Matt Pressure on the Barrel and Fullest House Several of us from various parts of the country descended upon San Francisco at various times on Thursday. We had planned to spend a weekend hanging out in the city
The Perfects Four-Layered Caramel Cream Orange Zest Chocolate Mirror Glaze Cake The Great British Baking Show is on Netflix and months ago Meg was like "you HAVE to watch it because it will change your life" and I ignored
Ridiculous Sliced Bras If the title to this post is clickbate for you, then PERVERT. But for real, today we are releasing our first Strangerville episode of 2018 and we are doing things
Ridiculous World War III On New Year's day I went to Matt's house. Every year Matt invites some people over for a traditional southern New Year's Day "
Nostalgia The Year Of When I was sitting in my office in the hot tropics with ants literally crawling on my feet in February of 2013, I started having a panic attack. It wasn&
Nostalgia 2017 Last year when I wrote my post for 2016, things were pretty bad. I had sort of lost my mind for a minute there. All of the stresses of work
Nostalgia The Top Ten Most Viewed Stranger Posts of 2017 [https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fqxB3Sps5GY/WkKEeee3jFI/AAAAAAAAdoE/NbUVR7z4Zvwcjwfaa9mj00CS5hWxlkPGACLcBGAs/s1600/003.JPG] Wat? One of my favorite Stranger traditions is looking back over the year to put together the Top
EMBARRASSING The Most Embarrassing Thing That Has Ever Happened To Anyone Ever. YOU GUYS. OMG. I still can't believe that what I'm about to tell you actually happened. This is beyond an embarrassing moment. This is something where I legit think I might have to move. TO CANADA. Just the other day
Ridiculous Silly Face Picture Eli: Uh . . . Skylar? Skylar: What? Eli: Can you please explain to me what is happening here? Skylar: What are you looking at? Eli: A picture of the two of us
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions You'll be happy to know the Snuggie, of such fame as the Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie, has made it to half a dozen lucky wearers in multiple
Ridiculous Diphtheria OMG I actually spelled that correctly on the first try Last month the Stranger troll said I was desperate because I shared the most recent Strangerville episode twice in one week and I'm nothing if not consistently pathetic so you should all definitely click on the below. Every time you do a
Meg Bad Dates Last night Lynne had her big holiday party at her house so I made enough meatballs to feed the entire population of a medium-sized country. By the time the party
Rebecca Frozen I want to write but my mind is frozen. This is partly because it is negative eleventy degrees today in Salt Lake City. And, I know. Some of you live in Michigan or Wisconsin or Siberia or wherever and I shouldn't complain
The Perfects Scary Gandalf It was Thursday morning and I was very late for work. Or as Brianne would call it, "having a typical morning." Brianne decided some time ago that I
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Every single December I have the exact same interaction with Brianne. I hand her an envelope with her name on it and tell her that I picked out something really
Ridiculous By The Way, I Can See Your Underwear A few years ago Matt was at family dinner with me at Bob and Cathie's house. All of my nieces and nephews were there so the place was
Ridiculous The Perils of Sitting in the Exit Row Last month I was in Chicago. I told you about that already because I don't believe in keeping secrets from you. The weekend ended after several days of shenanigans with my childhood best friend Sam (shenanigans=gossiping about everything every person we
Ridiculous Great. Now we all have lice. So the other day I posted that thing about Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie and I thought that maybe you guys would all just think it was such a stupid
Ridiculous Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie So the other day I was in the shower NOT THAT WE KNOW WHAT NAKED IS and the phrase "Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie" came to my mind
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Eli: What are you doing tomorrow morning? Skylar: I have a meeting that I'm leading. Eli: That sounds like a rap lyric. Skylar: Huh? Eli: You have a
The Siblings How To Get Through Winter As you know, this is The Year of Creativity for me. You can tell because of all of my artistic face tattoos. It's been a really good focus for me for 2017. I've immersed myself in more writing and Strangervilling
The Siblings The World of Babysitting I have a special treat for you today for a lot of reasons. So a few months ago I wrote that thing about how I was watching Ollie and Duncan
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I have a work thing out of town tomorrow so I dropped Duncan off at Matt's house this afternoon. Ollie was taking his 9-hour nap on Matt'
EMBARRASSING When Your Brain Turns Off As you are aware, Skylar is a smart person. Like, I think he might actually be a genius [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2017/07/medical-school.html]. Sometimes I think that
Ollie Eleven Eleven We know Duncan was born sometime around the beginning of November, but we don't know the exact date. I explained to him recently that his biological mother didn&
