Valentine's Day...I hate the holidays almost as much as I hate spell check. Oh don't get me wrong; spell check is great but I would really like to finish what I am writing before I have to correct my mistakes. It's the same with the holidays. I like them but I wish it didn't include gift giving. Valentine's Day is the worst. A card just isn't enough. Candy i...
Prelude to The Perfectly Imperfect Marriage: Until Death Do We Part or Divorce. A descriptive definition that contradicts itself, what is perfectly imperfect? We're all perfectly imperfect in one way or another, with some more and some less to some degree than others. No one and nothing is perfect. That's life and that's the problem with being human. We al...
******Him It had been a bad day at work. My boss had been riding me all day. I came within a hair of telling him off and walking out. At the end of the day I went to the parking lot to find my car had a flat. It was hot and the lug nuts didn't want to let go. Then the air conditioner wouldn't come on and I drove home covered in sweat from my battle with the...
Jasmine and I walked out of the restaurant laughing. Jasmine: I got a new car. Me: You got rid of the Subaru? Jasmine holding up the keys: Yeah, with my mother-in-law living with us and busing around the kids I needed something bigger. It's a Volvo. It's nice. Me: Better than the Subaru? Jasmine, laughs: I hated the Subaru. Me, reaching for the keys: L...
**For the intended experience, make sure to click "Start Game" and make sure to avoid repeating chapters in a single play through.** The small village of Hillbend was utterly unremarkable. Proving to be a small farming hamlet, but near enough to a lake to provide some decent fishing as well. The Duke caring little for it's inhabitants, provided the...
It's 9:00 P.M in the big city. The sent of smoke and car fumes fill the air. The moon shines dimly above the sky. The feeling of cold wind brushes past your skin. And the sound of nothing more than cars honking is the only thing you hear. "Mam," your henchman calls out, "It's time" You look down at the noisy city bellow. What'll happen to...
Sandy had just knocked off of work at the corner diner. She was tired and her feet were killing her but do to the lack of a car she still had to walk home each night after her shift. She wished that she could find a job as a secretary as that would at least allow her to make a lot more money than she did right now. She could also work normal hours and not ha...
Finishing her shower she walks into the room where he lays sleeping. He looks so peaceful she sets the nightstand clock for a few hours and curls up next to him her head on his chest her leg over his, and drifts off to sleep. The clock awakes her 3 hours later he still sleeps; she goes to the bathroom to prepare. She walks to his side softly calling him "...
My name is Janet and I'm so mad I can't think straight. I'm so mad at my husband Mike that I don't know what to do -- but a plan is coming to me very quickly. But, before that, let me back up and give you some details. First, I'm 39 but have been told that I look 29. My hair is dyed dirty blond and I'm what some people would say is petite just 5 feet exactl...
I'm really proud of my cyclocross touring bike, Annie. She's a trucker with knobbly 2" tires, steel frame, and a sturdy rear rack and pannier. I've had her since I moved out to the Seattle suburbs and I've used her on any number of rides in the region. This is a travelogue of when I picked out an early summer Saturday for a very special ride with Annie. Be...