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Archive for April, 2008

(You know you make me wanna shout.)
Here’s the part where I write about losing weight again. First, I must establish a few unequivocal truths in this conversation:
1. I do not have an unhealthy view of my body. If anything, I have a super unrealistic view of my body. Like size six [...]

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My friend asked if we’re still on the vegetable thing. In a word, yes. Which is why my husband has lost over twenty pounds in the past month.
And how much have I lost? Don’t ask. Ok, I’ll tell you: NONE. Which is why I’ve had the following conversation with my [...]

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If you’re like me, you’ve carefully trained your loved ones to do stupid tricks and make complete jackasses of themselves upon hearing certain triggers. Here are a few of my favorites. Enjoy.
1. A flick of a little tinkly bell gets everyone salivating for meals.
2. If I pinch up my nose [...]

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I really want to do a post because everyone hates a blogger who doesn’t write…hate is a strong word, ignores would be a better word and I don’t want to be ignored, except by people who smell bad and also by people who I don’t like and maybe by monsters if they existed.
I never saw [...]

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Everything isn’t all fun and games in the Harrison household. Sure, there’s plenty of raucous behavior, but there’s also the softer side. The side that works on perpetual motion, and breeds mutant butterflies and what-not. Recently, I took time away from my busy Jai alai practices and reanimation studies at the morgue to [...]

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First, I had this idea three days ago. Will said it wasn’t funny enough to post.
Second, I saw THIS first thing this morning. Hmmph.
Third, I have nothing else to say here.
Pope lands in US, vows to fight clergy sex abuse

Plastic bottles could be hurting your babies

Impatient subway riders revolt in Chicago

Armed [...]

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What do you get when you mix a goofball 19 year old girl who likes to sing and also likes to change the words to the songs that she sings and also likes to sing at people and insert their names into the songs, with a not-as-goofy 18 year old boy who’s name is Will [...]

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It’s not a riddle, it’s a legitimate question.
I haven’t been following the whole crazies-down-in-Texas thing too closely, until today, when I read up a little on the madness going on down in Cultville. Here’s what I’m thinking:
1. Teenage girls marrying grown men is bad.
2. Abuse of any form is bad.
3. [...]

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People ask me all the time:
MC Khrysttsee, how did you become North Idaho’s indisputable dominant freestyle rapper?
I always tell them the truth, I was born to rock the mic with my ill rhymes. But becoming North Idaho’s sickest freestyle rapper wasn’t an ez task, yo. It took me years [...]

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When Will and I first moved to North Idaho in 2005, we were very aware of the ‘granolas.’ Granolas are the hippie types. The dreadlocked ones with their pot-smoking, dreadlocked babies slung to their backsides, the braless, shoeless ones, whose husbands have long mangy beards and a I’m-totally-not-digging-the-government aura about them. Oh, [...]

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