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Things Are Looking Up

Skylar no longer has time for basic news. If I'm being honest, I'm jealous of the result, but not of the means and methods to get

Meg

Help me I'm poor.

A couple of quick things: First, your comments on the Shannon recap [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2021/01/shannon-recap-of-1961-byu-film-about.html] are giving me life. Also, SOMEONE IN THE COMMENTS LITERALLY

Podcast Episodes

Episode 150: Cartel

This time in Strangerville, someone shared a recipe for “Just In Case” cookies online and Meg and Eli are very upset. A man has a run in with a dangerous cartel in Mexico. And Meg and Eli are lucky to have survived several close

Skylar

If We Ever Do Meet Again It Will Be Zion To Me

We decided to take the weekend off and drive down to Zion National Park. This was a risky thing to do, we admit, considering our last few attempts to visit

Podcast Episodes

Episode 149: Selling Sex As A Virgin

This time in Strangerville, there was an inauguration and it was peaceful, Meg and Eli discuss career crises, and Rebbie Brassfield shares her experience of feeling very unqualified to create an ad campaign for Pepsi. Story Selling Sex As A Virgin, by Rebbie Brassfield

Medical School

An Impossible Way To Live

My husband, who art in heaven, hallowed be his name, decided to become an absolute terrorist two nights ago. Look. He's stressed and exhausted and exhausted and stressed

Ridiculous

Dishes

"Did you have company in here today?" Skylar was asking it sarcastically, and I knew that was the case, so I guess that's why I responded

Podcast Episodes

Episode 148: Four Dating Rules

This time in Strangerville, it’s our fifth birthday! Eli tries to convince a skeptical Meg that we are in for more peaceful times. And a woman deserves the Purple Heart for surviving what must be the worst dates that have ever happened. Story

Ridiculous

Companionship Inventory

When Skylar and I got married my mother—the woman who birthed me into this world—the being from whom my body emerged through a process she has since called

Skylar

Happy Birthday, SkyMan

Today is Skylar's birthday. I spend a lot of time on the internet gushing about him or sharing with you the absurd things he does, like drink Pepto

Podcast Episodes

Episode 147: A New Kind of Peace

This time in Strangerville, how was your Insurrection Day? Meg and Eli discuss it. And Eli shares a story about what it felt like to close out 2020. Story A New Kind of Peace, by Eli McCann (music by Our Friendly Beasts [https://freemusicarchive.

Skylar

Treehouse in the Mountain

Skylar is turning 31 thousand, or so you'd think the way he complained about his aching "dainty ankles" today when we went snowshoeing for a few

Life

The Year Of

I explain this every year but some of you are forgetful and some of you are new and I love the sound of my own voice, so I'm

Podcast Episodes

Episode 146: The Mink Creek Ghost

This time in Strangerville, please please please do not take any medical advice from Strangerville. Please. We don’t know what we’re talking about and we don’t want anyone to die because of things we’ve said. Also, enjoy Eli’s story

Social Distancing

2020

It was June. I went for a run around my city. This was a Saturday and it had been a very hard week in the exact middle of a very

Review

The Most Viewed Posts of 2020

It's time for one of my favorite annual walks down memory lane. Below I've corralled a ranked 10 posts from this very ridiculous website. These are

Ollie

We Are Very Angry With Matt

Matt has decided to move away from us, which is absolutely a hate crime and an act of terror. He sprung the news on us a few months ago. "

Ridiculous

Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie, Part 3

First off, I wrote a piece about what it feels like to close the chapter on 2020. [https://www.thebeehive.com/a-new-kind-of-peace/] It was incredibly cathartic to write this, in

Podcast Episodes

Episode 145: Sleepover

This time in Strangerville, Meg and Eli are pro Big Brother and hereby welcome government surveillance into their lives. Also, a woman finds herself in a bind when her mother sets her up for a sleepover with a girl from school she barely knows.

Ridiculous

Hedgy

A couple years ago my friend Anna got Duncan a little stuffed animal hedgehog. She called it "Hedgy" and this quickly became Duncan's very favorite toy.

Podcast Episodes

Episode 144: Rocky Mountain High

This time in Strangerville, a crime has been committed and it involves ice cream and marital tension. And a man shares his recipe for smoked oregano and college hijinks. Story: Rocky Mountain High, by Scott (music by ProleteR [https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ProleteR/Curses_

Ridiculous

I am married to a deeply weird person.

Just a few days ago Skylar and I decorated gingerbread cookies. With sweat at my brow, I mixed and rolled the dough and then I carefully baked them with love.

Ridiculous

Good Ice Cream

Look. You know me. You've been reading this site since you were mumble mumble years old. Since back before the war. Since the days of Blockbuster and Myspace.

Podcast Episodes

Episode 143: Dead Cow

This time in Strangerville, 2020 has ruined our ability to actually gauge our own productivity, Meg is terrified for her child to become a teenage boy one day, and a woman ends up at the center of a police investigation after stumbling upon a

Ridiculous

A Good Finder

My husband, the man who vowed before God to love and worship and support and never criticize and always agree and suffer in silence for me, attacked me out of

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