Nerf War
You know what being an adult means? It means being able to choose what you want to invest your time and money on. So we...
I do what I want.
You know what being an adult means? It means being able to choose what you want to invest your time and money on. So we...
You may be excited to know that I finally got some sleep on Thursday night. Friday was like a whole new world. Anyway, I was...
Since Tuesday morning, I have slept about 8 or so collective hours. It’s 9 p.m. Thursday night and I’m well and fairly fucked. Concentrating on...
So remember last week when I wrote about how my debit card was stolen, but that’s ok because all I have to do is change...
Remember my sort of half-way well adjusted post from yesterday about how my phone and my debit card info were stolen but I was basically...
Saturday morning at the El Segundo dog park my phone went missing. We looked everywhere, I walked the grid of the park, up one line...
The other day I was walking through a Goodwill in Hollywood when I saw these totally cute, obviously hand painted cups. I looked up the...
I don’t usually go in for this sort of thing. Why do you need a special day or a collection of commodities to tell your...
Tomorrow will mark a year of me blogging M-F. I have to say I feel like 2012 was one of the most professionally and personally...
So you guys know Rhi died on Sunday, and as a result I got basically no sleep Sunday night. Even though there were a lot...
I just got the news that Rhian R. passed away today, so I’m publishing this instead of a Monday post. Unlike a lot of my...
While I was making my MLK day twitter hall of fame, I waded through a lot of Dr. King quotes. One in particular “I have...
If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen my weird little episode on Wednesday about my mom’s health update. She texted me that...
This is the part of the blog I wrote before I got home today: I just spent about a half an hour arguing with my...
Today I turn 28. I kind of like it. In fact, this is the first year in a lot of years that my birthday hasn’t...
For Ben’s birthday, I bought him a small stack of books. One of them, Jenny Rosenstrach’s Dinner: A Love Story, I secretly also bought for...
Since we left Oregon on Dec. 30 in the morning, arrived in LA Dec. 31 in the morning, and only got a few hours sleep...
In honor of New Years, here is the follow up to my Christmas repost from last week. This was written shortly after I started eating...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...