February « 2009 « Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

The Finding Yourself guide to being a ghetto fabulous granola eco-warrior

First buy your fridge from a scratch and dent warehouse.

Instead of touching up the scratches and dents with toxic appliance paint, affix children’s artwork over the affected areas. Make sure you leave an access opening for the on door ice and water compartment.

When ice cascades down inside of the interior back panel and freezes [...]

10 things that make my brain leak out of my ears

10.) The lady in the parking lot of Big Lots who insisted that I could: 1) back out without hitting her even though her car was basically touching mine* 2) drive forward to avoid hitting her and instead hit the car that was parked there?

9.) People who show absolutely zero mastery of there, their, [...]

And then there were 3

This weekend, dear little Screamy died. I guess she there was good reason for all of her shrill proclamations. What we thought to be “Where’s my mom? Where’s my mom?” was actually “Oh god, I’m dying!”

I could tell when we first gathered them up, that her health was tenuous at best but I had [...]