odd little bean

sixth down.

who knew?
i can’t find any of my friends with barack on their lists which makes it all the more hilarious to me.  next stop: the white house.

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craigslist fans out there, i know you’re going to love this one.  here is the response my friend received when he posted his SUV to CL (for $4,500):
Hello,
If you still have your Yukon, please consider my offer.
This is not a scam, I am a real person from Troy Ohio.
I was just wondering if you were [...]

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the current purging season in our home has reignited a debate that nicholas and i had almost 2 years ago.
the great craigslist debate.
shortly after i met nicholas, i was in the market for some furniture.  i found the couches of my dreams (fancy apple green nubby wool ones from softline) for $600/couch or $1,000 for [...]

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autocompleteme

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day 5: drinking and dancing the night away at club caprice in honor of nick’s 30th birthday, we revel in the fact that there are no rules in greece and I can dance on top of couches in bars; but the morning sobers us up when we find poseidon stirring up his sea soup, and [...]

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i haven’t had much time to hop online here, so here is a summary of my first few days in greece in one sentence per day.
day 1: the acropolis is as stunning as you think it is, and spending all night vomiting and diarrheaing greek salad, greek coffee, and baracca is as painful as you [...]

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bliss (unpacking the bags from whole foods and cvs): niiiiiiiiiiiiicholas…ew…you bought PRIVATE LABEL q-tips?  that’s foul.
nicholas: they’re the same
bliss: they are *not* the same.  well…they might be the same, but in this case i don’t think that they are.  dammit.
[bliss goes to the bathroom and puts away the q-tips]
an hour later, bliss goes back into [...]

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i feel the need to address the growing cloud of excitement over the fact that i am getting engaged in greece.
here you go: i am NOT getting engaged in greece.
nicholas and i perfectly happy to live out the rest of our lives in sin.
“hmmph,” you might be thinking to yourselves, “you’re in for a surprise [...]

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i went ahead and bolded my favorite parts.
Dear Bliss,

Thank you so much for your interest in learning more about the opportunity we posted to become our Marketing Analyst.  We have been absolutely blown away by both the number of applicants that applied for this position and the quality of the responses we received.  I can’t [...]

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sometimes all i want for dinner is 5 servings of cream of wheat with orange chedder on the bottom and butter on the top.

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