Ironman Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Young Wade and I shall set sail for Boulder, dark and far too early Friday morning. Years of anticipation and preparation,
Wade Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Matthew Pants went to his home state of Mississippi (or, as he calls it, "Miss'ippi&
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Did you guys hear that this weekend is The United States of God Bless America's birthday? Party hard, Strangers. Tami and I will be barbecuing if anyone wants
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Rebecca has been out of my life for two weeks now and I'M NOT PLEASED. I haven't heard much from her. But last weekend she called
Wade Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Last night I returned home from work to find Young Wade curled up in the fetal position on the couch, clammy, and possibly moments from death. He looked like someone
Wade Wake-Up Call Mr. Ollie Pants stayed at my house this weekend. This was a wonderful thing. Mr. Pants hasn't slept over for many weeks and I have had major withdrawals.
Ollie Joint Custody Woes Matt: Here Ollie! You want some!? Eli: Stop right there, sir. I've been meaning to talk to you about this. Matt: Talk to me about what? Eli: About
EMBARRASSING End of the Week Appointment The last time I wrote to you I had just pulled into the office late at night, again. I rolled in on Thursday evening sometime around 10:30 and began working on a project that I needed to try to get done by the
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Alas, we have made it to the end of the week. Somehow. And somehow, again, I just rolled into my office at 11:00 PM for a full night of
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I'm losing it. Attempting to be diligent since I have missed the last THREE weeks of trash pickup, I just hauled my garbage and recycling bins out the
Ollie SNL 40th On Sunday night I watched all eleventy million hours of SNL's 40th anniversary celebration. I'm not an SNL fanatic. I probably catch about 5% of each season. I find most of the sketches two times longer than they should be
Ollie The Dog Park Matt went out of town this weekend so before he even walked out the door, I was cradling Ollie in my arms like a baby, walking to my car, and
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions You guys. Valentine's Day. It's not that I don't love that I'm Cathie's "NUMBER ONE VALENTINE XOXOXOXOXOXOXO" again.
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I left the office tonight and realized that it was 60 degrees outside even though it's February and I'm supposed to be miserable because that'
Ollie The Wind Beneath My Wings This thing keeps happening where Matt shows up and does all of this complicated and probably dangerous work in my house with minimal effort and only half his attention and
Ollie Conversations With Emrie I mentioned last week that my niece Emrie was coming to my house for a sleepover. This is the niece who was formerly AKA "The Niece Who Hates Me,
Annie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I'm so nervous. 24 hours from now the Niece Who Hates Me is coming to my house for a sleepover. I'm going to spend the entire
Ollie Up On A Soapbox This weekend I dragged Matt and Ollie across the great state of Utah to help me collect 100,000 new things for my home improvement projects. Matt has become my general contractor who I have do at least ten new projects in my house
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions My five-year-old niece Emrie, formerly known as "the niece who hates me," called me tonight to ask if she can come sleep over at my house. Our relationship
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Grateful it's Friday around here. It was a long and hard week for me. I almost entered the Witness Protection Program on Tuesday just to get out of
Ollie The Neuter Clinic The other day Matt asked me if I had any time this week to take Ollie back to the spay and neuter clinic to get him checked out. His unmentionable
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy New Year, one and all. Because the magic of the season made us lose track of reality, like it always does (see this [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2013/01/
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
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
