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...

The Breakdown

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...

Fuck This Day

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...

RIP Rhian

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...

Too Big a Burden

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...

Crazytime

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...

Buying Low

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...