A week or two ago, Hall of Fame Commenter Tonya, of Going To Mensa fame, informed me of two things: She also writes for The Mouthy Housewives. She has lost her fucking mind.

I base that last one on the fact that Tonya asked me to be a guest on their site and answer a question submitted by a soon-to-be-former-reader because, let’s face it, what I don’t know about women, relationships, and healthy sex lives could fill the Grand Canyon and still leave plenty of room for what I don’t know about raising kids.

But head on over and check it out for yourself. Stay a while, read the archive, click on lots of advertising. I get a kickback. (Actually, I don’t, but I should! Tonya? What the fuck?)

Ok, take me to where the magic happens!

My birthday is on Thursday, and to celebrate the 14th anniversary of my 29th birthday, we are going to head out of town and spend a long weekend up in the mountains north of Phoenix. This will give us an opportunity to get away from our normal day-to-day lives, spend some time with each other (and some good friends who are coming with us), and do something about the fact that in a recent study, the United States came in 56th in a poll of the drunkest countries in the world. Fifty-sixth! This, quite frankly, is pathetic. I don’t know who commissioned this poll (because I was too hammered to read it), but obviously the people compiling the data completely missed my house on New Year’s Eve, Arizona State University, and Boston. Continue reading