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First of all, remember how I forgot my favorite water bottle on the table at Grumpy’s and was all woe is me? I got it back! There was much rejoicing at writing group last night when Tiffany, my favorite Grumpy’s waitress, reunited me with the bottle. Then there was much name calling when Steve discovered [...]
In an attempt not to cryptoblog and to get this off my chest I’m going to ask a question in a general way: How do you deal with people who are never happy with anything? And let’s just say for argument’s sake that you cannot cut this person (or people) out of your life because [...]
Happy Suffrage Day fellow women of America. I wished I had remembered today was Suffrage Day last night while I was listening to a young, white privileged male Law student go on about how he is sick of the “special treatment” mothers get and how women are “taking over” (apparently women are “taking over” by [...]
The post after your 10th anniversary post is intimidating. What do you write about? Part of me wants to gather people around my rocker and tell stories of the blogging days of yore. Back when if you wanted to comment on something someone had posted, you wrote about it on your own blog and linked [...]
The irony here is that on Saturday I Will Dare will celebrate it’s 10th Anniversary. It’s ironic because this month is probably the worst blogging month I’ve had in my blogging tenure. Blog. Some days I panic and worry that I’ve become a victim of the social media monster, spending all my wit in 140-character [...]
As someone who is coming up on her 10th Blog Anniversary (July 31), I’m doing a horseshit job of blogging lately. I’ve spent a moderate amount of time feeling guilty. But then last week Justin, who runs Minn Post’s Blog Cabin sent an e-mail saying that there’s been a 30% drop in submissions since summer [...]
I’m not entirely sure how it happened, but here I am in the dark living room sitting in my underpants eating cherry Nibs and watching “Beach Blanket Bingo.” This might be the worst movie ever made. They just had a dude “tuning” his guitar and as he started strumming an entire band with drum section [...]
That’s the first time I’ve seen my name alone on a birthday since I was seven years old. Okay, that’s kind of a lie. When I was 29 my coworkers brought me a cake for my birthday and it had my name on it. But can we all agree it’s the cake your mom brings [...]
1. That there is a car chase and shooting a few blocks from your house. Sisters #2 and #3 were shocked and appalled that I had absolutely no idea that such a thing happened until they told me at like 5 o’clock tonight. I’m surprised I didn’t hear it because I can hear the train [...]
First, you should know, I have a tag called inappropriately named electronics. Sometimes I surprise myself. Now, on with the show. I got my first computer sometime in the mid-90s. It was a Circuit City special HP and I think it cost something ridiculous like $1300. As soon as I brought it home and set [...]
Here are two things I’ve learned tonight. Chrome bags are waterproof as fuck. Seriously. You can dump 27 ounces in that sucker and it will hold forever, only slowly seeping out after sitting around sloshy for over an hour. Don’t be the kind of fucking moron who carries their beloved laptop, Gideon, around in a [...]
1. The Clean Freak Supergenius HQ is dusty and full of cat hair. So much of it, in fact, that it looks like my entire house is in some sort of hazy soft focus. If I were to take a picture you’d think the place was lit with the same kind of lighting they use [...]
Over Christmas, I spent a lot of my time trying to con Sister #4 into performing the dance at the end of John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Cherry Bomb” video for a Very St. Martin Christmas. Despite my cries and pleas, she denied me my one true Christmas wish. Bitch. I love John Cougar Mellencamp and have [...]
Some people use a set of beliefs to guide their lives, maybe tenets or a code of ethics, perhaps commandments. I like to use policies. It sounds official, and yet at the same time open to revision. Changing your policies sounds progressive and not at all namby-pamby like changing your beliefs. Changing a code of [...]
MN Reads PW.net
