God Bless The Other Shoe
This morning I was standing in my kitchen wondering why it is I feel so miserable when it looks like things might be bad and...
Category: Personal Journal
Jesus, We Sold the Wheel
Friday I took the cars to the shop and learned that both would need significant repairs if we wanted to keep having cars for very...
Funeral for an Unmourned Man
While we were all at grandma’s on Monday, my mom announced that we were going to dump my late grandfather’s ashes in the yard before...
My Own Personal Shut Down
Today I spent the entire day in bed with the exception of the 5 miles I walked my dog, which I do everyday if I...
Grandma Leaves Today
I’m writing this from Friday afternoon because my grandma leaves for Wisconsin on Monday. We’re helping load the moving van on Sunday, and I’m going...
The First Good Day
Last week, when I was laying in bed reading because I didn’t think I could do anything else and I didn’t want to live in...
85% Puke
I forgot to eat enough food today and now I have a killer of a headache with a backend of throw-up. So please bare that...
How to Real Life
Today I went on some in-person cold-calls with my buddy Steve, and then I came home at 1 p.m. and read for the rest of...
Communication, Motherfucker, Do You Do It?
This was in my drafts folder with absolutely nothing in the text field. Apparently I was really excited to write a blog called Communication, Motherfucker,...
Top Five
Fill in the blank: TOP 5 ____ OF ALL TIME. and I will blog it with a link to a site of your choice. —...
My Dog Hates Children
We had grandma’s goodbye BBQ tonight. I was worried almost literally sick over what kind of bullshit would/could occur all fucking morning. But nothing happened....
The Three Year Long Bad Year
The other morning in the shower I told Ben that it had been a bad year, and he responded that it seemed more like two...
I May be Drunk
I had one 12 oz bottle of cider. I’m a lightweight and a vagina. I’m a lightweight travel vagina. Just as well. There’s nothing to...
Batman is Cool
I’m tired, I have nothing positive to say, and I feel like this week’s already been pretty shitbuckety. Therefore, batman Also, here is a list...
The Answer to All Our Problems
After yesterday’s post I feel like I should explain a little bit. I have a habit of thinking that all solutions are permanent solutions. That...
On Principal
The first week of September is over. I can’t believe how fast everything is going. So far, since I got the news about grandma’s departure...
Friday is Just Another Opportunity for Heatstroke
I haven’t posted about my real life lately. Probably because all I do right now is work and sweat. And take occasional breaks for drama...
It’s 2 a.m. – Let’s pretend that’s a surprise
My grandma is moving to Wisconsin in the first week of October. My emotions are kind of all over the place. On the one hand,...
New Goals Day 1: Already Failing
So remember yesterday when I was all like “oooh, I’m a fucking hippie, lets just love each other, all I need in this life is...
Daily Goals
One of the many problems I’ve experienced with this new business is that I struggle with having good days because I have no metric for...
Men Don’t Solve Problems
About 6 months after I hooked up with Ben I remember falling into a depression and being really bewildered by it. I couldn’t figure out...
Fuck White People: My Personal Experience with Race Rage
Trigger warnings: racism, abuse, dickhole behavior This afternoon, I caught wind of the #fuckcispeople tag on twitter, I made my grandma-style rant re: the dangers...
I Peaked in College
Remember when you were a little girl and your parents were divorced so your dad moved to Eastern Oregon and you spent every school break...
Attempting to Vacate
We’ve been in Oregon since Saturday night, and I’ve not been very good at getting or maintaining the vacation vibe so far. Sunday was all...
This Blog is Late
I spent the entire day in Portland yesterday taking meetings, walking around, and eating really excellent food. By the time we got back to the...
Driving to Oregon
Friday night at 9 p.m., after a full day of work for Ben and full day of laundry, dishes, folding, packing, cleaning and a little...
Jake and Nog Forever
Ben has been watching a lot of Deep Space Nine recently, and I don’t mind it so I watch with him from time to time....
Old Habits
One of the more cruel realities of growing up in dysfunction is that all the skills you develop to keep you safe end up making...
On Missing the Sun
This time next week, we’ll be in Portland, and I’ll be trying every angle I can possibly muster to get us moved up there soon...
Ironic.
I spent the whole day writing, and I have absolutely nothing I can show you guys on here. It’s almost criminal. Anyway, I made you...
On Having a Passion
An exchange I had this morning got me to thinking about “being a writer.” I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody who is actually a...
Totally Unnecessary
So I have a meeting in three weeks with the Portland Development Council, and I got it in my head that my business needed a...
The Peeper
Last night I dreamt I was awake, wandering around the house listing things that needed to get done but not doing any of them. It...
Redlines, Red Thighs
1. Tonight Ben and I watched the anime Redline. It’s probably the first anime I’ve watched from beginning to end since about 7th grade. It...
The Leg Man: Deconstructing Front Stoop Compliments
This is going to sound weird, but I don’t get cat-called. It might be because of my Chronic Bitchface. It might be because of my...
Grandma in Hospital
It seems like it’s nothing serious, probably just a recurrence of the sodium thing she had after the last hip replacement. But we spent all...
Gillette Venus Razor for Women
I was trying to write about class in America, but I am way too tired at this point to make any kind of coherent arguments...
I Seriously Hate My Neighborhood Right Now. Oh, Did I Say My Neighborhood? I Meant My Life.
I had a bad neighborhood day today. Every Monday I sit and write out my plans for the week. It takes about an hour of...
Endings as beginnings, but also as endings
This is one of the custom blogs I do for my Facebook friends. I asked if there was anything they wanted me to blog about,...
State of the Mess
-As you saw in Yesterday’s post, I had phone problems for most of last week, although it’s fixed now and I’m starting to get the...
A Letter to T-Mobile Customer Service
T-Mobile Customer Relations P.O. Box 37380 Albuquerque, NM 87176-7380 Dear Sir or Ma’am: I have been a T-Mobile customer for around 10 years. I bought...
What’s the Difference Between Unemployed and Self-Employed?
Both will get me sympathetic looks and empty words of encouragement, but only one will get me a check from the state every two weeks!...
Dear Sad Fat Child
I’m writing this, or at least starting it from Sunday night. This is the last night we’re spending at Grandma’s house. Tomorrow my mom will...
Just Grandma House Things
This was my day today: -Woke up with Ben at 6:30 with every intention of taking his advice and using the general lack of connectivity...
Is Clinical Depression Contagious?
Other than breaking the washing machine and flooding the laundry room, I got one thing done today: I had a successful Skype interview. Successful in...
I forgot to blog!
Anybody reading this after 7 a.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, the day of publication, would not notice that this post is coming 5 hours later...
Hello Instagram
I have become obsessed with Instagram. Look forward to a new icon on the sidebar in the coming weeks. (Yes, I said weeks. I’m trying...
First Night at Grandma’s
Tonight is the first night Ben and I stay with Grandma. I made a very long, meandering post about my apprehension over this visit a...
It hurts to blink
I had a pretty productive and awesome morning, which was immediately followed by an Internet outage in the afternoon, which was itself immediately followed by...
I’m Sure You’re Dying to Hear About My Favorite Things Right Now
This bitch: Hoodie Allen I wasn’t a fan at first because of the name (ewwe incestuous pedophiles). Like, I heard it, thought “cute joke” and...