"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in dumb things I have done, meh, Notions and Rants, Things I like & Things I don't like, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 6th, 2012
Acclaimed humor site The Oatmeal has a running series of comics called “Minor Differences” wherein situations go from great to gruesome with the addition or omission of some small factor. Examples are: the cuteness of a woman wearing just a tee-shirt versus the creepiness of a man wearing just a tee-shirt or the difference in […]
Posted in bike commuting, Delight, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Kansas City, Oh, for fuck's sake, Playing With Weather on Dec 14th, 2011
If you haven’t seen the “murmuration of starlings†video on the Internet yet, first things first, go and do it. It is beautiful and impressive and a testament to the wonders and glories of nature. It is also…how to put it…gratifyingly devoid of flying guano. Now, then. This morning, on my way to work, I […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake, Super-Short Entries, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 10th, 2011
(the bathroom is still a work in progress, so please don’t judge the crummy floor, the cheezy plastic tile on the wall, or my hair-and-makeup box on a cinder block) I had no idea Jacuzzi was a brand. I thought it was like the technical term for a deep, fizzy bathtub. Apparently, they make everything […]
Posted in dumb things I have done on Dec 3rd, 2011
In Michelle-World, all smartphones are Blackberries. For example, all of the Project Managers in my office carry iPhones. However, when people call in and ask for a manager who is out in the field, I invariably tell the caller that “So & So is out in the field today, but he does have his Blackberry, […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, NaBloPoMo 2011, Oh, for fuck's sake, Sewing, Utter Silliness on Nov 26th, 2011
I guess this is what you’d call a wardrobe malfunction. I finished stitching down the facings on this bolero and went to go model it for Joel. This is what happened: Sadly, this is not the first time I’ve pulled a stunt like this. Unfortunately, it is the furthest I’ve gotten in the completion of […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Delight, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Food & Snacks, NaBloPoMo 2011, Notions and Rants, Utter Silliness, Words I Like on Nov 17th, 2011
Oh man, I have brainmeats problems. A month or so ago I read an article online where this guy decided to try recipes or foodstuffs mentioned in The Simpsons. I laughed myself silly, as you do. Especially over the notion of Corn Nog, which sounds really fucking disgusting. I mean! Almost as bad as fuzzy […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, NaBloPoMo 2011, Shopping, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 8th, 2011
I got this phone in February of 2006. It was pretty awesome, so I stuck a couple of foil daisy stickers on it to make it awesomer. They didn’t stay very well, but they were cute while they lasted. I got this phone from a shady discount-cellular-and-tobacco store on East Truman Road, about a block […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Lists, meta, Notions and Rants, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 3rd, 2011
Facebook. Freakin’ Facebook. It’s a love/hate website, that’s for sure. It’s fun to keep up with your friends, see your old schoolmates’ babies, check out your co-workers Spotify picks, hand out party invites, RSVP to same…it’s a daily ritual that many of us enjoy. Mostly. But Facebook has a habit of inventing new ways to […]
Posted in Distractions, dumb things I have done, NaBloPoMo 2011, Recommendations, Utter Silliness, videos on Nov 1st, 2011
So, my dumb ass has decided to participate in NoBloPoMo, or whatever the hell they call it. Because I am crazy. Also because I feel like I could use a swift blogging kick in the pants and that may be the boot to administer it. Or something like that. And because it is late and […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Gratuitous Cussing on Jul 27th, 2011
After a decade of being vaguely broke and more than vaguely pissed off about it, I have finally paid off my student loan. Before the July payment was set to draw, I shut off the automatic draft, transferred an extra $1,000 from my savings to my checking, and paid that bad boy off. I just […]