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Life inside the music box ain’t easy

Photo by IndieRockLance Regina Spektor is brilliant and funny and she made me cry. But that could have been the wine. The show was really great. Packed house, despite this being her third attempt to play the Ryman this tour (both previous shows were canceled due to her inner-ear infection). The crowd loved her. She was wearing this ridiculous silver ruffled dress that made me think of a clogger. Everyone but me (but I?) had…

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What a difference a decade and a half can make

I’m at my parents’ house. All evening we’ve been watching old home videos that I coaxed my brother to get out of the safe. So far we’ve covered 1992 and 1993. I have been rolling in the floor laughing until I couldn’t breathe and tears streamed down my face. There is a Fourth of July clip in which all you can see is some fireworks going off in the yard and our stupid fire-eating dog…

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I refuse to get old I'm posting about my damn cats again my special stupidity

Adulthood

The worst part about being a grownup has got to be the paperwork. A constant stream of it, coming from store clerks and bank tellers and the mailman, pouring in, day after day, filling every pocket, every purse, every drawer, every shelf — paper everywhere. And I’ve even opted in to paperless billing and opted out of credit-card offers and whatnot. Still, the stuff overwhelms me. I had a frantic ten minutes today when I…

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I'm posting about my damn cats again my special stupidity

I have been living alone for way too long

Actual conversation that just occurred between me and my cats as I arrived home from work: Cats: Meow! Me: Oh my god, kitties, it is cold as balls outside! Do you know how cold that is? Cats: Meow! Me: Actually, balls aren’t cold at all. Cats: Meow! Me: It’s a figure of speech.

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Say hello to my little friend

Ain’t it cute? Black with tan interior. Rockin’ stereo system. Excellent visibility. Plush interior for an entry-level car. Smooth ride. Shiny as shit. (For now.) We need to get a room. I’ll admit it. Because we’re in love. And I can’t stop gushing. It’s embarrassing. And let me just tell you how stupid in love I am with this car. Actually, love has nothing to do with it. I’m just stupid. Tonight at about 9,…

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100 more things

I haven’t updated my self-indulgent 100 Things list in a long time. So long that several of those things aren’t true anymore. So, because I’m bored and trying to kill time in ways that don’t involve television (but are admittedly just as stupid and pointless), here’s a new 100 Things list. I’m not even kidding when I say that I started making this list more than a year ago, forgot about it, added to it,…

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my special stupidity project 365

Off

Here I sit, trying to plug in my last two photos for Project 365, when I realize I’m a day off. I’m ending up with 364. Is this right? Then this project is horribly misnamed. So off I go through the archives to see where I screwed up.

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