Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

My life, in a nutshell: Today, we were driving and Gary pointed out how dirty the cup holder on the Mini Cooper is. I said, “It’s all the Starbucks sloshing around when we go over bumps.” He pondered, “Wouldn’t it be cool if there was some device we could hang from the rear-view mirror and…

Unreal – I am researching on the Internet which chemical in Clean and Clear Warming Face Scrub causes the endothermic water reaction that makes it “warm.” I am further following my scientific bent by using the left half of my face as the control while the right half tests the claims of Eucerin Anti-reddening Cream.…

The night before I turned twenty-one, I was sleeping over at my Aunt Carleen’s apartment. She took the opportunity to tell me the best years of my life were now officially over and everything would be going downhill from here. I was horrified. I am glad to report Aunt Carleen was completely wrong. I really…

I have been so wiped out for the last day and a half. Of course, I assumed it was some MS-related fatigue related to the heat. Then I started thinking…cancer? I just now diagnosed it. Mom’s doctor visit Friday morning threw off my schedule, and it was just too hot later to walk across the…

When we went out for our spa day, Arzaana-fay and I had a Therapeutic Procedure done to our faces. (I would call it by its common name, “f*c**l,” but I already have enough hits on this blog by people looking for invasive things to do to their husband’s lower gastrointestinal tracts. Actually, the international fans…

Today I was talking to my nephew and he said, “Did you post that on your blog?” My head whipped around. “Did Gary tell you about the blog?” “Yeah. It’s like an anonymous blog, right?” “It’s supposed to be,” I said pointedly, as I swiftly reviewed everything I had ever posted about my in-laws and…

The Guitar Gods have punished me for my hubris. I had my hand arched over a crusty roll, cutting it with a sharp knife, and the knife slipped off the crust and filleted my thumb. Not my bad thumb, which is actually the extra backup third thumb, since they took off the good thumb of…

HaHA! Today I played a song and I played it so many times it became automatic. So then I was able to stop worrying about the chords, and about half an hour later I had the strumming down, and half an hour after that it occurred to me to stop thinking about the words and…

On this day in history in 1553 Lady Jane Grey was deposed after her nine days. One of my favorite books is an antique (1884) book Mom and I picked up called History of England in Words of One Syllable. Evidently it was one of a series of children’s history books written all in one…