lucy was my lady, don’t love her anymore

When we were younger and had fewer children, my husband and I faithfully showed up at every gig a semi-local band played in our area. We knew all the words, knew all the tricks, knew what to say when he said “YAY-OH!” or whatever the hell it was that he said. We were always excited [...]

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tipsy wipsy

Tell me, Internet, does it ever happen that you go about an activity with a certain set of expectations only to be disappointed? But then! You remember you have a blog and you can totally turn a less than stellar day or night into something fun because you can write about it and share the [...]

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chocolate and brownie affair

On Saturday mornings, I like to make a pot of coffee and sit down with the Internet. I catch up with everybody and relax. But today was different. At first, something was up with the computer and it was bringing me down. So I snapped at my husband. He yelled back. Then I told him [...]

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more bloggers’ fuel

Regarding my Boca Java post a couple days ago, Bruce said:
Hello Coolbeansmama
First, very nice blog and very cool name. First time visiting.
Secondly, since you had us posted on your blog, I wanted to let you know we have a very exciting opportunity over at bloggersfuel.com.
Right now, we are looking for 500 coffee loving bloggers to [...]

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sometimes, i like other people

If you don’t see me much for a couple days, it’s because I am swamped at work and when I’m home, I’m staring at the ceiling again. But! I wrote this little blurbity-blurb thingie for you and put a LOT of links in (which was really hard work!) and I said “Metallica” even though Lars [...]

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coffee pimpin’, grindin’ beans…

Every morning I get up, shower and dress. Then I dress The Toddler and yell at guide the bigger kids through the process of getting out the door with ZERO seconds to spare. Even when I get up early and am dressed and ready to go way ahead of time, we still manage to make [...]

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what does "cool beans" mean?

I get a lot of traffic from folks searching for the answer to the question:
“What does ‘cool beans’ mean?”
I don’t know where I first heard the expression. I’d venture a guess that “cool beans” means “Okay. That is good.” Another way of saying okay, good, fine, sure, awesome, rad, super, that doesn’t suck.
For me, though, [...]

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