My birthday turned out absolutely wonderfully.  Thank you, all of you, for the well wishes and kind words.  Wonderful - all of you.
Anyway, I celebrated last night with a rousing family game of Cranium’s Cadoo.  Yeah, that’s right, cuz that’s what old people DO on their birthdays, ok?  Because I am now much too old [...]

It’s about 9:30am.  So far, so good.
I got my first official birthday present yesterday actually.  UPS had delivered a much needed DVD player.  Mine had become seriously unreliable and I had decided to put off buying a new one until sometime later this spring.  So really, thank you for that.
My mom called me this morning [...]

… and I’m pretty sure my emotional melt down yesterday had to do with some serious nicotine withdrawals.  I did go to the doctor and discovered that smoking can often times be harder for women than men - and that the withdrawal symptoms can be aggravated by hormones.
Apparently, quitting smoking can cause severe depression and [...]

Do you ever get that feeling where your chest tightens, your breathing quickens and you can feel tears welling up behind your eye balls… and you have no idea why?
Please God someone tell me that it isn’t just me.
Normally I’m a “roll with the punches” kind of girl.  I mean, I’m not laid back by [...]

I finally broke down and made a MySpace page.  While I was fiddling around with the page for work, I discovered that “everyone” has a MySpace page.  Even grown ups.  Everyone, but me.
I’ve resisted the MySpace pull for this long because a) I’m not 12 and b) I’m not sure how gung ho I am [...]