Heather Christena Schmidt

I like my dogs. My kids? Not so much.

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STFU Fridays: Winter

February 21, 2014 by Heather Christena Schmidt

Let’s just cut to the chase right here and now: if you are going to get all defensive and up in arms because I’m about to take all the people whining and griping about winter, and shit, to task – just stop. Stop right now. Go back to your fucking pity party, where you sit on your computer looking for deals to tropical places that you will never take a vacation to during the winter; go back to your bitch […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blizzard, changing, Chicago, cities, climate change, comedy, east coast, global warming, humor, ice, life, lifestyle, location, Midwest, plowing, satire, seasons, shut the fuck up fridays, snow, snow sports, snow storm, social commentary, STFU Fridays, stupid people, travel, weather, winter, winter weather

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I Like The Cold

November 26, 2013 by Heather Christena Schmidt

People always look at me like I’m a complete moron when I tell them that I like the cold. As in cold outside, you know: snow, sleet, wind chill. I get jealous when I see that there are blizzards going on somewhere in the world. I live in California. Particularly, Southern California. We have one dial on the weather-o-meter and that’s about it: 70s and sunny. Sometimes we get fog. Occasionally it rains for a few days. Once in a […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: California, holiday, life, lifestyle, living, Los Angeles, Midwest, philosophical, philosophy, random, random post, random thoughts, seasonal, seasons, snow, snowing, Southern California, thanksgiving, thoughts on life, winter

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From California

July 3, 2013 by Heather Christena Schmidt

I take it pretty offensively when people refer to me as “from California.” First and foremost, I don’t really like California. It’s nothing personal against anyone that does – I just don’t gel with it. Secondly, though, I’m just not from there. I’m from Chicago. Get over it. Just because I happen to live in California right now doesn’t mean anything. I would get just as annoyed anywhere said besides where I’m actually from. It’s linguistically wrong. But then there […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: California, Chicago, comedy, community, culture, humor, Midwest, opinions, satire, stereotypes, transplant, travel, vacation

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So I’m On Vacation…

June 27, 2013 by Heather Christena Schmidt

….which means I haven’t had much to say lately. Not because I’ve been on vacation, I just got here yesterday. No, I have had little to say on the ol’ bloggie lately simply because I was getting ready for the trip. Traveling is difficult even on your own. So I’m on vacation. Those of you that have been around for a while know that I’m from Chicago. I live in California now, though (unfortunately), so typically vacations involve the Windy […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Chicago, children, comedy, dark satire, family, hotels, humor, kids, life, lifestyle, Midwest, observations, random post, rude people, satire, social commentary, stupid people, thoughts, train travel, travel, traveling with kids, vacationing, vacations

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Fall Makes Me Homesick

November 1, 2012 by Heather Christena Schmidt

Therefore, it needs to end now. I got really into fall at first. I do every year. I got the pumpkins. And the goards and shit. Halloween was a big fucking fiasco of costumes and events and more events and hayrides. I’ve baked tons of pumpkin-flavored things, and will bake more. We’re even hosting a Thanksgiving-themed open house the weekend before Thanksgiving. But it makes me super homesick too. I miss the falling leaves that give the time of year […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: autumn, blog, Chicago, fall, fall theme, fun fall swap, holiday time, Holidays, home, homebody, homesick, life, lifestyle, lists, Midwest, random post, random thoughts, thoughts, thoughts on life