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You must not have mice gnawing in your walls all night while you try to sleep.

As I’m sure you’ve heard, that remarkably accident-prone Costa Cruises (owned by Carnival, actually) just had another ship go haywire on the high seas. (Side note: I love the term “high seas.”) Right after the Costa Concordia tipped over off … Continue reading →

Everyone should be somehow recycling their print paper after they use it. However, if you are recycling personal emails or other sensitive forms, remember that some people pull paper out of the recycling bin to use as scrap paper. I … Continue reading →

I live in a basement apartment, and my windows are too high on the wall for me to set anything under them for the dog to perch on and look out the window. So he spends all day, every day, … Continue reading →

I’m not going to lie to you. Almost all dogs eat discarded food on the street. Lots of dogs eat vomit. And some dogs even eat poop. They say poop eating is a result of a dietary deficiency that they … Continue reading →

I saw some nasty, sloppy-drunk men loitering on the front steps of a masonic building on my walk home last night (at like 5 in the afternoon!), and true to form, one of them was urinating against a cement slab. … Continue reading →

After not having gone to the actual dentist since 2006, and not getting my teeth cleaned since 2009 (by a Baltimore County community college student), I finally went to get a checkup and cleaning yesterday. And you know what? My … Continue reading →

I have a couple of fb friends who literally cannot walk out of their houses without posting pictures of what they did on facebook. I get it! You are the most popular person IN THE WORLD! Posting photos of every … Continue reading →

As you know, I don’t usually make new year’s resolutions because I know I won’t keep them. Or I’ll make dumb ones like “give up healthy food.” But this year I made two: 1) Try to stop making overarching, declarative … Continue reading →

I don’t see it nearly as much as I used to, but I still occasionally do: distressingly overplucked eyebrows. It seems to rear its ugly (and I mean ugly) head the worst in girls from my generation and from the … Continue reading →