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Betsy Horvath's Blog, page 32
February 5, 2012
Toy Spending
Today I'd like to share an infographic I received from frugaldad.com. I think you'll find the information as interesting as I did. I will admit that I haven't checked the sources listed, but I don't have any problem believing the numbers. Hey, I was in the Target toy department at Christmas. I was lucky that [...]
February 2, 2012
Prince Charming
I read a lot of romance novels. I think we've established that already, right? Right. Anyway, I've decided that one of the things I find the most irksome in a romance novel is when the hero is too perfect. Don't get me wrong, I hate a perfect heroine too. But usually the author will try [...]
January 31, 2012
Reading The Cars
I'm always surprised by what you can find out about someone just by reading their car. Forget trying to figure out an incomprehensible vanity license plate. All you have to do these days is read the stickers and decals and cling-ons and magnetic ribbons people seem to be sticking all over their vehicles. Everything from how [...]
January 29, 2012
Made Paranoid By Cats
Sometimes, as I lie upon my cot at night, one or more of my cats come up on the bed, walk up beside me, and stare at me as if trying to communicate through telepathy. Sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I will find one or more of my cats sitting and staring [...]
January 26, 2012
An Ode to Girl Scout Cookies
Well, don't I feel all dramatic after my last couple of blog posts? Sorry about that. I'll just tell you that the doctor's visit went pretty much as I feared and my diabetes is bad at the moment. But I've decided that just because my diabetes is bad, and just because my debt is bad, [...]
January 24, 2012
Diabetes and Addiction
I have type 2 diabetes. I've had it for about 7 years. There was a point, soon after I was diagnosed, when I was able to control it with food and exercise. I lost pretty much weight. My a1c (the diabetes blood test) was pretty much normal. I was pretty arrogant about it. I always [...]
January 22, 2012
Snowy Evening
In celebration of the first significant snowfall since October at The Palatial Horvath Estate, I thought I would share one of my favorite snow poems, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. The thing I love best about Frost's poems is that on the surface they sound all folksy and wholesome, but [...]
January 19, 2012
Goals, Dreams, and Remembering My Father
I was thinking about my father as I drove into work today, and it made me feel kind of melancholy. We're coming up on the third anniversary of his death, so he's been in my thoughts more than normal, I guess. The reason I was feeling melancholy was not because he died. He'd suffered for [...]
January 17, 2012
What's In A Name?
I've been listening to the audio books of "The Bride Quartet" by Nora Roberts over the last couple of days. It's been a long time since La Nora has written a series of straight-up contemporary romances without mystery, suspense, or woo-woo stuff, so I was listening to learn. I have various reactions to the books [...]
January 12, 2012
A Few Things About Cats
Cats: Do not help with the household chores. Occasionally use the rug as toilet paper – especially if the rug is light in color. Watch to see where you habitually walk with bare feet. Then they cough up a hairball in that exact spot. Enjoy nibbling on a houseplant now and again. Then their stomachs [...]
