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I’m pretty sure I’m going to be asked to leave any second now

I’m pretty sure I’m going to be asked to leave any second now

My office at home is filled with baby clothes that I’ll never get up the gumption to sell on eBay, mountains of wrapping paper I bought at Target because it was 90% off so I figured it would be fiscally irresponsible of me not to purchase thirty-seven rolls, and boxes from college filled with incense and flannel pants and outdated geography text books, so I have to go someplace else when I want... [Read more]

It was funny… and then it sucked.

It was funny… and then it sucked.

Last Friday night it snowed.  And again, Durham went crazy. This is what passes for treachery down here: The horrors we were facing come Sunday But then Steve put boot chains on his Converse shoes and took care of business. Bad. Ass. Like our snow shovel? It’s highly abnormal for us to get this much snow, so Sunday we went sledding.  Kind of.  What passes for sledding in North Carolina is... [Read more]

Wow, you must be really disappointed.

Wow, you must be really disappointed.

People come to Just Barely for a variety of reasons.  Sometimes they are folks who have subscribed to Just Barely, sometimes they are moms who have spit up on one shoulder, poop on the other, and a beer in each hand, more often they people who are very very bored at work, once a week they are my husband making sure that I haven’t written about anything too idiotic that he’s going to have... [Read more]

Three French hens, two turtledoves, and a bunch of *%$@ in our Christmas tree

Three French hens, two turtledoves, and a bunch of *%$@ in our Christmas tree

At first glance, this looks like a typical, dead-because-no-one-has-watered-it-since-Christmas-day, mid-January Christmas tree.  But the youngest has been singing, “Decorating the tree, decorating the tree, Addison is the greatest at decorating the tree!” and prancing about with strange objects, so let us take a closer look. In other Christmas decoration news, as those of you who... [Read more]

Midwest Girl Survives Winter in the South

Midwest Girl Survives Winter in the South

Midwest Girl Survives Winter in the South: Cold in the Carolinas III If you live anywhere in the midwest or eastern United States you’re likely cold as balls right now. (not sure what that means, but I’m too cold to think it through) I’m typing with gloves on each hand and have each of my feet in a cup on coffee. But if you’re in Durham, there’s one thing you’re... [Read more]


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