In case you hadn’t noticed all the commercials, Valentine’s Day is drawing near. Yep, it’s the season for chocolate, overpriced flowers, and awkward obligation sex for people who really don’t like each other that much anymore. The season filled with love notes – varying from romantic to downright awkward – always makes me think of [...]
On the day that Call of Duty: Black Ops came out, I naturally found myself standing in line to get it for Nate (because I’m just THAT awesome of a wife, and Target seems to have a mysterious homing device that constantly calls to me). The electronics department was a disaster with early holiday shoppers [...]
A couple years ago, Nate and I were on a road trip when I saw a sign advertising a hydroponic system. My brain was mushy from eight hours on the road and confused the word “hydroponics” for “hydrocolonics.” Easy mistake, right? Hydroponics: noun- the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather [...]
I think of myself as a relatively intelligent person. I’m college educated. I stay up on current events. However, there are a number of subjects that I simply don’t care to be informed about. These subjects include science fiction, cartography, geography, and oceanography. Actually, anything that ends in “-graphy” is likely on my list of subjects [...]
When my family bought our thirty year-old house from an eighty year-old woman, we expected a few things to need fixing up. The creaking in the stairs didn’t bother my mom nearly as much as the pink paint that covered every exterior surface. When my closet door started popping open in the middle of the [...]
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