"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, dumb things I have done, meh, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 15th, 2014
If I parked the car any nearer to the garage, it would have to be parked inside the garage. I actually back in with the window rolled down and my head out to make sure of my distance. The big deal and my self-imposed parking challenge is that I have to do this all in […]
Posted in Cars as a hobby, Delight, Holidailies 2013, Take A Look At This, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 26th, 2013
Last night, to end a very silly not-argument about the word “recidivist” and its proper spelling, I took to Joel’s gigantic dictionary, a Webster’s New Twentieth Century Unabridged Dictionary from 1972. After I’d won the argument (heh) I spent a bit of time just thumbing through the tome, because I like dictionaries and just randomly […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Holidailies 2013, nostalgia, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 6th, 2013
Oh, so many years ago, before I moved to Kansas City, I made a road-trip here with some college friends to visit a couple of other college friends who were already living here. On the trip back home, we pulled off the Interstate somewhere in the back of beyond in central Nebraska to re-fuel the […]
Posted in Delight, Distractions, Oh, for fuck's sake, Up The Pole, Weird as Hell, Well I'll Be Darned on Jan 25th, 2013
So. That happened. Though it may surprise a few of my friends, this was completely intentional. I’d been ambivalent about having kids for a very long time (obviously, as I’m 35 and pregnant for the first time) but now that it’s happened, I’m actually really excited. Like no second thoughts, no “oh-shit-what-have-I-done.” I’m just totally […]
Posted in Costumes and disguises, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Fashion, Holidailies 2012, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 22nd, 2012
This dress. I own it. I have worn it in public. I found it in an enormous trash heap under a bridge in the West Bottoms. I think that pretty much says it all. Oh, not quite. Actually, I have another, worse dress, but in order to spin out this Holidailies thing, you have to […]
Posted in Delight, Food & Snacks, Holidailies 2012, Recommendations, Shopping, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 21st, 2012
This is a box of Taylor’s of Harrogate Earl Grey Tea. By anybody’s standards, this is a pretty damn good box of tea. I got it at the corner shop for $3, which is seriously a steal. At The Better Cheddar down on the Plaza, Taylor’s clocks in at $9 for a box of 50 […]
Posted in Delight, Fashion, Holidailies 2012, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 5th, 2012
Thanks to the kindness and generosity of Ms. Jacquie, I am now in possession of a mysterious Jacques Fath suit which probably dates to the early or middle 1950s. I make this estimate because Fath went out of business in ’57 and didn’t have a US-based boutique until after WWII. As you can see, the […]
Posted in bike commuting, Dumpster Diving, Trek 800, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 16th, 2012
I expect that most of the people who saw me, and especially the four teenaged skateboarders over by Penn Valley Park, were thinking, “what the hell is that crazy lady doing?” I expect I elicit that question often. I encountered an abandoned rug on my way home from Friz tonight and decided I’d just as […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, meh, Notions and Rants, Things I like & Things I don't like, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 6th, 2012
Acclaimed humor site The Oatmeal has a running series of comics called “Minor Differences” wherein situations go from great to gruesome with the addition or omission of some small factor. Examples are: the cuteness of a woman wearing just a tee-shirt versus the creepiness of a man wearing just a tee-shirt or the difference in […]
Posted in bike commuting, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Jun 20th, 2012
On my way to work this morning, I saw a dog who reminded me of Billy Connolly’s “wee brown dog.†It wasn’t wee, as such, mind you. He was upper-mid-sized, probably around 60lb, lanky and leggy, probably a pit-bull and labrador mix. He was a tawny buff color, with a white chest, white feet, and […]