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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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