Nevergirl’s

Before we moved, the most strenuous thing I ever did with my hands was hammer away at the keyboard. I spent afternoons napping, pounding away on the laptop, or meeting up with girl friends. I do not cook, clean, or do the laundry… but please do not think I’m a wife who does nothing but spend her husband’s money because I’m not. I work harder than anyone I know. I work til my eyes cross and sometimes, I don’t sleep for three days straight just to make sure we launch a product on time. But well, all that work, it’s mostly mental. At the end of each work week, it’s just my eyes, brain, and fingers that hurt.

But oh how things have changed! (more…)

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Yes, capitalization is important. It’s the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse. I can’t remember the last time I’ve had to point out something as obvious as this. Oh wait, how quickly I forget! There was that one time I told off a writer for NOT putting titles on her articles. I wrote a pretty scathing email, too.

Dear _____,

Please refer to the articles attached. All of them do not have titles. Can you explain to me please why this is so? Have you ever read an article without a title? Is it possible you do not know an article needs a title? Or maybe you were thinking it would make my day and complete my life in some masochistic way to have to add titles to all of your articles?

A few seconds after I hit the Send button, I felt bent and broken with remorse and apologized for being cranky. (more…)

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Every couple of weeks or so, I reach a point where I do so much fussing and thinking that my head implodes into itself. Well, kind of.

This implosion isn’t really all that dramatic: no fluids oozing out of my ears; no psychotic breaks; no Vegas weddings; no killing sprees (just shopping sprees and the conviction my life would be immeasurably better with jewelry making supplies as part of it) — unless we make killing mosquitoes count; no, not even a dramatic announcement that I’ve decided to change sexual preferences and intend to date only women from now on, thankyouverymuch. (more…)

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