Coming Up for Air
This is in response to a Studio 30+ writing prompt: "A gateway that changed your life & the other side." It was early January, and I had just started the first week of my last semester of law...
View ArticleIsrael Needs Hooker-Related Advice, Apparently
This isn't a full blog post, but I just thought it was interesting that my stats for the past week show that I've gotten a LOT of hits from Israel. Almost as many as I've received from the U.S....
View ArticleYou Guys Are Samurai
First, I need to apologize for not posting in a while. I've been really busy, because it seems like everyone and their dog has a summer birthday, and it's just been non-stop STUFF all the time. And...
View ArticleDinosaur Intervention
I'm sure that any day now, I'm going to come home to a living room full of folding chairs. My friends and family will be sitting there, maybe along with a representative from Amazon, and they will beg...
View ArticleMy iPhone Thinks It's Funny to Discuss Prostate Massage At Work
Today is a clusterfuck. This morning, I scrambled to finish a couple of court filings that had to go out before a client meeting. I attached the checks for the filing fees on each of them just as my...
View ArticleBucket List: No Regrets
This week's Studio 30 Plus writing prompts are "No Regrets" and "If you could up and leave to live in paradise, would you?" I was considering blogging about the second prompt, but didn't because I'm a...
View ArticleHow to Make New Friends...Feel Awkward
The Count and I had an amazing weekend in wine country. His band was playing with the local symphony up there, and it was over a weekend, so I flew up there with him to watch the performance and do...
View ArticleHow to Turn a Costco Trip Into a Marriage Proposal
My name is Yetisaurus, and I'm an addict. *Hi, Yetisaurus* I have a Costco addiction. (In addition to my previously mentioned Amazon addiction.) It's so bad that my friend Kung Fu Panda said that if...
View ArticleAccidental Lesbians and the Liebster Award
My dearest quasi-lesbian-lover/friend/fellow blogger Sadie, of Reptiles in the Ice Cream fame, has nominated me for a Liebster award. I feel so loved. If y'all are wondering what to get your own...
View ArticleThe Evil Old Bat Dies; Meltdown
I know I've been absent a lot from here lately. I'm sorry. It seems like there's been a lot going on, and some of it has been kind of depressing, and I try to not have a whiny depressing blog, but...
View ArticleFriends with Dinosaurs
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has a Facebook page. OF COURSE, I have "liked" this page because they have an awesome dinosaur exhibit, which I really, desperately need to visit...
View ArticleDick Move
For the most part, I really like my job. It's usually interesting, and my coworkers are pretty awesome. There are some days, of course, like any job, that aren't so great. Mind-numbing discovery...
View ArticleCarly's Super-Gullible New Guy, and My (Apparently) Super Old One
My sister Carly recently met a guy ("New Guy"). Well, honestly, she met him a little over a year ago. She was taking a swing dancing class, and this guy saw her and really liked her, and was planning...
View ArticleVacation Planning - Kangaroo Island
The Count and I are vacation planning. As part of his gig, he has to travel a lot, and counting only his business miles flown, he usually comes up just shy of the 100,000 mile mark. For those of us...
View ArticleThis is Why I Don't Have Children (But Sometimes Wish I Did)
Both of my sisters have two children, and all four of those kids are amazing, each for totally separate reasons. They generally think of me as their crazy Aunt who says weird things and makes pancakes...
View ArticleThe Great Yeti Search
I was reading an article on Slate today, and this headline caught my eye: The American Government's Advice for Yeti Hunters, 1959 Obviously, there are not a lot of articles out there about Yeti,...
View ArticleSendoff to the Evil Old Bat; Finding Peace
I already told you that the Evil Old Bat grandma passed away in December. (Out of respect, I will just call her "grandma" for this post.) She had an amazing house in Laguna Beach that my grandfather...
View ArticleJurassic Park Ranger
This is why Kung Fu Panda and I are friends. Actually, there are many, many reasons, but this is one clear example. SOMEHOW, my computer was searching for Tyrannosaurus Rex things on the interwebs. I...
View ArticleSewing Clothes for Yetisaurs
I really should not be allowed around sewing machines. I do a reasonably good job at patching things up that have been professionally manufactured, but it's sewing things from scratch that get me...
View ArticleI swear, you put your lug nuts on backward ONE TIME...
I actually know my way around cars a little bit. Maybe more than a little, depending on your perspective. I bought an '81 Corvette when I was 19 years old (the car was 17 years old at the time), and...
View ArticleI'm A Pony!
Side note: the Count and I just got back from our fun international vacation (destination: Singapore), and I plan to post about that very soon. But for now, here's this little distraction about what...
View ArticleCritiquing the Muppets
The Count was watching a YouTube video of a barbershop group, and saw a link for Beaker, from the Muppets, singing "Ode to Joy." The Count: "Can you believe this thing's gotten 21 million hits? This...
View ArticleHow NOT to Apply for a Job
I went to dinner with my mom and my cousin Alice the other night at PF Chang's. Alice decided that we should order one of those fishbowl-sized rum punch drinks that are intended for couples. Since I...
View ArticleI'm Not Dead. And Fortunately, Neither is the Count.
I'm not dead. Although it has been an unbelievably long time since I've posted here. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I know that life got really, really busy, and then it's almost as though I...
View ArticleI've Moved!
Hi everybody! Sorry for the dreadfully long hiatus. I just lost steam. Call it writer's block, boredom, whatever. Over time I just felt like nobody was reading (which is partially true, anyway) and...
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