Best Of
Here is a representation of Snerkology’s “best” entries, based on reader comments and my own personal opinion (updated 4/22/09).
From the original Snerkology on-line Journal:
September 20, 2000 – Home Sweet Hell
October 5, 2000 – Multifunctional Me
October 15, 2000 – Evil Dust Bunnies of Doom
October 18, 2000 – My Mind Whispers, “Don’t Relax…”
October 21, 2000 – Controlled Chaos -or- Moving Weekend
November 6, 2000 – Comfort Food, Bugs, and Thou
December 2, 2000 – A Change of Heart
December 7, 2000 – O Holy Night
December 21, 2000 – Emerging Patterns
December 24, 2000 – A Real Day Off (plus Christmas party results)
January 2, 2001 – Pigs in a Blanket at 2:00 a.m.
January 5, 2001 – Dawg Talk
January 10, 2001 – Animal Planet Terminology Translator
January 16, 2001 – Waking Up is Hard to Do
January 30, 2001 – Stream of Consciousness
February 3, 2001 – Inner Voices
February 3(b), 2001 – The Saga Continues
February 13, 2001 – 100th Episode Extravaganza!
March 5, 2001 – Energy Sink
March 14, 2001 – Self Image
March 23, 2001 – My Habits, My Weirdness
April 10, 2001 – Letters
April 13, 2001 – A Day at the Phoenix Zoo
May 31, 2001 – Changes in the Wind
June 7, 2001 – Doo bee doo bee doo
June 10/11, 2001 – And then there were three
June 25, 2001 – Letters from Michael
July 6, 2001 – This is Arizona?
July 13, 2001 – Miles Away
July 24, 2001 – Brad
August 15, 2001 – Trying to Relax
August 24, 2001 – Dearest Grammy
September 5-9, 2001 – Aboard the Depot
September 26, 2001 – My August Trip to Maine
September 28, 2001 – The Way of Things
October 23, 2001 – Oak Creek Canyon
November 5, 2001 – Gypsy’s Story
November 5(b), 2001 – Dancing in a Downpour
November 16, 2001 – Me and Marie
November 19, 2001 – Weekend Update
November 28, 2001 – Joyful Hand Holders
December 12, 2001 – Kitten Craving
December 19, 2001 – Lost Moment
January 8, 2002 – Home
January 28, 2002 – Parenting
February 4, 2002 – I Must Bide
February 9, 2002 – Up on the Roof
February 15(b), 2002 – Close Encounters of the Buzzing Kind
February 27, 2002 – Life is lived in moments
March 20, 2002 – Two inches to the left
March 31, 2002 – On the next exciting episode of ER…
April 14, 2002 – L’auberge Resort
April 30, 2002 – Life is what happens
May 13, 2002 – Dearest Grammy
May 21, 2002 – The Lessons of Horse
July 16, 2002 – The Wedding
August 28, 2002 – Irresistible
October 13, 2002 – Never Enough
October 21, 2002 – Loss
November 3, 2002 – Date Night and the Homecoming Princess
December 16(b), 2002 – Just Pictures
February 12, 2003 – A Michael by any other name would smell like feet.
February 18, 2003 – Geeky Peas and High Drama
March 12, 2003 – This is my hometown
April 20, 2003 – Desert Botanical Garden
April 30, 2003 – Dear Liza, there’s a hole.
May 19, 2003 – “Party on, Wayne.” “Party on, Garth.”
June 3, 2003 – How I spent the second day of my summer vacation.
June 14/15, 2003 – Hawaii Entry #1
June 16/17, 2003 – Hawaii Entry #2
June 18, 2003 – Hawaii Entry #3
August 19, 2003 – Footloose and Gas Free
September 3, 2003 – Peace Places
September 22, 2003 – Little Bits
September 28, 2003 – Tiny Perfection
September 30, 2003 – Babysitting Pics
October 5, 2003 – So much love
October 19, 2003 – 35,000 words
November 11, 2003 – Life is like an everything bagel
November 24, 2003 – In which I get knocked down, but I get up again.
December 8, 2003 – Snow Day
December 15, 2003 – The Book
January 1, 2004 – Another one bites the dust.
January 30, 2004 – Mixed Nuts
February 28, 2004 – Today
March 11, 2004 – Good-N-Plenty
April 7, 2004 – I couldn’t make this stuff up.
April 19, 2004 – All baby, all the time
April 23, 2004 – It’s not getting any easier.
May 17, 2004 – I guess it’s time to talk about this.
June 10, 2004 – The Gift
July 7, 2004 – Vodka = Ow
July 17, 2004 – Hi
July 23, 2004 – The first day of 30.
August 15, 2004 – The Weekend in Progress
August 18, 2004 – Three
October 6, 2004 – Out of the deep dark
November 15, 2004 – There and back again.
November 23, 2004 – Devlin and Anthony (Robert)
December 1, 2004 – Cheerios are like tinsel…
December 29, 2004 – Just pictures
February 4, 2005 – Update in reverse
February 28, 2005 – My big fat supreme humiliation
December 4, 2005 – Viva Vivarium
December 29, 2005 – Whistler
February 10, 2006 – Things that make me go GEEK!
March 20, 2006 – Babies everywhere!
April 24, 2006 – “Bayoon!” “What the hell.”
April 27, 2006 – For Lilly
April 30, 2006 – More pictures for Lilly (and Michael)
May 4, 2006 – Baby bottoms and food disasters
May 28, 2006 – And then there were eight
July 6, 2006 – Enumerate
July 24, 2006 – Steal my sunshine
August 21, 2006 – What really matters
Stuff originally from Colloquial:
November 11, 2003 – Probably fraught with meaning
April 30, 2004 – Prayers at work
May 14, 2004 – A memory for later
May 15, 2004 – Productive Saturday
June 4, 2004 – Crazy
June 11, 2004 – There goes my hero
October 30, 2004 – Saturday fun
Stuff originally from Snerkology – The Weblog Version:
March 9, 2005 – From Where I Sit
March 11, 2005 – That Damn Cat
March 18, 2005 – Spam, AZ TUS-con, and furniture
May 13, 2005 – Busy, Seriously
June 1, 2005 – 42
July 8, 2005 – Love. Joy. Happiness.
July 25, 2005 – A Very Unmerry Birthday
September 11, 2006 – In Respectful Memory
November 11, 2006 – Still the Same Old Us
December 12, 2006 – Oof and other subject matter
January 5, 2007 – Temper
February 7, 2007 – The kids (aka: “It’s My Turn to Bitch”)
March 12, 2007 – Red Rocks, Creek Obsession, and Thee
March 29, 2007 – I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand
The month of May, 2007 – Our trip to Maine (start from the beginning of the month and just keep going!)
June 24, 2007 – There and back again
August 5, 2007 – Our trip to Oregon
September 19, 2007 – Many Things
September 28, 2007 – Ozzy’s BFF
November 7, 2007 – Yet another day in the life
January 8, 2008 – Honorable Mentions
Stuff originally from Snerkology on WordPress:
January 17, 2008 – Family Drama
January 19, 2008 – Such is life
February 11, 2008 – It started over coffee
February 26, 2008 – Nonpoint
March 15, 2008 – Evidence of our existence
March 19, 2008 – Reader question #1
March 21, 2008 – Reader question #2
April/May 2008 – Saga #1 – The story of my ex. Part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, and epilogue.
May/June 2008 – Saga #2 – The story of how Calvin and I came to be. Prologue, part one, editorial note, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, and epilogue.
July 14, 2008 – Roughed it. Survived.
July 24, 2008 – What are YOU doing for the next hour?
August 2, 2008 – Date Night
August 29, 2008 – Some Jazz and a New Friend
September 2008 – Guest Entry Series. Taoist Biker, Jayne, Kim, Sharon, and Megan.
September 27, 2008 – Since I’ve been gone
September 29, 2008 – Done gone up to Flag
October 9, 2008 – Xanax and whisky and the art of emergency preparedness
October 22, 2008 – Aging Affirmation
October 29, 2008 – Back to basics
November 11, 2008 – Basket Case, Party of One
November 13, 2008 – PETA doesn’t live here
November 23, 2008 – Vampires and Beer!
December 15, 2008 – The continuing story of a quack who’s gone to the dogs.
December 27, 2008 – C is for cookie. And christmas.
December 30, 2008 – Let’s review – a pictoral
January 14, 2009 – inside
January 16, 2009 – Interview with the blogger
January 18, 2009 – First Quarter Footblog
January 28, 2009 – On Parents
February 1, 2009 – Superbowl Footblog – a streaming entry
February 14, 2009 – Love to love ya, baby
February 14, 2009 – deux
February 23, 2009 – You’re about to drool. Prepare yourselves.
March 19, 2009 – Five.
March 27, 2009 – I’d rather have a bottle in front of me













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