I’ve been too busy to post tonight. Janie suggested we clean the house because it was starting to get pretty messy. I just can’t pass up that kind of offer, and by that kind of offer I mean an offer from my wife to do something besides take a bath or watch The First 48 or give me guff. This is what marriages are made of, single people – you take what you can get when it’s offered because you know it’ll be another 7 months before …

Costco and Target are two stores I shouldn’t be allowed in. They are like a black hole for my money, where it gets sucked in, never to be seen again. Target has so many things. Things I don’t need but things that I might need, like that nut roaster. Long ago, before Ellen DeGeneres was Ellen, before Yep, I’m Gay and before you were born, she was a stand-up comedian. She put out a CD titled “Taste This” and there was a bit about looking in …

But good lord, are those little country girls a fertile bunch.

Several years ago I was inspired by the Disgruntled Housewife to make a list of 100 things I wanted to accomplish the following year, and since the early 00′s I’ve kept up with it and, only once, managed to cross off more than half. Janie has started coming up with lists of her own so that we could ignore our goals together, as a couple. Because isn’t the point of marrying a lady so you can have someone to share your failure with? I’ll be spending the …

I’ve had a difficult time getting into the holidays this year. Since I’ve been an adult, my Christmas spirit has been a little slow to take hold. Maybe it’s because I no longer wake up to mountains of gifts, check to see if Santa ate his cookies, and can’t lie to someone about having woken up to him putting gifts under the tree. I tried that one on Janie and she caught on pretty much right away.
I went shopping with my mom last weekend and managed to …