• Turtle Supreme cookies
• The way Craig Finn sings “How can I tell if you’re high if you won’t even dance” in the song “Chips Ahoy”
• The new office chairs and my quest to find the perfect combination of chair recline, lumbar support, and height
• Extreme exhaustion
• The increasing popularity of the word fey

Much hooha is made about how Americans never take enough vacation. . . here’s why, you have to come back from vacation. We take vacations to get away from it all and to relax, but things are like 39 times more spazzier and stressful upon our return. That’s some kind of messed up.
I have a [...]

Emo vs. Grunge, a Fashion Showdown [via lhb]. Personally, I can’t wait until grunge comes back in style.

When I got home this afternoon from my morning hanging with the Chiliwinkers, I purposely kept my pants on. I figured that if I stayed dressed, I’d be more apt to be productive. The weird logic didn’t even work on me. Instead I curled into the comfy green chair and spent most of the rest [...]

Thank you all. I appreciate the thoughts about my dad. We have all talked to Dad about his DNR and he has repeated endlessly that this is his wish. He has said this since he had his heartattack eight years ago.
Last night the three of us here in Minnesota gathered and talked about it [...]

The flowers that Tony’s parents sent to my dad were sitting on the bar. Everyone asked how he was doing and I lied, saying “Oh, much better.”
Only, I didn’t know I was lying. After everyone left, Tony asked if I had heard about Dad and what was going on. Because my parents aren’t [...]

I’ve spent the last hour or so, listening to and singing out loud to heartbreaking break-up songs on my favorite set of headphones and watching “Valley Girl” on mute. Incidentally, did anyone, ever really spike the punch at a school dance? (double-plus bonus points if anyone can name the Valley Girl/Paul Westerberg connection)
I am neither [...]

It’s no secret that Kelly and I have nicknames for virtually everyone in class. I should, right now, take the blame for most of this. I have nicknames for virtually everyone in my life — Boo, Peanut, Nolie Bugs, Pudding Pop, the Stink . . . and that’s just my family.
So last night [...]

It’s finished. It’s not as bad as the Short Story that was So Shitty it made the Baby Jesus weep, but it’s up there. It’s a risk, first person present tense. I’m still afraid I slipped up a few times. I caught a few of them, and had to go back and change the entire [...]

Why do I do this to myself? I have a crappy bowling alley story in first person present tense! PRESENT TENSE? I never do first person present. This is stretch for me. Also, I think I have forgotten to put in the tension. Who needs tension? Sure, sure short stories thrive on tension. And you [...]

All but two sentences of my short story remain unwritten. I blame this on the fact that I forgot I had to babysit the kidlings today. Stupid MEA weekend. Currently Jaycie is trying to complete the Obstacle Course game on the Over the Hedge DVD and Max is reading Maggie Mason’s Nobody Cares What You [...]

And with that, I’ve been transformed into a person with rockstar hair.
First boring, snoozy blond

Then funky, new brunette

Finally, Rockstar Supergenius

Since I am off work this week and I have a short story due in THREE days, I’ve decided that I have to have a plan. And so far this is what I got:
11:45 a.m. Get hair colored (again)
1:00 p.m. Put on pajamas
1:02 p.m. Watch Day of Our Lives
1:45 p.m. freak right out because I [...]

I love, love, love Jim Walsh.

My opinions when it come to quality television programming are probably not held in high regard. I generally spend my TV time crying in front of Dawson’s Creek reruns that I’ve seen before, watching My So-Called Life (which was cancelled in 1995), or Project Runway.
So when I tell you that “Studio 60 on the Sunset [...]