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Haterz Gonna Hate

Matt: You should make t-shirts. Eli: Like, for my job? Matt: For Stranger. Eli: Oh. Well I did that once but then I stopped. Matt: Why did you stop? Eli: Because lazy. Matt: Because lazy is why you do a lot of things.

Matt

Episode 1: The World of Love

Jolyn and I are ecstatic to make the biggest announcement on Stranger since Tami. No, we aren't getting married. We don't think the world is ready

Ollie

Workaholics Anonymous

[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EIl-PE5xlP0/Vrq8jCBd3RI/AAAAAAAADc8/Y6z_1aw9yhE/s1600/052.PNG] Hashtag Selfie I am sick. So so sick. My voice is exactly 20 octaves below normal.

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Stealing

I don't know exactly where or when I picked up this habit but some time ago I started eating unpurchased food in grocery stores. Look. It's not stealing. It's not like I eat it, hide the wrappers, and

Ollie

Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions

Matt thinks he has Ebola and I've been very insensitive about it each and every time he calls or texts to provide me unsolicited updates. I've

EMBARRASSING

The New Locker Room Locks

I usually go to the gym sometime in the middle of the afternoon. The gym is a two-minute walk from my office so it's nice and convenient and I've found that mid afternoon is the best time to go

Ridiculous

Visiting Sam

I'm visiting Sam in Boulder this weekend. Well, that's a lie. He lives in a place called "Broomfield." I don't know why I put quotation marks around that word. It looks like I don't

Grandma

Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distraction

So you may have noticed that the banner on the top of Stranger has changed. And if you haven't noticed, you should probably get some sleep. Because it&

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Because Sleeping.

Last night I got an email just as I was about to get ready for bed from someone at the office asking me to do some relatively time-consuming work by 9:30 AM the next morning. This meant that I basically had 12

Ollie

Adam's Bare Hands

Recently my friend Adam, who is the most talented human being who has ever lived in the history of all living AND I'M INCLUDING EVEN THE BAND HANSON

Ollie

Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions

I mentioned on FB last week that, realizing I was going to be in Madison Wisconsin, I simply had to try to stalk Dean Strang. So obviously I emailed him

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Wisconsin

This weekend I went to Madison Wisconsin because cheese. You guys. Did you know that Wisconsin is known for cheese? This is the best possible thing to be known for.

Ollie

Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions

My office is a disaster right now. As a form of public shaming, Brianne will often take pictures of the mess when I've stepped out for a moment

Nostalgia

Sandals

I was glancing through some old Stranger posts when I came across the image above. I shared that one with you on January 11, 2013, just over three years ago

Bob and Cathie

Hostage

Bob and Cathie sounded relatively threatening when they demanded that I consume Netflix's Making a Murderer, like all the rest of America has obsessively done in the last

Ollie

Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions

Last night Matt went night skiing, WHICH SHOULD BE ILLEGAL. I had Mr. Pants (aka rat dog hashtag grooming disasters hashtag pray for Ollie). Apparently it was a blizzard in

Ollie

When Things Break

Ring ring. Bob & Cathie: Hello? Eli: How do you guys always answer the phone at exactly the same time? Cathie: Years of practice. Eli: I need help. Desperately. Cathie:

Ollie

Ineffective Superhero

It was rush hour at the time, which is what made the thing I saw so much more dramatic. I was driving home from work last week after a very long and stressful day. I had just spent the last hour or two in

Ironman

2015

As this wet and now snowy year winds down, I continue one of my favorite Stranger traditions. In the days after Christmas each year I start compiling my frustratingly-vague

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People of the Gym

We all fall within one of these designations. ALL OF US. January Man/Woman: This is someone who comes to the gym in January only. This person can be seen wandering the floor, politely using half a dozen machines incorrectly and dangerously. He/she

Ollie

The Top Ten Most Viewed Stranger Posts of 2015

As the year starts to come to a close, I decided to bring you another year in review. I went through Stranger's posts of 2015 and picked out

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Christmas Concerts

Every December my family goes to some kind of Christmas concert together. We all look forward to it greatly, even if the concerts sometimes turn out to be terrible. Actually, attending phenomenally-bad musical productions is my family's absolute favorite thing to

Ollie

Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions

Tonight I was at a concert with my family. Part-way through Cathie asked if I wanted any gum. Then she opened her purse and it was filled almost to

The Perfects

Snowmageddon

You guys. The worst thing that can ever happen happened today. Snowmageddon hit Salt Lake City. WHERE I LIVE. Bob woke me up this morning with his routine phone call

Emma

Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions

The other day I wrote about how I'm basically Oprah now [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2015/12/paparazzi.html] because I was on the news. I shared the