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mostly personal anecdotes where I sometimes try to be humorous

(maybe not always, Not everytime, but sometimes)

  • Hey, That’s Not New

    So, your feed led you astray with its promises of something new did it?  But you read along anyway only to realize you were right in the middle of my blogging past – like a blog time machine sucked you somewhere strangely familiar – a dejablog.  Yes dear “feed”ers, you’ve been tricked!  Why it isn’t a new…

  • A Work Theory

    I’m working on a theory.  It’s not a well thought out theory or even a well put together theory, but it’s a theory nonetheless.  My theory is this: If you put more than two people in an office, someone will go nuts.  This is inevitable even if both people started out perfectly sane.  I’m not…

  • Jay

    There are a million reasons that I absolutely adore my husband.  Among them: He’s my best friend, he puts up with my craziness (this is a pretty huge feat), he laughs at my bad jokes (and encourages them, at least that’s what I tell myself) and he patiently sits and listens to my weekly improv stories (struggles),…

  • Retraction: Every Quake You Fake

    My husband would like it noted (and by “like it noted” I mean he may have said in passing “that’s not me, that’s you”) that he does not in fact make fun of The Police’s “Every Breathe You Take” and if he did, it would only occur when his wife was doing it, too.  (Well, how…

  • There’s No Business Like Show Business

    “Let’s start from the very beginning A very good place to start…” I grew up on musical comedies.  Songs from “Cabaret” to “A Chorus Line” to “All That Jazz” resonated throughout our house. The voices of Marni Nixon, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews and Paul Robeson poured from the speakers along with those awesome overtures that…

  • Sam vs. Cow

    Sam is not exactly full of surprises, unless you count the number of visits with various vet specialists over the past few years. In fact, Sam is fairly simple, she likes to eat (no really, she’s a hound – this borders on crazy like a starving refugee left alone at a buffet – in fact,…

  • The Show!

    As you may have heard, I was in my first improv show on Friday.  It was FANTASTIC!  (Yes, an all caps worthy kind of performance.)  I must admit, I am in complete and total awe of my classmates who got up there and created an amazingly fun and entertaining show along with the help of some super…

  • RIP: A Southern Tale

    My friends have long been full of suggestions for story topics whenever I’ve drawn a complete blank – favorite stories about family or work or some misadventure that might have landed me topless in a popular public pool walking around enjoying the warm sun on my skin and the blessing of water in my ears…

  • The Rehearsal

    We had our first run through of our 301 Improv show yesterday.  (Did I mention there’s a show coming up?  March 11th, 10pm? Get your tickets now before they sell out (and they will sell out).  The place only seats about 50 and I want you there versus some crazy co-worker who got wind of…

  • Shameless Self-Promotion: My Improv Show!!

    Tickets are now available for the Improv 301 Graduation Show. (psst, click on the link to purchase your tickets). Come show your support for me (well ok,  and I those other people, too since they’re the real talent, and I’ll be the one hyperventilating in the corner.)  I guarantee laughter and good times (especially, if you hit one of…

  • Mark Your Calendars – March 11, 2011!

    What are you doing Friday, March 11th at 10:30 pm?  Why not put those plans aside and come out to support April and me (and the rest of our amazing Improv 301 class) in our very first improv performance at the Salvage Vanguard Theater?  The tickets will be $5 (cheap!)  Plus, we need your cheers, your laughter,…

  • Mug Follow-up

    I’m causes me great sadness to have to deliver this news, but as of today no chipper holiday mugs were actually harmed.  We bore them great malice, yet there they sit in their green and red glory taunting us as santas, angels and snowflakes wave on. Should any of you who worried about their welfare among…

  • Holiday Mugs

    Jay came in the other day and asked, “is there anything I can shoot on Saturday?”  This was in preparation for a day out with his brother and friends where they’re allowed to shoot something other than paper targets.  We’re Texans.  Sometimes inanimate objects find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. The first…

  • Being Human

    Let me start by saying that I have no taste when it comes to television and it’s a rare day that I fess up to what is being recorded on our DVR.  There’s the good stuff that comes on a few weeks out of the year like Dexter or Shameless, which I’m really enjoying at…

  • I Am a Mighty Maker of Things!

    Simple Pleasures Originally uploaded by Big Blue Mess My grandmother sewed, my father sewed (and does carpentry and codes and is a professor and volunteers for Habitat for Humanity and gardens and has a bee hive (with actual bees, not the hairstyle – well, not around mixed company) and studies Permaculture), my step-mother sews/draws/paints/takes photographs, and…

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