What used to be a 5 bedroom house has transformed itself over the past 2 years into a 4 bedroom house with an upstairs office, a half empty downstairs living space, and a family room with a couch that doubles as a bed for the nomadic peoples traveling through. For the most part we [...]
Today was a tough one. Work was mind-numbingly boring, the girl who was going to buy my car bailed, the postman delivered my credit card statement, and some desert-dwelling banshee in a monster truck almost ran me off the freeway. All I have wanted to do since returning home is crack open an [...]
“The Skull” is my much beloved 1999 VW Beetle. She has taken me to most of my college classes, endured many renditions of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”, slipped into the tiniest of parking spaces, and fearlessly lead my mom and I cross-country. She is always out there in the [...]
It is not rare for me to come home from work to find Butterfinger in a comatose mass on our bed. This used to REALLY bother me, and I am not proud to admit I would take sometimes drastic measures to resurrect him from the dead of sleep. I have coerced our three [...]
As I mentioned in my first post, Butterfinger and I have roommates, and right now we have three bodies occupying rooms, in addition to ourselves. Up until about two days ago I had mistakenly assumed it to be common knowledge and practice for a person, not living with their parents or another gracious family [...]
