Tough Crowd
I was resolved to don my big girl panties and drag myself out of the doldrums. I’d been indulging my foul mood, wallowing in the mud of self immolation. I thought I was finished with all that. I felt ready to greet the new day but then there was the thing that happened at Elementary [...]
Bitter Bowl of Punishment
This morning I am settling in to a big old bowl of consternation and regret. The usually delicious golden flakes and sweet granola clusters feel like pebbles in my mouth. The after taste of remorse lingers to remind me of what a first rate asshole I was to O this morning.
Usually, when he and I [...]
Pity Party Encore
So it’s that time of year again…mid-March and the annual guys trip to Sebring is upon us. My Better Half is off today to spend five days and nights sleeping in a camper and living on the slope of a racetrack in central Florida with ten other sweaty, unshaven and heavily intoxicated men. And though [...]
My O and His Existential Crisis
Last week was a banner week. The term banner means “unusually good”. But it can also mean just outstanding. To me outstanding can be good or bad, as long as it’s not ordinary. Last week was outstanding in that it was an advent, the beginning of the second half of my O’s childhood, where [...]
Did I mention that I hate cats?
So resort week is officially over and the whole relaxation thing but a memory. No matter how hard I try to vacation, how completely I shake free of the anxiety and the pet hair and the mundane worries of the day to day, somehow all these things catch right back up with me upon return. [...]
I’m Back and Sun Bitten
I’m back. Well, back in the way that any person is back from a tropical vacation…back to laundry and meal planning, back to the effort of regaining the normal flow of our daily lives, all while trying to right our plummeting moods, fighting the mild depression ushered in by the bleak February sky, the whispers [...]
Weekend
I am not a very nice person when I’ve been a single parent for a five day stretch and I’m also not a very good writer at the end of such an exhausting stint. So I’m going to take it easy today and just do a sort of weekend round-up. Here are some good things [...]
Auditory Ills
Goteeman turned me on to an exam of sorts today and my test scores did not surprise me. The results are in and the kind folks over at BlogThings have said:
You Are Totally Anal Retentive
Yup, you’re so uptight – people definitely have called you “anal.”
You’re the type of person who’s so OCD you organize your [...]
A Fist Full of Lucky
As a parent to young children, I occasionally catch a glimpse of the person each child might become in adulthood. Usually it’s sort of a quiet moment of recognition. O on his first birthday spent the entire afternoon emptying the cooler of ice. He fished around in the chilly depths of frigidity for every last [...]
Waffle-Gate
I’m pretty sure that the menu from the Madmarriage-kitchen needs revision. There’s a fridge full of leftovers that no one is touching. The Baked Polenta with Italian Sausage has gone the way of the garbage disposal after four days under plastic wrap, the Chicken, Asparagus and Lemongrass Stir Fry is still snug in its Tupperware [...]
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