Well, it turns out that calling “not it!” for the Christmas flu might have kept the influenza away, but both J and I had to have a run at stomach flu, instead. Merry Christmas to us! J’s been in bed most of today, which is how I spent yesterday. Luckily, it’s a fast-moving bug and … Continue reading That Other Thing Darwin Said →

Merry Christmas, Everyone! Well, Christmas Eve, I guess, but for us growing up Christmas Eve was always when Christmas started. Christmas to us, as kids, meaning the first day we were able to open presents! The first Christmas Eve’s I remember were always spent at Grams. She would make oyster stew, much to the disgust … Continue reading The Ghost of Christmas Past →

It’s almost Christmas and I should probably write something Christmas-y but I’m not quite there yet. Last year at Christmas my sister in law read us all a question from a card game that asked when Christmas officially started for us. The majority of us answered that the real Christmastime feelings happen between Christmas and … Continue reading What Rhymes with Partridge? →

Here we are at Friday again, thank goodness. We made it through another week! Why, does life sometimes feel like an obstacle course? Good news, though, my liver tests came back and my liver is all happy and healthy, much to (I assume) the chagrin of Dr. Passionate-About-Cholesterol who was using the state of my … Continue reading Nothing, really…. →

So, anyway, back to our regularly scheduled love stories. That last blog took me a really long time to write, mostly because I spent a lot of time contemplating and telling truths to myself, and coming to some realizations. (And also, a lot of deleting took place and I know there are still two places … Continue reading In the Beginning →

This morning I asked J what I should write about. Admittedly, our anniversary is on my mind a lot, trying to convince me to write sappy love stories one after another and I wanted a different topic. First he said, “You should write about being grateful”, which would have led me right down the sappy … Continue reading The Road to Independence →

I have bad cholesterol. I have had it probably my whole life but known about it since I was 19 and got my very first cholesterol test at my very first grown up physical which followed directly after I finally got a job with health insurance. (Which, unfortunately, was after I had already had the … Continue reading It Runs in the Family →

In another month, J and I will celebrate our one-year wedding anniversary, but even better, it will be our tenth anniversary together. We purposely planned a wedding on a Thursday so we could keep our original anniversary and I am still grateful to everyone who gave up their weekday night(s) to help us make it … Continue reading And Then There Were Five →

I’ve been really sucking at writing lately. I did not write for almost the entire month of November. The month when so many people are busy writing their novel for National Novel Writing Month, I was doing the opposite. I took some time while we were at the lake Thanksgiving weekend to work on my … Continue reading Excuses, Excuses →

[Announcer voice, that one you used to hear on that Natasha and Boris cartoon after a commercial] Last time on NickNackPaddyWhack-ed, our heroine had a situation on her hands, how will she overcome it? Will she eat the fish, or let it go? Stay tuned for the next exciting episode… Just kidding. It’s not that … Continue reading And in Conclusion →