Your resident sleuth and girl wonder is hot on the trail of a missing body part. My mother came down to visit on Friday and we had a conversation that was so surreal that when I relayed it to Husban-dito he told me to post it on CWG without delay. Without further ado, I present [...]
Archive for September, 2009
The Case of the Disappearing Top Lip: A CWG Mystery
Posted in family, humor, life, tagged conversations with my mom, family, humor, i love my mom, laughing, life, missing top lip, mothers, no top lip, shave off a moustache on September 27, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Little Blue Men: The Smurf Renaissance
Posted in Travel, life, television, tagged azrael, cartoons, gargamel, i love the smurfs, life, old cartoons, old toys are popular again, peyo, schleich, smurfberries, smurfette, smurfs, smurfs are back, toys, vanity smurf, vermont country store on September 24, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Picture it: New Jersey, 1983. A young CWG is glued to her television on an early Saturday morning, mesmerized by miniature blue people who resided in mushrooms(!!!). The fearless leader of this community, Papa, donned a red get-up. Typically, he could be found in his laboratory mixing up potions that required excessive amounts of Smurfberries, as I recall. [...]
It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That BLING
Posted in family, tagged anniversary, bling, fun, funny, handstamped name necklace, life, marriage, name necklace, necklace, weddings on September 20, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Husban-dito and I will be celebrating our wedding anniversary on Tuesday. In the spirit of instant gratification and not being able to wait for ANYTHING, we’ve already exchanged gifts. We’ve been married for eight years (together since September 1992). According to the ‘Anniversary Gifts by Year’ chart, we should be giving bronze(traditional) or linen(contemporary) gifts. [...]
Greetings From Asbury Park
Posted in Travel, family, life, tagged New Jersey, beach, Asbury Park, Asbury Park NJ, pictures of Asbury Park, The Stone Pony, pictures of the Stone Pony, Asbury casino, Asbury convention hall, ghost towns, boardwalks, curlywurlygurly on September 14, 2009 | 11 Comments »
My parents (finally) made it to the beach this year–it only took them the whole summer and then some. They met up with my uncle who, aside from living in a beach town, is an avid metal detectorist. My dad brought his metal detecting machine and the two boys were off down the sand. I [...]
Gore and Carnage: Fun for the whole family!
Posted in life, tagged blood, cyst, getting my cyst cut out, ghoulish, gore, i love to see surgery, pain, pictures of sebaceous cyst, pictures of surgery, removal of cyst, sebaceous cyst on September 9, 2009 | 12 Comments »
FAIR WARNING: THIS POST IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART AND INCLUDES GRUESOME PHOTOS AND GRAPHIC LANGUAGE. You have been warned.
I’m a self-admitted ghoul and positively adore prodding and picking at zits. I harbor a twisted desire to perform at-home surgery on ingrown hairs and splinters. My father has a ganglion cyst on his wrist [...]
