http://www.thisexaminedlife.com Examining my life, for what it's worth Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:44:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It appears that Americans are gardening more now than they have in the past 10 years. (This is according to a survey conducted and published in the journal Random Musings, Vol. 1, issue 1.) What are we all growing? I think that it's safe to say that most people are ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/gardening-on-the-rise-blight-too/ So delightful is the warmer spring air, as it slips through and under every little gap, so bright and cheery are the yellow crocuses in the garden, the honey yellow  sunshine with its friendly fingers, the tulips poking through, their tops are green curled with life and tinged with red like fingernails they scooped through the ground, and ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/spring-spring-spring-boing/ http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/meow/ I am fine. February fever didn't really strike me so much. I feel like I must have dodged a bullet. The truth is, we had severe weather. I think that is preferable in some ways to the usual blah and super cold, or the usual wet rainy miserable bitter cold which ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/february-fever/ There's the sound of the gigantic ice chunks falling from my roof. Crash! There's the sound of me groaning from having shoveled out the cars. Moan! There's the quiet tap, click, clicking of the girls upstairs playing our new obsession, Plants Versus Zombies, which is extremely addictive and very fun. Don't start! ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/crunching-crashing-cramping-sounds/ This morning it was about 34 degrees (F) and sunny. A nice change from yesterday's completely rainy gloom, but cold! Drob remarked to me that it was probably time to pull up our remaining carrots.  I just did that! They are so funny looking, because they were grown in a pot, ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/pull-the-carrots-up/ Now that I know that I don't have Attention Deficit Disorder, I can confidently state that my problems are caused by run-of-the-mill disorganization, minor cluelessness, and likely a moral lacking in the glamour department. Yes, the glamour department. You see, my mom was kind enough to tell me, though it pained ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/what-isnt-wrong-with-me/  Just like journals of olde; my blog has sat neglected wondering why I don't come along and tappity tap on its pages as much as I once did.  I blame technology. I've got this aging Macbook. It was a peachy laptop when I first got it. But now its having all ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/sleepy-blog/ Today was busy and fun and we got home on the late side, and hungry to boot. It was raining felines and canines, so we dashed into the house, with our purchases in hand. As my children and I observed earlier in the day, it is fun to buy stuff. ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/costumes-and-consumerism-and-dinner-oh-my/ Oh, HI! I guess I kind of forgot to blog for the last three months. I don't know where the summer went, it was gone in a flash. I can't possibly catch you all up on what I've been up to. So I'm going to just jump back into this, putting together ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/hello-world-2/