Dear Neglected Readers,

Winter. I hate it. I have such a hard time being interesting or interested in the world around me from November thru March. That’s why I haven’t written much here lately. Sorry but snow, gale speed winds, snow, and ice covered sidewalks, and snow really do a number on my creative forces. 
 
I took this picture [...]

My Christmas Tree

Go on, laugh.
Feel better?
Story regarding tree starts now:
So my apartment is a small two room plus kitchen, bathroom, and a few closets. Not miniature by any stretch, but it’s a challenge to fit a full sized Christmas tree (whether it’s real or plastic) for the season, as well as to store decorations and the tree [...]

My Favourite 7 Deadly Sins: Sloth

see more crazy cat pics 
Gluttony and Lust are tied for next favourite sins.

Busiest Day EVAH on vingada.com!

50 People have visited vingada.com today! The most people in one day! Wow!!
One thing I noticed in the “Search Engine Terms” listing, y’all have an obsession with cats and gelatin salad. Me too! Preferably in separate bowls, please. Also, many people do click on my blog links especially www.cuteoverload.com and www.icanhascheezburger.com. That’s great! These are [...]

What are you doing right now?

Right now I am:

Making supper
Getting lunches for tomorrow ready
Contemplating a bubble bath
Browsing through a Scott Kelby book about Photoshop Elements 4 (learning, learning, always learning)
Looking forward to New Year’s day. The SBC and I are spending it with my best friend Jane! Yeahoo!
Double checking I have everything in my backpack for tomorrow (except lunch. That’ll [...]

I’m Feeling a Little Blah Today

The weather has finally changed from happy sun-filled summer to chilly, dreary, damp autumn.
And it makes me feel like…. blecch!
It’s taking longer for the sun to appear in the morning, and it’s diving beneath the horizon much sooner. I don’t like it. I’ve never liked autumn. It reminds me that winter will soon be here [...]

OOOOOOHHHHHH! It’s Halloween! Here’s a pumpkin.

Every year, my work has a pumpkin carving contest. Each section carves and decorates a pumpkin. Customers vote for a favourite. The winning section gets a prize. This year it is breakfast either cooked by our manager or he’ll take us out for breakfast.
This is the third pumpkin I’ve carved for my section. We’ve never [...]

Happy Birthday to Me!

Today I am not only a year older, I am also the proud owner of TWO lomography cameras!
Yep, birthday presents are great.
Wish it happened everyday. Especially if cake is involved. (Actually, anything involving cake is delightful.)
My Sweet Baby Cat (hereby to be known simply as SBC) bought me a Fisheye Camera and an Oktomat Camera [...]

Hello, today I googled myself

So geeky, so true!
Before signing up this blog, anytime I googled “vingada” I’d get some listings for a soccer coach named Nelo Vingada. We Vingadas are a quiet dull lot. Except for the soccer guy.
But I just entered my name in Google to see if my site would come up, it did! Yippee!
Now, I [...]

I hate jello

It’s disgusting. It wiggles, jiggles, bounces light, tastes like plastic, typically topped with that fake whipped cream. It’s wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
When I was six I had food poisoning and spent 6 days in hospital. After two days without food, I was allowed to eat jello. For breakast. For lunch. For supper. A different coloured [...]