Category: Trips Down Memory Lane
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A Special Shout Out for My 200th Post
Today is my 200th post. Pretty exciting stuff. But also, kind of intimidating. I mean, it needs to be meaningful, right? You only get one 200th post. Unless, of course, you start another blog. Then, I suppose, you would get a second shot at a 200th post. Anyway, this is THIS blog’s one and only…
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The Future Mr. Pickwick
Since we’ve gotten back from Australia, one of us (the male edition) won’t stop lobbying for a new pet. Seems my Outback-Jack-boyfriend-for-life, XFE is unsatisfied with the pet we currently house, feed and lavish with love. No, he wants a new pet. A different pet. An entirely more exotic creature. XFE wants a damn kangaroo.…
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Wedding Weekend Blowout
As predicted on Friday, this weekend was a debacle. Lots and lots of excess and bad decisions on my part. And conveniently, there are no photos of me since both of my camera batteries died. Oh well! (But I do have a few photos of the wedding and the happy couple) Here’s a partial list…
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I May Not be Young….
But I am out acting like a fool tonight. And probably all weekend too. So Enjoy. Yahoo’s We’re Not Young A sweet (and much more relevant) little Yahoo! Sketchy parody of the more well-known We Are Young, which you hear in that damn Ford commercial and can’t get out of your head. I prefer the parody.
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The Many Faces of Toonces
Petunia, for those who have not met her, is kinda bipolar. She hasn’t been diagnosed or anything, but she’s definitely very two-faced. There are basically two Petunia’s – there’s Princess Petunia Potpie, the sweet little calico who follows me around all morning, twirling around my ankles, rubbing her face against mine while I’m trying to…
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I’m Not Sure My Insurance Covers Stripper Collisions
I’m in New York this weekend for this girl’s bachelorette party. Only, you can’t really call it a bachelorette party since she’s been shacking up with the groom for a couple of years now. But really you can’t call it a bachelorette party because she (a) refuses to wear a tiara (excuse me, I wear…
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More Animals that Will Kill You in Australia
Having survived, and even, begrudgingly liked, scuba diving, we decided to further take out lives into our hands and rent a four-wheel drive to take up into the Daintree Rainforest. Finally, a vehicle that does not make our bags seem too large. We picked up our car in Cairns right after getting off the scuba…
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And Then it was Time to Scuba
Despite my best efforts, we boarded a ship in Cairns and sped out to the Great Barrier Reef, to fling ourselves down into shark-infested waters and look at fishes. And guess what? It was awesome, amazing, breath-taking (literally), awe-inspiring and exciting. We boarded the SeaQuest on Wednesday morning. It’s a big catamaran type ship that…
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Wait, You Didn’t Spend President’s Day Looking for a Mystery Stench?
I love all the lesser federal holidays. You know, like Columbus Day and Veteran’s Day and MLK Day and President’s Day and Flag Day. Ok, that last one is not a federal holiday, but it should be. Since I live in DC, my company follows the federal holiday schedule and that means random Mondays off…