Killing the Blues

I am doing ok.
Some things that are helping:
I’m taking an hour to myself, every evening, and running three miles on the treadmill while I watch the Wire on my laptop.  Even though it’s hot as hell, this fixes my mood right up, and it gives me immense hope for a workable routine.  I can do [...]

I Hope You Know, I Hope You Know, This is Nothing To Do With You

I’ve got some figuring out to do, myself and I.
I’ve become obsessed with One Tree Hill lately.  Beyond obsessed.  I watched all the clips I could find on You Tube, the best bits from seasons One through Five weeded out by someone with too much time on their hands.  I searched for spoilers online, I [...]

Aw. You Don’t Like Me! You Really Don’t Like Me!

Can I confess something to you all?
I’ve been writing this blog for darn near four years and in all that time, I have never gotten a mean comment.  I’ve had zero trolls, I haven’t deleted anything.  No one came by anonymously to rain on my parade.
And I felt really left out.
Clearly I spew out enough [...]

Gifts

I have a few hopes and dreams for my kids.
I hope Eli is a runner.  I can’t tell you how I wait for the first time I see a “Go Mom’ sign held for me on the sideline of a race somewhere, or the first run we run together, or the first time he kicks [...]

Getting There From Here

I have no idea how it got to this point, but I am not happy with the road I’m walking down.
I have no idea how to dig myself out of this, how to get myself back to being a runner, to feeling pride in my body and what it can do, to get myself back [...]

I Can Only Think of Sort of A Dirty Title For This But I Thought It Was Too Innapropriate*

My husband just tried to hide his Otter Pop wrapper in a plant pot in the living room!  !!!! Good god.
Speaking of the living room, we have the worlds most awkwardly shaped living room, I believe I have mentioned that before.  This weekend we had an enormous fight in which I believe I was referred [...]

Olympic Hangover

Is anyone else so ready for fall?
Fall is just such a movie season, at least in my head.
I like to sit around while I’m sweating balls and sucking down another Extreme Gulp full of lukewarm Diet Coke and romanticize fall. You know, in my spare time?
I’ve already scienced out a project involving my front steps, [...]

Stung

Yesterday was not a good day.
Eli got stung by a bee.
And I know.  In the grand scheme of things, in the face of pain and death and abuse and loss and all the horribleness out there in the world, this is not a major trauma, and also probably not something I should still be shaken [...]

American Pie

So last weekend Mr. E and I packed up a ton of totally unnecesary shit and folded ourselves into our tiny Jetta and drove on over to Sausalito to check out the Heath Tile Factory and then have a picnic with some friends of ours brave enough to eat our food and help us wrangle [...]

Permanent Lifetime Ban – Updated

Do you ever feel like the world is just one big joke that you don’t get? Like maybe somewhere someone once thought something was funny and everyone else was afraid to look stupid and admit that they didn’t get it so they just pretended it was funny too and then we everyone laughed SO harrrrrrrd [...]