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I don’t usually get all political on this here blog.  And I don’t really like “Hey There, Delilah,” by the Plain White T’s…or the Plain White T’s.  But this was just too funny.

Confession: I do not like Miss Teen South Carolina, I mean Sarah Palin.  Not just because she’s inexperienced, not just because she can’t even [...]

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John McCain, could you be any more obvious with your VP pick? I mean seriously. And you criticize what you call Obama’s lack of experience?
I used to think you weren’t so bad and I could deal with you. Not so much. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit, to be frank.

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Last week as Best Friend, her boyfriend and I headed home from celebrating Best Friend’s last day of work (she is off to grad school for three years), her sister sent her a text. Best Friend’s sister is a junior in college. The text congratulated her and ended with a command to “go get krunked.” [...]

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First of all, I owe someone an apology.  I had said that I thought I answered all my questions, but I know someone asked me about the title to one of my posts.  See, the thing is that they’ve all had musical inspiration since I ditched the Friends-inspired “The One With/Where…” titles in early June.
So [...]

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I was sitting on my couch, watching today’s episode of Jeopardy! on my DVR when I heard, faintly from across the room, “My brown-eyed girl…You my brown-eyed girl.” I grabbed my cell phone, expecting it to be Best Friend. She and I were going to dinner, along with Bluebird in my old ‘hood, [...]

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Lost in various melodies and mile markers, it was easy enough to let the reason for my trip slip my mind. Instead I busied myself with the drive, doing laundry I’d brought to my mother’s house, and catching the ballgame on TV. Avoidance was bliss.
But when my mother and I stepped off the elevator into [...]

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I hate road trips. There, I said it. My family used to take them every summer, and I survived. But nowadays, no thank you. Especially when I am driving by myself. Through Wisconsin. As I expressed before, I loathe driving through Wisconsin. Almost as much as I hate [...]

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Pick a hat…

…any hat.

Put names of contestants…

…into hat.

Draw winners.

Ask all three winners–

–to email me their address, so I can send a goodie bag. And remind them to pay it forward.
Leave for Minnesota. Bye y’all!

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