“Spousal problems”
If I can be honest here, I think that as an “oilfield wife,” I’m pretty bad ass. I handle being alone for long periods of time well, and I (rarely) pitch a fit about the erratic schedule, inability to...
View ArticleReal Housewives of the Oilfield
Get your shirt here. I stumbled across this today. That’s right. A casting call for a new Texas-based reality show about oilfield wives. I already have the shirt. Which, as a side note, is amazing. The...
View ArticleThe Oilfield Arm Candy Guide to … Spring Break-Up
(First I would like to point out that I’m writing this from a plane. With real Internet and everything. Online shopping at 30,000 feet! What a time to be alive.) (I would also like to apologize to my...
View ArticleOilfield Arm Candy goes Cashmere & Camo
Hey, fellow oilfield arm candies – how’s it going? Surviving spring breakup? Making a dent in that ‘honey do’ list? I have been swamped preparing for what could be the world’s most obnoxious vacation...
View ArticleSister Wife
I have been campaigning to hire a cleaning lady for a while now, with no success. Tanner’s argument – yes, the one that is gone most of the time – is that we don’t “need” one. “We’re not those people.”...
View ArticleThe Silicone Curse
I had a minor meltdown last week, brought on by a seemingly innocuous request to join a Facebook group. It seems that the class of 2005 wants to start thinking about its 10-year reunion. Ugh. It’s not...
View ArticleDP, balls and ambi-turners
Tanner had picked me up from work and we were in traffic on the way home. I was struggling to make sense of all the acronyms on my MLB app to see what had gone down during the Red Sox game earlier that...
View ArticleHeavy on bacon, taxidermy and disappointment
Because I have little interest in making money off this blog (and have no idea how to go about it even if I did), I don’t really pay attention to the statistics of who is reading or how they got here....
View ArticleWhen blue jobs turn pink
In my house, there are no ‘pink’ jobs or ‘blue’ jobs. They tend to fall into the following categories: 1. “Blow-It-Off Jobs.” Things that can wait until the next time Tanner is home. These are...
View ArticleHoney, I’m home.
I started working on my MBA in January, going to classes in the evenings. Between school, work, horse and dog, my little blog has been sadly neglected. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t had my share of...
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