I’ve told you guys this before, perhaps it was several years ago, but I’ve been pretty obsessive in my life when it comes to drugs. By that I mean that for some reason, from my teens on, I have avoided drugs, excessive alcohol, and even cigarettes like they’re tainted with the frickin’ bubonic plague. My [...]

Category: Random | June 30, 2010 | 44 Comments »

1. LANDSCAPE RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE! What is a good shrub/small tree, easy to care for, hard to kill, easy to groom, doesn’t grow into an odd-shaped monster missing patches of branches, and doesn’t look like it’d be found growing in the front of the Addams Family home? I have some shrubbery decisions to make and I’M [...]

Category: Celebrity sightings, Pirates | tags: Pittsburgh Pirates | June 29, 2010 | 35 Comments »

As you know, my four sisters and I often email back and forth, occasionally allowing my parents in on the threads, but only those threads that don’t talk about SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL. One of the threads we did not include my parents on recently — avert your eyes, boys — was a [...]

Category: Random | June 29, 2010 | 22 Comments »

WINNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED. Random.org chose comments #142 and #75! For the most part, I don’t like birds. I find them as unpredictable as monkeys and therein lies my unease with them. Like monkeys, a bird could just be sitting there looking at you, all still and quiet and then, without warning …  FLUNG POOP. [...]

Category: Random | June 28, 2010 | 181 Comments »

… it pours, and of course once I get to update you on Jamie and Ali, MORE information rolls in. Jamie and Ali went to Philadelphia last week to visit with Jean Griffith and Ross Haskell and their son Alex. Alex will be two in August and he was one of the children that Jamie [...]

Category: Awesome Burghers, Random | June 28, 2010 | 14 Comments »