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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Misfortune, Grumpy Bear | 6 Comments
For the first 19 years of my life, I never had a cavity. My mother, who’d grown up poor and without regular access to dental care, was a stickler for the 6-month checkup. Every time we’d go to the dentist, I’d come home smiling and smug, while my sister had to go back for […]
Friday, April 20th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Commentary, Misfortune, Grumpy Bear | 1 Comment
I went to my precious post office for the last time yesterday. It closes today in preparation to be torn down, along with several other buildings in downtown Tuscaloosa, to make room for a new - and totally unecessary, since they just remodeled the old one - mammoth federal courthouse complex.
Along with the relatively unattractive but […]
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Misfortune | 1 Comment
I’m feeling like a weather girl lately. Some really bad storms came through Alabama, killing 10, including eight high school students in LA (lower Alabama).
All the schools and many of the businesses in town shut down early to let everyone get to their homes before the storms hit. My office let us out AFTER the tornado […]
Saturday, February 17th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Misfortune, Wishing, Shopping Disease | 1 Comment
We got a depressing gas bill in the mail this week. $298.54. That’s a $100 increase over the previous month and, more importantly, a $100 increase over the same month last year.
This winter we’ve kept the thermostat on a not-so-balmy 63 degrees, instead of the 59-60 (with the occasional splurge to 61) degrees we […]
Friday, February 16th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Misfortune | 1 Comment
I’m switching my blog to Wordpress because I got sick of the Blogger Beta drama. I’ve been struggling for days to make this site do what I wanted it to do. Thanks to a wayward } in my CSS, the sidebar kept pushing the main bar down the page when I viewed it in […]
