What I’m Hating Right Now

Last week I posted about a few things I’m loving right now. To balance things out, here are a few things I’m hating at the moment:

Brad Pitt’s Secret Diary, Eating Sandwiches, and the Inauguration

It’s here, it’s here! Inauguration Day is finally here! But do you know what I’m really excited about? Little girls! Moving into the White House! There are going to be playdates! And slumber parties! Light As A Feather/Stiff As a Board in the Lincoln Bedroom! It’s going to be SUPERFUN!!!! The girls’ Secret Service Code […]

Cats and Dogs

I don’t know which made me feel more weepy, Tori Spelling’s memorial to her beloved pug Mimi La Rue on Tori and Dean, Home Sweet Hollywood, or CuteOverload’s tribute the other day to The Cat House on the Kings, California’s largest no-cage, no-kill, lifetime cat sanctuary and adoption center. The Cat House on the Kings […]

HWSNBNITB

Can you believe it’s been nearly four years since I started keeping this blog? And that in all that time, I have never posted a photo of my husband (who also prefers not to have his name mentioned) here? A lot of people have written to me to ask why He Who Shall Not Be […]

THREE MORE DAYS!

Three more days until HOW TO BE POPULAR is on sale in the US! And the first review (from Kirkus) is in! Armed with a plan, Steph Landry starts junior year determined to shake her place as the butt of her town's saying, “Don't pull a Steph Landry.” The saying, coined by her stereotypically popular […]

GOOGLE EYED

This past week has turned out to be very traumatic on the feline front. I stumbled downstairs one morning, bleary-eyed and looking for tea, when I noticed that one of Gem's pupils was way bigger than the other. The following conversation occurred in our kitchen: Me: How come one of Gem's pupils is way bigger […]

PS

Great. Now Michele just sent me the link to the cutest website in the entire world. I will NEVER finish writing Chapter 5 at this rate.

WHODUNNIT?

MURDER OF LOCAL LOCUST STUNS KEY WEST NEIGHBORHOOD The victim: Species: Giant Gross Locust (genus: Locust Disgustingus), the size of my thumb (no photo of locust by my thumb to show scale was taken due to my not wanting to touch the victim). Age: Unknown Body found: On the welcome matt in front of our […]