I got all Birmingham on my cottage the other day and cleaned the hell out of it, even taking a moment to scrub the burners on the stove. They don’t even touch food! (FYI for those of you who don’t know it, when it comes to personal living space, Birmingham is the cleanest person I’ve [...]
Archive for October, 2007
26 Oct
Your Monopoly’s a joke
My sister just moved to a new apartment and is now living with her boyfriend. Did you hear that, Birmingham? My YOUNGER sister is ONE STEP AHEAD in the dating / moving in together / getting married / having babies / living happily ever after game. Please take note. Thank you. Speaking of games, the [...]
25 Oct
Not to put too fine a point on it
Yesterday, two of the greatest things ever happened. 1. I went to Dairy Queen and got a pumpkin pie blizzard. It was ha-mazing. They put the vanilla soft serve in a cup and they mix it with pumpkin pie filling and some kind of small crunchy graham cracker things and top it with whipped cream [...]
24 Oct
This is not a normal rental
Monday night the landlesbian had her annual “I’m going away for the winter so I thought we should spend an evening pretending we all get along” soirée which she holds for the tenants of the farm. I must admit that as much as I sometimes find her antics a bit crazy and the walls a [...]
22 Oct
Action! Romance! Thrills!
This past weekend, Birmingham and I took an impromptu (of sorts) weekend to see his sister in Rhode Island. I wish that I had the time to write it up properly, because it was a fantastic weekend. But I don’t, so I’m going to try and wrap it up like the trailer to an old [...]
18 Oct
A conversation with Birmingham last night
“I recently heard a facinating insight. A friend mentioned that it’s okay to bum around the house in your underwear if you’re alone with your boyfriend. It’s also okay to bum around the house in your underwear if you are alone with your sister. However, it is never okay to bum around the house in [...]
17 Oct
If it hurts when you do that, don’t do that
At swimming this morning, I whacked my hand on the lane line while attempting to do 50 yards of Butterfly. At this moment almost an hour later, the knuckles on my right hand are turning into a very pretty shade of blue, with a lovely red center, accented by the fact that it’s swelling to [...]
15 Oct
No Soup For You
I’m in Baltimore at the moment, attending a trade show for booksellers. A lot of the business we do is centered around food service, as there is a gathering of some sort for almost all of our meals. It’s gotten me thinking about how I have this need to rehearse my order before the server [...]
10 Oct
When I wake up in the morning, and the alarm lets out a warning, I don’t think I’ll ever make it on time
Now that it’s the fall and it’s dark when I wake up, it’s harder to break out my patented get-out-of-bed-without-snoozing technique. I can’t get wide-awake first thing in the morning, or last thing in the morning, for that matter. My assent from wonderful sleepytime into consciousness is very, very slow. However, at 1:17 this morning, [...]
