I like to stay on the cutting edge of technology, but I swallowed a camera because my doctor told me to. Also. I would like to clarify that my pinkie is not that crooked in real life. I caught it in the middle of a yoga move preparing to play its part in shoving a […]
Road Tripping North Alabama.
Up until a few years ago, I can say with certainty that I was a beach girl. I really didn’t have any interest in the mountains, always preferring to drift warmwards rather than coldwards, and in complete adoration with the ocean. I believe, if I remember correctly, that it was the fault of The General […]
The Snow Chasing Us.
So the children and I set out early Tuesday morning to seek snow adventures. We ran into some slightly dicey weather about halfway there, which is when I learned for the first time that you could actually use defrost to de-FROST your windshield. I seriously had no idea. And it wasn’t a quick realization, either. […]
SnowChasers.
Sometimes a dose of lunacy is the best prescription. At least that’s the principle upon which I’m basing this week’s decision-making. I started feeling well on Saturday. Like, well well. More well than I’ve felt since November, when I began a string of bugs that included but was not limited to Laryngitis, a sinus infection, […]
Carnivorous Creations: The Meat Bouquet.
Originally posted September 1, 2009. And still one of the stupidest things we’ve ever done for a blog post. Chris has consistently sent me gorgeous flowers throughout our relationship. I have always greatly appreciated this, but have always been burdened with a good bit of guilt at each occurrence of said delivery, because there’s nothing […]
Innerspace: The Story of my Colonoscopy.
Disclosure: By not closing out your browser window now, you are acknowledging and taking full responsibility for any mental or physical repercussions you may experience from reading the content contained herein. I’ve never noticed how much the line art in my blog background looks like intestines. Have you? So I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy […]
The PlayPlace Rescue.
If you’ve never done it, then either, a. You’re not a parent, b. Your kid is fearless and never panics in the realm of PlayPlaces, or c. You’re too much of a germaphobe to allow yourself to come into such a situation. The Infamous Chuck E. Cheese rescue (that was not only repugnant to […]
The Frozen South.
I get it. We’re not the only ones who have been cold this week. (Minnesota readers? Are you still alive? How about Michigan? Canada? Illinois? Report in, everyone!) But it’s been cold here. Cold enough to set records and let us experience single digit temperatures below zero windchills and other such absurdities that we’re not […]
On Having (and Finding) My Celebrity Twin.
It wasn’t an option, really. I had to find her. The number of Facebook messages, texts, tweets, and in-person comments was rising so quickly that I just started assigning people a number. “Hey! Have you seen that Nokia Lumia commercial…” “You’re number thirteen.” “Oh. So it’s not you?” “Nope.” I could see what they saw, […]
How The Disney Stole Christmas.
“Pick something from Disney,” Chris said. “It’ll be a safe choice.” I was desperately thumbing through NetFlix, looking for something, anything to entertain our children for the last hour before bedtime on the worst parenting day of our lives. Chris and I had both woken up with the stomach virus Saturday morning. We were incapacitated, […]