The Woodlands Biotch

…throw away your old bank statements.
i confess; in a rubbermaid container, beneath a layer of dust and stored under the bed – between the dried remains of the first corsage i ever received and my mickey mouse ears from disneyland - there are a few sappy love letters from boys from back in my high school days. [...]

with other peoples’ hearts and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours. 
this one’s big, people. h-u-g-e!! so this is one of those moments when i’ll walk close to the edge of saying something personal. now, fortunately for the rest of the world, i can’t say as i’ve ever been accused of being [...]

 or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.  The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindsides you at 4:00 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
this one’s pretty easy for me. in [...]

– oh, never mind — you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.  But trust me; in twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.  You [...]

i know you know this song. speech. whatever. as i said the other day, while sitting and watching a kindergarten graduation, i had an idea for a series of blog posts. it actually started before that, but i wasn’t sure which direction i wanted to take with it. i had initially planned on writing a [...]

attended a kindergarten graduation today. had several thoughts. first and foremost being, why didn’t i have a kindergarten graduation?
oh yeah…
cause i skipped kindergarten.
anyway….
another thought i had was a song, actually. you know – “everybody’s free (to wear sunscreen)”. the ultimate graduation song. well, of course it’s not really age-appropriate for kindergarteners. better for college. high [...]

bf has been fixing other people’s pc problems and installing networks and telephone systems for 15 years. in the time that i have known him, i have learned that anything computer related falls into one of three types of repair categories:
“this’ll only take a few minutes” – translates roughly to “this is totally easy, based [...]

they’re on sale, all over the place. of course i highly recommend getting them at heb. call me crazy, but i’m a firm believer that here, everything’s better.
which is funny, really — sidenote — i used to shop kroger religiously. thought their produce was the bomb-diggity. and i used to hate heb, i guess because [...]

a while ago, for no reason whatsoever, a tune from my childhood popped into my head. for one week of each summer for eight years, i attended a foursquare church sponsored summer camp out near sonora, california called “old oak ranch” – my last summer session there as a counselor. which was fitting, as it turned out [...]

and what are your greenish plans for wednesday? that’s the problem with st. paddy’s day being on a wednesday, isn’t it? you can’t really plan on staying out all night, or party-ing too hard, now can you?
don’t worry, kids. one day, sooner than you can even imagine, you’ll cross a bridge. you might not even [...]