Important Life Lessions: Holiday Edition

Always remember to test your power stapler before you attach the Christmas lights to your house. This way, you won’t have to feel like an idiot for forgetting that, two months ago, you had loaded the staple gun with brad nails in an effort to reattach the moulding in your living room.

Quel relief

Today I’ve experienced more relief than I’ve felt in weeks. In the hands of a far more competent vet and our beloved Marjie, Hooper was given a new plan for his separation distress (hurray! we’ve also officially been downgraded from anxiety to distress). Provided the blood samples come out ok, Monday, we’ll have a prescription [...]

Pay It Forward

My mom recently baked and shipped me a batch of cuchidottis, a fig-based Christmas cookie that my Grandmother used to make for us that I am just wild about. There was no reason behind this except that she wanted to send me a little bit of nostalgia in a box since this is our second [...]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Just now, my horoscope landed in my inbox:
First let me make it clear that I’m not predicting you will face difficult events in the coming days. Not at all. Second, I’m not saying you will have to endure more pain than usual. Third, I believe your suffering will be about average — similar to what [...]

How does 10% of my fist sound to you?

Ok Mall Checkout Person, sit down, we need to have a little heart-to-heart. I don’t want your store credit card, I don’t want your store’s discount savings card that can only be used in conjunction with the credit card and I don’t care if they can be used at Banana Republic, the Gap, and Old [...]

Baby, you and I were meant to be

My Dearest NaBloPoMo:
As it turns out, I am exactly the kind of person who will turn their back on the internet and all it took was nine people offering to get me out of the house for an hour or five. That and, of course, beer and a hell of a lot of fried food [...]

Apparently the fourth circle of hell is in New Jersey

There’s just so little to say when you awake to a gorgeous sunny Thanksgiving Day morning of blue skies, puffy clouds, and sunshine. You bounce out of bed, walk downstairs and are greeted by a full breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, homefries, and possibly the best coffee ever tasted. You had the foresight to make [...]

Welcome to Thanksgiving at the infirmary

I know that, just yesterday, I was bragging about my technological prowess and that I would be posting using Utterz. But the thing is, well, the house has sort of been turned into an impromptu infirmary. One sister-in-law has pneumonia, another has an ear infection, my father-in-law has the traditional Thanksgiving-time cold, and I have been [...]

Quick observation

Did y’all know that a batch of cookie dough makes 39 cookies? All this time I thought it made between 29-31. Hmmm… this probably explains a lot of weight gain.

Phoning it in

Given that I am going out of state for the holiday, and the holiday falls ever so inconveniently within the month of NaBloPoMo, I will be issuing a couple of blog posts using Utterz. It’s a new fangled internet thingie that allows you to literally phone your posts in. Of course, it’ll be an audio post so [...]