Things That Are Not Cool: >> Having both of your children sick at the same time. >> Waking up in the middle of the night to find one of your children throwing up in your bed.  On your sheets. >> Having to change the sheets in the middle of the night while one of your [...]

Inspired by Finn, and Vanity Fair. Miss Britt and the Proust Questionnaire: What is your most marked characteristic? My need to be heard, which is really secondary to my need to be understood. What is the quality you most like in a man? Excellence.  In anything.  I used to believe it was ambition, but the [...]

Fair Warning: The first person who lectures me after reading this post gets virtually punched in the nose. And with that warm welcome… The old adage says that I’m “burning the candle at both ends”. In reality, I’ve got a freaking candelabra burning up in here. And not a pretty, dainty, simple candelabra like this: [...]

I’ve been a little anxious about this upcoming weekend. You see, here in central Florida it’s time for Avitaween – Avitable‘s ginormous Halloween party where about 100 people, including about 30 bloggers who I happen to adore, gather in costumes for a night of fun and ridiculous behavior. See? A completely rational reason to be [...]

I always feel insanely narcissistic when I do an update on “how I’ve been” or “what I’ve been up to”. And I’m a blogger.  So that’s saying something.  (Because we are inherently narcissistic, I mean.) But, well, LOOK!  BULLET POINTS!  ON HOW I’VE BEEN! (Because I am narcissistic and too lazy for sentence structure.) 0) [...]

I love that I over share.  It lets someone in the world know that they are not alone, or crazy. I love that I am not afraid of pain.  It doesn’t bother me to cry or fight or doubt.  Knowing this about myself makes me feel brave. I love that I laugh.  Hard.  In damn [...]

“Hey, Smiley,” he said as he folded his 6 foot plus frame into the front seat of my two door convertible. Smiley, he said.  And I did.  And in the same instant I forgot about how I had just spent the 30 minute drive over to his hotel wishing I had cleaned out my car.  [...]

I have a problem. A serious, real and actual problem. I have officially run out of room for shoes.  Again. And also? Full. Completely. And that’s before I got these. I mentioned to my husband that we needed to come up with a solution for this problem because I literally do not have room to [...]

I dated a guy in college who was obsessed with movie quotes. He’d send me random text messages with lines from Jim Carrey movies and wait for me to guess the name of the movie.  He’d giggle if I got them right and strut if I got them wrong, impressed with his superior knowledge of [...]

Ladies and gentleman, we have a diagnosis. If you haven’t been following the seemingly never ending saga of what the fuck is up with Miss Britt’s health, this post will make no sense and be of no interest to you. But for the rest of you – who have listened to me whine, bitch, moan [...]

I have a feeling that my life is about to get crazy. Tomorrow I’m heading to Tampa to say goodbye to Anissa, after spending the afternoon at Faiqa‘s baby shower. Next weekend I’m headed to Lexington, Kentucky with Hilly and Adam for ConFab.  I’m looking forward to rooming with Hilly and Becky and having lots [...]

The condensed version of this post is, basically: I had a good weekend. The long version is: Wednesday night I took my last Cymbalta.  My primary care doctor recommended I switch my anti-depressants in order to fix everything that was wrong with me.  My endocrinologist explained that yeah, actually, Lexapro is probably a better drug [...]

I used to be funny. Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you.  I was funny.  I may have been crude and abrasive, but damn it, I was funny. I hate coming to this blog right now because the last post is always “OH! HI!  Let me tell you about my health!” and I [...]

I think it should be a rule that your exercise instructor should look better than you. I mean, I don’t care if she doesn’t have great hair or a pretty face – I’m not completely shallow.  But it seems to me that anyone charged with helping me get in shape should be in better shape [...]

I did not go to the doctor yesterday. The blood work I had done the day before isn’t going to be back until next week.  So, I rescheduled my appointment for next Friday. As much as I want answers and solutions right now – I have to suck it up and act like an adult [...]