people say she’s crazy…

life at the now fully occupied homestead:
~ dad in bedroom chair~ mom reading magazine/watching CNN~ abby on comp~ morgan in shower whistling “jingle bell rock” at unearthly volumes
ah, home.

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Jack and Diane by John Mellencamp and Me
Incidentally, this ditty has nothing to do with anyone named jack nor anyone named diane, but just
two American kids growin up in the heartland
Jacky’s equivalent is gon’ be a biomedical engineer
Diane’s equivalent is neither a debutante nor does she aspire to no more than the backseat of Jacky’s […]

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Summer of ‘69. By Bryan Adams and Me.
I do not own a six string
I do not shop at the five & dime.
I don’t do anything until my fingers bleed, except maybe photocopy at work. Am kind of clumsy.
And it’s not the summer of ‘69.
I’m gonna skip this whole verse about guys named Jody getting married, […]

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people say she’s crazy, she’s got diamonds on the soles of her shoes and she takes her life in bite-size lyric-length pieces. but there’s something to be said for that. I was just in the shower thinking about the 80s (due to american idol) and my summer (due to the sudden absence of the best […]

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the masses read my blog!
and by the masses, i mean amanda dobbins. who i like, and not just because she gets my W&L jokes. :) hi amanda!
tonight, the kiddies came over for sex
and the city (awkward line break) and stayed for the Pillsbury Bake Off (food network…ahhhh) and Eddie Izzard on HBO. I like having […]

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so.
garver and I decide last night that rather than slugging around one of our houses, we will be active. so we get him some dinner (after my fabulous pero’s meal with winston) and drive to mountasia to putt-putt. or “mini-golf” as you weird midwesterners say. anyway, we get to mountasia and they won’t let us […]

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so jim says my blog yesterday was disappointing. and since he is my most avid reader, i have come to give him a decent play-by-play of my day today. that aside, it is good to learn (the hard way) that the aforementioned person who never reads this actually DID read it.
so welcome aboard, cap’n.
anyhoo. today:
2:00 […]

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yeah. so. it’s been about a month.
I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON! eep!
this blog is for:
allison, who always keeps up with hers, dammit.
marisa and marisol, whom i told i would update last week. so here it is! not so bad for the queen procrastinatora!
garver, because he’s garver
kathleen, who has the best cat ever
and
ben stiller and owen […]

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