If you’re not the type of person who enjoys being the center of attention, then I have to advise you not to slip and fall like a cartoon character on the pool deck of a four-star hotel in Las Vegas. I do hate to be fussed over. So standing around in bikini, half wrapped in [...]
Archive for November, 2008
These stitches did not stay in Vegas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accident, bikini, blood, husband, vacation, Vegas on November 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A Week of Why, Part IV
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ll just wrap this up: Our piles of books and magazines look so cute together. He encouraged me to buy my dream car, and goes through all kinds of contortions to change the oil. Four words: Still rocking the ponytail.
The apocalypse nears
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just joined Facebook. Next I’ll be using the word “network” as a verb and accepting the phrase “grow the economy” without my left eye twitching.
A Week of Why, Part III
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The man makes one delicious calzone.
A Week of Why, Part II
Posted in Photographs on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Because he totally went first during vertical caving class.
A Week of Why, Part I
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged home, husband on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In honor of my wedding anniversary this Wednesday, I’ll be posting a week’s worth of reasons of why I’m still married to the guy who showed up 45 minutes late to our first date driving a drafty Volkswagen Vanagon. Part I Because last night, while mocking old music videos from the ’80s on YouTube, we [...]
Here comes the rain again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coast, home, hurricane, Mobile, weather on November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I hate that a decade of living with near-constant rainfall and annual hurricanes in Mobile, Ala., has ruined thunderstorms for me. I’m always on the lookout for leaky roof shingles or dodgy tree branches instead of enjoying the sound of rain hitting the back deck or watching the lightning. Stupid Gulf Coast.
Things that shouldn’t have to be said
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged election, Obama on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Seriously loving this link from The Root: Five things white folks shouldn’t do now that Obama has won the election. My favorite is No. 1: “Don’t personally congratulate all your black friends.” Seriously, my black co-workers are bristling with aggravation over such sentiments. Obama is not THEIR president, he’s OUR president, and he couldn’t have [...]
Sleeping single in a double bed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged career, childfree, DINK, food, home, husband, marriage, movies, travel on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been secretly living alone for the past 2.5 weeks. Secretly in deference to my mother and husband, who didn’t think the world should know that I was alone in the house at night. The husband spent nearly three weeks in New Jersey on business. I spent nearly three weeks being really bad at being [...]

