I lost three pounds sitting in church this morning. This is the second time we have attended this particular church, and both times it’s been outrageously packed. It’s definitely time for an expansion, but for now they are sticking with four services every Sunday. Anyway, all that to help paint the picture of it being very [...]

Man. I am so exhausted from working 27 whole hours in one week. This employment thing, I’m not so sure I’m diggin’ it. Oh wait – maybe I’m exhausted from the stomach virus I caught while working 27 hours last week. Yeah, that makes more sense, I suppose. Luckily, it squeaked in (ok, it so didn’t “squeak,” but squeak [...]

If you have hair growing out of your scalp, and you do not happen to have a penis, you’re going to want to nominate me for sainthood when I tell you what I’ve been doing for the good of my family.
For the past three weeks, I’ve been living life sans blow dryer. I know. I’ll [...]

Let’s talk a little bit about what is not on the top of my list of Ways to Spend My Days of Unemployed Bliss Delirium:
Listening to Dr. Oz talk about blackheads accompanied by full screen, close-up images
Putting Bryson into a full nelson every time someone walks by the front door to try and stop him [...]

I shouldn’t be telling you this. I should be closing down my web browser, shutting off my computer, and taking Bryson for a long walk in the snow-turned-sludge. But we just got our internet hooked up at Casa Noa and I cannot pull myself away from its back-lit, one-click-away deliciousness.
So apparently there are these things called doppelgangers. [...]

It’s cold here. In lots of ways.
And in other ways, it already feels completely normal.
My parents, my dog, my husband, and I arrived in Newport News, Virginia Friday, January 22, at around 2:00pm. The total travel time from Florida landed at about 20 hours, thanks to the 15-foot U-Haul that was towing Clayton’s SUV and [...]

My husband is breathing again. I’m pretty sure it had decreased significantly over the past month, and then for two days last week, stopped entirely.
Last Wednesday Clayton took the Physician Assistant Certification Exam, codename: PANCE. I have so many “party in Clayton’s PANCE” jokes handy, but I’ll spare you those. For now. So, last Tuesday [...]

Last Friday was my last official day at work. I don’t write too much about my job or coworkers  here, not because I don’t adore both but because I’ve never asked them if they’d mind. I don’t think that I will ever find a work environment so professionally and personally nurturing as the one I’m about [...]

Out of the blue, or because I drink tons of coffee and eat a hugeawful amount of chocolate right over top of my computer, my F key started getting stuck. I suppose I could clean my keyboard. Better yet, I could just do what I do and have to retype everything and curse and moan at my [...]

In the wake of a chaotic, which-way-is-up month, I realized that poor Bryson must be completely confused with all the changes that have taken place over the past four weeks. First, strangers invaded his house accompanied by a 3-pound chihuahua. To avoid further stress and a potential law suit, we kept the dogs separated for [...]