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I'm a dork. I was a dork in high school, but I hated my label so I did everything humanly possibly to de-dork myself. I wore "fashionable" 80s clothes (ick), I bought a car, I even ditched my dork friends for friends lower on the dork-o-meter. I now reali

Recent Posts Tagged With 'haiku'

  • Wedding Day Haiku

    Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 22:10 in , weddings

    I haven't written haiku in this blog in some time. I don't know why. I like haiku. I like writing haiku. I like reading haiku. And as you can tell, I like the word haiku. Haiku haiku haiku.As it happe...

  • Haikuturday! Garage Sales

    Posted on Saturday April 19th, 2008 at 11:27 in

    I love garage sales. Sure, most of them are filled with junk that some stranger doesn't want any longer, and most of that junk is either broken or from the 1970s, but it's all cheap. And I love cheap....

  • It's Hi-Cooter Day! Easter

    Posted on Saturday March 22nd, 2008 at 22:39 in

    I'm a little late, again, in writing my weekly haiku, but I have an excuse: I've been up to my ears in plastic eggs.One wonders where oil prices would be today if somehow we eliminated the demand for ...

  • It's Hi-Cooter Day! Procrastination

    Posted on Saturday March 15th, 2008 at 09:17 in , procrastination

    It's official. Christmas is over.As a good Minnesotan, I kept my outdoor Christmas decorations up well past Christmas, though I had a pretty decent reason: The snow had melted and refroze so many time...

  • It's Hi-Cooter Day! Grilling

    Posted on Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 09:28 in , haiku

    Thanks everybody for letting me take a few days off. And thanks to Feefifoto for being totally fantastic and writing this post right here.It's Haikuturday. This is also the day I get my new grill. I'v...

  • It's Hi-Cooter Day: Dentists

    Posted on Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 11:31 in , haiku

    Everybody is having dental work these days, at least in the blogging community -- based on the number of dental-related posts from the likes of Furious and Mayhem and XBox and probably about a dozen o...

  • It's Hi-Cooter Day!

    Posted on Saturday February 23rd, 2008 at 09:02 in , swimming

    In response to my severe case of Cabin Fever we shall spend a part of today jumping and diving in chemical and urine filled water with a large number of complete and probably disease-carrying stranger...

  • Whoopee! It's Haikuturday!

    Posted on Saturday February 16th, 2008 at 10:14 in , ice skating

    It's Saturday. I'm full of eggs and sausage. And eggs make me write haiku. So you can consider the following post the digestive results of my breakfast. Today's subject: Ice skating.But first let me w...

  • Flying with haiku

    Posted on Saturday January 12th, 2008 at 00:05 in , flying, haiku, traveling

    My apologies for not posting yesterday. I got home from my quick jaunt to Miami late Thursday night and more or less hit the bed as soon as I walked in the door. My brain still hasn't returned from th...

  • Eight Random Things about my cats ... in haiku

    Posted on Thursday August 16th, 2007 at 21:49 in , memes

    As you all know, readers of this blog represent a perfect cross-section of America, if America was mostly white, three-quarters female and frequently called themselves "Canadian." Still, the majority ...