Now that we are officially just hours from 2010, I thought I’d take a moment to recall the five most awesome things about the past 10 years. These are not necessarily the top 5 things just for me (because that would be so boring — a picture of Kayla and Nancy, a picture of my [...]
Entries from December 2009
December 29, 2009
Happy Anniversary to ME!
Everyone, gather around and get ready to wish me a good old fashioned HOORAY! It was 10 years ago today, Dec. 29, 1999, that I sat at the bar at a neighborhood pub in New Orleans called “The 19th Hole,” lit up a cigarette, smoked it, crushed it out, and left the bar. And I [...]
December 27, 2009
In case I wasn’t clear…
Holy Santa Claus Crap. TOO. MUCH. EXCESS. This first photo is the best one to demonstrate just how overboard we went on Christmas. The photo turned out fuzzy… kind of like our sense of reality about how much children actually need on Christmas: At one point, it appeared even George was embarassed by all the [...]
December 24, 2009
Christmas – a time for obscene spending habits and tagging my garage
Yep, that about sums it up this Christmas Eve. Let me start by saying that Hank has been gone with a certain red-headed tool for the past six days, and I am fairly miserable about it. I have missed him horribly. The worst part was when he left, and just when I thought I could control [...]
December 10, 2009
Mary Kate meets Kansas
My sister Laura often tells people that she looks like everyone they’ve ever met. It’s her explanation for why she is constantly asked, “Don’t I know you?” Now, despite Laura’s witty personality (she gets it from me), she never uses my reply: “Did I sleep with you in college?” I use that reply each and every time [...]
December 9, 2009
Where have you gone, JD?
There are a lot of bad things happening in this world today. War. A faltering economy. Climate change. Unemployment. Health care crisis. People are suffering. People are unhappy. Life is hard. But let’s talk about a real monstrosity. This is so bad, I would argue that some of you might not be able to handle [...]
December 4, 2009
Save the Earth? Bah, humbug!
Because I have an affection for all things political, especially politically scandalous, I throughly enjoyed the movie Frost/Nixon. And one of the best lines out of the movie, in my opinion, came at the end, where it is noted that one of Nixon’s biggest legacies is having the suffix “-gate” attached to any scandal. It’s so very very true. My very [...]
