Author: Virginia

So is the 8th the new 13th? Or did I do something karmically terrible of which I’m currently oblivious? Or is it that I was being punished for waking up with a head full of negative and preoccupied musings? Either way, something kind of weird happened on my way to work today. A bolt fell… Continue reading Friday the… 8th

I just got a strange phone call at work. Apparently I won a hotel and airfare inclusive, 3-day trip for two, to my choice of three destinations: Jamaica, Cancun, or… Vegas. Seriously. THOSE are the three options? I mean, that’s like offering a trip to Auckland, NZ; Paris, France; or MILWAUKEE. Okay, maybe I’m just… Continue reading Apples and Oranges… and Roadkill

So I am convinced that the overall quality of my spam is improving slowly. You probably think this is a jokey post, but I’m serious. About a week ago they stopped trying to get me to buy penis enlargement herbal remedies or patches or whatever, and for the past week they were trying to improve… Continue reading Highbrow Spam

So I decided to buy G’s cat, Trumpet, some wheatgrass for him to gnaw on, because I’ve heard my whole life that cats need to chew on grass for their digestive systems or something, as well as just for their good health in general since grass has nutrients that can’t be found in meat, and… Continue reading Orwell was right

See any resemblance here? Me too. But here’s the kicker… this is not father and son. This is book club member, and other book club member’s baby. What does this MEAN? (No crass jokes, please). Amazing. I wonder if Lucas can imitate all of our facial expressions? Go here for a closer-up look, or post… Continue reading side by side

Between the dancing (including line dancing) until my feet literally ached all the way through, and the simultaneously playing Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble at one-thirty in the morning, and the shopping, and the hundred-five-degree weather, and all the lizards and mosquitoes and ten-gallon hats, and the partying like it’s 1999, it’s been an interesting and… Continue reading Adventures in Texas

They have something called a “Boot Barn” here. I’m totally buying as many Longhorn souvenirs as I can fit in my luggage. Watch out… a certain unnamed someone is definitely getting a belt buckle the size of this STATE if the local tourist trap has anything to say about it. Mom, Dad, tacky mugs, perhaps.… Continue reading Greetings from Tejas

So not only am I going to Texas tomorrow for a college friend’s wedding, where I will be reunited with my college posse for the first time since we graduated in 2003, but I also get visited by a friend I met in Barcelona immediately following my Texas trip, and this latter friend I haven’t… Continue reading Reunion Month

and this is my new love: the Scion XA. It’s cute, very fuel-efficient, tiny, has tons of storage space, and even has this built-in feature that helps you control the shifting in the automatic versions better, which is the one thing I’ve always been annoyed about with automatics. And my left ankle is tired of… Continue reading My affections change with the wind