Author Archives: Kari Neumeyer

All of life’s decisions I’ve made a fair number of life-changing decisions in my time. I haven’t regretted a single one, and I’m usually able to talk down the self-doubt with considerable confidence. I have an interview next week for a job that, in theory and on paper, I am perfect for. It’s a jobContinue reading

Shiny toys and drafty abodes Without warning, on Tuesday I started having work to do again. Some of it was work I probably should have done during the six-week period prior, instead of obsessing over plumbers and ebay auctions and decidedly not doing any work. If only I’d known that I had this work toContinue reading

Stumped An online survey about TV just asked me if I was the head of my household. I kinda sorta think I am… How to get a man to mop the kitchen floor Place an unopened red wine bottle, preferably a not-very-tasty commemorative label from a past Tulip Festival, on top of the refrigerator, justContinue reading

Lazy Sunday Oh yes. Did I plan this weekend right or what. Yesterday was what may well have been the last beautiful sunny day for a while. I drove out a ways to a farm/nursery and bought myself some Spectabilis bamboo to plant outside Stew’s window. The bamboo not only will give Stew something toContinue reading

My favorite skin doctor The dermatologist who helped clear up my skin in my early 20s, tracing the cause to the iodine in Centrum vitamins, if you can believe it, and prescribing AlphaHydroxy lotion, got so busted by Dateline NBC. No, not for being a child predator. Dateline went undercover to make an infomercial aboutContinue reading

Warm brownie sundaes and Strawberry Shortcake Really feel like pigging out today. During the house buying process, I gave myself permission to have ice cream sandwiches and enormous cookies on days when I felt overwhelmed by mortgage decisions and the initialing of documents. It amused me how obviously I was stress-eating. Oh ha ha ha,Continue reading

More komedy with keys I locked my keys inside the house this morning. (all of them, since I’d emptied my purse of all the spares to the car.) Can’t remember ever doing that before (in the car trunk, yes. In the house? Don’t think so). My college roommate used to do it when I wasContinue reading

The key is the key Rob picked me up yesterday in my car, presumably because he prophetically knew that he’d find enormous Yamaha speakers at Goodwill and we’d need a way to get them home. He brought along both spare keys to my car for some reason. At Goodwill, to make room for the speakers,Continue reading

Latest Nobody told me there’d be additional expenses beyond the down payment!! $1,700 to install a dishwasher? Are you F-ing kidding me? The good news is, we already put the wheels in motion to get the $40 premeasure fee refunded from Best Buy, because c’mon, we don’t want people installing our dishwasher who don’t returnContinue reading