coffee
2008-04-06 17:46:00 Yesterday I spent the entire day at the dreaded mall. Yes, I said dreaded. I hate to spend money. I hate crowds. I hate shopping and I really, really hate trying on clothes. But with the lumps and bumps and extra 15 pounds I'm lugging around buying straight off the rack is impossible. I can wear any of three different sizes. Kat and her Boyfriend met me at the mall and ended up shopping More About: Chat , Coffee
Shhhh....
2008-04-05 15:34:00 Good Morning! Well, the coffee is hot and there is plenty of it as I'm getting ready to leave for an appointment so I don't have time to drink it. I'm just off to a tanning appointment as I try to prepare this midwestern pasty white winter body for a week at the beach. The shock of that big yellow thing in the sky is going to be too much for it I'm afraid! I have a house full of little girls
Use Your Common Sense and Sense of Humor... Where Have They Gone?
2008-04-04 22:19:00 The news headlines today are screaming it loud and clear that someone was going to shoot children with an AK-47. Certainly alarming, no? Until you read the actual news article... and see his exact words. "...... By the evening, detectives said they retrieved the posting from the hard drive on the seized computer that specifically stated: "How about we just shoot all the dogs. You More About: Humor , Sense , Common , Common Sense
That Darn Ghost Cat Again!
2008-04-04 20:49:00 I know a lot of my readers like to hear about the 'interesting' things we have happen here at the Coffeehaus... I hesitate to call it a ghost - so I just say we had something 'odd', 'unexplained' or 'interesting' happen. *grin* Most of the time we are so used to things that we just stop, pause, shake our heads and go on. I always forget about them within the hour and never blog about them. More About: Ghost
Spring Must Be the Time of Year to Buy New Beds
2008-04-04 17:26:00 There must be something in the air about bunk beds and loft beds right now... I've had 2 readers contact me by email with questions about my kids beds! LOL. It just so happens that I saw a company this morning that offers a user-friendly site with a lot of really cool beds and all the nitty gritty details about each bed including what every part is made of, specs and colors, so I thought I'd More About: Time , Spring , Year , Beds , The Time
Good Old Fashioned Coffee Talk Around the Table Like the Old Days
2008-04-04 14:27:00 Here I was, all excited to tell my readers that the pesky sponsorship pop up was gone... but wait! It's not. Ok, it's supposed to be. So come back! Come back! It won't scare you way anymore! I've wrote to the company to tell them it's still there and that it seems to have it's undies showing. Meaning... I can see its html coding as text. But they've been emailed and it should go away More About: Coffee , Talk , Days , Table , Good
*updated* - For those in Warmer Climates... I give you rain turning to sn
2008-04-03 22:07:00 For Judy and Jody and the rest of the lucky ducks who get to live in the land of sun and warmth; where the tree's are green, gardens are being planted and flowers are starting to bloom. I leave you with the view of my April 3rd as I drove to the High School to deliver track shoes to my son. First it wanted to rain, then it turned to snow, back to rain, back to snow, rain, snow, rain and snow. More About: Rain , Give
Thursday 13... My First Installment!
2008-04-03 21:05:00 Thirteen Things about Meritt 1. I'm trying something brand new called the Thursday 13 in which you post 13 random things about your week. 2. I don't really know what I'm doing so I'm sure I'll screw the code up on the bottom. LOL. 3. I've felt very lazy this week like I didn't accomplish anything at all. 4. I love my new Glade Flameless Wisp candle and I'm thankful I was given a
Blending Religions...
2008-04-03 16:21:00 When I was younger I didn't give much thought to the religions of the world. I was born on a Tuesday and Baptized that Sunday. I'm happy and content in my faith and as it's a strong religion that goes back to Jesus himself, I've never felt the need to 'change' faiths, however, as an adult I've always found it interesting to learn about other faiths and religious beliefs. Back when the More About: Religions , Blending
Display Those Shells from the Beach!
2008-04-03 15:24:00 Some of my readers are blessed to live at the beach... the rest of us only get to visit every year or two. LOL. This morning on one of my other blogs I post a great idea for displaying those shells, sharks teeth, crab claws and other 'treasures' that our little ones find and insist we must bring home because they are so 'pretty'. So - for a cheap but cool idea to display your childs ' More About: Beach , Display
American Customer Service - Available in Any Language But English!
2008-04-03 14:35:00 This morning I was organizing some of my graphics and photo files and saw these labels that I made last week while I was in a snit. I have no idea what made me so angry at the time... it was a news story I think - but I have a quick temper so something got me going and I ended up making some internet 'stickers' since I couldn't unleash my tongue on anyone and make a difference. (Venting... but More About: Customer Service , Service , Customer , English , American
GET IN YOUR ROWS YOU LITTLE DUCKS!!!
2008-04-02 20:43:00 Forgive me... it's been an entire year and I forgot how un-rushed, un-hurried and slow life in the South can be and how laid back (and well, 'un' customer friendly) service can be when you vacation in ocean/beach communities. But, it all came back rushing back to me in a phone call. With a family vacation looming over my head I decided to get my ducks in a row now that I have most of the
Morning Coffee Talk Ended Up being about the Liberation of Karmah and Grump
2008-04-02 03:30:00 Yesterday while bopping around the internet I ended up on Michael J. Totten's blog and was reading about our soldiers over in Iraq. Not the Washington Post's view... (snicker) but someone who is actually there. My brother is part of the longest serving unit there (the unit the tv show 60 Minutes did the special on since they were there almost 2 years while most deployments are less than half More About: Coffee , Talk , Morning , Liberation
Well Known Pranks on April Fools Day in History
2008-04-01 23:21:00 Well-known pranks * Alabama Changes the Value of Pi: The April 1998 newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason contained an article written by physicist Mark Boslough claiming that the Alabama Legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the "Biblical value" of 3.0. This claim originally appeared as a news story in the 1961 science fiction novel Stranger More About: History , Pranks
Fun April Fool's Day Foods
2008-04-01 12:31:00 One of the best sites I've ever found for April Fools Day foods is Family Fun. This year I've linked some of their 'classic' recipes and noticed they added one or two new ones as well. I can personally vouch for the awesome recipes they offer. I've made almost half of these myself and they are perfect! Perfectly fun to make and perfectly fun to receive! Enjoy these innocent and yummy pranks in More About: Foods
Career Builder offered some Office Prank Advice for April Fools
2008-04-01 05:47:00 "Prank ing at work can be risky business," says Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources at Career Builder.com. "When determining whether a prank is a good idea on April Fools' Day, employees should consider the worst case scenario of their joke. Will his or her joke simply result in a laugh from fellow co-workers? Or could anybody, including you, lose their job?" While faking a More About: Advice , Office
Don't You Make Excel Spread Sheets Featuring the Cost of Living Across the
2008-03-31 15:37:00 Last night my husband came into the kitchen, a bit bored since our oldest daughter had his laptop and our youngest was downstairs doing the playstation Dance Mat (so the television was taken). He isn't one for 'reading' or doing odd jobs around the house so instead, he sat at the table and watched me working at the kitchen island bar with my laptop. As I worked I was commenting to him about the More About: Living , Cost , Cost of living , Make , Excel
I Adore This Boyfriend... and Unintentionally I tell you about Ava Maria, F
2008-03-31 13:32:00 Even though this was a text conversation between Kat and the Boyfriend I am going to type it all out. K: Thinking about going to a Catholic University in Florida B: No! That's too far away. K: So? B: We'd have to get married then. K: I can't marry you. B: Why not? K: You aren't Catholic. B: I'll become one! Kat wasn't serious, nor is my winter and snow loving daughter seriously going More About: Maria
Internet Reputations... good or bad!
2008-03-31 00:04:00 It's still Sunday afternoon and because there was absolutely no sunshine today I found myself in a funk and basically just read news stories and websites all afternoon. There have been quite a few stories in the news lately about websites that allow people to post anonymously about other people... there was a big story on this last week on CNN re; a certain website I won't mention that a More About: Internet , Good
The Photobucket Meme
2008-03-30 20:20:00 On this slow Sunday afternoon I popped online and went over to visit Judy when I saw she had a meme up. I don't do many of these things (when would I find the time!?) but it's a Sunday afternoon and I am in no mood to do laundry, dishes, floor sweeping or much less of anything else so doing a meme sounds fairly good right now. (Never mind that I was supposed to take my son to try on tuxes today More About: Meme , Photobucket
Remember; "ASSUME" only makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'
2008-03-29 23:20:00 Good for him! I couldn't help but grin when I read this story. It's similar to the 'party' my daughter held last year. They had a girls night with "cosmopolitans" and yep, took pictures, as we take pictures of everything - almost daily I take photos! Now... when you look at pictures full of a laughing, smiling, goofy girls with drinks in their hand, it's your own fault what you assume. And More About: Assume
You Still May be Sheep, Even if You Follow A Different Shepherd
2008-03-29 14:14:00 I actually posted this on another blog of mine, but thought I'd post it here too. The reason is that I see some humor in the fact that atheists always seem to throw the words 'sheep' and 'brainwashed' around when talking about people who believe in a higher power; God. So when I read this article and in particular, this quote from one of the children of the founders of this 'non church sunday More About: Sheep
You Would Think I'd Take Advantage of Sleeping "in" on Saturday, Wouldn't Y
2008-03-29 12:03:00 But no.... I briefly wake at 4:30 am and suddenly my brain turns on and I can't sleep. I tossed and turned for over an hour before admitting I might as well come downstairs, make coffee and start my day. As I sit here I've heard an electronic 'alarm' go off twice. The problem? It could be a cellphone. It could be an ipod. I have three kids school bags within 8 feet of me. One over by the More About: Sleeping , Saturday
(*Updated AGAIN) Have you ever tried to find a limo for 16 people... just
2008-03-28 17:27:00 *newest update - if you can't wait to see what happens next.... it's at the bottom* This post has *ongoing* updates....... A month ago when prom plans were first underway I asked my daughter about her 'group' she and Boyfriend would be going with. It was still being finalized but they basically knew and one of the girls said she would be in charge of finding the limo. Knowing her parents More About: People , Find , Limo
Remember that Unorganized Friend of Mine? Yeah... Her, the Pregnant One
2008-03-28 15:16:00 My best friend (you know... the die hard liberal democrat unorganized and flighty one that I absolutely love to death!) is 7 months pregnant with her fourth child. This would be the one that has a house going on the market in less than two weeks and is about 4 months from it actually being ready for market. She is also the one that just sent out their Christmas letters two weeks ago. Did you More About: Pregnant , Friend , Mine , Yeah
As Frustrated As I Am With Outsourced Customer Service... They Make a Very
2008-03-28 13:23:00 Source: here AT&T Struggles to Fill 5,000 Jobs It's Trying to Return to the U.S. From India. March 27, 2008— SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The head of the top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United States from India. "We're having trouble finding the More About: Customer Service , Service , Customer , Frustrated , Make
Is there ANY common sense where the TSA is involved?
2008-03-28 02:07:00 This country has lost it's freakin common sense. I cannot even BEGIN to talk about this one without launching into a tirade so suffice to say I'm just going to post it here and duct tape my fingers and bite my tongue. LOS ANGELES - A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents More About: Sense , Common , Common Sense
Stupid F-ing Cats! Why I Was Selling Beer From My Deck
2008-03-27 13:58:00 This morning as soon as my husband and one child left for work and school and two more were preparing to leave there was a huge clap of thunder, the lights dimmed and went out briefly, the power strip plugged into the wall beeped and then? It started. Hail. Ahhh, Spring in the Midwest. The reason you want to make sure you have a garage to park your car in, and the reason Midwest insurance More About: Cats , Selling , Beer , Stupid , Deck
You know it's not an enjoyable shopping trip when........
2008-03-26 19:33:00 you literally find yourself saying to the employee; "I saw you roll your eyes and sigh." "Do you realize that when the employee rolls their eyes and sighs in front of the customer just because they have to actually help the customer; that is when we turn around and leave and buy the same product elsewhere?" More About: Shopping , Trip
Stuck on the London Eye for an ENTIRE HOUR? OMGOSH! Where are my glucose
More articles from this author:2008-03-26 13:40:00 a snippet from the news article I'm rolling my eyes at this morning over coffee; "..... Staff spoke to visitors over an intercom system fitted in each of the 32 glass pods. They were offered water, blankets and glucose tablets stored in "comfort packs." An hour? They were stuck for an hour. Think about this. My husband commuted for an hour each way at his last job. Every day.In the last More About: London , Entire , Hour 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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