Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Another week has come to a close here in Strangerville. Remind me next week to give you the update about the thing on my arm. Oh, and if you see
FYI An Announcement First, an announcement. I'M PREGNANT. How many more times can I keep making that joke? The problem with humor blogging is that I make all kinds of jokes and I never have any idea whether you think a particular joke is funny
Emails Wedding Planner Emails A Stranger (David) emailed me a while back suggesting that I mess with a wedding planner. In the middle of my attempts, another Stranger (Jess) requested the same, directing me
Ridiculous Is This What Kurt Does All Day? My office is less than a block away from where I live. So frequently I walk home to get lunch or feed my cats or scream into a pillow out
Ridiculous Skin Cancer On Saturday I called Bob and Cathie, who always seem to answer every phone call together and on speaker phone. Cathie: Hello, so-- Eli: I HAVE CANCER! Cathie: I'
Palau Pictures & Weekly Distractions Pictures and distractions have returned to Stranger. I know you were all very very angry. I think 90% of you dropped me on Facebook. But then you came back because
Ridiculous A Serious Conversation about Stalking Eli: Hey, I have a question for you. Kurt: I know this is either going to be really disconcerting or extremely infuriating, but ok. Eli: This is actually kind of a serious topic. Something happened today and I'm a little uneasy. Actually,
FYI State of the Union This is sort of a state of the union post. Because I’ve now been in the United States of God Bless America for over two weeks and some of
Ridiculous Housewife Kurt is an ER nurse. When I try to picture him on the job, I usually see some mixture of General Hospital, Scrubs, and The Brady Bunch (because he gives off a strong Peter Brady vibe). Because he's a nurse, he has
Ridiculous The Thing Behind Kurt's Ear Kurt: Will you look at this thing behind my ear? Eli: What do you think I am? Your doctor? Kurt: Just look. It's freaking me out and I don't know what it is. Eli: Ugh. Fine. But I don'
Ridiculous BYU Football This Saturday marks the catastrophically-important and time-stopping date of the annual BYU/Utah football game. I have something to admit that may anger the people of the world. I don&
Ridiculous Text Conversations to Remember I was recently looking through my phone and I remembered that I had saved some of my favorite text conversations over the last couple of years with the intention of eventually sharing them with you. Here are some of them: ***** [Coordinating for a blind
Ridiculous Living in the Elevator I've now been back from the Land of Coconuts for about a week and I'm very unfortunately still engaging in the never-ending process of collecting all
Ridiculous The Child Who Hates Me One of the greatest parts about being back in the United States of God Bless America (the full legal name) is that I have been able to see all of
Ridiculous A Conversation with You Guys Eli: I need to talk to you guys about something very important. You Guys: Ok . . . we're a little nervous. Are we in trouble? Eli: Oh, gosh no! I
Ridiculous Coming Up for Air I know what you're thinking. Eli, you have been the flakiest person of all time this week! Also, you are the most attractive person we've ever seen and we know for a fact that Paul Simon wants to be your
Ridiculous And That's How I Ended Up Completely Naked at the Airport This is going to be one of those posts that brings in tons of people who are searching for "naked men" or "nude" or, oddly, "rats eating wonder bras," because there are always a few weird ones like
Videos Shopping in Hong Kong Happy weekend, Strangers. I've been wandering across Asia for the past few days. I don't typically do my international traveling alone. This is because I don't see the point in traveling if I don't have someone
Nostalgia Happy Trails, Palau The time has finally come for me to say farewell to the land of coconuts. I've wondered for weeks how to write this. And I can definitely say that what I will write is going to be so much different than what
Church Conversations with the Church Kids Throughout my year in Palau I have had many enlightening conversations with the Palauan teenagers at church. I've written them down as they've happened with the intention of sharing some of them with you one day. Below is a sampling
Daniel Russian Survivor On Saturday the court had an outing to the Rock Islands as sort of a farewell party for the three of us court counsel who will be leaving Palau over
Palau Pictures & Weekly Distractions One week remains in the Land of Coconuts. I'm slowly cleaning out my office, throwing away one packing peanut at a time in my apartment, and finding new
Palau Acts of Kindness I live on the top of a very very steep hill. So steep that the Stormtrooper sounds like a nuclear bomb every time I have to drive up into the extremely slanted parking lot. So steep that if there are more than three people
Ridiculous Man's Best Friend Since I'm living alone now I'm having to adjust to the quiet of my apartment. It's strange, and I don't like it much. I want my home to be full of life. I like feeling like
Ridiculous Shipping I decided to take the day off of work so I could ship all of my garbage to the United States of America. I’m ready to say that moving to another country is the most terrible thing a person can choose to do
