Sonja’s Guide to Life: Yard Work

If you’re like me, you’ve got a pretty firm handle on your household chores like laundry, dishes, and cooking, but the yard is a bit of a baffling thing. I mean, stuff can theoretically grow in the house, but I usually throw out the tupperware it’s in when that happens. So I’m not quite sure what to do with the stuff growing in the yard. But, I’m nothing if not innovative and persistent, so here’s my guide to yard work:

1. Get your significant other/housemate/sister/ailing grandfather to do as much of it for you as possible. This sometimes may involve whining, begging, promising sexual favors, or nagging, depending on the person you’ve chosen to be your designated yard tamer. I’ve never had to go beyond opening the garage door and staring bemusedly at the weed-eater. However, if I have to go further in the future, my next step is opening the gas cans to determine their content by scent, or perhaps shaking them like a mysterious Christmas gift and insisting I can tell which one is which by the swishing noise.

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Weekend One-Liners: Snarf Edition

You people continue to make me snarf my Diet Pepsi:

5318008 (Turn your screen upside down.) … Well, it was funny when I did it on my Texas Instruments calculator in 6th grade… -Rob

Clerk at the glasses store: “hmm. I don’t know about those frames. They kind of exacerbate the eyebrow situation.” -Ben

Worst thing about staying away from caffeine? I would say it’s the lack of caffeine… And the urge to stab people. -Anthony

Brother-in-law wanted me to fax something for him. I told him I’d crawl right into my time machine & go back to 2007 so I could. -Teresa

Tiny Movie Reviews

I don’t have the energy to write long reviews. I write reviews for the books I read, but they’re usually a short paragraph long. Movies I want to spend even less time reviewing. So, here you go: some teeny-tiny Twitter-sized movie reviews of the ones I’ve seen recently…

Cowboys & Aliens: I was sold on the title alone, but it delivered and more. I mean, come on. Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and ALIENS. Sold.

Burlesque: A lot like Coyote Ugly except with more musical numbers. I was ok with that. Also, my fav Stanley Tucci was adorable as always.

My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend: Stab-your-eye-out boring until the very end, but with such a good ending that I was almost ok with it.

When in Rome: Low expectations save the day. It wasn’t good, but it wasn’t nearly as terrible as I’d feared. Plus Kristen Bell is cute.

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