Archive - September, 2007

Zebra Spider

September 20 0 Comments Category: Natural Disasters, The House

After I arrive home from work every day, I make my way to our mailbox to check the damage. Our mailbox fits seamlessly with the house’s decor and is a simple black mailbox nailed to an untreated 2×4, held into its white utility bucket stand with hardened gray cement. While I know most [...]

Think Scrambled Eggs

I have no idea what it must be like to live with ADD, but I imagine a colorful scene with thoughts of every color swirling endlessly, trying to simultaneously complete 10+ tasks, never seeming to finish any given one. It would seem like an existence in which a moment of brilliance could be [...]

MAC Machine

The season less Southern California zombie counterculture is starting to wear on me. I am starting to become resentful toward perfectly blue skies and impeccably sunny days. In fact, I am absolutely tired of talking about the weather that is always the same. I am sick of seeing overworked-out trophy wives carrying [...]

The Dumb, Yet Dynamic, Duo

September 13 7 Comments Category: Adventures with Dogs

As soon as Butterfinger returned home from a friend’s house with the dogs he yelled up the steps to me “come down here I need your help”, so of course I obliged and met him at the bottom of the steps. It was not until he asked me to grab the van keys that [...]

Conscious Consumerism

I personally enjoy the luxury of being able to purchase a Jumbo Jack at 3:30 am and the ability buy a fake Coach bag at a flea market. On the other hand, as a member of society that is on a rather limited income (see numerous previous posts or bank account statements), I am [...]