Back in!

Ok. I was doing really well here. But then real life interfered. I’m jumping back in.
Read this article. It is quite possibly my favorite thing I’ve read in weeks.
I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry. So I went with laugh. It prompted Rachel and me to have this exchange.
Me: If that was my [...]

Of Planes and Soap

Plane crashes make me never want to fly again. Regardless of if it’s a happy ending–landing in the Hudson, miraculous, etc.–or crashing into a house and killing everyone on board, it freaks me the eff out. Especially this latest crash, which happened 5 minutes before landing, which is the part where everyone has kind of [...]

A special gift:

As a special bonus gift: 3 pictures are worth (way more than) 3,000 words, right?

And to make it sadder–look at the cuteness that was hiding behind all that metal!

There’s an Anna on a hilltop…

The other day (by which I mean two weeks ago, because I was already to post this, and then I was like, “Yeaaaah! Dial-up!” so it’s just been on my computer since then), I went for a walk with my mom on our property. And I know I’ve mentioned that I live in the boonies, [...]

Things I won’t miss

Today on the train–which was a tiny bit crowded–I was reminded of the lowlight of my summer: that time I got groped on the train. And no, it wasn’t hot, and I didn’t fall in the love with the guy, so no, it wasn’t me who posted a missed connections ad on Craigslist.
Instead, it was [...]

Summer lovin’ had me a blast

In case you haven’t noticed, summer is almost over. At the end of last summer, I wrote a long and sentimental list of everything I would miss about Austin–pancakes from Magnolia, the prevalence of burnt orange, my family, Sonic, etc. Maybe I ordered it differently so that my family came in ahead of Magnolia, but [...]

Coney Dogs and Colonoscopias probably are related in some way

We went on an adventure! To Coney Island!
I had never been before, and I pretty much associated it with two things:
1. That scene in Uptown Girls, the horrible movie with Brittney Murphy and Dakota Fanning, where one of them goes and finds the other one (I’m sorry that’s so vague, but to my credit, I’ve [...]

10-year reunion

So over the weekend, my mom went to a wedding. I would have said whose wedding it was, but the convoluted relationships deserve sentences of their own: the man is the ex-boyfriend of the mother of my best friend from fifth grade. And the woman is the ex-girlfriend of a friend of my mom’s boyfriend. [...]

In which I break a vow

Remember in my first post, where I said I wasn’t going to be getting obsessive about anything in this herre blog?
Well, I’m getting obsessive about the blog itself. For example, yesterday I had 26 views, which seemed like a whole lot. Today? Only 10. What happened? Why did 26 whole people look on Monday? I [...]

Preslot? Really?

I think blogs are innately narcissistic: they’re a forum in which you write all about yourself, and a lot of the time, they’re described as like an online diary. Luckily, I am also somewhat narcissistic, so maybe blogging is my medium.
I had a ridiculous time picking out a name for this… I wanted something along [...]