I just checked my email – after a day spent away from the computer and spent instead on the Little Big Planet demo – and I was met with an email asking if I’d like to go to this thing in October. A thing that will require me to fly…something I abhor after spending 22… Continue reading What Should I Do About Ollie and My Boobs?
Category: Life
A Wonderful Dinner and a Year Ago
When I pictured this post as I was making dinner and tweeting about how AMAZING it was going to be, I saw brilliantly framed photos of perfectly golden brown pork surrounded by the orange of baby carrots which glistened in butter and the juices from the pork. I saw a pot of lentils that looked… Continue reading A Wonderful Dinner and a Year Ago
Something I Hope I Don’t Pass On
This past week has been hell. I know you just read that sentence and you think that I’m exaggerating but ever since coming back from BlogHer, Cara has had HUGE sleep issues. Three hours of screaming and bitching about her room being “too dark” and “too noise” [noisy] and her saying that she does not… Continue reading Something I Hope I Don’t Pass On
Selfish
*Note – This was originally posted Dec. 9th, 2008. However, I have moved it up so it’s visible again because I have been asked to.* When your average person commits suicide, they do it because they feel dying is the only option left to them. They are at such a point of despair they can… Continue reading Selfish
A Game I’d Rather Not Play
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… Continue reading A Game I’d Rather Not Play
Snorting Bleach
Today I actually got to GO IN some houses that I had stalked looked at on the Internet. We had a list of seven to check out. Seven. I went into it expecting to end the house looking session being all conflicted and not knowing which of the amazing houses we were going to buy.… Continue reading Snorting Bleach
Do You Know the Super Nanny?
One of the very popular topics when I first started writing this blog was Cara and her problems sleeping. Her problem being that she didn’t like sleeping unless she was firmly attached to my boob or strapped on my in her sling. In desperation, I bought Dr. Ferber’s book, read it and decided that it… Continue reading Do You Know the Super Nanny?
My Kingdom for a Can of Bugspray
Many of my dad’s “weekends” were spent at my paternal grandmother’s house. Her house is surrounded by about two hundred acres of deep woods and I can remember many nights falling asleep to the music of cicadas and frogs. Still to this day, those sounds put me at ease and take me back to nights… Continue reading My Kingdom for a Can of Bugspray
A Gimmick is Worth HOURS of Sleep…I Hope
There’s is something especially annoying about being kicked out of a good dream by the thumping of a pit bull tail. That’s how I knew that Cara was in our room this morning. Before we left for BlogHer, Cara had occasionally said that she was scared of her room. It occurred randomly and usually when… Continue reading A Gimmick is Worth HOURS of Sleep…I Hope
My Heel Bled
When you go to BlogHer, apparently you’re supposed to take about a million pictures so that you can remember the weekend since you might be really drunk tired the whole time and that messes with your memory. Unfortunately, I only took two pictures – both of them horribly blurred and neither one of me -… Continue reading My Heel Bled
Lists to Lose and Sick Kids
I’m really good at one thing and that’s procrastination. I got an email from the hotel where we’re staying in Chicago letting me know what the weather’s going to be like [79 on Saturday!] and I got this nervous [but good nervous] butterfly feeling in my gut and it was at that point that I… Continue reading Lists to Lose and Sick Kids
BlogHer Conference 2009
Yesterday I started writing a post about BlogHer and how I’m going and how I’m nervous and want to puke but everyone else feels the same way so it’s OK because we’ll all be puking together and then I saved that post for a later date [today] and when I came back to that post… Continue reading BlogHer Conference 2009