I know this is going to sound like a total cliché, but I hate spiders. Like, seriously HATE them. I’m not a killing person, but if I see a spider, I WILL MURDER IT. I don’t care how freaking cute it may look. Spiders, or arachnids (meaning eight-legged monster) are the one thing that will [...]
It was a slow Friday afternoon at work when my co-worker introduced me to the joy of Jungian Personality Tests. You know, the silly tests you take to tell you crap that you already know about yourself but like to see if the computer thinks differently (it never does). So she sent me the link, [...]
There are so many blogs out there about arts and crafts and creating beautiful things out of toothpicks and paste, and instead of inspiring me to become One of the Craft, they all just make me feel inadequate. Thirty seconds on Pinterest, and I feel like a loser. I know it’s not these people’s intention, [...]
It’s been almost three weeks since I made the move from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, and let me tell you…it hasn’t been easy. I made a similar move ten years ago when I moved from Minneapolis to Los Angeles right after graduating from college, and that was cake. Seriously, all I took with me was [...]
Once again that time has come, the time where we say goodbye to another year and hello to one full of hope and promise. Back in the day, the turning of a new year used to be a huge deal to me. My friends and I would always reflect on all the fun stuff that [...]
Back in sixth grade, we were all required to do a report on a country. We were in groups of three or four, and we had to draw from a hat which country we were going to have to write about. I was hoping for Sweden. Instead I got Portugal. Yawn. I’ve always wished I [...]
Sometimes at work when conversations about what we watched on TV the night before start to dwindle, we start asking each other random questions like, “If you could buy just one song from iTunes, what would it be?” or “What’s one movie you never ever want to see again?” Or more recently, “What’s your favorite [...]
You know the rest. But how much do you really know about Christopher Columbus? Yeah, we learn the basics as kids. We learn that he “discovered” America while he was trying to find the East Indies. We learn that he made contact with the natives and actually set up shop here in America for a [...]
