Born To Be Wild 27 Aug 2013 | 04:10 am

Today a man with a full-on business-in-front-party-in-back mullet rode down my street on a unicycle. I wonder if it was an ironic mullet, or maybe mullets are the new look for young hipsters, or - and...

A peek inside my house, or the snowball effect of cleaning. 22 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm

You know when you have one of those days where you wake up totally normal, and you seem totally normal, and you go to do a little housecleaning like a normal person - bathroom cleaning here, a little ...

I can see for miles and miles 20 Aug 2013 | 03:09 am

Last weekend I went to Saskatchewan to visit with my grandma, as well as with my cousins, aunt, and my brother who moved from the big city to a small town and is now realizing that everyone on his blo...

Wordless Wednesday - Summer Vacation 14 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm

The Opposite Of Extreme Makeovers, and a Giveaway! 13 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am

Lawsy, I've been busy - relatively speaking - since returning from vacation. It's amazing how much piles up after an eight-day hiatus from the homefront. I've been multi-tasking like a motherfucking r...

Vacation Nicole versus Regular Nicole 10 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am

Vacation Nicole 1) Vacation Nicole drinks Palm Bay at 10:00 in the morning with her father-in-law. She has a second one at 11, followed by a few more later in the afternoon 2) Vacation Nicole goes d...

"The REAL Reason He Never Texted" - page 136 30 Jul 2013 | 05:43 am

A few weeks ago, I was feeling kind of blue, and so my husband took the boys for an outing and came home with snacks and a magazine for me. Cosmopolitan magazine. Husband: Isn't that the magazine you...

Gazing at you, I get the beat. 24 Jul 2013 | 09:27 pm

It turns out I am easily unmoored. My parents took the kids up to the lake yesterday, and I was faced with thirty childless hours in which to get some things done. Productivity! It's actually amazing...

Boy oh boy! 23 Jul 2013 | 03:09 am

I feel the same way about the safe arrival of the royal baby that I did about the royal wedding - it's happy news. In the midst of so much tragedy, sadness, and overall gloom that we hear on the news ...

On a warm summer's evening, on a train bound for nowhere. 20 Jul 2013 | 06:17 am

I think I have writer's block or something; today I sat down to write the preamble to a recipe and the only thing that came to my mind was the lyrics to The Gambler. As you may or may not know, I have...