I treat this blog like one of those houseplants that doesn’t need a lot of water or sun and yet I still manage to turn it into a bone dry stick surrounded by a pile of dead yellow leaves. Yeah, I’m a blog neglector. Between work stress and a serious case of oh-shit-I-just-can’t-handle-one-more-thing, I have [...]
Archive for the ‘apropos of nothing’ Category
It’s a mad, mad world
December 15th, 2011
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I am in my late 40s and I have to tell you, I find the world we live in to be increasingly difficult to navigate. This isn’t one of those “oh, life was so simple back in the day” posts–because it wasn’t. I was 11 days old when JFK was assassinated. My childhood was a [...]
Karmic adventures in pie shopping
November 22nd, 2011
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My husband is a big-time-muckity-muck for a major grocery chain. Needless to say, I buy all my groceries there. Everything except the Thanksgiving pies. We had a Fresh Market here in Small City, and in case you aren’t familiar with the chain, it’s like Whole Foods only much, much, much more teeny. Think boutique. Very [...]
Really?
September 8th, 2011
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Blog has been down for a few days due to…well, I don’t know exactly. Hackers again, it seems. Since only people who really love me read this blog, I have no idea why they pick on this barely-trafficked little piece of the Internet. Â I do not feel honored being singled out this way, that’s for [...]
No Russian porn to see here, folks, move along
July 1st, 2011
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If you came here looking for Russian porn, sorry to disappoint you. Instead of sexy skanks begging for spankings using the Cyrillic alphabet, you should only find fat, frumpy, grumpy old me. This blog was highjacked for a while today by the seedy underbelly of the InterWebz or Anthony Weiner (he’s got a lot of [...]
Totally random brain chaos entry
June 7th, 2011
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This was a tough morning. I could point to a couple of triggers: I have a column that I need to finish today and my husband, who has been gone for two days, is making a 7-hour drive home. His return is joyfully anticipated, but as a professional worry wart I won’t relax until he [...]
All jokes aside
May 18th, 2011
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I have been making jokes my whole life, even if most of them are only funny to me. I like funny people and I want to be like them. I want them to like me and to think I am funny, too – you know, the kind of general acceptance we all crave and covet. [...]
I still heart Chicago, but home doesn’t suck
May 9th, 2011
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So we left Chicago after doing a lot of the touristy things that we’ve never done when we’ve been there dozens of times before. I highly recommend doing the touristy shit, even if you live there, because it’s pretty damn cool. On our last full day we wandered over to Wrigleyville, even though the Cubs [...]
I heart Chicago
May 3rd, 2011
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Yesterday we were total tourists. We arrived at the Shedd Aquarium just after it opened, so we only had to navigate through a couple of hundred school kids on field trips. As we were leaving just before 1 p.m., there were thousands of pre-teens and other assorted youngsters clamoring to get in. The dolphin show [...]
