Before I moved into the house I now share with GTB, I lived alone in a studio apartment for almost five years, which means that tonight will be the first time I’ve seen trick-or-treaters come to my door in at least that long. (Of course, there was the Halloween I spent with friends at their […]

A few weeks ago, my watch stopped working. So I jimmied the back off, figured out what size battery it takes, got a replacement, and set about putting the back back on. Sounds easy, right? Yeah, I thought so, too. The back had defiantly decided to spend the rest of its life free from the […]

I can’t decide if I think this is gross or kinda hot. In either case, it’s pretty funny. Man allegedly having sex in women’s restroom arrested

Because, yes, we still argue about this…I just forwarded a link to GTB to an article about a study some guy did on the places Americans and foreigners most want to live in the U.S. I originally sent it to him because Oregon was in the top five places where Americans would want to live: […]

You know how memories of being high (not you, Mom) are kind of fuzzy? And the breakthrough ideas you had when you were smokin’ the reefer now seem stupid? It is with the exact same form of recall that I fondly remember “Fraggle Rock.” It all seems so trippy and silly now. But at the […]

Further proof that I’m a holiday curmudgeon: I can’t think of one good thing to be for Halloween and the whole idea just makes me shrug my shoulders and sigh. I don’t normally dress up for Halloween. I rarely go to parties where a costume is mandatory. The last time I donned a costume was […]

Over dinner Friday night, GTB and I got into a ridiculous discussion about whether or not it’s considered rude to use your knife to help scoop up the last bits of food from your plate. I told him that since we were in southwest Portland, it probably didn’t matter much. If we were in Paris, […]

A few weeks ago, I came home to find GTB huddled under a blanket on the couch. He was feeling ill and even though it was close to 70 degrees outside, he’d turned the heat on. For some reason, this annoyed the shit out of me. So, I did what I always do when something […]

I’ve been home sick for the past two days, and you know what that means…it means I don’t have to do my hair. Yesterday, I just put it up in a ponytail. This morning, I decided I had to at least wash it. So after stepping out of a long shower, I looked at my […]