I suck at marriage.
I worry sometimes that I am genetically doomed and incapable of having a successful relationship. Between my parents and my grandparents, there are 6 separate divorces*. I’m afraid sometimes that my childhood declarations that I was “never going to get married!” were actually an early sign that I was truly [...]
It doesn’t matter what the fight was about.
It doesn’t matter if it was stupid, or silly, or blown out of proportion. It doesn’t matter if it was about the garbage or a bill or an unintentional word that made me feel stupid.
It doesn’t matter whose “fault” it was.
For me, what matters, is how you end [...]
Saturday we had our first official Date Night with Other Grown Up Couple.
First, meet Hubby’s Date Deanna’s Husband:
The Husband liked his Man Candy Lee was very nice and got along well with Husband:
Initially Lee was resistant to Husband’s advances hungry, so we plied him served food:
and more food…
Of course, you cannot get into Lee’s pants [...]
My husband and I have a date tomorrow night.
Not with each other, of course, because that would require a babysitter - and to date the only sitter we’ve found is available in like 75 minute increments.
No, no, better than spending a night gazing into each other’s eyes, we have a date with another couple.
I am [...]
Dear World Wide Wisdom,You have been given a mission.
Should you choose to accept this mission, you will be asked to go where few men have gone before. You will see things no man, woman or child should ever see. There is a chance, brave World Wide Wisdom, that you will be forever changed [...]
Do you know what today is? Do you? DO YOU?
Pfft.
Today is exactly two months since I moved to Florida. Or, more accurately, two months since I bought my house and officially became a Florida resident (unless you ask the DMV people - in which case, I’m just visiting! Visitors don’t need [...]
What makes a totally sane, though understandably stressed, midwestern and wholesome mother and wife go from this:
To this:
Why, only a Puntabulous Debate, of course!!
Check out this and other heeLARious pictures (and the reason behind them) at Puntabulous!
*I think I’m missing a question mark here somewhere…
**Why yes, yes I DID just recently get Photoshop, why do [...]
Step 1: Buy two avocados - despite the fact that someone has them falling into his house for free on a daily basis.
Step 2: Peel and Chop Avocado
Step 3: Realize that you are not going to smash this by hand, no matter what the recipe says
Wonder why food processor/blender is not processing, nor blending…
Heh.
Smash avocado [...]
I am not an activist by nature. I don’t get all Women’s Lib on you if you open a door or pick up a check, and I’d never march in a freaking parade because I tend to feel the best way to stand up for what you believe - and who you are - [...]
…and renewing your promise to yourself that THIS weekend you are REALLY going to sit down and flesh out all these funny ideas you have for posts. Ahead of time. So that NEXT week is a testament to your brilliant writing and creative genius and amazing gift for story telling.
But for now, we [...]
Captured
by my iPhone.