My birthday isn’t until tomorrow, but I decided the other day what I was going to buy myself with my birthday money (Thanks, Dad!). A Roomba! It’s going to take some work to make sure Isis isn’t completely traumatized by the thing, which we wouldn’t even need if she could keep her damn fur onContinue reading “Best birthday present ever”
Author Archives: Kari Neumeyer
IM gaffe
Imagine you’re my coworker, corresponding with me on our newly downloaded instant message application. We’re firing messages back and forth while I copy edit the newsletter. After a few moments of radio silence, the following pops up from me in your instant message window: We bury our dog poopin a little doggie composter. I can’tContinue reading “IM gaffe”
Guilt ridden
Yesterday, I suited up in matching sky blue rain paints and raincoat to walk Isis. It was blustery and raining, you see. You’da thought she’d never been outside the house before, she was so enchanted by all that she saw (and smelled, no doubt). I don’t think she walked beside me for two steps theContinue reading “Guilt ridden”
I was wrong
I thought by the time she turned 1, Isis was going to be 100 pounds, or at least 90. Nope. She’s just 67 pounds. Even after having a medium vanilla ice cream from Dairy Queen to celebrate her first birthday yesterday. Happy birthday, Princess!
Business trip
Really, there’s no reason why all hotels don’t have wifi. Here I am, in a spacious suite, by myself, in a one-stoplight town, on business. Four of my coworkers and my boss are in similar suites in same hotel. The sixth person in our department is in her own home, five minutes away. We’re callingContinue reading “Business trip”
Fake acupuncture nearly equal to real deal
I knew it! Eastern medicine is bogus. AP – Fake acupuncture works nearly as well as the real thing for low back pain, and either kind performs much better than usual care, German researchers have found. Wait, what?Almost half the patients treated with acupuncture needles felt relief that lasted months. In contrast, only about aContinue reading “Fake acupuncture nearly equal to real deal”
Loving too much
Or, OCD is the best diet ever. Oh, Adobe InDesign, I can’t tear myself away from you. I’m starting to feel weak from hunger, but I can’t bear to go to lunch until I get that column of text perfectly aligned with the top of that photo. I need to make the photo smaller, andContinue reading “Loving too much”
Fashion backward
While waiting for Rob to finish uploading the entire contents of his cassette collection to digital format and then to his iPod, so we could watch Prison Break, I watched an episode of Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. The subject was a mother of two who wore nothing but capri pants and T-shirts. As theContinue reading “Fashion backward”
Grave dreams
The other night, I had one of my standard getting-ready-to-go-somewhere-but-I-don’t-have-time-or-enough-space-in-my-bags-to-pack-all-my-shit dreams. It had a couple of unusual twists in it, but the one that doesn’t really make sense to me is that I was looking out the window from a bathroom in the building where I used to work at the University, and there wasContinue reading “Grave dreams”
Mental tetris
Ahh, my favorite kind of work day. Aside from the ones where I’m taking pictures on a beach all day. I’m designing the second half our our magazine and I’m totally mesmerized by InDesign. I can sit here all day and move little boxes around. I can’t pinpoint it, but it looks better in thisContinue reading “Mental tetris”
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