this morning, woke up cranky, crabby, bitchy, depressed. got irritated at the slightest anything ( Read more... )

*clapping Kermit-style*

IT IS WARM OUTSIDE. IT IS WARM OUTSIDE. IT IS WARM OUTSIDE.

How was our trip to Texas, you ask? Fabulous! Warm, sunny, rednecky -- everything I was expecting ( Read more... )

Allgravybaby, I read this column and thought of you. I would have emailed it but I can't remember your email ( Read more... )

Today has been really fun for me, because it's been a great "animal news" day. If only I could have that beat ( Read more... )

So I figured out what's wrong with me: I have prolonged post-vacation depression.

And I'm not alone. I googled it, and there must be thousands of us out there, wallowing. Like this gentleman's blog - aren't those monkeys beautiful?

I found some lame article about PVD, and one of the reporter's gems of advice was to look through vacation photos.

UM ( Read more... )

You'll be happy to know that as of today I am a registered member of travelwriters.com and have already made a pitch to one magazine ( Read more... )

So we've started to plan more of our Texas trip, and we're likely going to spend most of it in Mexico. Well, if we can do that without totally insulting my parents, who I know want us to spend all our time with them. We'd love to bring them along, but they don't like unfamiliar places and things, especially if they aren't in the same country as ( Read more... )

I pay off my car in June. I've decided that I'm going to use the extra monthly money to go back to Mexico for an extended delicious weekend. Then I'll start saving it.

After two days of sitting in a big jury room, and then two days of exhausting testimony and deliberation, I can proudly say: I did my civic duty and won't be called for another 6 years. Yipee! (In Manhattan, normal people like me get summoned disproportionately, when compared to say, normal people in Texas. If such a thing exists ( Read more... )