I grew up in a very drama heavy household. When you are the daughter of a bipolar alcoholic and a narcissistic personality disorder with OCD, you're not getting the drama free childhood package. Someone in our family was always screaming about something - insults, things not done 'right', the crisis of the moment. Everything was a Big Deal. ( Read more... )

If you've got even a dollar or two to spare, please chip in to help my dear friends Nikki and Jim. They've got a 2 year old, and one imminently on the way and due to pregnancy complications (she was in the hospital, then on bed rest) Nikki's out of work and times are tight for them. They're an awesome family- we were there at their wedding, and if ( Read more... )

Tonight I : rescued a slug, saw fireworks explode so close that cinders rained down on the car, had beef and broccoli followed by cherry water ice, laughed about gas from the seventies, made an entire biker gang look at a woman with boobs bigger than my head (by exclaiming 'That woman has boobs bigger than my head!' . She did.), heard a story from ( Read more... )

Pre-op testing went alright. Long day, made me tired. I took a nap when I got home. Yesterday was better - went mini-golfing and playing air hockey and skee ball. I'm awake enough now to feel like I want to do something, but too restless to settle on what. I think I'm somewhat worried about the whole surgery thing, even though it seems like it's a ( Read more... )

Going to try again to start writing more often in my journal. I really need to get myself back into the habit of writing in this daily or weekly. Well, here's what's been going on anyhow ( Read more... )

(Aus) L has risen. And checked her mail.

(Metody) She's a netpire!

(L[nap]) rarr
(L[nap]) I vant to suck your bandwidth.

Yesterday started off well enough - we went with a friend to Adventure Aquarium and had a good time. It was very tiring, even though I was in a wheelchair for most of the experience. I still don't have the strength back from my prolonged illness, and it was better just to accept defeat ahead of time instead of becoming completely exhausted and ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a very good day - we went to Atlantic City to see The 88 and B52's in concert at House of Blues. We decided to make a day of it, and went to do other things in the city before the show.


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The lilacs are blooming, which always puts me in mind of the Walt Whitman poem. I performed that and O Captain, My Captain once for high school forensics (public speaking sort of deal - not to be confused with the dead people kind) and I have been fond of them since. Other signs of spring - a herd of eight deer spotted by the side of the road, the ( Read more... )

There has been little I've had to say lately, and part of that I suppose comes from the dullness of the routine - the back and forth a million times a day driving kids and husband and mother to where they need to go. It is very easy now to lose track of individual days, sometimes even weeks go by and I make no tracking of one day as any different ( Read more... )