A California Girl In Kansas

I don’t often get worked up over a reality television show. Y’all know I’ve watched enough of them for MTV Reality World to really feel much passion for manufactured reality.
Tonight I watched one of my favorite guilty pleasure shows, Jon and Kate Plus 8.  I usually eat some ice cream and curl up under a […]

Here’s my new Tumblog: http://sheasylvia.tumblr.com.  It’s a work in progress and I know that it might not “make sense” for some of you (read: Mom).
Soon to get its own URL and possibly where you’ll be redirected in the not too distant future when you head here.

So you may have noticed that it’s been 15 or so days since I last waxed poetic about anything on here.
It could be that I, like most bloggers, find myself now Twittering more than conjuring up an actual blog post. Plus, trying to cram what I’m thinking/feeling/doing into a mere 140 characters is a […]

The rapid-fire decisions to move to an island and then to NOT move to an island were, in typical Shea Sylvia fashion, poorly planned and financially perilous.  That’s the way I operate.  Generally hoping that it will all work out and that when I check my bank account online, it’s in the black and not […]

Waking up to a gorgeous Sunday morning.
Sunbathing by the pool and reading a deliciously trashy summer novel.
Making lasagna… pretty much from scratch, save the lasagne noodles themselves.
Drinking homemade sangria with strawberries, peaches, limes and fresh mint while you cook the aforementioned lasagna.
Having enough of the most amazing marinara sauce ever tasted left over to top […]

I don’t mess around with my caffeinated beverages.
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A tower o’ Red Bull. And yeah, I drank all of them…
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A few random and crazy things have been happening lately. How random and crazy, you ask?
Well, for starters, Jill and I went to get pedicures two weekends ago and the employees offered us tequila shots. We accepted, of course.
Last night, I went streaking in the rain with a friend who shall remain anonymous. […]

I’m in moving purgatory.
Seriously.
My apartment is in absolute shambles while I distractedly move from one thing to the next, packing, sorting, throwing stuff away and then stopping for a few minutes to pout about the general unpleasantness that is moving.
I think it’s pretty much a well known fact that moving blows.
There are just SO MANY […]

Dear Kansas,
Well, it’s been a good run.  And to think that I didn’t even know where you were located for the first 23 years of my life!  I’m pretty sure that on every geography test where I had to fill out a map of the US, you were one of the pesky states that I […]