On the left side of the sanity bell curve
I have lots of feels tonight, people so you’re basically going to serve as my best-friend/therapist/sounding board/something. Just listen. Err…read. And if you’re feeling all TL:DR, you can get to the main point by clicking here. This is a rather long, ranty, gif filled post of awesome but I know some of you can’t handle… Continue reading It’s Not OK To Let Your Dog Run Loose and You’re an Asshole If You Do
When you’re a gifted, worrying, perfectionist seven year old kid, sometimes all that worry can literally make you sick. I figured listing out the things that WERE going to happen (but maybe she was worried they wouldn’t) would give Cara, my kid, a few less things (20, actually) to stress over. Seems to be working. Maybe it’ll work for you, too. Even if you’re not a seven year old girl.
Even though there hasn’t been much new content here, I haven’t stopped writing. I got back into the habit of writing things out long-hand in my notebooks. This is how I started way back when I first started Taste Like Crazy. Cara was a (rather loud) baby then and I would sit on our porch… Continue reading On Partly Filled Notebooks and Corn Shuck Dolls
There’s a double-edged sword thing when it comes to being diagnosed as “cyclothymic.” On the one hand, I count my damn blessings I’m not Bipolar I or II; I cycle too quickly to meet the criteria for either. On the other hand/edge/whatever, I’m still left with murmurs of the aforementioned disorders and they still dick… Continue reading Channeling the Ant: I Promise It’s Not What You’re Expecting
I started The Fault in Our Stars last night. I stayed up until 3 am and finally drifted off to sleep on a wet pillow. Tucker and I have been longtime fans of John Green since we first discovered the YouTube channel he has with his brother Hank. Anyway, I was telling Tucker how I’m… Continue reading Are the Only Good Writers the Writers Whose Work Evolves? Let’s Discuss.
From my Facebook page this morning: After the millionth surgery on the Keurig, it’s dead to me. Tried to make coffee on the stove in a pan. Fail. Don’t be taken in by the yummy looking coffee; this tastes like dirty water. NaNoWriMo and I have broken up. I’m bummed I’m not going to complete… Continue reading Crappy Coffee and Shooting
Today is the last day of Cara being five. This is the bag Mom bought Cara for her birthday tomorrow. Cara has decided she’s going to use the bag as her backpack. Tomorrow is her party; we’re having it at the local hands-on science center. We’re paying for it but the package includes the cake… Continue reading Happy Last Day of Being Five, Cara!
Today was the first day of NaNoWrimo and I’m pretty sure I done good. I met my writing goal for the day–2k words–and identified a bunch of holes I missed. Like three important characters that didn’t have names and two organizations that also didn’t have names. I fixed the people naming issue but the organizations… Continue reading NaNoWriMo Day One Halloween and the Halloween Wreath
I’ve been sitting on almost 30,000 words of a book for the past year. I know I need to go back in and add some stuff to the beginning and I’m lazy and then have a tendency to edit because I feel I need to reread what I have written so I’m familiar with the… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2012: Let’s Write and Be Awesome
Education and learning are two things we value in this household. We also value things like bacon, really good coffee and hours and hours of sleep but believe that last one is kind of like a leprechaun – mythical. Sunday morning was a lazy morning. We had planned on getting random groceries and then going… Continue reading American Culture is to Blame for Bad Schools
