Archive | Happenings

10 March 2010 ~ 3 Comments

For The Longest Time

Nine years ago on this day, twelve college students in central Illinois crammed a week’s worth of luggage and themselves into two too-small minivans. Bound for the East Coast and armed with little more than a pitch pipe and our voices, we were a college a cappella group on spring break tour, at the ready [...]

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23 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

My jar is half-full

I may have found my calling as a dieting guru. A book called The Frosting Diet would fly off the shelves, don’t you think?

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12 February 2010 ~ 6 Comments

If it ain’t broke, break it

Oh yeah, that bathroom remodel.
It hasn’t been going well. Or going at all, that is.
Back in September, when work was slow and I was feeling all project-y, I decided more or less on a whim to paint the bathroom cabinets. The cabinets were fine, really — I just didn’t like the color of the stain [...]

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20 January 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Waffle FAIL

My sister gave Rob a waffle maker for Christmas, after hearing him gush about how he was once at a Courtyard Marriott and they made him a waffle at the complimentary breakfast buffet right before his very eyes and it was just the most amazing thing that had ever happened to him in his whole [...]

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29 December 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Rules of safety

Never light a cigarette at a gas station, lest you should ignite the few drops of gasoline that have spilled en route from tank to pump, or the gallons that have choked unstoppably forth from the nozzle when some yuppie idiot girl on her iPhone pulls it from her car before it’s done pumping and [...]

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