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general awesomeness

  • Welcome 2023. I guess.

    Crawling into bed at 12:01 this morning, Jan. 1, I realized that my elderly dachshund had pooed on the sheets. Not all over the sheets, but he’d done a drive-by wipe on…

  • Grief and walnuts.

    Today, Walter tried walnuts for the first time. I was making pumpkin bars and carefully scavenged through the bag of walnuts. I tried to find the pieces that were mostly intact halves,…

  • Shows I’ve watched in quarantine.

    Hi. My name is Becky. I’m social distancing. And I haven’t worn an underwire in a week. Since our girl ‘Rona is keeping us all inside and moderately terrified, I’m just gonna…

  • Who will be Queen of the Prom?

    It’s not nice to brag. And it’s not honest to make your life look better online than it really is. But I just have to tell you. I bought this. For six…

  • Please don’t go guuuuuurl!

    As is the custom of my people, we gathered to pay homage to the teenyboppers of our youth. That’s right, people. I saw New Kids on the Block in concert. Me and…

  • Right on, Bob. Right on.

    A guy my parents used to pal around with recently died. He dropped dead of a heart attack. To say it was a shock is an understatement. I don’t think we give…

  • The best barf story.

    All this talk about stomach bugs makes me look back on the most glorious vomit scene I have ever witnessed. Of course, I’m going to share it with you. There was this…

  • New year, new you.

    The only new year’s resolution I’ve ever really knocked out of the park was deciding my freshman year of college to floss every day. Did this save me from periodontal disease? No,…