We listed the condo Friday before last and in the couple weeks leading up to that moment, there was much to do.  SO MUCH TO DO.  There was painting, packing, painting, staging, painting, cleaning, painting, sighing – a lot of sighing, and then MORE PAINTING.  This was not unlike the last time we put the condo up for sale with the notable exceptions of me not losing my mothereffing mind and the things we painted then were different than the things we painted this time.
Janie is currently car-less and she …

Janie and I have each become fans of the Tumblr blog The Ex Factor which is, “a compilation of AIM Instant Message Buddy Chats between two people you’ve likely never heard of. Stephanie and Adam are longtime exes. After a tumultuous, on-off relationship, which culminated with them living in misery in a one bedroom Sherman Oaks apartment, behind the Ralphs, the couple split up over Labor Day weekend, 1999. He kept the apartment, she kept everything that was in it.  Since that time, …

I spent Friday evening at the vet with our cat Ducati.  I’m thinking I should start a vet tally for each of our pets down below so we can all see what astronomical figures we are paying to keep these four assholes alive.  The I’m going to add up all the numbers and sit down with each of them to discuss a reduction in force, because these are tough economic times and while we have done our best to keep things at the status quo, it has come time to …