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Category Archives: happiness
Things I Did to Amuse Myself in High School #116
When I was fourteen, just before entering the ninth grade, my grandma Pearl passed away. She was full blooded Norwegian and had the clothes to prove it. My mother ended up inheriting all her clothes as she was the only … Continue reading
It’s Tax Time!
I’m not going to dive deep into the politics behind why this is going to happen, but this Friday our lovable IRS is going to make a deposit into my checking account. The bunches of spunk over there decided that … Continue reading
Green Baby on the Way!
I called my mother a few minutes ago to get an update on my overly pregnant sister. She is en route to the hospital to get the baby out as I write this. Whee! New babies! Rachel is my oldest … Continue reading
How to be a server without going crazy
Serving is easy, when you break it down. People ask for things and you bring them those things. If servers were soulless beings than there could never be a complaint about the job they posses ever. It’s just that simple … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, Fine Dining, funner, happiness, health, Hell's Kitchen, home, job, Life
Tagged bills, food, jobs, lemons, middle aged women, restaurant, server waitress, tips, waiter
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Visit South Dakota!
This week the tourism department of South Dakota decided that it would be wise to dress people up as real life cowboys (or maybe they were cowboys) and pay them to walk around the streets of Minneapolis to boost the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, Fine Dining, funner, happiness, health, Hell's Kitchen, job, Life, travel
Tagged Cowboys, Cowgirls, Friday, Hell's Kitchen, South Dakota, Vacation, winter
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Kristiane’s posting her homework again…
This is an essay in a series of related essays So, if it parts don’t make sense it is because it is in the middle of the series. For the entirety of my childhood the whole family was expected to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, family, Fine Dining, funner, happiness, health, home, kids, Life, school
Tagged Different Strokes, Dinner, heimlich, moving, prayer, real estate, supper table
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Sharks! (and more) at Underwater Adventures
Tuesday proved to be the perfect day to spend doing only one thing: Driving to the Mall of America and spending a couple hours looking at sea life in Underwater Adventures. Now, being that the mall is in Minnesota which … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, funner, happiness, Life, ocean, pets
Tagged alligators, crocodiles, jellyfish, Mall of America, Minnesota, octopus, sharks, tuesday, underwater adventures
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Awkward Opera
I was telling my sister Sarah (really go click on her name) one of my Max stories the other day. She laughed appropriately, and then said, “You know, you gotta write these things down. You should blog about Max.” So, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, family, happiness, kids, Life, the pilver
Tagged awkward, divorce, funny, kids, opera, sarah bell
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My Moon
“Mommy! I see my moon!” My son Max screamed from the backseat of our humble sedan. It was 4:45 in the morning and we were headed to my coffee pouring job. The chill of the Minnesota winter was apparent in … Continue reading
100 Times I Was Not Doing My Homework
Last July I was happily posting on my blog over at MySpace when a friend of mine informed me that they had begun a new blog on WordPress. This lit a fire in me as I had been longing to … Continue reading
