My New Chimerical Kit

For some reason whenever we fly into Little Rick Airport something always gets lost. Last Christmas it was DH’s baggage that went to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This trip has been no exception. Before leaving Dulles, we fastidiously checked the tags on all our bags to ensure that our names and final destination appeared perfectly [...]

This weekend was a crazy rollercoaster of insanity.  My friend Christina recently wrote about how you’re never prepared for home-ownership, and this post partially addresses that issue.  But since my comments regarding this all under “The Bad” let me first start with “The Good.” The Good Friday night, DH and I went out with some [...]

I apologize for those of you who are sitting on pins and needles wanting to know how the camping trip turned out… and those of you who are dying to know if I managed to one of those rare, but ferocious, Pennsylvania Hyenas.  And I am happy to report that the camping trip was 100% [...]

I mentioned in my last post that I was incredibly excited about last weekend because we were traveling to York, PA for an awesome flyball tournament and that I fully expected Magnolia to receive her ONYX award there.  I am happy to report that all went exactly as planned and in the 2nd heat of the [...]

We’re headed up to York, Pennsylvania for an exciting weekend full of flyball!  But it’s not just any flyball tournament.  This is the Coconut Classic Flyball Tournament.  In my personal opinion it is the premier flyball tournament of all flyball tournaments.  This is the exact tournament where my DH became the 2009 Dream Team Box [...]

Despite the massive crisis that most people experienced last Tuesday, my iPhone 4 ordering was an absolute breeze.  I woke up thinking that it’s quite possible that the pre-ordering bonanza hadn’t begun, had no expectations of obtaining one, and then by 6:35am the whole pre-order process was finished and went through without hardly a glitch. [...]

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a little bit of a gear junkie.  When I find a new hobby or something that I really get into I want to buy the latest and greatest to outfit myself.  Sometimes I go a little overboard… which makes for some cramped storage space in our basement [...]

It’s probably old news by now that Apple will be releasing the iPhone 4 on June 24th.  Of course, you can preorder it on June 15th; something that I intend to do as soon as absolutely possible next Tuesday.  As many of you know, my iPhone 3GS bit it several weeks ago.  As tragic as [...]

[translation: Victory, Irving Berlin... Victory!] Contrary to what you might believe that title is supposed to mean, I am not gloating about the nearly unanimous dissent towards a comment posted on Monday’s blog post, 16.6 and Dropping! Rather, quite the opposite.  I spent a lot of yesterday seriously thinking about “Irving Berlin” and the things [...]

If you follow me on Twitter or you’re one of my friends on Facebook you might have noticed that I have a weekly ritual that’s somewhat unorthodox; I post my weight.  That’s right… my weight…  I know, age and a woman’s weight are the two things you’re never supposed to ask about, but I’m going [...]

Last night I joined the club.  The “I dropped my cell phone in the toilet” club.  I am horribly embarrassed to actually admit that.  My sorority sisters have done it, my wonderful like-a-sister-cousin (@mtommey) has done it, co-workers, know tons of people who have done it.  But I have been proud, until this moment, to [...]

On January 1st I was contacted and told that I had won a trip… a trip of a lifetime… on Facebook.  I was skeptical at first.  In fact, I was really skeptical.  But the company that I had won a trip from was Ciclismo Classico and I have been salivating over their trip catalog for [...]

Yesterday was my thirtieth birthday.  It came and went without any inkling of a nervous breakdown.  Despite this fact I’m still throwing myself a “Mid-Mid Life Crisis” party this weekend.  Last year I wrote about my absolute and utter fear of turning 30, and I’d like to have a quick recap about my “before 30 [...]

I have a confession to make: I’m afraid of power bars. I know that this is a strange, completely unfounded fear, but I can’t help it. And because I know that it is utterly ridiculous I do my best to try to eat power bars on occasion. The sad part about my self-prescribed therapy is [...]

The Mayo Clinic defines Kleptomania as: Kleptomania is the irresistible urge to steal items that you don’t really need and that usually have little value. It’s a serious mental health disorder that can tear your life apart if not treated. Kleptomania is a type of impulse control disorder — a disorder in which you can’t [...]