The Last Day of 2012
If everything goes according to plan, this will post while we’re driving from Corvallis to Los Angeles. Tomorrow will be a holiday post, then we’ll...
Category: Writing
A Few of My Favorite Things
So today Ben’s mom was telling us how the guy who murdered firefighters Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka and wounded Joseph Hofstetter and Theodore Scardino...
Ruffwear Cloud Chaser Dog Jacket Review
I mentioned on Monday that we bought our rat terrier Pepper a rainproof jacket for Christmas in Oregon. Specifically, we bought her the Cloud Chaser...
Holiday Repost – To M(eat) or not to M(eat)
Merry Christmas. This is a repost from July of 2008. I’ll be posting the follow up to this on New Year’s day. Spoiler alert: I...
Pepper’s First Christmas
I don’t actually know if this is the first time anybody has celebrated Christmas with Pepper around. I think maybe Grandma and David celebrated when...
Off Course, Of Course
It’s Thursday, I’m safely in Corvallis. But instead of having just arrived from Bend, I’ve been here since last. As you may have predicted based...
Pepper at the Dog Beach
Hi, it’s me, Marina. I’m writing this from Tuesday night, mere minutes after yesterday’s post. I know, time travel is great. too bad you can...
Pepper at the Dog Park
If my calculations are correct (they probably aren’t) when this publishes, we’ll be driving through Redding, California. Well, Ben will be driving. I’ll probably be...
Our Phantom Twins
Yesterday I teased the story of Ben and my phantom twin couple. What we know about them is this: They have a lot of common...
Crafted at the Port of LA
Saturday we visited Crafted at the Port of LA to see if we could pick up some last minute Christmas gifts before we head up...
An Entire Week of Sick
Ben got sick last Wednesday, I finally joined him around Friday and we are both. still. sick. The skin is flaking off the bottom of...
Crying in the Rain on Christmas
Yesterday I teased that I would tell you the epic tale of my personal worst Christmas ever. I believe I suggested that I was crying...
Christmas is Just Another Cold Day
So this year has been bad for money, and it just got worse. As in I was recently sitting in the lobby of the service...
It’s Snot You, It’s Me
I am sick. Ben and my anniversary (9 years, yay!) was on Thursday and we totally forgot about it until Friday night. He had a...
I Took The Liberty of Finding Your Holiday Gifts
I’ve been living under the specter of anxiety that is the holiday season since about 10 seconds after Thanksgiving, and I’m pretty sure you have...
Will Someone Please Think of the F5 Keys?!
Matt Inman made a joke about ‘raping’ his F5 key, and there was much drama on the Internet today. I already wrote a blog about...
Least Helpful Tweets About AIDS
You may know that today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. The purpose of this day is to bring awareness about HIV/AIDS, show support for...
‘Tis the Season for Charitable Giving
Since I have a whopping 60 dedicated readers at this point, I thought I’d do the ‘popular blog’ thing and name a charity I’d like...
Sex Poems for Ben
We’ll get to the sex in a moment, but first there’s some more drama breaking out about my grandma, and what’s going to happen to...
Hiking the Vicente Bluffs in Palos Verdes
Recently, Ben and I took Pepper on a hike at the Vicente Bluffs in Palos Verdes. We chose this trail, out of all of the...
Because Quality is Overrated
The other day, Internet citizen and all around popular guy Matt Inman, proprietor of TheOatmeal.com posted a comic about being a content creator which you...
When Did Everyone I Know Become So Well Adjusted?
The morning after Thanksgiving I woke up excited. Not just for leftovers, or the fact that I get Friday off work. I woke up excited...
Thanksgiving Open House Success!
Hey guys, It’s 1 am, so this’ll be quick. I had a great Thanksgiving!! I mentioned it before, but this year we put the word...
Thanksgiving Repost: The Issue
Happy Thanksgiving! This is one of my very favorite posts of all time. I waste a lot of my time wishing I was someone else:...
No Really, College Teaches Marketable Skills
One time, when I was about 16 and on vacation with my dad, I found some other kids my age, and was off getting fingered...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
So today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day when trans and genderqueer people pay homage to the community members they’ve lost due to transphobic...
Wait, What Are You Talking About?
So, this weekend, Ben and I were driving down the street, and we saw a billboard that looked basically like this: I tried to find...
I May Have a Problem
Is there a 12 step program for obsessively live-tweeting every television snow you watch? Because I did it again tonight. I live-tweeted an episode of...
Hello Sweetie
This has been an even longer Tuesday than my Tuesdays usually are. All I can do is add bullet points to whatever’s left of my...
Welcome to 500, Thank You for Coming
Right now, in real time, you are reading the first sentence of the 500th post of this blog. If that doesn’t make you feel damn...
Veteran’s Day Repost – Pawning Shit
In honor of tomorrow being my 500th post on this blog, I thought I’d repost my very first entry in this blog from October 4,...
Get Up
Oh Jesus, I’m so tired of myself right now. I came home from work and went straight to bed. Poor Ben had to walk the...
The First Day of the Rest of This Week
So, since I spent all of yesterday blogging, today’s going to be short and sweet. As you can probably tell, I’m completely stoked to have...
Who’s Live-Blogging Election Day 2012?! This Bitch!
Instead of my usual pre-written post that auto-publishes on or around 5:30 a.m. ET, today I will do something I have never done before. To...
The View from the Front Door
Saturday I went up to grandma’s house to deal with the stuff they set aside for me to sort through. My mom was sick at...
Official Voting Guide of Me Part 4
Click here for part 1 Click here for part 2 Click here for part 3 LOCAL MEASURES Measure A Appointment of County Assessor — County...
Official Voting Guide of Me Part 3
Click here for part 1 Click here for part 2 STATE PROPOSITIONS Proposition 35 Human Trafficking. Penalties Should the definition of human trafficking be expanded,...
Official Voting Guide of Me Part 2
Click here for part 1 STATE PROPOSITIONS Proposition 30: Temporary Taxes to Fund Education. Guaranteed Local Public Safety Funding Should the California Constitution be amended...
Official Voting Guide of Me Part 1
In light of the upcoming election, and the fact that I have yet to study my ballot with any real conviction, I’m killing two birds...
Recovery Time
Our apartment is finally getting fumigated this Monday, and there’s a lot of work to be done before and after that event. Last Monday, I...
Going to a Therapist: It’s a Good Thing
Dear Marina I have decided, after a troubling year, to seek some therapy. What can I expect from therapy? What should I look for in...
Spoiling Your Movie with Masturbation Anecdotes
WARNING: If you want to see Looper, and haven’t seen it yet, I completely, utterly spoil the ending of this film. So turn away. Oh,...
Twitter Tells Me: Games and Their Levels
Marinaisgo: None of my drafts are interesting, and I have no idea what to write about instead. Twitter, what should tomorrow’s blog be about? lthrchris89:...
Things Left to Do
I find that the posts for Monday and Wednesday are the hardest to get out. You’d think that Monday would be easy with the entire...
T.G.I. F. THIS. SHIT.
Today (Friday) at 4 p.m. is the first half of my most current bought of dental work. I would say I haven’t been dwelling on...
There’s No Such Thing as Sitting Still
It’s no secret that I have a problem with authority. At different times in my life, and for different reasons, I have been absolutely terrified...
Real Live Stand Up Hermosa
For awhile now, my buddy AmHam has been doing a free comedy show at 9:30 on Tuesday nights at Pedone’s Pizza in Hermosa Beach. Because...
Punishment Poem
So I’m sick. Which is why today’s post is a horrible poem I wrote my boyfriend back in May. One day I saw you onshore...
RIP Marina
Me: I just thought of something Benjamin: wait first watch this Me: wait is this a real advertisement for hot pockets? Benjamin: yes Me: yeah...
Very Bad Things
I went to the dentist today to get a check up, and after painfully poking at the same 5-10 spots on my gums for about...