Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

I have noticed that I have been getting more compliments lately. They fall into these categories. Comparisons with actresses I have been told I resemble actress Catherine O’Hara twice in the last few months. I assume this is because I am wearing a wig, and because she had a long jaw, as have I. Then…

I am trying to schedule three vacations all at the same time and it is just a bad idea. Way too many moving parts. I started the day with vague plans for a Monday to Friday in Kansas City. Our hilarious niece is there, so that’s a non-negotiable, but everything else is in play. Well,…

Well, I am now the ashamed owner of a Tempur-Pedic adjustable bed. I really don’t like the idea at all. I suppose Gary has decided I need to start behaving like the elderly person he is. (Pauses to make a mildly vulgar sexual gesture.) The night before it arrived I was catastrophising about how it…

I’m planning a vacation – actually three vacations. I haven’t been on vacation since 2018 so I need to make up for lost time. Now that Gary’s feeling better, I thought he might come along, but he recently admitted he wasn’t feeling that much better. So that means 50% off of air, food, entertainments. Ergo…

I was trying to figure out how old I was when I went to Chicago and saw the King Tut exhibit and shared a moment with the death mask. (Death mask sharing a moment with someone else detailed below.) I didn’t know the date, so I asked ChatGPT. First off, ChattyG was in the mood…

I had a lovely Fourth of July weekend, and I think the best part was my closet improvement. I have a standard slider-panel door closet, and because it isn’t very deep, they didn’t bother to put a light in it. And that would be fine, but my closet has books and a guitar amp and…

I have really been tickled by some of the effects of aging, especially the random flashes of insight. Usually they’ve been great. The sad thing is that it is random: usually I’m as lost as anyone else. So I was trying to gin up some insight on why I felt so oddly youthful today, like…

Well, it’s been the requisite two months after which I was told I would see results from my twice-daily application of the pricey Lancome cream on just one half of my neck. And …. I think I see results. I have two photos to submit into evidence, both monstrously ugly — I mean, prime fodder…

Sometimes I look at the stats here on the blog, and I am always curious when I see someone has ventured off of the home page. I always click those links to see if I can guess what search term drove them there. Recently, those links have led me to believe someone is searching for…

Yesterday my neighbor of almost 40 years was pushing an empty boat trailer up her driveway. She lost control of it, fell on her back, and a tire rolled right over her chest and face. I was in my room when I heard soft moaning from across the street. By the time I peeked through…