Kara & Michael’s Blog

The first entry in a series.
Michael and I, at my request, watched The Ice Storm this weekend. I had seen one of the strangest scenes from the film before, but not the film in its entirety. I’m not going to talk much about the movie – I think it suffered from its “artistic sensibility.” [...]

Dear American news media,
Please stop using the word “slammed” all the time. I swear, every day there’s a story about somebody slamming somebody else about something. Witness Google News:

I’m not even sure I know what “slammed” means. I have never slammed anyone, nor have I ever heard another human being talk about slamming or being [...]

Michael and I have been infested by those little ants that like to eat sweet things. My aunt had some of these suckers every year, and they never went away until she redid her entire kitchen. No joke. They got everywhere, they somehow managed their way into Tupperware containers of sugar. These suckers do not [...]

From Dear Abby:
Last February, I printed a letter from Marc Galanter, M.D., the director of alcoholism and drug abuse at New York University Medical Center. In it he said: “(W)e know that illicit drug use changes the developing brain. Many young people smoke pot before their brain development is settled, and their chronic use of [...]

I don’t want to talk about it.
I am the same stupid weight. I have been the same stupid weight for two weeks now even though I haven’t cheated with the food. And I would be working out if it wasn’t for my allergic asthma right now. And maybe I’m sleeping too much, but my Zyrtec [...]

I’ve been craving a good swim in the ocean. Longing for the sun and the beach, if only because sand, sun and saltwater feel great on the hives I get due to my allergies. A lot of the local beaches on the bay don’t open until May, and the ocean is a couple hours away.
Enter [...]

I have done a lot of complaining about Verizon on this blog, and since people online only seem to talk about bad experiences they’ve had with companies I feel I should balance out my rants with this: We signed up for FiOS for our home Internet connection (in the face of rising rates from Comcast) [...]

I’ve been reading up on Scientology this morning, and thinking a lot about the connections between that, the FLDS stuff that has been in the news, Waco, and Jonestown. I’ve condensed a few warning signs that a follower of any movement should probably get out of the fold ASAP. Interestingly enough, many of these are [...]

I do Google searches on just about everything. What I’m eating, what I’m looking at, what I’m thinking about, and so on. Not just to waste time, either — it never hurts to learn something unexpected about the topic at hand. Recently Google’s been frequently directing me to Associated Content, which is pretty much the [...]

I belong to a community on a certain blogging site whereby people leave “advertisements” for pen-pals. As of late, there have been more than a few people denying the basic format of the advertisement, in praise of their own poetic nature. It’s more than a little irritating to me, if only because I think letting [...]