Depression is a Lying Bitch, Wouldn’t You Say? Self-Improvement is a lot of work, and that’s kind of not really fair. Admittedly, sometimes a wreckage is our own fault. For example, I need to shed fifty pounds. Because I am a lazy slob who let myself go. Totally my own fault. Well, and […]
Do You Tell Lies? The Story of A Chronic Lie Gone Awry
It’s not that I mean to get one over on somebody when I lie. Mostly I’m just antisocial, impatient, and eager to stay out of trouble (you know, CRAZY). And sometimes that means saying the first thing that pops into my mind as being the easy way out. By telling a lie. A small lie. […]
Penelope Trunk says: Divorce is immature and selfish — do you agree?
Daggone You, Penelope Trunk! Penelope Trunk wrote a very controversial post entitled “Divorce is immature and selfish. Don’t do it.” Normally I love her blog, because it’s personal and weird and informative and brimming with drama and slightly reminds me of myself. Not that I want to be friends with Penelope, per se, for the […]
Jury Duty is Doody Cuz Jurors Don’t Care
Jury Duty is Doody Cuz Jurors Don’t Care I wrote several months ago a piece on my adventures with jury duty which was subsequently lost during the explosion of this here bloggy-blog. While we have been re-posting the lost material during the weekend, when traffic is light, this particular issue has bearing on my current […]
Hopping Your Frog – An Experience in Rule-Breaking
Rule Breaking Parent-Teacher conferences were upon us. We had about an hour before our appointment. Teasing our 7-year-old daughter, we asked her, “What kind of terrible things is your teacher going to tell us? Is she going to say how rotten you are? That you talk all the time and she has to make you […]
“Don’t take this personally, but –”
Starting today we will be running a podcast version of this blog as well. Check out our first podcast above. We will be on iTunes soon (just waiting for confirmation!). “Don’t take this personally, but –” I’ve never, ever understood this phrase. It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. It’s a preface to a statement […]
My Ex his KUFOM and a GAL
Tuesday is TruezDay – This Shit Happened. Today’s post is going to deviate from my normal tone and will instead be a bit heavy. As in, “I want to drop an anvil on someone’s head” kind of heavy. Or maybe, “How do you justify calling yourself a parent when you’re so obviously not interested in […]
Open Letter Invitation to Haterz
This is post #69. I’ll wait while you giggle. Go ahead, get it out of your system. Done? Good. My brother-in-law suggested I write about the difficulty of facing certain positions, in a “tongue in cheek” fashion. You’ll be glad to know that I decided against going this direction. Some scenes are better left unimagined. […]
Dolly for Sue
We’re All a Little Bit Dolly Today my sister and I were all yacky-yacky like normal, Skypin‘ it up about this-n-that nonsense like we always do. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a wild question appeared: WTF was Dolly for Sue‘s major malfunction? Seriously — why the hellz was she on the Island of Misfit Toys? There’s […]
No Las Vegas For Me, Thanks!
Almost a year ago, the company I worked for sent me to Las Vegas for a cheerleading competition. It was so kewl! The competition thing, I mean, NOT Las Vegas. I ended up having a nervous breakdown while I was there and got quite sick. I wouldn’t have remembered this event (my brain puts traumatic […]