My sweet MBB, I don’t know how this happened, but I blinked and suddenly you turned 17. My first baby is no longer quite my baby. Remember when you were very young, and we didn’t quite know each other that well? Oh, those funny pictures we used to take in that old apartment years and[Continue reading...]

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It’s been raining like crazy and I’ve lost track of how many consecutive storms we’ve had in a row! So far we’ve made it through without any major incidents, except for yesterday, which was when our poor orange tree fell over. Despite being happy in the same heavy pot for nearly 14 years, it toppled[Continue reading...]

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So…what is the Monday Poll? Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007). 1. Converse or cowboy boots? Converse, but they’ve[Continue reading...]

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Hello, friend. Prepare to have your mind BLOWN. I know that’s a strange intro, but today is a strange day (in an amazing way, though). Are you ready? I’m serious — I hope you’re ready, because this is INSANE. OK, here it goes: this blog post is volume 800 of this series. Yup, this is[Continue reading...]

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Happy Saturday, friend. Guess what? I was at Target yesterday, and when I saw this display for CeraVe at an endcap, I half expected Michael Cera to pop out and hand me a bottle of lotion. Seriously, who made this? It’s so wacky and I wish I was on the creative team that dreamt it[Continue reading...]

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