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The way the cookie crumbles: an anniversary present from Lee
Lee surprised me this afternoon with an anniversary present a day early — a dozen custom-designed cookies celebrating my big win in my fantasy football league this year! Those who know us know that it’s uber-romantic for his gift to be sports-related. That is how we roll. And I take great pleasure knowing that he went against every fiber of his being to order black and gold, Mizzou-ish cookies. Just gonna say now that I don’t plan on ever ordering Kansas Jayhawk cookies for him. Our friend Stephanie Johnson runs Sweets By Steph here in Wichita and she made the cookies. She bakes a yummy cookie and her design skills…
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How me & my brother made it in the show at Teddy’s House of Comedy
So sometimes I’m going to need to get all deep on this blog. This is one of those times. But it’s a funny story while being tragic. Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary. Lee and I got married Jan. 15, 1999. January 15 is also the day my oldest brother killed himself, in 2003. Of course something like that never leaves your heart or your mind and it took a few years for me to be able to celebrate my anniversary on that day. One thing that helped was planning trips to coincide with our anniversary. Therapy helped, too. And time. Time helped dull the pain, the anger and the sadness…
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Some of my favorite travel magazines and publications
When I shared our tentative travel plans for 2013, I said I’d share some of my planning process. Today I received some fun snail mail: the latest issue of Travel+Leisure and a travel planning package from the State of Texas. I love travel magazines! Right now I only subscribe to Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, Travel+Leisure and Kansas! Magazine but I have at one time or another also subscribed to: Caribbean Travel & Life Condé Nast Traveler Florida Travel+Life International Living Islands National Geographic Traveler Probably others but that’s all I can remember for now. I also love reading the in-flight magazines when I fly. I get ideas on where I…
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I want to leave the dermatologist’s office feeling violated
I had my annual appointment at the dermatologist last week. In case you didn’t get the memo from the American Cancer Society, you should see a doctor for an annual skin check just like you should see your doctor for a check of your other bits. I don’t want to chance it since I’m whiter than the whitest white girl. I’ve been going annually to a dermatologist for maybe eight years and I always leave the appointment disappointed. I’m not sure how to say this without sounding really demented – I want to leave the dermatologist’s office feeling violated. I mean, just a little violated. Like, feet-in-the-stirrups-knees-fall-open violated, not waking-up-after-a-dental-procedure-with-my-shirt-unbuttoned…
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Apparently I’m an asshole of a gift giver
I love giving gifts, and usually I think I’m pretty good at it. I like to surprise people, I’m generous, I usually put a lot of thought into what I give. Well, friends, I failed miserably this Christmas with my husband. Apparently giving a book of fiction written in the voice of a dog to a guy who just had to put down his 15½-year-old dog isn’t a good choice. Seems obvious, you say? Well not to me, it didn’t. I’ve not read The Art of Racing in Rain by Garth Stein but I’d heard good things about it and the idea of a book written from a dog’s perspective…