My company’s annual meeting is this weekend. Can I borrow some Advil? And by “Advil” I mean Ambien? 1. A list of all the fun things I will do in San Diego this weekend/week: 2. No, seriously, that was the whole list. I might leave the hotel once? Maybe? Probably not though. 3. Book of [...]
My sister’s flirtatious nature almost got me killed in Tanzania. To appreciate this, you’ll need some background. First, all of the women in my family (save me) are natural vamps. Let’s say our family name is Beekman. (Close.) My mother and her sisters all have the Beekman Butt, and to go with it, the Beekman [...]
Lately, I am just over it. I’m over my job, over my love life, over being sad about Lieu, over trying to think of what to do with all of this unwanted free time. Over the city and all the people in it who never come over to cuddle on the couch and make out. [...]
1. I have to buy some gifts shortly. SPOILER ALERT: These are my latest go to items. Because I want them myself. Alphabet pillows from Elsie Dodds (via Creature Comforts) Funky foodie baby clothes and dishtowels from my friend Jenny’s Etsy shop, The Plain Chachalaca: The Obscure Vegetable Series: 2. Speaking of vegetables, I saved [...]
This relationship has been rocky from the beginning. When we were together in Ohio, it was different; neither of us knew about what was possible in the wider world. There was no internet, remember that? Everything I knew about anything, I found out from you, painstakingly, piece by piece. Warm, drowsy afternoons, spiked with the [...]
My mother recently gave me a huge, heavy, ornately framed mirror that calls out to be hung on the wall above my bed. I’ve had it for a month. Now, I have been a single woman for eternity, and lived in rickety old houses for that long too, so I know how to hang things. [...]
This week, my mom is traveling out west. Tuesday night, she was sitting at a restaurant in West Yellowstone, Montana when her cousin walked in. Her cousin who lives in San Diego. He was traveling with his dad (her uncle) and they were staying next door. If she’d been sitting in another part of the restaurant, she [...]
Work is kicking my ass and I am really sad this week. I thought I was entering the anger phase of the breakup, but I seem to have backtracked. So, here is one of blogging’s tried and true tropes: Top 10 Search Terms People Use to Find This Blog 1. Hilarity in shoes. I’ll take [...]
As a word-nerdy book-obsessed child, I started collecting possible handles for my Hypothetical Future Children early. I had a list. I had some boy names sprinkled in, but girl names were much more fun. Looking back at my choices, I’m really glad I didn’t become a teenage mother, because I would have given my daughter [...]
I’ve already written my post about what I experienced on 9/11. I’ve been thinking about it a lot since the earthquake, when I found myself fleeing that same office building, not knowing what had happened. I remember hearing that a plane had hit the first tower that September morning, a decade ago, and thinking it [...]
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