Dec
18
Dear dog,
I can’t tell you the pleasure it gives me to see that you’ve managed to figure out how to get upstairs while I’m gone.
That pleasure is compounded by the fact that you chose the only carpeted room in the entire house to anoint.
Which is compounded by the fact that you won’t go poop at [...]
Dec
08
A while ago, soon after I found out I’d be getting this house, I got the bright idea to have a sleepover of some online friends as sort of a housewarming. This idea quickly morphed into a cookie bake, to be organized by my friend Scarlet and scheduled to coincide with everyone’s free weekend. I [...]
Dec
05
So I have about $50 after buying groceries, which has to get me through the next 11 days until payday. Take away $15 for gas (thank Claude for little Myo’s awesome mpg), and you’ve got $35. No problem. I’ve often done it with less.
Last night was a picture night at pill’s preschool, in which you [...]
Dec
04
If you’ve never worked with someone who eats Cup of Noodles each and every day for lunch, it’s quite a rare treat to see a grown, Ph.D. educated woman slurping noodles. At first it didn’t bother me–everyone has quirks, right? Day 3. Sllllllurp. Now it’s been a couple or four months, and the slurping makes [...]
Dec
03
Yesterday I woke up with a screaming headache. I get migraines, the kind that Tylenol doesn’t make a dent in. I took a hydrocodone and got lil pill in the car. But I forgot to eat, and that stuff isn’t kind when you forget to eat. Over the last two weeks I’ve had so much [...]