Category Archive for 'Blah blah blah'

Overly wordy answers to FAQ

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

1. How it’s going with the gluten.
First of all, I’d like to say that the word gluten sounds sort of slimy and gross. It sounds like it means little globs of Elmer’s in your food. This visual might help you stop eating gluten if you ever need to.
Not wheat. Wheat is a nice [...]

This isn’t a happy day

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Graham says that every day. Sometimes he is right. Yesterday wasn’t happy, like at all. It wasn’t a happy day. It was a cranky, worrisome, logistical pain in the butt day. It started with crying kids and wet beds and moved into brother fighting against brother until they formed a tenuous alliance long enough to [...]

I’m a rambling man oh yeahhhh

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Last Saturday we shoved the boys and the dog and a great many of our belongings into my tiny toaster of a car and drove to Texas. The original plan was yay! Let’s go wander in the beautiful mountains and islands of the carolinas, but then we wrote four thousand dollars worth of checks to [...]

Now are the taxes.

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

1. Did you know that when you spend money on printing and art supplies you can’t count those as business expenses?? DID YOU? For much of today I’ve felt like throwing up thanks to this wee detail in our nation’s tax code.
All of my raw materials and inventory are considered assets until the year [...]

The heartwarming April fools episode

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

It has been a subplot dream sequence kind of week. On April Fool’s Day someone sent an email inviting me to a very cool thing. I rolled my eyes upward and fixed them on some imaginary point in the upper right hand corner of the scene and sighed a wistful sigh, thinking how nice it [...]