Ironman St. George Half Ironman, 2018 I hadn't done a triathlon since 2016 when I did the half Ironman in St. George and it was negative eleventy degrees and I was being punished by
Russia Forest Accordion The doors to the Sokol metro station were about 50 feet behind me. The trains had stopped running some time ago. It was dark--somewhere around 2:00 in the
Ridiculous Jr. Jazz I was enrolled in T-ball at age five. My parents were going to make a sportsman out of me. I didn’t understand the sport, and to be honest,
Ridiculous Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie Report As you know, because you've been unable to think of anything else since, several months ago I started Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2017/
Rebecca Very Mississippi Matt is leaving this week for very Mississippi to spend a month in his hometown. You might think I made a mistake by including the word "very" in
Ridiculous Small Talk In this week's Strangerville episode I may have overreacted about a thing that has been driving me crazy for a while. That thing is poorly-executed elevator small
Grandma Faceoff Tech Support Two Sundays ago Gmac called to tell me that her "Faceoff is broken," which translates to "I can't log in to Facebook." I was
Brianne Peggy the Therapist For a while I've been wanting to write a post about my former therapist, Peggy, but I haven't gotten around to it because TV and Eating and Lazy. It all started when a few years ago Brianne barged into my
Ridiculous Salt Lake Ghost Tour Please enjoy The Suzzzz's Strangerville Live story above, and today's ghost story below. Skylar's mom visited Salt Lake City this weekend. Skylar was trying
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Last week Brianne was lecturing me about love languages because she said that I need to be better at understanding how to work with people and she suggested that if
Ukraine This is Strange I wandered the city of 3 or 4 million people for a couple of hours, stopping in at an internet cafe for a moment to let my friends and family at home know that I had made it. It was Kyiv Ukraine in 2010,
Ridiculous Mr. Pham Please enjoy this week's Strangerville Live, and today's story: My neighbor Lynne's landscaping could be in a magazine. Every flower and bush is perfectly
The Perfects Grass Seed and Drug Cartels My street is on a hill, which is a problem for three reasons: 1. Sliding past my driveway on icy days and having to circle the block multiple times to
Ridiculous Stranger Things We got to the venue for Strangerville Live on Friday a couple of hours before the show started. Jolyn and a woman who works for Church & State started lifting
Rebecca The people of My Life You guys. We are in the last days. I don't mean that religiously. Unless you consider Strangerville Live a religious experience, which some do. (I'm referring, probably, to the ones who have shown up at our shows wearing June Snapple
Grandma Neck Flits You should know that THIS FREAKING WEEK we have our next Strangerville Live show. This is the most excited I've been for one of our events, mostly because
Palau Seaweed The water moved in and out. Slowly. Methodically. Miles of coral reef prevented it from forming enough critical mass to make waves. The sun was dropping down, settling into an
Ridiculous Chocolate Cake: Another Attempt Please check out today's episode of Strangerville, above (and at the bottom of this post, because we're persistent like that), featuring a story about what happens
Grandma Skylar Has The Best Words Skylar is struggling with words lately, as was evidenced in a conversation I had with him a few days ago in which he actually said this: "Do you have any . . . oh . . . what's that word? What's the word I'
Ironman Bike Computer Please enjoy this week's Strangerville episode above, and today's written story below. ***** Training for the upcoming Half Ironman has been difficult the last few months, as
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions In case you missed it, we announced our next Strangerville Live show, which will happen March 30 in Salt Lake City. You should get your tickets before they sell out
Strangerville Live We're Baaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaack After being poisoned by essential oils in our last Strangerville Live show, we decided that it was probably time to find a new venue. I'm learning that Meg
Emma Delicate Arch Check out our latest Strangerville episode above (or at the bottom of this post)! I've been working a million hours the last couple of months and it has
Herminda Hunger Strike Herminda has started this new thing where she bribes Duncan with treats she carries around in her pockets all day so now Duncan thinks all humans have treats in their
The Perfects Many Hands Make Light Work Last week I wrote a post [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2018/02/every-single-recipe-blog-post-ever.html] complaining about how cooking blogs make you scroll through 5,000