Another update, this time mostly about quitting smoking.

The quitting smoking thing is going okay. I’m on day three without cigarettes Iamgoingtokillyouallgivemenicotine and it’s going alright. I now understand why people gain so much goddamn weight when they quit smoking – the urge to be putting something, ANYTHING, in your mouth is overwhelming when you’re a smoker. I’ve been trying to keep Mentos [...]

OH RIGHT, an update on something I blogged about

I kept meaning to put this here, and forgetting: Back when I still worked at that shithole of a convenience store (I’ve got several freelance gigs going on now so I should be okay fund-wise, so no one worry), I discovered who the crazy half-dressed Batman that I blogged about was! Oddly enough, his name [...]

Blast From the Fucked-Up Past: The Life Cycle Library

While putzing around at my parents’ house a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon the most amazing discovery – a set of books called the Life Cycle Library that they had gotten with our epic dictionary set forever and a day ago. These books are, legit, older than me. It was epic to flip through [...]

Where a Lady Gaga lyric sums up my current life

Another shot, before we kiss the other side tonight Yeah baby, tonight, yeah baby I’m on the edge of something final we call life tonight Alright, alright! Put on your shades, cuz I’ll be dancing in the flames tonight Yeah baby, tonight, yeah baby It isn’t hell if everybody knows my name tonight Alright, alright! [...]

HUGE Photodump

I cleaned my phone out the other day. I have a Droid Incredible, which has an 8 megapixel HD camera built into it, so I take a LOT of random pictures with it. I saw this the other day. This woman is a published author (self-published, but still). The header uses the wrong “your”. It [...]

Sick

This is going to be long. Wednesday night I came home from a 12-hour stint up in Reno that begin with work training and ended with me hanging out with my youngest stepdaughter and her mother, both of whom I adore and will sit and chat with for hours on end if not checked. As [...]

Convenience store do’s and don’t's (Or, how to be a good customer)

“This job would be great if it wasn’t for the fucking customers.” – Randall Graves, Clerks. Recently I gave up – temporarily – the stage industry and got a full-time job in the service industry. I’m not gonna mention exactly where (I learned my lesson working for the newspaper and blogging about it. Big mistake [...]

Pot Economics

I am not going to lie – I have been known, in the past and probably in the future, to indulge in a little shrubbery. And by shrubbery, I mean marijuana. I might be a statistical anomaly – the pothead who doesn’t smoke very often (I doubt I would ever come up dirty on a [...]

I don’t even know why I’m surprised anymore

Carson City, Nevada, isn’t as tiny as our compatriots in southern Nevada (Read: Vegas) like to make us out to be. It’s a decent-sized town, although naturally not as metropolitan as Vegas itself, nor even Reno. We’ve got two super Wal-Marts, several McDonalds, and more Starbucks’ than any town really ever needs. Fuck you, Starbucks. [...]

Weird things. They just find me.

Today, I’m driving home from picking up some grub. My husband is out of town at the moment – we’re both stagehands, so this isn’t too terribly infrequent, although it does annoy me when it happens – so it was just me. I turn on to Northridge Drive, which is the main thoroughfare through this [...]