My Spoon is Too Big

For Halloween, Bryan and I dressed as Rejected cartoon characters.


I can't link the actual cartoon because it's copywrited, but I can send you to the Rejected website and show you the photo here.

Happy Bug

Look who's staying at my house with her mommy and daddy this week! It's the Nut-head!

My Madison Home

Last weekend, I took a trip with The B-Man to Madison, Wisconsin, for the wedding of his close friend.

Seeing the town through new wiser (wider) eyes was quite an experience. It had been a decade since I'd last visited. A decade since I graduated from college!

It had, of course, gotten slightly larger, but overall, the place hadn't changed much.

As I passed people on State Street, I thought about how sweet "the kids" looked as they rushed around to classes and social activities.

Science Hall

In a few short years, I will have started college half of my life ago. It's a weird juxtaposition because I don't feel old, at all. I feel vibrant. In my prime. I feel smarter and healthier and more well-traveled... but I do not feel old.

During the visit, I hung out with my long-time friend, Aaron. We chatted about old times, back when we met and cleaned the dorms together 13 years ago. I always made him clean up the vomit. He was an incredible gentleman because between the three dorms we cleaned each weekend, there was usually a daily dose of tossed cookies (and beer).


When we had free time, I showed Bryan around my old haunts.

Memorial Union


Memorial Union Terrace


And my old house.



And some other cool stuff.





Which he tried to climb, as usual.


We discovered that Madison has installed a set of decorative cows. Art Cows, if you will.





All the other cows totally make fun of that last one.

Many don't know that Madison was the birthplace of the satirical newspaper, The Onion. If you ask me sometime, I'll tell you the story of how I almost worked there when it was a fledgling business run out of the basement of a sub sandwich shop.


Since Bryan was in the wedding, we enjoyed the good food and company at the rehearsal dinner. The moon was out and I tried to take a photo of it without a tripod. My hand shook, and this is what I got. How fitting.


And then, we went to the wedding. My man looks hot in a tux.




As always, his friends were a blast. I'd like to think that they're becoming my friends as well. We certainly got close enough for this photo. (I am a wizard at the hold-out. Six people in one.)


To see more photos of this trip visit my photopages.

Sam Harris Quote

"The President of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the additon of a hairdryer makes the claim any more ludicrous or offensive."

A Few Universal Truths (Crude Generalizations) About People

1) People with stuffed animals in the back windows of their cars are always bad drivers.

2) People with decorative doilies on their tables will also have small, unusable soaps in their bathrooms, molded into tiny seashells and small animals.

3) People with more than one facial piercing were neglected as children and will seek your attention in random, and sometimes self-destructive, ways.

4) People who eat at Chevy's and consider it to be fine dining will tell you boring stories about how they went to see a time share in Tampa last summer. If you are lucky, you will escape before they pull out the photos.

5) People who wear knitted sweaters embroidered with holiday characters, cuddly kittens, or fuzzy woodland creatures are bound to try to set you up with their nephew who lives in your city. (They will also be bad drivers, and will possibly have stuffed animals in the back windows of their cars.)