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Post #135 – Give me your best books or die trying…:)
My husband is not a big reader, which I simply don’t get. Yes, I love certain TV shows and movies too much probably, but nothing substitutes for good, old-fashioned published prose, in my opinion....
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Post #136 – It’s Not Even American!
A couple of days ago, I called my 97-year-old Grandmother, a.k.a. Nana Maude. I talked to her for a few minutes about the new shoes I sent her, which she loved, thank God, and then I handed the phone...
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Post #137 – Revenge is a dish best served without Coca-Cola cake…
Five or six years ago when my father was still living, he and Nana Maude came to visit every fall for my son Rory and my husband Charlie’s birthdays- which are only 3 days apart. I wrote about Nana in...
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Post #138 – Wish I Could Boil My Fingers…an Adventure in Sink Surgery
One Saturday, a couple of weeks ago, Susan, my mother-in-law, came down to visit from Cleveland. On the Monday prior, I asked Max, my 22-year-old, to clean his bathroom by Thursday, so she wouldn’t...
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Post #140 – No, I don’t drink wine – I drink Merlot, and what’s that in your...
While visiting Nana Maude down South last week, I took her to Olive Garden, one of her favorite restaurants. I’m not a huge fan of the Garden, but their spaghetti and meatballs are okay. However, every...
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Post #142 – Jim was just hanging out of what?
The night I met Jim (Thompson – see my previous post -http://tenaciousbitch.com/2014/08/04/about-james-thompson-author-of-snow-angels-my-ex-husband-who-died-last-weekend/, I was waiting tables at the...
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Post #143 -Alive and well despite my suffocation…
No, I was not nor have I ever been in danger of suffocating. T’was a joke, you know. However, the corporate prison I’ve been living in for the last five weeks does make me feel somewhat claustrophobic....
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Post #144 – You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! There is no crying uncle here…
This year, my sister, Fiona, received the Merry Christmas, “your job has been eliminated” speech as her box of wonder from her employer in mid-December after 17 years of faithful service. Awesome, is...
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Post # 145 – Good news…bad news…and you can’t be f’ing serious?
So, I’d forgotten how exhausting job hunting can be! And I cannot believe the fuck-ton of cyber paperwork that is required for a job paying $10 fucking dollars/hour. Yes, folks, I said $10 – a scant...
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Post #147 – Update on the job debacle…
Soooooo – after getting fingerprinted again on the 19th for this job at Mega Bank, mentioned previously @ http://tenaciousbitch.com/2015/02/19/post-146-perhaps-i-shall-execute-it-in-blood/ I heard...
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Post #148 – The Toilet Promise from the Kitchen Bitch…
Like many women, I got tired of constantly being put upon to do shit tons of housework that I shouldn’t be doing because, well, the men in my house don’t always clean up after themselves, so I posted...
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Post #149 – The Good And Bad About The Ugliest Birthday Yet
Much to my unhappiness, I turned the big 5-0 last month. On my 40th, though there were black balloons on the wall of my cubicle at Yabinski and Kramer law firm where I worked at the time as well as a...
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Post #154 – Conversation With A Mega Douche Bag!
For years, I’ve heard certain men being referred to as Mega Douche Bags, my husband chief among them. But let me clarify. Mega Douche Bags work for Mega Bank where I was employed until a couple of...
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Five Reasons Why I Sometimes Hate Living With Men…:)
For those of you who are new to my brand of Crazy Town, I’m married and have 2 boys, one of whom still lives with us. His name is Max (of the famed –...
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Our Valentine’s Day Shooting of the Non-Murdering Kind…:) A.K.A. An Upcycled...
Below is a photo of the beautiful bouquet that my husband, Charlie, gave me for Valentine’s. We’ve been married 16, almost 17 years (and together for 19). Yet, he never ceases to surprise me. If...
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Post #158 -The Oddest, Coolest Mother’s Day Gift Ever
Those of you who know me IRL (in real life), you’re aware that I’m weird. And that such is an adjective I wear proudly. So, it won’t surprise you to know that my husband gave me a very strange gift for...
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Post #159 -His Name is Jar-Jar the Terrible
Had trouble sleeping last night. Nothing new to read, and I couldn’t turn on the TV for fear that my horrible recurring nightmare had come true. Jar-Jar Binks, aka Jar-Jar the Terrible, just bought...
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Post #160 – About The Expiration Date and the End of the Beehive Hairdo
Knowing that each of us has an expiration date does not make it any easier when we’re told that the end is near for a family member or a friend – even if that person is 99 years old. I got that phone...
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