How to make a aranciata
Ingredients:

3 parts friendliness

5 parts arrogance

5 parts joy
Method:
Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add a little wisdom if desired!

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.comSo today was my first day of training at Comerica. It was a good day, and I have a bright outlook on the rest of the summer. One ( Read more... )

I guess it's my last day of being useless, I should enjoy it.

What's that Tolstoy quote? "Every family is unhappy in its own way." Yeah, it's so true ( Read more... )

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I'm so thirsty and I can't get a drink of water because there are three scary men in my kitchen for the FOURTH day in a row. How effing hard is it to cut a piece of stone to fit between the countertop and the window? They came on Friday and didn't do it right. They came on Monday and didn't do it right. They came yesterday and didn't do it right. ( Read more... )

Thank you for bringing "jigga" back to life, for discussing parenting techniques for unruly younger siblings, for commenting on how American society is an anthropological nightmare, for driving with hands at ten and two, for always having good music in the car, and, most importantly, being more conservative than our own parents.

Let's see ( Read more... )

As the summer passes, I keep expecting to settle in to the whole living at home routine. It's been a good month, but I still feel like I'm getting used to things. Maybe it's because I haven't started work yet and I'm so unbearably bored. Maybe it's because I'm facing the fact that home isn't necessarily the only place I want to be anymore. It hasn' ( Read more... )

I realize that I use ellipses (I think that's what they're called, ya know the ... things, ok maybe not) too much. I'm going to try to stop ( Read more... )

On Friday morning our across-the-street neighbor had a heart attack and died. He just woke up, went into his kitchen, and... He was 49 years old, with a wife and two teenage sons. My mom is 49 and my dad will be soon. Kinda makes you think, doesn't it?