Taste Like Crazy

This is a two part post since what I had planned on writing about has been usurped by something else; I hate it when that happens. Part one is about me losing weight. Part two is about my dad. Weight Loss Weekend before last, I decided I was going to lose weight. Again. And to be clear, the [...]

About a month ago, my friend Alana [HI, Alana! ] decided that I was going to see New Moon with her. On opening night. Alana really isn’t one of those people you argue with and so I went online, bought my ticket and spent the next month stressing about how Tucker would handle the fact that [...]

Today, the day of Oliver’s make-up one year doctor’s appointment, Oliver decided to have a psychological break. Actually, I think that he and his sister did one of those crazy changaroo things like in that horrible movie with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis where they switch places and all types of zaniness ensues. You know [...]

This weekend was Oliver’s first birthday party. I didn’t say “Oliver’s first birthday” since he doesn’t turn one until the 12 but Tucker will be at Navy Drill this coming weekend and Tucker wasn’t going to miss his son’s party. It was the way that a first birthday party should be. We had cake and ice cream. Chips [...]

I have been young and stupid and have worked many, many different jobs. Some of those jobs I cared about but most I did not. Most of those jobs were more about socializing than rendering a service and my customers were like gnats that annoyed me. So, I get it when I go to Target and I’m [...]

*Note – This was originally posted Dec. 9th, 2008. However, I have moved it up so that it’s visible again because I have been asked to.* When your average person commits suicide, they do it because they feel that dying is the only option left to them.  They are at such a point of despair that [...]

I did something this weekend that I rarely do – I stood up to my dad. It’s not that I let my dad walk all over me, it’s that he’s usually too afraid of me to be an absolute ass in my general direction. I’ve never chased after him with a knife [though maybe he's deserved [...]

It seems like every female friend of mine has had “something” happen to them. I have one friend who watched her mother be raped by an intruder and then she was raped as well. She was 15. I have another friend who was date raped by her first boyfriend. She was 16. Two friends were molested [...]

When I was pregnant with Cara, I cried…a lot. Then, I got pregnant with Oliver and I was probably the angriest that I’ve ever been in my entire life. Anything and everything would set me off and though I knew that most things weren’t as big of a deal as my emotions were making them [...]

I HATE DSL!!! I’m sitting in the parking lot at Barnes and Noble and trying to check my 100’s of emails while Tucker watches the kids at home. It’s not exactly easy to do the whole email thing while I try and watch my surroundings. Imagine how pissed I’m gonna be if someone trys to car jack [...]