Break

I took my drivers test this morning. I failed it, so that’s that.
Try again later, I guess.
I need a break, from some things. I am consumed with an overwhelming desire to get away from myself, but I can’t figure out how to do that, so I am going to take a little break from [...]

Blargh

I have to wake up tomorrow and do something that I really really really really don’t want to do, something I’ve been putting off doing for sixteen years.  I am so incredibly nervous about it that I am not really certain how on earth I’m going to be able to sleep and I might have [...]

I Told You I Was Going To Do It And I Did – ETA Photographic Evidence

I just had a little bit of a grown up tantrum and cut off all my hair. It looks rather terrible, but I feel oddly as though it would have looked terrible no matter what – I wanted it really really short, probably too short, and at least this way I didn’t have to pay [...]

I Wear Yoga Pants on the Outside When I Feel like Yoga Pants On the Inside

Remember when I freaked out the other day and got rid of a whole bunch of clothes?
The final item that landed on the top of the heap was a pair of $12 Old Navy yoga pants. I’d bought them in a fit of despair right after Eli was born, and even thought they were [...]

Random Six

Jennie tagged me for this meme and since this is really nothing more than an excuse to talk about myself even more than I normally do, well, that makes us all winners.  Except for you, of course.
SIx Random Things About Me
1.  If I wait too long in between hair cuts, I always get an irresistable [...]

I Am About to Become Best Friends With IKEA

Sorry for the most boring post in all of Boringland, but for my own sanity I needed to put the (potential) house to do list down in writing.
1. Buy a new front door, paint it red. New doorbell. New door knocker.
2. Hang basket of nasturtiums on the front porch
3. Plant a lemon tree in the [...]

I Was There In the Room*

I’m a writer, born and bred, but even I sometimes wonder if there are experiences so profound that they are beyond words.
Regardless, words are what I have, and so I will do my best.
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The moment you were born, Elena, I was there, in the room.
I held your mother’s hand and she was holding your other [...]

Emotional Breakdown Two, Electric Bugaloo

So yesterday afternoon was not good.
I was burnt out and tired and I have had A LOT of solo baby time lately and buying a house is mega super uber stressful.  Everyone and their mailman has an opinion for me and I alternate between thinking “Oh dear god, please let them not agree to move [...]

The Great Plant Escape

If I could change any one thing about myself – if I could keep any one thing from being passed on to my children, it wouldn’t be my fat thighs or my brown hair or my height (I’m 5′2″ on a good day). I wouldn’t change my stubborness or my proclivity for bad [...]

God, I Do Love A Bargain

Remember when I posted about how much my skin was pissing me off?
Since then I decided I would take a radical step that I had been considering for some time and I decided I would stop slathering my skin with various drying agents and acids and I would just wash it twice a day with [...]