Ridiculous A Sweet Treat Please check out today's Strangerville, which includes one of my favorite stories we have ever produced. More info at the bottom of this post. ***** Matt had a party
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Toward the end of my Europe trip a few weeks ago I got a text out of the blue from Matt that said, "sorry about your house." This
Ridiculous Golf and Buses Skylar started medical school yesterday while I went golfing. I would have traded him places in a heartbeat. And no, I'm not interested in going to medical school.
Ridiculous Seatmates The universe has required me to take on a substantially larger share of sitting next to not-the-best seatmates on flights. I'm happy to do it. Sometimes. But not every time. It's like a curse. I see the 100-
Ridiculous How I Nearly Started World War III We booked the hotel because it advertised access to a "private beach." The beach ended up being more like a stone patio that dropped off into the Adriatic
Ridiculous Smizing in Slovenia In Ljubljana Slovenia last night: Skylar: Here, give me your phone so I can take a picture of you. Eli: No. You're really bad at taking pictures of
Ukraine Olena I have several friends in L'viv Ukraine, all of whom I met when I lived there as a Mormon missionary in 2003 and 2004. Usually I try to
The Siblings To Become a Star We had to vacate our Airbnb in Kyiv by 11:00, which was unfortunate because our train didn't leave for L'viv until about 12 hours later.
The Siblings Kyiv's Raccoon Man We landed in Kyiv on Saturday afternoon and found a taxi to take us to our apartment. "She's Got It" by Venus was playing on the
Ridiculous Grammar Book I'm going to Ukraine on Friday. And don't even try to break into my house, robbers. I've got house-sitters and they're
Movie Review Won't You Be My Neighbor My two older sisters hated it when Trolley started making its way back to Mr. Rogers's house from Make Believe Land. Every episode had the same simple format.
Ridiculous International Spy Skylar treats state-issued IDs like you might treat chapstick. Don't remember where you put the last one? That's ok. Just grab another the next time
Rebecca A Thing I Decided I Want You To Know I'm pretty gay. I know. You're all shocked. NO ONE guessed this. I'll give you a moment to recover. This is something I just
Ridiculous Queen Latifah Matt accused me of exaggerating "just like" I "always do." This was offensive. Not because I consider "exaggerator" to be an insult, but because
Ridiculous Skylar Thinks He Can Cook Skylar thinks he's a cook. Yes, you should read into my word-choice there. Also, I want to mention that Skylar is the most amazing human being. He
Bob and Cathie Counseling: What is your earliest memory? I don't know why it came up but recently I was talking with Skylar about my earliest life memories and he basically called me a liar. I'
Bob and Cathie WHAT IF PAUL SIMON, Oakland Paul Freaking Simon and I made eye contact on Friday night. I'm not kidding you about this. Skylar went to the concert with me even though he was
Ollie So this is the south. Matt has been in Mississippi for several weeks. He drove from Salt Lake City all the way to Jackson, which if you look at google maps is a distance of
The Perfects Mr. Pham's Patio Project I told you a little while ago about how I hired Mr. Pham [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2018/04/mr-pham.html] to do whatever the hell he wants with
Emily Mansplaining A few years ago I was at Bob and Cathie's house and I saw Bob's 1968 beautiful green road bike in a pile of junk. I
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
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
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
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
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
