I loaned Hattie some cash in Mount Pleasant because they wouldn’t take her Discover card, and she text messaged me yesterday to let me know she had my dough. We agreed to meet at Backroads. I got home from a late and lazy trip to the grocery store around 9:30. Brett and I put groceries […]

I love shit that explodes. I really do. I came into town tonight at around eight, stopped at Walmart to buy a print cartridge for my HP printer, grabbed some drive-thru, and went to Christina’s to do seva stuff. (Amma‘ll be in Mount Pleasant Wednesday! WEDNESDAY!) Turned out we needed her son before we could […]

Miss Tahmi just showed up at my house yesterday unannounced, kidnapped me, and forced me at gunpoint to accompany her to Iowa City, where she lavished me with food and drink and a couple of books. The wench. She needed to pick up a U-Haul truck for 1-Stop, because the ever-gorgeous Mr. J broke his […]

NLW came over yesterday and we doused ourselves liberally with coconut suntan oil, sunbathed, and talked about sex. (And knitting, and spirituality, and travel, and relationships, and a host of other things. But somehow it seems more appropriate to talk about sex while covered in oil.) We had BLTs and cheesy poofs for lunch, followed […]

We went to the shitty Mexican restaurant because it has booze and a smoking section. I ordered two bean tostadas, only they call them chalupas there. The food’s utterly mediocre. My mother-in-law was having lunch with her boss, my lawyer, at the table next to the one at which we were seated. My lawyer leaned […]

Yesterday I really wanted to eat at Petit Paris, that cute little French restaurant, and I even called Joe to ask him to be my date but the power went out because of that huge storm. And it stayed out until late afternoon, which meant all restaurants in Fairfield were closed and I had to […]

I had lunch at Christina’s again today. She made pesto pizza and spinach salad. She even made me decaf chai because she’s superior. Tahmi got real chai, of course, since she’s still a grownup. We chatted amiably while the kids chowed pizza and brownies. Tahmi was wearing her Chevron tank (link is a PDF), which […]

I went to Christina’s for lunch. She had set the table with a vase of flowers, which made me wish for the day that I, too, will live in a mostly remodeled house with amenities like dining rooms with tables to put vases of flowers upon! She made chai – I only had half a […]

My dad just called… FROM HY-VEE. He’s in Fairfield! Can’t remember how to get to my house! Needed directions, which I gave him. Joe’s out at our place – Brett picked him up from jail this morning – playing GTA. I called the house phone and let it ring about a zillion times to tell […]

Guess what! Ron & Amy are getting married. Congrats to them both! (Also, Ron’s dog Prana had nine healthy puppies this week. I know because Ron called Brett and said, “How long will this LAST?!” while Prana was in labor.)