The Perfects Dead Rat Our greatest neighborhood allies are the Perfects next door. When I bought this house in The Year of Our Lord Eleventy Hundred, I was too intimidated to talk to them
The Perfects You Have Rats "You have rats," The Perfects informed me, standing on my driveway as I fumbled with some grocery sacks from the back seat of my car. The only one
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 my
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
The Perfects Many Hands Make Light Work Last week I wrote a post [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2018/02/every-single-recipe-blog-post-ever.html] complaining about how cooking blogs make you scroll through 5,000 words of nonsense just to
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
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
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&
The Perfects CSI Salt Lake City I pulled up to my house on Thursday and there was a cop car and a CSI van out front. I had the following instinctual reactions in the following order: 1. Keep driving; never look back. 2. Pull in, act surprised at whatever they
The Perfects The Neighbor's Tree One quick word on Strangerville Live: I did what the kids are calling "the social medias" and made an actual Facebook event page [https://www.facebook.com/events/
The Perfects America's Spirit Animal So I just realized that last week I was supposed to announce the winner of the Strangerville Live raffle. But I didn't do it because lazy. And distracted.
The Perfects A Friendly Reminder to Make Some Spare Keys We all get to agree that 2016 was a weird year. I say "was" even though it isn't actually over yet. I'm confident in
The Perfects Popcorn Part II AND THEN. You guys didn't think there was going to be an "and then." You thought that dumpster fire of a life I told you about over the weekend [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2016/12/popcorn.html] was the finish
The Perfects Repurposing a Cupboard Door A couple of weeks ago I got home from the office after a particularly stressful day amid a particularly stressful week/month/year. The weather was nice so I decided
The Perfects Episode 9: The World of Fear You guuuuu-uuuuuys. (I hope you read that the way I said it when I typed it. And yes, I do read everything I write out loud as I'm
The Perfects Hi. I'm Your New Neighbor. I walked two houses down the hill to greet my neighbor, a blonde woman, age 50 or so, who rivals The Perfects in magazine-cover landscaping and lawn care. It was
The Perfects Beware of Sisters My sister Krishelle house-sat for me while I was in the Baltics. And by "house-sat" I mean "killed all of my flowers and broke my A/C.
The Perfects Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Yesterday I was standing in line for a full eternity to get a burrito because burritos. After about 28 minutes, I noticed that the person in line in front of
The Perfects Time to Update my Resume Are you guys sitting down? I need you to be sitting down for this. I have a really serious and shocking thing to say at you. I'm very
The Perfects Thank You For Being A Friend! A quick note before we get into today's story: A huge thanks to the hundreds of you who have joined us over at Imzy so far. It has
The Perfects Snow Angels This has been a snowy winter for us good folks of Salt Lake City. And I've actually been pretty happy about this even though snow is Satan's pollen. Or insecticide. Or feces. I'm not sure which analogy to
The Perfects Snowmageddon You guys. The worst thing that can ever happen happened today. Snowmageddon hit Salt Lake City. WHERE I LIVE. Bob woke me up this morning with his routine phone call
The Perfects Trick or Treat This Halloween was my very first ever Halloween as a homeowner and I cannot possibly overstate how excited I was about this. But I'll try. Remember when you
The Perfects Glass [Quick Announcement: We will be back at The Porch in SLC this coming Saturday. It's a late show (10:00 PM OH MY GOSH HOW WILL WE STAY AWAKE). Please come and bring your friends and grandmas. It's a new
Ironman Water Heater I went for a run this weekend even though I made a solemn promise to all of you and to the universe that after Ironman Boulder I would never exercise again. But as it turns out, my body be doing crazy things lately. I
