A few weeks ago, I started feeling a pain in my toe, which I knew to be a minor ingrown toenail. It came as somewhat of a surprise, since I threw away my pointy-toed, beautiful green mules. The ones with the buttons on them THAT I LOVED. On several occasions I had sewn and glued them back together with a range of adhesives, including glue dots, masking tape, ...

I'm sitting in a nice restaurant for lunch with my current set of co-workers, about four other people. We've been waiting a while for our food, and the boss is asking for a second bowl of $12 spinach artichoke dip. In my mind, I'm calculating how much more my tab is going up with this second appetizer. There might be a pained look on my face. Then the ...

H: Do you want to watch the movie I recorded? J: I want to watch 32 Oprahs. H: ... you're mean.

Instead of making lists of music to buy, I now just add it to my iTunes shopping cart. I used to do everything on my palm-handspring visor thing. In college it really came in handy cuz I kept bouncing my checking account and wanted to stop doing that. Once I got that under control I used it to keep up with homework and tests and ...

This weekend Josh and I decided to go through our book collection and get rid of a bunch of stuff we're only lugging from place to place. I was basically raised inside a library, so you'd think I would have a card to my local branch. I don't. We buy books all the time, and now, faced with the prospect of moving, we can only see these mountains ...

Loving it that John-Boy of The Waltons* is the voice over for Mercedes-Benz. Now every time I see a Benz I'm going to imagine it with a big mole on one side. *You won't believe it, but I'm completely familiar with The Lawrence Welk Show, too! How is this possible when I was born in 1980??

Aside from my strange attraction to men in uniform, this new Mac/PC commercial about Windows Vista's security is so funny that Josh and I giggle like school kids every time we see it. I think the reason these ads work is due to the fact that they are defining the competition (Microsoft) before the competition has a chance to define itself. From my experience, this strategy, be it ...

that two of your eight great grandparents were born on the same day as you? This genealogy thing rocks. Well, aside from that one distant 60+ year old cousin who is sending me poetry...