startswithanx | August 20, 2010
Have you ever been friends with someone for a long time on Facebook and decided one day that they have a very obvious favorite child? I can think of three chicks off the top of my head who have all but cropped the rest of their kids out of family photos and held the one up [...]
startswithanx | August 10, 2010
So, I’ve been thinking more and more about the “first dance” song for our wedding. The more I think about it, the more I think it’s a ridiculous ritual. Why the hell do people want to spend three minutes and 45 seconds of their lives watching us rock back and forth while holding each other [...]
startswithanx | August 5, 2010
As an adult, getting the Facebook friend request from the woman who birthed you is probably the teenage equivalent of having her chaperone prom. You want to drink the spiked punch, talk ish about the queen’s dress and enjoy the theme song from under the bleachers, but … um … SHE’S watching. How can you [...]
startswithanx | August 3, 2010
Jake and I both have a tendency to act like Penny is human. Not just human, but a little human that came as the result of our combined DNA. Also known as our child. We like to say she gets her allergies from Jake and her surprising athleticism from me. Her dislike of people in general [...]
startswithanx | July 16, 2010
Remember when you were a kid and you’d find out something really awesome just happened to one of your friends? Something that made you wonder why God liked them more than you, like she got her period before anyone else in your “group” or something really “neat” like that?
Remember how you’d reply? It went something [...]