I do my best self destruction in the winter. I try to keep myself occupied and happy-ish by any means necessary. I always fail because I usually turn to other people to entertain me and keep my mind off my inconceivable sadness. And every year I tell myself I’m not going to do it. I […]
Anxiety is like snowflakes. They say no two people have the same exact symptoms. “They” are probably right. Mine usually include a terrifying dread when I wake up every morning that I am going to get to work and I will have messed up something very important that can’t be un-messed up. And then I […]
It’s been 7 hours and 16 days since I took my blog away (sung to the tune of Sinead O’Connor). I’ve been gone from the blog a while. My life made a drastic change and I had to take some time to re-organize my life and my priorities. And as much as I’d love to […]
I got a snap from bestie today asking me if I was ok. I think the exact message said, “You haven’t blogged in four days. Are you OK?” I didn’t realize four days had passed. I did realize I hadn’t blogged in a bit. I don’t like to blog when I’m down. Or when I’m […]
I haven’t had to actively look for a job in over 3 or 4 years. All the jobs I’ve had, people have recruited me for. And even before that. I always get offered jobs when I’m working at some other job. I think it’s probably because there’s not really a job that I’m not good […]
I tried to win the mom of the year award by waking up at 4:15 to drive to Kentucky so I could watch my kiddo play in an end-of-camp basketball tournament. My alarm went off and I reset the alarm for an hour. I was too tired to get up. I couldn’t fall asleep the […]
One of my friends text me the other day and asked me if I was OK. Of course, I gave her my usual answer when people ask me how I am. “I’m perfect.” “I’m awesome.” “Things are Fantastic!” And then she told me that one of her friends had texted her asking about me because […]
