Archive for October, 2008

Hungry Vampire Halloween

I’m going as a hungry version of Edward Cullen from Twilight. Dark eyes- dark bags under eyes. Body glitter. Etc.

A Menace

Yesterday I broke my thumb. My right thumb, and I’m right handed. Actually I re-broke it from when I fell in the woods. I don’t think I can avoid the doctor on this one much longer. So annoying. I also broke not one, but two treadmills at the gym. I’m not sure exactly how, and [...]

Not A Scot

According to the Scottish experts at the Highlander festival, I have no such heritage. Well, actually, they were just going by names, and really that isn’t an ironclad sort of genetic testing. But my name is not Scottish. Or Welsh, or Irish. They were stumped as to the derivation of my name. I suggested English, [...]

This Crazy Economy

Pizza prices up by like 50 cents- lame. Raspberry prices down by two bucks- better.

Just Say No

Over years I have learned to just say no to these items, and nevertheless have just purchased them and been burned yet again. Pantene hair products. They inevitably lead to bad hair of baffling variety. Upon the use of Pantene, in the same head of normally sane hair I find jheri curls, frizzy areas, flat [...]