I’m Oklahoma born and bred. I was reared on country music, fried bologna sandwiches and football. So it may surprise you to know that I have a keen interest in the fashion industry. In fact, many other “red-blooded” American males have been hiding their love of fashion in plain sight for years. While he may […]
I noticed we were getting an inordinate amount of traffic off my last post from the search term “candy crush 201.” Although many of the tips in that post are helpful for Level 201, I thought I’d write something specifically about 201 and how to beat it. Here’s my terminology key for this post: First off, Level 201 […]
If you’re here for level 201, see this post. If not, here’s the original that applies to all levels: The first step is admitting… that you, too, are playing way too much Candy Crush Saga (CCS). Whether it’s on your phone or your facebook, you know this game is slowly ruining your productivity, and maybe even […]
Our duvet cover and sheets were clean for our arrival (per official hotel Post-it): Neither of us could get anywhere near the 10-foot vertical necessary to make good on Marc Cohn’s lyric: Someone in N*SYNC actually plays the guitar (and did so at the Rum Boogie before signing one and leaving it hanging): Gibson makes […]
Almost a year ago, I married my lovely beautiful wife, Kara. Our wedding was the culmination of a just-over-two-year-long, Predator-esque pursuit on my part that began after we met during a small Bible study. (One-sentence love story – see how easy that is, Ted Mosby?) Our wedding was also the conclusion of my life as […]
I was very excited when I set out to write this post. Having suffered through a few episodes of the CW’s “The Carrie Diaries” purely for its purported relation to the Carrie Bradshaw so many of my generation “know” and love, I had the revelation that I had seen not only what came before “Sex […]
St. Patrick’s Day weekend was a time of reflection for me. On that weekend, five short years ago, I was homeless. And it changed my life. I was homeless for at least 6 hours. My apartment was evacuated at about 1:00 a.m. because a tenant on the top floor of the high rise I called […]
Some of you already know, but Dusty is a bit of a cradle robber. We’re about three-and-a-half years apart, which is over two decades in dog years. Most of the time, we don’t really think about it; but, every now and then, a movie reference is lost on me, or we realize a quintessential pop-culture […]
Although this blog is primarily a vehicle for toilet-paper education, we do try to share some personal anecdotes along the way (so it’s not just yet another toilet-paper blog). With that in mind, it would be impossible to give a good account of our marriage thus far without mentioning one of the chief sources of […]
Going from single to married was, not surprisingly, a pretty big adjustment for Dusty and me. After almost two years of committed dating, we were pretty accustomed to each other; but no number of dates, phone calls, IMs, or movie nights could prepare us for living together. Or, to be more precise, for living with […]
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