Today has been the Mondayist, Januaryist, Winter-Malaisest day of all days. Everyone in Minnesota is cranky. All the bullshit minor annoyances of daily life feel 821 times worse than usual because the temperature is Minus…
Date Archives January 2014
Myths, Legends & Grandmotherly Decrees
My Grandma Chromey died in 1990 when I was a seventeen-year-old senior in high school. Her death was not unexpected. She died surrounded by most of her ten kids, some of her twenty-six (I think)…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: As Mysterious as a Bucket Edition
I accidentally bought reduced-fat ice cream. Why does such an abomination exist? Also, why doesn’t Target make it clearer that the stuff you are buying is reduced-fat bullshit? I’ve accidentally bought reduced-fat cheese before too….
At Supergenius Industries, We Go the Extra Mile for You
I should be upstairs, smelling of the Johnson’s Bedtime baby lotion I slather over my body in attempt not to turn into a pile of dead skin cells held together by Red Hots candy cane…
Three Things I Almost Told You About
First, I had a rough crying jag kind of night last night brought on by something I read in Gina Frangello’s A Life in Men. This led to some bad dreams and a generally unpleasant…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: While My Attention Span Gently Wanes Edition
9:15 a.m. ~ A Story About the Grocery Store I was at the grocery store early this morning. I needed to fetch my portion of the calzone fixin’s for tonight’s Family Dinner. In case you…