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 [...]

There are two things you must know for you to full appreciate what I am about to relay to you: 1. I drive a red mustang convertible. 2. I am absolutely certain I look pretty damn hot in that red mustang convertible when I am driving it with the top down. I left work yesterday [...]

Today is the first day of Jared’s new “promotion”. I should be ecstatic, right? Promotions are the things that celebration dinners are made of! Promotions mean more money! A step up! Streets paved of gold and big desks with your name on them! YAY FOR PROMOTIONS! Except. Well. No. Not exactly. Not at all, actually. [...]

If you tell me that you like my earrings, I’ll tell you that I got them for $2 at Claire’s. And probably point out that they are fake. If you compliment me on my outfit, I’ll let you know that I need to do laundry. This is the only thing clean. If you tell me [...]

Every month I wait until I’ve taken the very last blue and white pill before I log into the Walgreen’s website and order my next refill of Cymbalta. There’s no deeply profound psychological reason for this. I’m just painfully cheap. And the longer I can go before I have to shell out another $112 $118 [...]

If there was ever a reason for navel gazing, this is it: My 10 year class reunion is in two months. I’ve gone back and forth on whether or not I’m attending. On one hand, I haven’t seen my mom in six months. On the other, well, I’m not sure what exactly is on the [...]

I’m not leaving my husband. stir of echoes the homecoming divx movie online I feel like I need to make that clear after Friday’s post. And while I’m clearing things up… This blog is a miraculous place for me. When my head is tangled up – in a big way or a small, temporary way [...]

“it all depends on what you want out of life and the attitude at which you look at your current situation. from my eyes it would seem that you have it all: a gorgeous and supportive husband who truly loves you enough to move away from everything he ever knew, gorgeous and intelligent children, your [...]

I think it was about 11:00am yesterday morning when it happened. Everyone on twitter was talking about how they couldn’t WAIT to get to Philadelphia on FRIDAY. I was busy sitting in my office, stewing about the fact that Avitable and I weren’t getting into town until Saturday afternoon. I cannot stand the idea of [...]

Do you ever notice that when you talk about rape or abuse or sexual assault, people come out in droves to tell you that they’ve been through something similar? And no one is surprised. And why should they be? We’ve all heard the statistics. 1 in 6 women (and 1 in 33 men) will be [...]

If you missed the Democratic debate last night, let me bring you up to speed. First half hour: total bullshit Second half hour: total bullshit Oh, wait… was that an issue in there? Nope. Sorry. That was a commercial break. George Stephanopoulos should be ashamed of himself. ABC should be ashamed of themselves. First, ABC [...]

A funny thing happened to me yesterday. (Where “funny” = “so scary and eerie it kind of creeped me the fuck out”.) My head was rolling around all over the place. I was in a funk. And pissy. And pissed. I was thinking about the fact that I feel like I’m hitting a wall with [...]

Do you remember when I said that all this company was going to be awesome? And that I could totally handle it? And that I would totally not lose my damned mine because I LOVE PEOPLE!!!??? Heh. That was three guests, 5 trips to the airport, 2 trips to the beach and 2 amusement parks [...]

I can feel the old procrastination creeping back in. When the depression was at it’s worst, I would go days and days without accomplishing anything. It all just seemed like so much. It was so easy to let each day slip by without taking any action, hopeful that tomorrow would be better. When I first [...]

*alternate title: I told you I get bizarre ass hate like email! Apparently there is a real live Mr. Britt. (As opposed to the Mister Miss Britt whose name is not at all actually Mr. Britt. (Except that it totally is Mister Miss Britt. You know it is.)) And I have made him feel sad [...]