Some days you find out you have jury duty……in Rolling freaking Meadows. A full 26.7 miles, or an hour plus in Chicago traffic time, from where your carless ass cannot drive. Where you’ll do your civic duty while feasting on a cornucopia of vended saturated fats. Some days the guy who you think has been [...]
He kisses me in all the ways I’ve always wanted to be kissed. Softly and with purpose. Holding my head in his hands, running his fingers through my hair, tucking a loose strand behind an ear. He pulls me closer, hands on my lower back and hips. He tilts my head backward, grazing my neck, [...]
There is a boy. How do I write of my school-girl glee for this one?I’m smitten, I think. I’m the kind of giddy where I smile stupidly every time I think of him, every time his name is on my phone. I can’t help myself.He’s pretty. I tell you readers, he is oh so pretty. [...]
Because it is THE worst time of year in the office this week (client event for 300 next week), because (as you know) I have PMS, because cake miraculously did arrive the other day right on cue and is now gone- along with the chocolate Jello pudding, and because I just finished making a fort [...]
Holy hell, am I PMS-ing! AAAAAHHHH!!!!!!! I’m that skit on SNL- you know the one- when Tina Fey brought it back old school and made fun of the birth control commercials for the pill that all but eradicates your period. Yeah, I’m the one with the pink ax in the office (many expletives have been [...]
Eleven years of exes, so many things unsaid:Even though we agreed to never contact one another again, I still think of you from time to time and wonder how you are.Sometimes when you’d kiss me, I’d scrunch up my nose in as-yet-unrealized disgust, then mock smile to cover it up when you’d catch me.I invited [...]
I’ve turned into one of those people who hauls their laptop to the coffee shop and parks it for a couple hours. I’m here to get some work done…so far I’ve managed to buy something like 15 songs on iTunes, priced airfare for Thanksgiving (already a freaking fortune), polished off an espresso Cooler, and determined [...]
