my mother is actually a superhero

Cold showers, complaints, and a bucket

May 4, 2012

Do you know what is quite possibly the most miserable thing out of all of the things? Cold showers. They are a special kind of torture. My advice for cold-shower-taking is to begin frantic humming before you actually direct the water onto your body. That way, you are already warmed up for the squeal-like noise [...]

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Public Humiliation: Childhood Edition

July 20, 2011

I keep changing my tagline because I still don’t know what I’m doing with this blog and because I like to pretend that anyone other than me might actually care. Also on the list of bloggy-things-that-only-I-care-about, I redesigned the page now that I have this supremely amazing-but-not-really new tagline that I will change nineteen times [...]

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Official Declaration of Maternal Entity’s Excellence

January 13, 2011

It has recently come to my attention that I might pick on my mom a little here on this blog. I am of the opinion that I pick on everyone — most of all myself. I am also of the opinion that nobody who reads this blog should be in any doubt of the fact [...]

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Another spontaneous family trip. More generalizations about why I turned out this way.

November 20, 2010

I have no idea why I try to blog about anything other than how ridiculous my family is. This blog should really just be a chronicle of the random things we/they do. I love when my friends meet my family. At my Rocky Horror cast party last Halloween, my little brother showed up around 1 [...]

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Hey mom: Thanks for making me cry. No really, thank you.

October 24, 2010

In my last post I said that my sister chickening out bothered me because of the sense of personal responsibility I feel for her awesomeness. This is true. It’s my parents’ job to make sure she becomes a well-adjusted, well-educated, contributing member of society. It’s my job, as her sister, to make her awesome. It’s [...]

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Important Road Trip Lessons

October 9, 2010

If the world is trying to tell me to drive less, it should really consider reevaluating its tactics, since I am a little slow when it comes to these things. Yes, I understand that ridiculous catastrophes keep happening. No, I don’t see how driving less is the answer. My brain cannot compute that possibility. It’s [...]

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Concert seat upgrades: success and failure and how (little) I have progressed as a person

October 2, 2010

Over the summer I had big plans to get a job in LA and finally come “home” after eight years of obsessing over my big tragic middle-class displacement. The abysmal economy and my complete ineptitude when it comes to the process of job hunting colluded to create a rather different outcome. Instead of living on [...]

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