Ever since I lost my job I’ve been finding myself becoming lazier and lazier by the day. I stay up later than what I used to – because hey! I don’t gotta go to work in the morning! – so I end up getting up later in the morning as well. I have also developed [...]

This Halloween was a memorable one, to say the least. Yesterday I didn’t get home until after 9pm, and after gathering up some things for the next day, putting up stuff, showering, and then eating, I didn’t hit the sack until around 1am. And no, it wasn’t because I was having a blast somewhere either. [...]

So, I am now just two years away from the big 3-0. I feel old, like so much of my life has just vanished before my eyes, when I think about it that way. But at the same time, I don’t actually feel old. And although I’m not where I would have liked to be [...]

It’s time for another round of “Good News and Bad News” here. Yes, the blessings really are that mixed. First, some Good News: I don’t have to feel bad about giving my grandfather something so impersonal and “last minute” like calvin klein mens underwear or socks for Christmas! I’ve already got his gift and had [...]

I haven’t been around online much this past week, and alas, it’s all because of my spectacular lack of grace. I pulled something in my lower back and right leg Thursday before last while I was cleaning out the storage shed. I tripped while carrying a box (good thing it was a box of holiday [...]

This has not been a relaxing, let’s sit down and smoke some cigars and sip brandy (or what have you) kind of weekend for my mother. Her purse was stolen Saturday and it’s been a real headache to find out what was in her purse, contacting everyone that needs to be contacted and informed, and [...]

Here lately I’ve been having a hard time getting up and moving in the mornings. Part of me just doesn’t want to go in to work here lately, so I really drag my feet in the mornings when I’m getting ready. I take a shower in the morning because I like starting the day off [...]

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I come home to a house that looks like it’s been ransacked by a herd of wild animals, but it’s only Denali chasing after the elusive mice that have taken up residence here as well. Magazines knocked off the contemporary coffee table, along with what looks suspiciously like claw marks on the legs. Pillows on [...]

Dear Mother Nature, We are desert-dwelling folks. Temperatures that drop to 30F are freezing cold to us. Snow that falls over night and lightly dusts the ground and melts by noon time is like, wow end of the world stuff. So how the hell do you think we can possibly tolerate single digit temperatures and [...]