Why I Think I’ve Grown As A Person

I love and am married to a man despite the fact that he does not share — even in a single, tiny way — the deep and abiding devotion that I have for The Royal Tenenbaums and Lou Reed.
I should get a Nobel prize for this.

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Honeymoon In Manchester

Richard and I have finally finished planning our much-delayed honeymoon and are now scheduled to depart in mid-March for England and then Spain.
The honeymoon itself was delayed due to the fact that we had out-of-state and out-of-country visitors in town for the wedding and wanted to spend time with them, since they’d traveled all that [...]

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Agnetha’s Heaving, Pearlescent Bosom…

If you’d been at Barnes and Noble last Saturday around 6pm, you could have witnessed me skulking shamefully around a section of the store that I normally avoid like the plague: the dreaded Romance section.
I’d taken my sweet little grandmother to the bookstore that evening just to get her out of the house for a [...]

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Guilty Pleasures

After spending a large chunk of the [rainy, cold and drizzly] afternoon watching “America’s Most Smartest Model” and then reading the recaps on TWoP (good gravy-fed God, I’m a dork!) I felt the need to purge some of my other guilty pleasures into the keyboard and onto the screen, in hopes that I’m not the only one [...]

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You Can Never Go Home Again

Last post of the day, I swear.
When Richard’s family were over here last week, we had several very interesting discussions with them regarding whether or not they’d ever move back to England permanently.  For both his mother and stepfather (who live in a villa in Spain, but keep a house back in Cheshire) as well [...]

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Damn You, Mavis Beacon

I type exceedingly fast.  I also have a high degree of accuracy when typing.  With these two skills working in harmony, I am like a typing virtuoso.  I’m not trying to brag, I’m just stating a few facts.  I enjoy typing; combined with my love of language and writing, typing gives me a sense of having completed something [...]

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Mas Fotos

I’m back for a quick post of…you guessed it!…more unofficial photos from the wedding. My cousin Sharon is to thank for the majority of these.  Enjoy!

The very first self-portrait of the bride and groom after the wedding ceremony.

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It’s Official

We’re married. 
Here is the first, very unofficial yet very awesome picture from the wedding:

Far and away, the best day of my life. I’m so happy.

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Small Hands…Smell Like Cabbage

I have, rather unexpectedly, finally got an evening to myself!  We were on our way to pick up Richard’s brother from the airport, but received a phone call* that turned us right back around, so now I’m back home with a bit of spare time for a change.  Richard’s brother was flying in from Australia [...]

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To-may-to, To-mah-to

We have another classic quote to add to Richard’s Hall of Fame, courtesy of grocery shopping last night:
At the grocery store, as I’m putting a jar of honey into the basket:
Richard:  We don’t need any honey; we already have some at home.
Me:  No, we don’t.  I used it all.
Richard:  Whatever you say…
Later on at home, [...]

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The Sargasso Sea

Isn’t it funny how the most unexpected things will get to you sometimes?
I haven’t really cried since my grandfather passed away.  I cried a little and then quickly looked away after I saw him in his casket, looking so small and withered by time.  I cried briefly on the drive home, distraught about leaving my poor [...]

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For Now

Until I feel up to writing more, here are a few things I’ll miss about my granddaddy:

Some of his sayings:

“Cowboys are tough!”
“Close the barn door!” when actually referring to the garage door
“Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets” when referring to my grandmother
“It’s R-U-N-T, ruint!” instead of ruined
“I tic-a-locked it!” which was his way of saying that [...]

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Star Dust

My very beloved Granddaddy passed away this evening.  I am writing his obituary tonight, in between some deeply reflective periods and some drinking.  It is no easy task.
Here’s to Joe, a great man.  I am a good person…but he was a great person.

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Shiny New Toy

Richard bought me a new digital camera on Sunday.
Okay, he didn’t buy it expressly for me.  He bought it for both of us, with the Goldberg-esque idea that buying a nicer digital camera would enable us to take good pictures of the couches we wish to sell on Craigslist and that the proceeds from the [...]

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Gifted

This is my family:

My grandmother and grandfather both have Master’s degrees in English.
My cousin is a performer with the Cirque de Soleil.
My aunt is an opera singer.
My uncle is a Pulitzer-prize winning poet and author.
My other uncle is a marathoner and triathelete.
My mother is a chef.
My other aunt has her Doctorate in history, is a [...]

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Not If You Were The Last Ride On Earth

Richard was involved in a motor vehicle accident today (hee! sounding all official and whatnot). He’s okay, so let’s cut to the meat of the story here.
He’s tooling down Gessner, minding his own business, when this old woman blasts through an intersection (Gessner and Rip Van Winkle, the coolest street name ever) and T-bones his [...]

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We Have Another WINNAR!

My parents are in New York right now on a shopping excursion. This spells trouble in ways too legion to enumerate here. Let’s just get to the quote of the week:
Me: What did you do this morning?Ralph (my dad): Oh, your mother dragged me to some store…Me: What was it called?Ralph: Herpes.Me: …what?Ralph: Herpes.Me: There’s [...]

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Home

I’m home again, and it’s awfully quiet around here today with Richard gone. I dropped him off at the airport this morning, less than 12 hours after we touched down in Houston. So, in approximately 24 hours, he’ll have been in Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Houston, Detroit and finally Rochester. My poor boy is such [...]

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Puppeh

We were going to send out engraved announcements on heavy, creamy paper stock with toile accents and a ribbon trim, hire a skywriter, and take out an ad in the Houston Chronicle…but ultimately decided that Myspace would do…for now.
I’m happy to announce that Richard and I are the proud new owners of a baby puppeh named Daisy!  [...]

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Chapter Four, In Which Jeff Foxworthy Mocks Me

I just got back from my FIFTH Christmas dinner / present unwrapping orgy (and it’s not even Christmas anymore), this time with my brothers and sisters-in-law and nephews.  Everyone finally had a chance to sit down and see each other after all the “real” Christmas madness had passed and it was a very fun time had [...]

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