Aug 17th, 2010 | St Louis, family, life | 31 Comments
So my friend is getting married in the Catholic church, and, as part of the activities you have to complete in order to do so, she had to go to a natural family planning class. If you don’t live in the Catholic Capitol of the US, like I do, you might not know that NFP is like the Catholic version of birth control. You can google it if you want more details.
ANYWAY, apparently the class at this particular parish is led by a nice married couple who asked the class what were the three ways a couple could avoid conception. According to the people teaching the class on the sexin’, those methods are: → continue reading
Aug 4th, 2010 | Fun, family, life, photos | 1 Comment
We just spent a few days up at Clear Lake in northern Iowa with my family.We rented a house on the lake, just like we did in Blackduck, Minnesota two years ago, and cruised around on a pontoon while drinking beer and making pathetic attempts at catching fish (except for my dad; he caught fish). We didn’t get to town until almost midnight on Friday, as Chris had a workshop all day and we got caught in some crazy rainstorms that send many a less-fearless driver to the shoulder. Of course, we pull up, and Big Ed is waiting in the street to direct us in, despite the fact that I had received no less than three texts from my sister-in-law about Ed falling asleep in his camp chair. Midnight is really past Big Ed’s bedtime, for reals, but his love for directing parking is limitless. → continue reading
Jul 19th, 2010 | MamaPop, bloggety stuff, family | 8 Comments
I was totally humbled and thrilled to be named a finalist in the Life category for this year’s BlogHer Voices of the Year contest. I may have peed a little. For those non-BlogHers, members submit posts in one of five categories that they feel were the best posts they’ve read over the past year. Each category is narrowed down to 20 or so finalists, then three are chosen to read at the Community Keynote at the annual BlogHer conference. → continue reading
Jul 16th, 2010 | Fun, MamaPop, Uncategorized, bloggety stuff, education, family, life | No Comments
Sunday I turned 30. Truth be told, I have relatively little anxiety about it. I was too damn stressed last Thursday and Friday, what with the complete failure of my hard drive on Thursday and (delayed) travel to school on Friday. I have a lot of friends who are older than me, which must be because I’m so mature I pronounce it matoor, so it just wasn’t that big of a deal. I’m lucky to have the life that I have; it’s a damn good one. And, I lost 15 pounds in the last three months. → continue reading
Jul 6th, 2010 | family | 3 Comments
- Move all furniture out of rooms to be finished, preferably to your cramped basement. All couches must go on the front porch for purposes of authenticity.
- Remove all carpet and carpet pad, staples, and nails. Sweep up legions of dead human cells. Die a little.
- Attempt to set up bedroom and makeshift living room in basement. Briefly consider expanding wood panels to make basement sexier.
- Tape up plastic sheets that will inevitably be torn down by a puppy and peed on.
- Make even task swap with husband: he does all drum sanding and you do all shop vacuuming and reality television watching.
- Feel bad about trade so offer to plug all the holes and dents with wood putty. Lament all the dirty jokes you can’t think of because of the sweaty, stinky mask you’re wearing.
- Attempt to wrangle one not-completely-housetrained pup and one afraid-of-fireworks-so-refuses-to-go-outside old man pup in a rapidly-shrinking basement. Step in pee.
- Break some shit.
- Watch Real Housewives and read journal articles while husband returns, yet again, to Lowe’s. Briefly consider showering. Explain fake boobie ubiquity on Real Housewives to husband.
Upcoming: Part Two
Jun 28th, 2010 | Fun, family, life | 3 Comments
This dang pup is killing me.
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Jun 21st, 2010 | Fun, family, life | 6 Comments
So we agreed to dog sit for our friends Christine and Joe. They have two chill, agreeable dogs named Sunny and Sid, and even though we have a tiny house, we thought three dogs and a cat for one week is not a big deal in the scheme of favors to do for your friends. Asher would enjoy the company of his pals.
On Friday night, after having Sid and Sunny for about not even one day, Chris said, “You know, it’s not so bad with three dogs in here. We should get another dog” to which I said, “True. No.” → continue reading
Jun 7th, 2010 | Fun, Uncategorized, family, life | 2 Comments
I’ve been off the grid, taking a much-needed road trip down South. Chris’s sister moved to Florida, so we drove the U-Haul down to Orlando, then rented a car and spent some time on the coast. It was wonderful and I’m still mentally recovering and trying to catch up in St Louis. Check out a few cool things we saw during our trip.
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Apr 6th, 2010 | Fun, St Louis, family, life, pop culture | No Comments
The 5th Annual Backyard Trivia Night
Saturday, May 22nd
Kegs tapped at 6, trivia starts at 7
Teams between 2-8 people
$10/person; includes all the crappy keg beer you can drink
(although we may get one craft keg if we have enough interested)
Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place teams based on pot
Mulligans: $5 each or 3/$10
Bring your own tables and chairs (what do you think this is, the VFW?)
Dice game AKA CLR. Bring $1 bills
Anticipating record crowds. No, seriously. SERIOUSLY. RSVP below to ensure room for your team.
RSVP or questions? E-mail kbestoliver (at) yahoo (dot) com
Feb 22nd, 2010 | family, life | 11 Comments
Gah, it’s depressing around here with all the dying going on. Let’s open the windows and let some air in, shall we? It smells like feet and wet dog. → continue reading
