If you found yourself unable to make a right turn from Rockville Pike onto Tuckerman Lane on Sunday morning from about 9:40am to 10:20am, IP and I apologize. If you found yourself puzzled or even a bit angry as to why we didn’t have our hazards on, let me clarify that for you – [...]
My Garmin Forerunner 405 arrived yesterday while I was on the phone with IP. I heard a thump hit the front door and reported that the UPS delivery man had just, uh, delivered something. IP speculated that it was the books he had recently ordered and asked me to investigate. Half-hoping that [...]
I’ve never done a meme before simply because I don’t really participate in the blogging community enough to get tagged — I tend to just write for me even if I am delighted when I get a regular reader on ocassion. I don’t leave a bunch of comments on other blogs because I think my [...]
During a pleasant IM exchange:
WordNerd: GAH! The Caps* won’t stop sending me goddamn emails. I have asked them a million times to be removed from their lists. They don’t listen.
Dorkus: Grr. Your heart belongs to another team.
WordNerd: I know! I just emailed their guest services telling them to leave me alone. I almost put [...]
All hail summer sales. Thanks to vigilant monitoring on my part, I have now secured the dress I’d been eyeing for the wedding that IP and I will be attending in August. The wedding is to be held a) in the morning with the reception being 2) outdoors. With some strappy flats, I [...]
I could easily read the disdain in the smirks, the eyebrows already creeping up their foreheads to follow up my answer to their question with what they figured would be their next line — that their assumptions had been right all along. “So,” began the inquisitors sarcastically, “did IP have a clean apartment waiting [...]
I have mentioned in the past few days that work has been a little slow. Rather than grumble about it, IP reminded me to embrace it – he and I both know that work is going to get crazy soon enough, so I might as well attempt to use this time to explore some [...]
IP is on what the media is calling a “staycation” this week. Our “real” vacation begins in late July when IP meets me in Hawaii for a Big Island adventure. However:
When I got home yesterday, IP had gone to the gym, cleaned the apartment, and was in the process of formulating a dinner for that evening. After [...]
My father’s father left the family when my dad was only five years old. From that moment on, my dad had the potential to become just what his father is: irresponsible, lacking empathy, unwillingly to face life’s realities. Instead, my father became a stand-up man and the best father in the world.
Because of [...]
I woke up in something of a brooding mood today. I started the day by reminding myself that I needed to order a gift for my co-worker’s baby shower. As I did so, I started to get into a rather foul state of mind, similar to the one that I experienced when buying [...]
