Yesterday, I screamed downtown to get up with my friend Jo, who was making an appearance at the local bookstore. Since it was Shop Locally Saturday or whatever, she'd been asked to hang at the bookstore in the afternoon as... Read more →
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Yesterday, I screamed downtown to get up with my friend Jo, who was making an appearance at the local bookstore. Since it was Shop Locally Saturday or whatever, she'd been asked to hang at the bookstore in the afternoon as... Read more →
01:53 PM in I am berserk, I hate everything | Permalink | Comments (23)
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I'm upstairs, listening to Ned watch football. When Ned has sports on TV on Saturday afternoons, it totally reminds me of the TV room where my father would be all weekend. Although I have never heard my father refer to... Read more →
02:00 PM in Sports | Permalink | Comments (39)
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We are gross. Unlike the rest of you, I celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday. I know! June's blog. Come for the exotic adventures. Did you notice what that last paragraph has? Did you? Does it have...a capital U?!?! Keyboard, replaced! Thank you... Read more →
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For almost eight years now, I've had a blog that I write on pretty much every day, and then after I write, I get comments. I might have been really interested in how many comments at got at first, although... Read more →
08:15 AM in Dooce envy, I am berserk | Permalink | Comments (76)
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I'm not showing you this for any reason other than I like this picture of Fleeta. I have many stupid things on my mind today, and here they are in my usual linear fashion. 1. I like bats. I do.... Read more →
08:01 AM in ...friend/Ned, Busy busy busy busy. Thank heavens for Angie's List. | Permalink | Comments (80)
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On Saturday, I had my dress-as-a-character-from-a-song party, and next party I have will be more succinctly titled, cause what a pain in the ass it's been to write that every time. Kit came walking in behind her Lucy in the... Read more →
07:00 AM in ...friend/Ned, Friends | Permalink | Comments (62)
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However, I WILL say more, tomorrrow. Read more →
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I am using this blog as my to-do list. I will come back and cross stuff out as I go, so you can be nervous with me. "Oh my GOD she's never gonna get to Sharking the floors and people... Read more →
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Last night, the Bitchy Resting Face Alexes, blonde et brunette, came over to help me put my costume together. Wine was involved. A few days ago, blonde BRF Alex said, "Okay, I've got boxes, and glue, and pens, and glitter,... Read more →
08:23 AM in ...friend/Ned, Friends, My pets | Permalink | Comments (67)
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Tallulah has decided that Blu is her important new toy. She keeps picking it up and parading around with it, while Edsel moans and whines and growls and pickets and is trying to introduce a proposition banning this sort of... Read more →
08:08 AM in ...friend/Ned, I hate everything | Permalink | Comments (88)
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Here's a photo of the world's most terrifying Virgin Mary embracing the head of the Don't Litter Indian. Mary's got her a lazy eye or something. Lazy eye for the magi.* Really, that whole visit to the concrete place last... Read more →
07:56 AM in ...friend/Ned, Busy busy busy busy. Thank heavens for Angie's List., Friends | Permalink | Comments (99)
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Today is Marvin's birthday. In case you just got here or something, Marvin is my ex-husband. The former little missus. I met Marvin in college, on the first weekend before sophomore year. We'd all schlepped back to school, and my... Read more →
08:10 AM in Marvin | Permalink | Comments (72)
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Cute Ned had to leave yesterday for a work trip, so I had the night to myself. Sadly, I spent it watching Beaches. I don't even LIKE Beaches, although I do feel Bette Midler's character a little. The point is,... Read more →
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The weatherman's exact words were: "It'll be cold as SHIT this weekend," so Ned and I crafted a plan that we would not go out all weekend if we could help it. I had The Poet's, you know, poetry reading... Read more →
09:55 AM in ...friend/Ned, Friends | Permalink | Comments (31)
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I'm interrupting our regular day to show you these pictures, which KILL ME DEAD. My coworker, Bitchy Resting Face Alex, sent me these pictures of her grandmother. These are from BRF Alex's wedding, where her grandmother is dancing to Brick... Read more →
10:54 AM in Friends | Permalink | Comments (39)
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Thanks for your how-to-fix-a-scratch tips yesterday. Who knew rubbing a walnut on it would work? Aw nuts. June's blog. Come for the hilarity. Get disappointed. Anyway, today is Friday, so I bring you a Freaky Friday from Faithful Reader MissPam,... Read more →
07:34 AM in Freaky Friday | Permalink | Comments (29)
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I've seldom mentioned it, but we moved into a 1926 house last month, and it is charming and delightful and pretty and contains absolutely no storage whatsoever. I don't know what people did in 1926. I guess they had that... Read more →
07:47 AM in ...friend/Ned, I hate everything | Permalink | Comments (104)
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I'm looking up inspirational quotes for work, and found this one. For everyone who's ever gotten pissed about what I've written about them: Read more →
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It's Tuesday night, and I was looking forward to the end of the workday and getting to go home. Then I got an email from Ned. "Don't forget, I'm going to that lecture with my dad tonight." I know it's... Read more →
05:00 AM in Times I Amused My Own Self | Permalink | Comments (68)
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I forgot to tell you that last week, Bitchy Resting Face Alex brought her puppy to work. That dog got more women on him than Fonzie did when he walked into Arnold's. In case you were unsure, I LOVED that... Read more →
08:12 AM in Dooce envy | Permalink | Comments (116)
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I didn't MEAN to go all weekend without blogging, but I spent my entire weekend on the phone with At&T and AppleCare, both of whom are on my last nerve. Two or three times this weekend I did an online... Read more →
08:10 AM in Hulk's sex life, I hate everything | Permalink | Comments (58)
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First of all, sleuthy Faithful Reader Jeanie noted that the fire department that took Violet, the puppy someone left in my car two years ago, has put up new pictures of her! Here she is in October of 2012, the... Read more →
08:17 AM in ...friend/Ned, Aging ungracefully | Permalink | Comments (117)
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I like my view from this desk. You should have seen that tree a week ago. I've been told it's the prettiest tree in the entire neighborhood. It's not our tree, it belongs to the unfriendly woman next door who's... Read more →
08:26 AM in Ask Lu | Permalink | Comments (61)
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"This is a good blog topic," I said, for the 697th time, to someone or other at work yesterday, and now for the life of me do you think I can remember what that was? OHMYGOD I just did! Wow,... Read more →
07:50 AM in Aging ungracefully | Permalink | Comments (113)
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Do you remember how I used to freelance for that statistics textbook company, and you guys would have to hear me complain about every project I did for them and then watch as I rolled in the money after? That... Read more →
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I wrote a whole ding-dang post at home and forgot to hit "Publish." God, I hate me. When I go home for lunch I will do so. Geez. Talk amongst yourselves. Go vote. Read more →
08:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (39)
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Look! Look, look! I got my keyboard to work again! I mean, I still can't type a capital u, see? . Right there I tried to type one. EFF YOOO, keyboard. Still. At least it types things again. In the... Read more →
07:55 AM in ...friend/Ned, Music | Permalink | Comments (92)
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