The Catherinette Chronicles

Mother Nature has decided to “treat” Baltimore to a really super windstorm today.  It’s as if she knew that my official assessment on the year is that it totally blew.  Thanks, Mother Nature.  Oh, and hey, can you please knock out my power today?  Super.
We’ve officially made it to the last day of 2008.  Thank [...]

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Notice the date: today is the 30th.  My car insurance expired yesterday.  I’m currently sitting at my mom’s house printing the 46 pages of my policy.  Boy, is she gonna be pissed when she finds out that I’ve wasted all her ink on that.  What else could I do?  I don’t have a printer at [...]

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Every year Claude spends Christmas with my family.  After eating our weight in turkey and my mom’s delicious stuffing, we drink bottles and bottles of champagne, it’s time to open presents.  Forget waiting until Christmas morning to open up gifts!  We’re freaking hardcore and rip everything open at midnight.  As he does every year, Claude [...]

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I am a huge procrastinator. 
Why bother doing something that needs to get done when there are so many distractions in the world? 

Kitchen needs to be cleaned?  Oh!  Let’s reorganize my books in alphabetical order instead. 

Bathroom floor needs to be scrubbed?  How about I watch everything on my DVR instead. 

Car insurance need to be renewed by [...]

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May you get everything your dirtly little hearts desire!! 
Merry Christmas!!

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Santa is lord only knows where right now, and that doesn’t matter.  What matters is that in about 15 minutes I’m going to walk out my front door, drive to my mom’s house, and proceed to drink champagne until it replaces the blood pumping through my veins.
We have 6 adults at my house this evening [...]

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I don’t hide the fact that my mom can be “special” sometimes.  I mean lick the window, bang your head against the wall, drool while you talk special.  There’s the time that she told me that John Lennon was going to be on TV every night, and that other time that she thought there was [...]

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Let me start off by thanking each and everyone one of you that has HOUNDED me to finish the story.  Oh, it’s a good one.  Might I suggest that you grab yourself a drink and/or a snack and get comfortable.  Ready?  Here we go…
It’s been over a year since we saw each other.  As a [...]

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You’re going to need this to understand how shocking Monday’s story really is.  Oh, the humanity!!  Seriously, why is it that I always find myself in these kinds of situations?  The crazy part is that this time I didn’t even know I was getting myself into it until way after it was all over.
Let’s take [...]

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No, really, it is.  I don’t know why on God’s green earth spammers feel the need to send their crap in email.  Are there really any people that still fall for that con that the secret uncle they never knew about that lived in Timbuktu just died and left them $70,000,000 and all they have [...]

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