Archive for July, 2007

Arrr, ye matey

This morning my grandma called at just before ten and asked me what everybody who calls me that early asks, “Did I wake you?” After 33 years on this Earth people have finally come to realize that I never have been, nor ever will be, a morning person. It’s about time people begin to accept [...]

Light up and go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

I’m sitting here in silence. The only sounds I hear are the water swooshing through the filters in the fish tanks and the tapping of the keys on my keyboard as I type. Lee’s at softball practice. They are practicing at a park with a playground so he took the kids with him. They were [...]

Thirty minutes of my life I’ll never get back

Earlier this evening I wasted thirty minutes of my life watching Rock of Love. Have you heard about this show? It’s a spin-off of Flavor Flav’s two seasons of Flavor of Love where Flavor Flav was looking for his one true-love. Kind of a Bachelor for has been 80’s stars, otherwise known as a publicity [...]

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my

It’s been an exhausting day. But a great day too. Today we went to the Brookfield Zoo. And we discovered this is not a zoo you can explore in just one day. We spent 6 1/2 hours at the zoo and we didn’t even see everything.
We started the day with a spin around the carousel [...]