startswithanx | July 26, 2010
I think I’ve mentioned before that Jake and I work together. Well, we don’t so much work together as we do just work at the same place. It has its ups (being able to not just listen to the other person talk ish about a co-worker, but actually contribute to it) and it has its [...]
startswithanx | July 23, 2010
There’s something that’s been bothering me for a while now. About 10 months to be exact. It comes down to exclusion. It comes down to a private club I haven’t and won’t be invited to join. It comes down to the dog park, my friends.
A group of men gather there around 7 a.m. every day. [...]
startswithanx | July 21, 2010
I never knew condolences could be offered for things besides, like, deaths in the family. But, since Friday I’ve learned that Hallmark probably makes a card for people whose houses have been burgled. (P.S. Can anyone use ”burgle” in a sentence with a straight face?) We got a ton of text messages and phone calls and just facial expressions [...]
startswithanx | July 18, 2010
Jake’s heard his fiancee talk a lot about what she DOESN’T have lately. About the money she doesn’t make, the neighborhood she doesn’t come home to and the lifestyle she doesn’t live. He’s had to build a case for what we DO have. How unfair is that? Having to tell the woman you’re going to marry why she SHOULD BE HAPPY with [...]
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 [...]