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Goodbye, Petunia.
We have a saying in my family. Well, maybe it’s just in my family, or maybe it’s a Southernism, I’m not sure. But when someone is especially old and ornery and not doing well, we’d say “the devil won’t take her/him.” It means that the person in question is so mean-spirited and bossy, that the…
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How to Deal with Freelancing Uncertainty Explained via Vanderpump Rules GIFs
I feel like a broken record, but hey there. I know, I know. I’ve been MIA in the blogging world. Well, I am contributing to blogs, but they’ve been on behalf of clients. Not this blog. This blog has been neglected, like a lonely, unwanted redheaded stepchild. Which is part of the “problem” and a…
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5 Facts About the Maldives (or, Why Can’t I Just Relax and Enjoy Nice Things?)
Oh, hello there. I realize I left you all on a bit of a cliffhanger. Not about the Mad Pooper. I mean, we’re all waiting for bated breath on that one, but alas, I’m not sure we’ll ever really find out who she is or why she does what she did. And the Colorado police…
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Weird Crimes: Colorado’s Serial Sidewalk Pooper Makes My Day
Every once in a while, a new story breaks through all the worry and malaise burdening the national consciousness, (and myself, in particular, which is really the only worry and malaise I can actually, honestly attest to). This bright, glittery meteor of a human interest (?) story somehow—someway—against all news judgement and journalistic standards manages…
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That Time We Got Booted From Bali and Ended Up in the Maldives
As mentioned previously, my main man for life, XFE and I went to Sri Lanka for my birthday trip earlier this year, which was culturally enriching yet also challenging (for all the reasons I’ve gone over in previous posts). Which, since this wasn’t exactly our first Southeast Asian rodeo, we kind of figured it…
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Reality TV Time: Below Deck Mediterranean
My travel-buddy-for-life XFE and I just got back from a soccer roadtrip through the South, which was basically 3,000 miles of varying degrees of traffic and highways broken up by stops for soccer (go Tottenham), kitschy tourist locales (I’d never been to South of the Border, but I have now), barhopping at country honkytonks (Nashville…
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Soccer Road Trippin’ Through the South
It’s hotter than Hades here in D.C. so it seems like the perfect time to hop in the car and drive many, many hours to even hotter locations, primarily in the South. But we do it for the love of soccer. That’s right, my travel-partner-for-life XFE and I are going on a road trip to…
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Hotel Crashing: 4 Other Places We Stayed in Sri Lanka
Because I really cannot top our stay (and odd massage experience) at the Signature Amaya Kandalama, I’m condensing (ha!) the rest of our hotel accommodations in Sri Lanka into this one little (ok, NOT little) post. Most of them were one-nighters anyway, with the exception of the beach house in Unwatana. But they each had…
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Hotel Crashing: Signature Amaya Kandalama, Sri Lanka
So here’s a basic outline of our first day (2 days) getting to/and/around Sri Lanka. A 14-hour flight from D.C. to Seoul on Korean Air First Class. A 6-hour layover at the Seoul Airport. An 8-hour flight to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Land at 3:15 a.m. and meet our driver, Tillie. Drive about 3.5 hours in…