Remember the surgery I’ve mentioned about 90000 times? It’s tomorrow.
I have to get to the hospital (an hour and a half away) for 9 am, and the operation will be about 2 or 2 1/2 hours later.
I realize that it’s a relatively simple procedure (I think? maybe? okay I don’t actually know that [...]
A – Age: 33
B – Bed size: Queen
C – Chore you hate: Everything?
D – Don’t: like steel wool
E – Essential start your day item: my toothbrush
F – Favorite color(s): blue
G – Gold or Silver: silver
H – Height: 5′9″
I – Instruments you play: I played flute in high school, but it’s been years.
J – Job title: [...]
When I was ten, my father surprised us with a puppy he brought home from a pet store. Now, this was September of 1986; back then no one had heard of puppy mills, and unethical breeding practices were not something that were part of the public conscience. It was common practice to pop into a [...]
I just needed to vent and don’t have a paper-and-pen journal anymore, so I needed to put it here. I’m not giving anyone the password. Don’t worry, it’s nothing huge, just needed to talk to myself.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
The guy who wrote it:
The first version I ever heard:
The latest version (in a pretty good movie, which I watched this morning. Cameron Diaz is still a terrible actress, and I HATE when they change books for movies, but it was still pretty good, and the scene this song was featured in made me bawl): [...]
I’m not a huge Joni Mitchell fan. Nor am I a great fan of opera.
There, I’ve said it.
That’s not to say that I hate Joni, or that I have never/will never listen to her music. I don’t, I have, and I will. She just wouldn’t be on my top 10 list of Desert Island Music [...]
I was asked today why we didn’t get a “real dog”, like a German Shepherd or a Lab.
Frankly, I was slightly insulted.
I know that some people think that any dog smaller than a GSD isn’t a “real” dog. And I sort of pity those people, because I firmly believe that every dog has its own [...]
You know how cheap I am, right? My cheapness goes from turning the heat down during the winter (icicles form on Rob. I’m like “Wear a sweater!”) to scouring the Internet for coupons. Just today, in the mail, we got about $50 worth of coupons, for things that we actually need and use. We [...]