To cap off a pretty eventful Saturday evening we arrive home safely – Taco Bell in-hand and are enjoying it while watching The Last Kiss (great soundtrack). Fifteen minutes after taking my first bite into a piping-hot chili cheese burrito, Derek walks outside to take Henry for a walk. Approximately thirteen seconds after Derek’s exit, [...]
Continue Reading →A little over a year ago I participated in my first MS-150 in Colorado. For those that are not familiar with the MS-150, it is a 150-mile (or near that distance) bike ride/fundraiser benefiting the Multiple Sclerosis Society. It lasted two days and it was among some of the more challenging things I have done [...]
Continue Reading →You may be confusing my title with what it says, rather than how it sounds. If you read my blog often, you’ll notice a theme among my titles – they usually rely more on how the words sound, instead of what they mean, or how they are spelled. Just as fair warning, this blog is [...]
Continue Reading →Nice little segue into my story… One of my step-mom’s favorite sounds/intellectual jabs is “der.” Which, in the English language is a derivative of the word duh, which means to suggest that someone did/said something obviously stupid. Ask your roommate what his or her address is and wait. End segue. Begin story. Ever have that [...]
Continue Reading →Frantically looking for something never works – especially if you’re drugged up on Morphine or Valium. My co-worker isn’t the sharpest crayon in the shed, nor the brightest pencil in the crayon box…you’ll hopefully notice the humor in that. If not, please press Alt + F4 (Cmd + Q on a Mac). Bear with me [...]
Continue Reading →Eating lunch the other day, I noticed that the sticker alerting potential robbers to the the fact that there is an alarm system inside monitoring the building was surprisingly low to the ground (see photo). This low-placed sticker got me thinking… Initially, I thought garden gnomes were robbing this particular location. But, my roommate suggested [...]
Continue Reading →Returning from lunch with the faint taste of jalapeño breath (from the chips), I felt it was probably in my best interest to self-administer a breath test. I didn’t anticipate passing. My failing the test, however, had nothing to do with my negative attitude. Motivational speakers would have you believe the adage that you can [...]
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