This is my baby brother.
And by baby brother I mean 21 year old college junior who can totally take care of himself and vote and hold a job and probably (but maybe not! probably not even!  we’re going with highly unlikely!) have sex baby brother.
I’m 9 years older than him, which has made me more [...]

Some days I wish I was one of those people who kept personal information private instead of giving in to some insane urge to share anything and everything with anyone who will come close enough to listen.
Today is one of those days.
If I was one of those people with a good sense of proprietary and [...]

I’m not perfect.
None of you are surprised to hear that, I know.  But my point is that not only am I not perfect, but I have no desire to appear perfect.  Not to you or anyone.
There’s too much pressure in perfection.  Besides, most people know it’s a lie, don’t they?  I know I have, at [...]

I think I need about 3 days worth of sleep to catch up from this weekend.
Once that is done, there may be pictures. In the meantime…

Thanks to Kim for capturing this moment from the party, and to Maria and Heather for allowing me to be your back up.

I don’t know if I mentioned this in the last 20 minutes, but when we moved to Florida, we left everything and everyone we knew back in Iowa.
I was pretty sure they would all stay there.
You see, both mine and Jared’s families all live within about a 2 hour radius of one another because they’re [...]

I’m writing this from the holding room in the urgent care. Not the waiting room, mind you. The holding room- where they take your blood pressure and your temperature and promise you that the doctor will be in soon.
And yet you find the time to write a blog post.
(now that I think of [...]

2 Books Down.
2 More To Go.

I am an unfortunate mixture of naivete, judgment and insatiable curiosity.
Never was this more apparent than when a girlfriend invited me to a “Passion Party” this weekend.
What, you may be wondering, is a Passion Party? It’s kind of like those Tupperware parties your mother used to go to. But with dildos.
I was surprised [...]

In four days, I’m headed back to New York City.
It will be the first time I’ve been there with my husband, and only the second time I’ve been there at all. By the end of the weekend I will have logged a grand total of six days in Manhattan in my lifetime.
And yet, in [...]

I have developed a new obsession.
Fall Fashion.
No. Really. I’m totally serious. I am that shallow and superficial.
This weekend alone I purchased three pairs of tights and yet another pair of menswear inspired shoes. I also tried on eight sweater dresses, five cardigans and one trench coat.
This may be a good time [...]

Thank you for the emails and the comments waiting to find out how last night’s Obama event went for me. Here’s the recap:
I didn’t have to phone bank.
You can only call until 8:30 at night, and by the time everyone got there and got introduced and fed, it was pretty close to the cut [...]

I’m not really here yet.  Not really.  Technically.  Not at all.
BUT – I need a quick favor from you…
In less than two weeks Jared and I are heading up to New York City for a quick weekend trip.
And the only thing he wants to do is see the Statue of Liberty.
What should we do for [...]

But it’s all I can think about. So suck it.
I’ve officially gone 24 hours without a cigarette. In fact, I’m well on my way to 36 hours… and then 48 hours…
The magical 72 hour mark can’t come soon enough.
The first 24 hours was hard. Obviously. In fact, it was much harder [...]

They say that you shouldn’t post unless you really have something to say.
They say that blogging should not be an obligation.
I think that They must not have mothers. Or at least, not mothers like My mother.
MY mother calls me and says “honey, I’ve noticed you haven’t responded to comments on your blog for the [...]

I talked to my grandmother Wednesday.
She told me that Emma had cried for me at bedtime. And no one called.
“Everything is fine now,” my grandma assured me. “She’s fine.”
Except, she is not.
My grandma told me she whispers when she speaks. “I can hardly hear her she talks so low!”
Emma does [...]