Ukraine The BBC A few months ago the BBC reached out to me and said they had found my Ukrainian appendectomy story on Strangerville and they wondered if they could feature it in
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions We are so very overdue for a Pictures & Distractions post and I have some fun stuff to share with you. So here it is. [https://1.bp.blogspot.com/
Ollie Homohood of the Traveling T-Shirt I got in trouble tonight. We went to Matt's house to pick up Duncan because he and Ollie have been on a 7-day back-and-forth sleepover date. We pass
Gay Dog Hike Check out today's Strangerville (show notes at bottom), wherein Skylar shares the best coming out story I have ever heard. ***** Skylar really wanted to go for a hike
Ridiculous Laminate Flooring Comes Straight From Hell Part III A reminder, if you haven't done so already, to check out the story we produced this week about Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick and her two double-lung transplants. It'
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 "
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&
Airbnb Personal Assistant: Apply Now One of the reasons you shouldn't be friends with me is I will turn you into my personal assistant. Look. It's not like the job doesn't pay. It pays exceptionally well. Not money. No. It doesn't
Ridiculous Escape Room Jolyn's birthday is next week so we decided to have a birthday thing for her. Skylar found what the kids are calling an Escape Room and signed up
Ridiculous A Celestial Being to Brighten Your Day Last week I stopped by Adam's house largely because of the celestial being who lives there. I'm not talking about Teddy, who is still to this
Airbnb Essential Oils Are Killing Me The other day I tweeted this: > I have 4 Airbnb guests staying with me. They are in town for an essential oils conference so my entire house smells like
The Perfects Laminate Flooring Comes Straight From Hell, Part II Before you read about today's drama, let me remind you SINCE YOU ALREADY FORGOT HOW COULD YOU that Strangerville Live is somehow already next. freaking. week. I don&
Ridiculous Laminate Flooring Comes Straight From Hell There's this room in my house that you have to walk through to get to my bedroom and I have no idea how any of the prior owners
Ollie How Do You Know When It's Time For An Intervention? As a follow-up to last week's post [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2017/08/its-his-dream-come-true-diving-into.html] in which I implied that Matt may need an intervention if he allows
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I'm going to choose this one time to say a word that I literally never say beause I feel like it's appropriate: y'all, I&
Quinn Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions So tired. But Matt's going out of town and Adam has some crap going on so I'm having a puppy slumber part tonight and you can&
The Siblings A Special TV Surprise It was Survivor night, so the usual crew gathered in my home. I flipped on the TV. There we were, minding our own business, like good Christians/Jews/Muslims/Americans/
Pictures from my phone Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions My new best friend/neighbor has 100 billion potted plants in her backyard and since I'm now house sitting for her (you thought I was joking about this)
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Mr. Pants is sleeping over at my house right now because we love each other and we don't care who knows it. Last night I tried to take
Jolyn Aftermath Last week I wrote what is probably the most controversial thing I've ever published on Stranger. Don't worry. This isn't a political post, and today I'm not writing about the substance of that other political post.
Ridiculous Cat Videos When I last left you on mine and Adam's increasingly stinky road trip through the Baltic States, I was recovering from twelve-inch lacerations caused by being severely beaten
Ridiculous A Latvian Banya The Internets, or what we could access of them, told us that the drive from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to Riga Latvia would take about three hours so
Ridiculous We Made it to Hogwarts We spent a couple of days in the fairy-tale land of Tallin before receiving a lecture from Estonia's skinniest man about all of the ways the police were
Ridiculous International Driver's Permit I'm going to be doing some international traveling in places that Bob and Cathie claim are "full of terrorists." Adam and I are going together and
