Daniel The Top Ten Most Viewed Stranger Posts, 2014 Every time I get on Facebook right now there are a thousand posts that are like "check out Amy's year!" and then you can click on it and scroll through a thousand pictures to see what Amy ate in 2014.
Rebecca Half a Carload My friend Burke is possibly the greatest human being of our generation. A couple of weeks ago we were talking about how I needed to move for the eleventy millionth time in the last ten years and how much I was dreading the task.
Ollie Eli's House So it's getting late and I just finished the three-hour AMAZING Survivor finale. Did anyone watch it? I know it's not 1998 anymore, but some of
Movie Review 10 Things I Learn from "It's a Wonderful Life" 1. Flirting should be funny. One of my favorite lines from the movie is when ol' what's-her-name (the blonde bombshell) is walking down the sidewalk and George
Ollie Rebecca's Near Murder Rebecca was babysitting Ollie at her house on Friday, so I texted her to see how things were going. I logged away in my mind that I needed to try
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I'm in my mostly vacant house, having spent the afternoon and much of the evening here taking care of installations and bids for various projects. It's
Ridiculous Six Chairs Eli: Hi. I would like to buy this table and six of these chairs. Lady: Great! Let me make sure we have enough in stock. Eli: No problem. Lady: Let's see . . . hmmmm . . . well we only have four of those chairs. Eli: Ok.
House How to Become a Grownup Megan texted me and told me to show up at some address on Monday at 4:00. I didn't really know what would be happening but that was more or less par for the course in this process. Buying a home is
Ridiculous The First Doctor's Appointment Remember how eleventy years ago I told you that I had set up an appointment to see a REAL doctor [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2014/09/eli-finds-regular-doctor.html]because my friend at work told me that you aren't a grownup until you
Emma Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy Friday, one and all. Tonight I saw Rebecca and her sister hauling her bed out of my home. Now it's quiet. TOO quiet. I have a feeling
Rebecca Rebecca's Shopping Cart Tonight I came home from work to find a shopping cart in my apartment. Not the most ridiculous thing I've come home to. Not by a long shot. But still, I didn't really have time to deal with complication today.
The Siblings Food Assignments It's not a secret that in my family I am not trusted with bringing even remotely complicated food assignments to family functions. It's also no secret that I'm very sensitive about this. Usually, Cathie will send out some
Ridiculous Halloween, 1995 I should be 100% way too embarrassed to share this photo with you. But I just can't help it. It is too horrifically glorious to keep it all
Ridiculous Buying a House = Complicated I don't know where this month is going. I expected it to be a pretty quiet one and foolishly thought that my job was going to be peaceful and simple. It was not. It was a jealous mistress. NOT THAT I KNOW
Nostalgia November Regrets We're in that really weird time of year right now where the days are short and the dark nights feel disorientingly long. I never can quite get used to the time at which it gets dark in Salt Lake City. Night after
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions You might have heard that there's a puppy named Ollie that is an exception to my be-afraid-of-all-animals rule. You might have also heard that Ollie lived with me
Ollie Five Little Pumpkins Ollie just left me and I'm not pleased. Matt showed up like a thief in the night to take him away. Rebecca and I knew our time with Ollie was winding down, and so we snuggled with him and said our goodbyes.
Ridiculous How To Win Cats and Influence Felines If you are reading this it’s because you’ve seen the light. You know that the destiny for you is one full of fur-balls, felines, and Fancy Feast. You’
Ollie Parenthood I had it on my calendar for a couple of weeks. If I wasn't so lazy, I would have made a paper chain to count down the days.
Pictures from my phone Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I looked out my office window today and saw the thing I dread most: a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. And so it begins. Someone please give me a
Rebecca "Why do so many weird things happen in this house?" The night before Halloween I decided to try on my two costumes that I have rotated every single year since I was about 15. One of these is a hippie
The Siblings The Next Big Move Is everyone sitting down? No? A few of you are standing? Can you get into the sitting position? I'll wait. . . . [I put my hands up, they're playin' my song and the butterflies fly away . . .] Sitting now? No? Some of
Ridiculous EXPERIENCING THE GRIPS OF HELL! You guys. I found something that is worse than CAMPING. It's worse than surprise camping. Even worse than camping for more than one day. IT'S WORSE
Ironman Eli McCann: World's Leading Environmentalist You guys. I done be savin' the world up in here! Because yesterday I finally put my foot down for the environment. And America. And righteousness. Hashtag 'merica. There's this place at the food court in the building in which
Ridiculous Peer Pressure A long long time ago When the proposed date still felt so far away A conversation happened James: I know we don't know each other well but you run, so would you like to do a relay race with me in a
