Live.to.the.point.of.tears

2009

December 78
November 111
October 122
September 125
August 110
July 112
June 104
May 137
April 123
March 107
February 98
January 89

2008

December 74
November 80
October 92
September 71
August 71
July 47
June 46
May 45
April 49
March 6
February
January

I am going to f-ing freak out.

I just got gas at $4.15 a gallon (the cheapest price in San Diego), and literally, as I pumped, I...
May 31st
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not...”
— Gore Vidal [Right on....
May 31st
Guilty pleasure? How can you not love...
May 30th
LOVE comes in pink, red, and black patent leather …
May 30th
Warch Watch
Mariah throws* out the first pitch at a Japanese baseball game last night. *Bwaahahahahahaha!
May 29th
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the...”
— Paulo Coelho, author of The...
May 29th

Hmph.

Me: My car is giving off this weird ammonia smell whenever I go above 85 mph.
Toyota Service Manager: Geez, you need to slow down.
May 29th
May 29th
Hehe.
May 29th
A lovely picture of Kate. … I would love a bath and a...
May 29th
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling...”
— Nabokov … His prose will...
May 28th
I am the juicy summer raspberries that grew wild in Anna Wholey’s yard … I am ripe and...
May 23rd
“When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead....”
— Barney Stinson (via soxiam)...
May 23rd
An observation: Sam tears the eyes out of all her toys....
May 23rd
Sam with her birthday duck.
May 23rd
Like I said. The eyes didn’t last long.
May 23rd
“Don’t wish me happiness, I don’t expect to be happy all the...”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via...
May 23rd

I'm lacking a Y chromosome.

So about every two weeks or so, my boss invites the guys in our office to go to lunch. He buys, they...
May 22nd
“even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken...”
—  john mayer, say
May 22nd

So that was awkward.

Me: I just walked right by like I didn't see her ... Ack.
Robin: Just remember that she is more afraid of you than you are of her.
Me: Like sharks?
May 21st

“Work is the curse of the drinking...

Let’s play a game called “Is Your Coworker More or Less Insane Than Mine.”  My coworker: Could...
May 20th

Buckets of yuck.

Please don’t talk on your cell phone in a bathroom stall, especially while other people are in...
May 20th
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! My baby Sam turns 2 today :)
May 20th
“There’d be times you overdid it. You’d get carried away. All...”
— Susan Minot, Lust
May 17th

Amusing and terrifying all at once.

For Tom and my other guy friends who are pretty sure all girls are batshit crazy.
May 16th

Tastes like a metaphor.

Last night I was served a tiny, beautiful plate of two raw oysters, still salty with sea water, and...
May 16th
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your...”
— CS Lewis
May 16th
Warch Watch
Someone help us.  (No Hillary, not you, go sit down.)
May 15th

Inner monologue.

I like my new lipgloss. Mm, and it tastes like popsicles. Grape popsi- AAACK WINDEX AFTERTASTE!!
May 15th
“you’re only taking inches / when i’m giving you...”
— tristan prettyman
May 14th
eatsleepdraw dot com
May 13th

People who are enablers of my dessert...

Robin My mother Dairy Queen Jon The Three Musketeers
May 13th
“I knew I belonged to the world, not because I was...
May 13th

Swingers. Yea, swingers.

I didn’t plan to drink much after the Padres game (we lost, weird) on Friday night but, then...
May 12th
Haha. So true. Ack. [Side note: Discovered indexed through...
May 12th
For a girl who writes wedding books, I have surprisingly...
May 9th
“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve...”
— Mark Twain (this man was a...
May 8th
Mischief.
May 7th

The legend of the Sour Cream Wet Willy.

Let me set the stage: Shoreclub, Pacific Beach, 10 p.m. Robin is eating a plate of delicious...
May 7th

What the hell kind of wedding are these...

Coworker Lauren, Wedding Solutions Customer Service, on the phone with a bride: OK, so you ordered the mug and shot glass set, a mini football, the "Portrait of Love" picture frame, and a wooden yo-yo. That comes to $149.
May 7th
“I used to be Snow White but I drifted.”
— Mae West
May 6th
How great is Calvin & Hobbes …
May 6th
Cocktail party tonight at our house. Leave your dignity at...
May 3rd
Is it weird that I’m in love with my new organic...
May 2nd

I can't make this shit up.

Me: I'm having a static electricity issue with my dress this morning.
Coworker Dave the Graphic Designer: That happened to me. Where was I? I was in hell. I was at WalMart. I needed a drink of water. You get claustorphobic in there. I walked down a hallway and there was some kind of electrical storm. My hair was standing on end. I have thin hair. I have Fraggle hair.
May 1st