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I have turned into a political junkie. I’m not even sure when it happened but now I just can’t get enough politics in my life. Like many, I come from a family that has little tolerance for political rhetoric. “Oh the lies, blah blah blah.” “Oh the complicated dramas, blah blah blah.” And then with [...]
Filed under: A soapbox so high that I can't get down, And the heavens broke open | 7 Comments »
“Why did I say I could forgo chocolate this week? WHY?”
“I don’t know, you sounded pretty adamant about it though.”
”Well I was WRONG. I need something sweet. How did we get to the point where we have nothing sweet in the house?”
”…”
“Would you be disgusted if I ate a bowl of sugar?”
“Do you want me [...]
Filed under: Mmm... chocolate-y, The Man, snippets | 7 Comments »
News Flash: I have absolutely no filtering system whatsoever. Pretty much, who you see in front of you is exactly who I am and who I am is often someone who ends up embarrassing herself in public because I have the grace of a hippopotamus on roller skates. I have turned down many a party [...]
Filed under: Just another day, Pop culture, Things I can blame on mom | 5 Comments »
Just because I have a little bit of my dad in me, years and years ago, Sean and I started to save our loose change. Having lofty goals we thought, yes, a little change is a good thing but you know what’s better? A lot of change! So we started to sock our coins away [...]
Filed under: Nickels! Nickels! Nickels!, Things I can blame on dad | 9 Comments »
I’ve never been good with money. It’s not that I’ve ever been bad with money, but when growing up my father was the kind of person that put our life savings in a coffee can in the basement because the banks, they just cannot be trusted y’all. My father is also a little bit insane, [...]
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We both knew that when you first came into my life that it would not be forever. Fate is a cruel mistress and we always knew that one day I would leave you for another. The shocking part of all of this is who I’m considering seeing next. Oh, dont’ you worry, it’s still a [...]
Filed under: Open Letters | 9 Comments »
Some days, like a hot burst of morning breath, you know it’s going to be a bad day before it even hits. Other days you’re just blindsided.
Today was one of those blindsided days. Today I had to tell two young kids that they had to end a relationship because it was the adult thing to do.
How [...]
Filed under: I Remember When..., My blackend heart is breaking | 5 Comments »
From time to time I go back into the archives to reread my genius seek inspiration kill time see if I’ve written about a particular topic before. What can I say, the 30s are taking a toll on my already fragile state of mind. What I’ve noticed is that the back-end code of blog didn’t [...]
Filed under: Just another day, Neurosis-it’s not pretty but it gets the job done | 2 Comments »
Oh about a week ago I was tagged by my friend Cara to post a list of 7 desultory things that I think are a bit oddballish about me. Everyone knows the rules of a meme and I suppose I find myself avoiding them more and more because I hate tagging people. You either love [...]
Filed under: Just another day | 8 Comments »
I have an intense desire to bake a pie right now, on the other hand I have an intense desire to lay on my couch and whisper sweet nothings to the heating pad strategically placed on my abdomen. Ouch, y’all.
For those of you who’ve been kicking around this blog for a while (or are women, [...]
Filed under: Crazy-ass theories, The Man, Yeah I'm PMSing, what's your point? | 10 Comments »
