Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

I wasn’t going to go to the Habitat for Humanity Trivia match, even though the core trivia team was going, but they sent out an extra plea the day before … and I caved. I really thought I’d have a contretemps with Gary over it, but all he said was, “Don’t forget your mask.” And,…

A few weeks ago I smelled a bad, bad smell from the Immortal Amana Garage Refrigerator/Freezer (IAGR/F). I tracked the smell to a veggie burger in the freezer. I threw it out and IAGR/F smelled fine. Then the smell returned two days later. I wiped everything down. The smell was greatly reduced. A week ago…

Over 15 years ago, I bought a purse. It must have been around the time that I comforted myself that I wasn’t spending thousands on a purse like Paris Hilton. Just hundreds. “Well,” I thought, “I will wear it for years, and it will all even out.” And, it did. It has just recently begun…

Wig One This past month I considered exciting yet uncrowded places I might go when I inch out of the house. One of those places is a glass factory featuring demonstrations. I went a few decades ago. It wasn’t too hot for me and the MS, as I recall, but there was an open fire.…

I’ve had my sous-vide for years, and I’ve always skipped the bacon recipe. I do like the idea of cooking bacon in bulk though. I’ll cook all the bacon at once in the oven. However, now I’m tired of the cleanup, so I thought I might give the sous-vide bacon recipe a shot. Best thing?…

When you were a child, were there were books you never wanted to return to the library? There were three books like that for me. I bought one of them a few years back, and I bought the other two tonight. You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere. I was a repeat offender with this…

So I noticed that my favorite movie, Brief Encounter, and favorite book, Jane Eyre, share a similar theme of People In Love Not Having an Affair. I know Brief Encounter appeals to me because the children are considered in the love triangle. Yet in Jane Eyre, the children are not a consideration: they get left…

Okay, Poor Things did jostle Brief Encounter off my Favorite Movie pedestal, but only briefly, and only because it features a brain-damaged woman with a funny walk who blurts out everything in her head. It was funny, but it was not the hilarious romp that is Brief Encounter. Granted, many people think Brief Encounter is…

I think — with all the rearranging and rethinking — that it’s been at least a year that I’ve read the novel from start to finish. Oh my lord, people. So, so bad. Forget Anne Lamott and her “shitty first draft. ” I’ve got a “shitty fifth draft. “ And it’s obvious stuff. The first…

Let us say that one can only play the guitar like a trained monkey, one has no ear, and no talent, but one has trained oneself to plink out tunes given sheet music without an excessive number of flats and sharps. How long would you say it would take that person to get back to…