CAR CAMPING 101

We went car camping this weekend. Let me tell you what car camping entails:
Car camping is when you load all of your worldly possessions into your Buick LeSabre and drive one hour into the woods for the weekend. If you have a new baby, you will need to purchase a larger tent about [...]

THINGS TO DO WHILE DRIVING

FLASHBACK FRIDAY!!!!
Reprinted from July 2004
1. You can dance. Mainly with your shoulders and head movements, but you will be surprised how well you can get your body moving while obeying traffic laws.
2. Eat breakfast lunch or dinner, or just have a snack.
3. Sing loud.
4. Cry.
5. Keep your eye on the road, but keep your peripheral [...]

TO SLEEP PERCHANCE TO SLEEP

I am so tired I can’t even cry much less muster the gumption for a decent post. Here is an anecdote as proof: I was at the grocery store the other day, toiling through the aisles, painstakingly selecting my food items. After about an hour of shopping, I was almost done, but I [...]

FLASHBACK FRIDAY

Every so often, I might drag an old post over from my original diary. I hit the random button and came up with this little bit of history:
25 ROOMMATES, NOT INCLUDING MY PARENTS OR PETS
Sam & Lisa: my first love & his ex-girlfriend in Queens, NY. Needless to say, with the ex-girlfriend there, things [...]

LONELY NIGHTS

It is nothing to be embarrassed about, it happens to all men at one time or another. It has been happening more and more often to Sasha, however, almost five times out of seven and I am getting a little sick of it. Falling asleep on the couch is nothing to be ashamed [...]

ALZENHEIMER

Shoot, I forgot to update today.
I hope this snappy photo of this guy waterskiing will tide you over until tomorrow when I tell you about how my husband does not sleep with me anymore.

I AM A DJ, I AM WHAT I PLAY

There is a really cool radio station based in Seattle called KEXP. I started listening to it soon after moving here in 1996 and immediately got a crush on the morning DJ, John Richards, or John in the Morning. I would listen to him while I got ready for work each morning and [...]

COUCHLIST

Reprinted from June 2006:
Perhaps I was in a car accident that resulted in a severe head injury, an injury such that I forgot about being in a car accident. Or maybe a big chunk of brain just spontaneously fell out of my ear or was stolen by the underwear gnomes. In any case, I have [...]

RANDOM RANDOMNESS

I just sat and watched as the Account Manager furtively unfolded his paperclip, used it as a toothpick and then refolded it to clasp a pile of papers he then handed to his boss.
Charles de Gaulle’s final words were, “It hurts.”
When my aunts were visiting, I was astounded to discover that they both have [...]

MY BABY IS GROWING UP

It is the end of an era, the start of a new chapter: My baby started daycare today. I was able to stay home with him for the first 4.5 months of his life and Sasha was a SAHD for the next 5 months of his life, so we are very lucky. It [...]