Nostalgia The Law Firm I will be telling a story on The Porch Thursday evening in Provo. If you're interested in joining us, you can find tickets and information here [http://utahporch.org/tickets/]. If you do come, be sure to say hi and compliment my
Rebecca House Rules First, an announcement. After a three or four month hiatus in which we didn't know whether we would ever be welcome again due to an inexcusable amount of talking about poop, The Porch has invited us back. I'll be telling
Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I ran for two hours on a treadmill tonight. It was the stuff of nightmares. And I know what you're thinking. "Eli. Why didn't you
Daniel Climb Every Mountain Over the weekend I had some pretty intense conversations with Daniel. This was between all of the bickering over his selfish requests to get his clothes back. We talked about our experience in Palau. And what made it great. And what made it hard.
Ridiculous Daniel Searches for His Clothes Eli: Excuse me. What are you doing? Daniel: I'm going through your closet. Eli: And why would you be doing something like that? Daniel: Because I want my clothes back. Eli: What on Earth makes you think that I would have your
Ridiculous I Have Terrible Ideas in the Middle of the Night Do you ever do things in the middle of the night that make absolutely no sense? Sometimes in the middle of the day an idea will come to me about
Ridiculous Moving Heavy Things As you know, Mr. Daniel came to town last week. Him and all 12,000 of his heavy bags that were opened and spilled out over my apartment for five days. It was wonderful to have him around and it felt a lot like
Ridiculous Pictures From My Phone & Weekly Distractions Daniel flew into Salt Land last night. This morning I ventured off to the office, of course making sure he had food and that all of the child locks and
The Siblings At Least Learn the Words if You're Going to Sing It. The other day I got a phone call from my three-year-old niece, AKA "The Child Who Hates Me." [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2013/09/the-child-who-hates-me.html] Our rocky relationship hasn't improved much during the course of her almost four-year life.
Ironman State of the Union, Spring About six months ago I moved back from Palau to the United States of God Bless America. And when I did, I had a hard time updating you all on
Church Palau Meets Salt Lake City Last week my worlds collided. And it was really strange. One of the boys from Palau, whom I got to know very well working with the church kids for one
Tinder Messing with People on Tinder Last week I was hanging out with my friend Brandt at his place. Then I took his phone and started Tindering for him. In case you're unaware, Tinder
Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy weekend, Strangers. I just ran on a treadmill for 90 minutes. It was the worst 90 minutes of my life. Besides every 90-minute period of every single scout camp
Ridiculous Owls Last Thursday I got a text from Jolyn. "Eli, could you please accompany me to something tonight?" I know better than to ever accept any invitation from Jolyn
The Siblings Krisanda's Birthday Today is my sister Krisanda's birthday. She's turning 21 again. All four of Bob and Cathie's children started turning 21 every year sometime around 2010. It's been great to be the same age finally. Krisanda is
Ridiculous Cuddle Texts One Stranger, Amy V., emailed me on Friday a link to a Craigslist ad by a man looking for a beautiful woman to "cuddle" and "snuggle"
Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions It's Friday again. And I'm feeling kind of sad. What better way to cure the blues than through some pictures and distractions? Happy weekend, Strangers. [https:
Ridiculous Don't Let Strangers Borrow Your Phone The other day I went to a coffee shop to do some writing and I sat down at a table right across from the biggest man I have ever seen in my entire life. He was from Ghana and he was wearing a lot
Daniel You People Rock My World Yesterday I wrote this post about what's happening in Ukraine [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2014/03/ukraine.html]. I wrote it because Daniel has been telling me for a solid month that I should. I hesitated writing it partly because I didn&
Daniel Ukraine The last few months have been really strange for me. I've been watching the events in Ukraine unfold. I've been watching with anxiety and fear and
Ridiculous I'm Going to Need to See Some I.D. On Friday night I stopped by Jolyn's place because it's been too quiet recently and that always makes me nervous. When I got there she coughed at my face and told me she was dying. As you know, I can&
Mexico Pictures From My Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy February's end, Strangers. We have had a very odd February in Salt Lake City. For several weeks it has been sunny and warm. I'm talking
Ridiculous Queen Latifah On Saturday night I hung out with my friend Jesse. I stopped by his place and he said he wanted to watch a movie and there was a Redbox just down the street so "let's go see what they have."
Videos Poor Hannah On Monday night my good friend Hannah came over to my place and graciously made me dinner. You guys. Anyone who wants to come over to my house and make me dinner is welcome to stay for as long as they want, no questions
Mexico DON'T SEND ME A PICTURE OF THAT EVER PLEASE!!!! I've been having . . . well . . . issues for the past many weeks. With my body. With the inside of my body. So, naturally, I decided to share this with anyone
