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a most excellent present

I love smoothies.  In fact, it’s 29 degrees outside and for dinner I had an ice cream cone washed down with a smoothie. I know lots of people just can’t get into them but I LOVE them. And I know that they have a trillion calories but I just feel…VIRTUOUS when I drink a smoothie. [...]

i have a b.a. in b.s.

Brett:  The camera won’t focus. Me:  What do you mean it won’t focus?  What happened to it? Brett:  You dropped it the other day and now it won’t focus.  The pictures are fuzzy. Me: (Sigh…hmmmph) Give it to me, I’ll try to fix it. Exhibit A…  Sometime later… Me:  I fixed the camera. Brett:  How?  [...]

this is my brain on facebook

For a long time I didn’t understand the appeal of social networking sites. Then one day I heard that facebook makes you use your REAL NAME and immediately my competitive juices started flowing…I had to get on there and grab MY NAME before someone else with MY NAME got it! Huh. Turns out there can [...]

desperately seeking toast

A few months ago my 9-year-old, beloved toaster oven started to, shall we say, malfunction.  I couldn’t believe it.  All these years of making me perfect toast, and warming pizza, and melting bread bags when I would forget and leave the bread on top – and suddenly, it was over. My mom got me that toaster [...]