Kari Neumeyer

Slow going For real? It’s only Tuesday? Looks like this house is more trouble than it’s worth. Sellers are going to have to jump through multiple hoops to get me to buy it. So disenchanted. Still looking. In other news, meet the new Emerald. His name is Stew, but he’s missing toes, so I’m goingContinue reading

Sweet Home B*llinghamaBecause I don’t want to open myself up to being found with the search query B*llingham Re*ltor A week ago we didn’t even know this house existed. Now nothing else feels like it will work. Rob has his heart set on having the club in an outbuilding. So we either have to liveContinue reading

Bleak House Yesterday I could hardly breathe, I was so giddy with anticipation. We found the Perfect House, with a huge shop for our lil side business. But, turns out, the city does not permit our particular kind of business in a huge, existing outbuilding. We’d have to find a way to connect it toContinue reading

The Special People Club Rob teaches an adaptive karate class at a center for adults with developmental disabilities. (Last I heard that was the preferred term, but recently I heard ‘intellectual disabilities’ which I don’t care for.) Anyway. I assist with the class. We have a few regulars, although not all of them retain whatContinue reading

Aborted transaction with a live person Yeah, so the airline people really don’t want us calling them on the phone. We’re going to a convention in Vegas in July. The convention has a deal with American Airlines for us to get 5 percent off the lowest fare. You can’t book this via internet, so IContinue reading

Shakira, Shakira That’s an anagram for “Kari has a rash, ik.” Every time I hear the part of “Hips don’t lie” where Wyclef talks about wanting to speak Spanish, I want to sing “Club sandwich.” Is that just me?

Possible XpoilerIf you’ve gone to great lengths, for some reason, to avoid reading anything about X-Men: The Last Stand.I think I should be Dark Phoenix for Halloween, except that I know from experience how long it takes to rid one’s hair of any kind of red color. And mine is now a satisfyingly dark brown.Continue reading

No Xpoilers We went kayaking yesterday. And saw lots and lots of seals, who poked their little heads out of the water so very close to us. Such big inquisitive eyes. Rob was very impressed with my paddling abilities. So was I, until a few minutes before our 7 p.m. showing of X-Men started, whenContinue reading

Sux and the Citi My oldest living credit card has been given a death sentence. It had been gathering mold in a drawer somewhere for a few years, but I started using it all the damn time after I got mad at my Amazon Visa for failing to send me a new card when theContinue reading

Late to the party I got my first CD player in 1991. First DVD player in 2003. I don’t even have an iPod, but Rob’s had an MP3 player for a while, and today he picked up an old-school iPod at a pawn shop. Does that mean I’m In Da Club? I’ve been wishing IContinue reading