February 2012
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The Price of Happiness
All W2s are in.
A bit of a reality check.
It’s taken me 6 months at my current place of employment to make what I earned in 2 months of employment at my previous job (which I held for 3 years).
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
January 2012
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There is no question that some regulations are outdated, unnecessary, or too...
– Obama (via kateoplis)
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All Time Favorite Snack
Chips and salsa
Or
Cookies and ice cream
I canNOT choose! Please don’t make me.
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The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the C2H5OH on...
– Walker Percy in “Bourbon, Neat,” quoted by Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Since I first read this essay, when I was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old, I have remembered that invaluable phrase precisely and used it on occasion: “hot bosky bite.”
For some time, I supposed —stupidly— that...
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Date Night Gone Bad
The Plan: Ride bikes to Green for dinner then to Crescent Ballroom to see Cass McCombs.
We order the tofu jerk salad and Thai peanut bowl and proceed to scarf our dinner. Literally. We are in and out of a busy sit-down restaurant in 20 minutes. Why? Maybe we are pigs?
Before our food has even had time to digest, we hop on our bikes and scurry over to Crescent.
I’m pretty sure the whole...
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Apocalyps Twinkies
Hostess has filed for bankruptcy, primarily due to a significant decrease in twinkie sales.
Is this indicative of progress in the American diet? Or the epitome of a buy-low-sell-high long term investment?
Fifty years from now when you find yourself with a killer hankering for a twinkie, I’d be happy to sell you one at $20 a pop. Freshness guaranteed!
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Tales of a Day Time Bartender
A 50-year-old man walks into the bar and asks for a glass of Chardonnay TO GO. Dude, you’re old as ass and should know better, but way to keep it classy, sorta.
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That moment when you would kill for chocolate
And attempt to make chocolate chip cookies using random ingredients from your cupboard, including mesquite flour and peanut butter.
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How To Be Leisurely Productive
Ride bike to farmers market.
Ride bike to coffee.
Make farm fresh brunch.
Read on the couch with glass of wine.
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First Time
I’m running the dishwasher in the our apartment for the first time since we moved in a year ago. Dear god, please do not flood the downstairs neighbor.
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Farewell Aunt Bootsy
Two goldfish in one year.
Do I suck that hard or are goldfish just not meant to live forever?
:(
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Intelligentsia
First espresso of the new year.
Hot damn, it’s gonna be a good one.