I have got to move out of this neighborhood. Not only do I have to contend with the neighbors, but I have to watch the trailer trash and illegal immigrant types let their kids run around loose in the parking lots,… as though cars don’t drive around there legally, as potential killers of human offspring. Talk about retroactive birth control! The parents either don’t know, don’t care, or don’t pay attention. On our weekly grocery shopping trip today, I actually…
This lemonade stand CEO was almost beat. It’s been nothing but work, work, work, and drive, drive, drive. Last week was not pretty. In fact, I don’t think last week has even ended yet; I don’t remember even having a weekend. Let’s see: I did my full-time work during the day, drove home, did my freelance work during the night, went to sleep, and drove back to work again — day after day after day. I had to come in…
November has turned into December, and in the end I never needed the Thanksgiving holiday. We went out for dinner and had not a sliver of turkey, which I don’t like anyway because even the juiciest turkey is too dry for me; I also went back to work on Friday because the deadlines were looming, and I wanted to save myself the pain of a stressful Monday. So the four-day Thanksgiving weekend sort of passed me by. Not that I…
I’m a healthy young woman. I usually take stairs two steps at a time, and when I reach the top I’m hardly ever short of breath. I once had a full physical when I was 24, where the test results stated that my biological age was 13. Calling in sick is a concept foreign to me, and so is getting flu shots. But for the past two weeks, I’ve been sick, sick, sick. It began with a slight cold —…
Once upon a time, I was saved by firefighters. It was about 20 years ago. I was eight; my sister was three. The month was January — a time for rain. In Southern California rain doesn’t fall regularly, so when it falls it wreaks havoc on land not accustomed to soaking it in. This means flash floods and mudslides, or any number of other things. My favorite uncle and his family lived in Spring Valley back then. Whenever our family…