My honey and I have both been sick with a cold/cough since the beginning of November. The Tuesday before Christmas (I'm pretty sure it was Tuesday), I think I came down with the flu. I went grocery shopping, and by the time I got home, I was falling over. I got the cold stuff put away, and left everything else on the kitchen floor (in bags, but ( Read more... )

Living with post-partum depression for ten or eleven years, you (or at least, I) put up a wall to protect your comfort zone. It's much stronger than any blanket fort, unless the blankets cover up granite blocks three feet thick and reinforced with steel girders. And the longer you're in there, the bigger the wall gets. Only it doesn't grow ( Read more... )

My use of a non-fluoridated toothpaste for two pregnancies and some bad genes have collided and said collision destroyed some of my teeth. If I had taken care of it before now, it might not be so bad, but I didn't, and it is.

On Thursday (yes, I realize today is not Thursday, but since it happened on Thursday, I figured I could go ahead and use ( Read more... )

I have presents for last Monkey Day for my sisters-in-law, brother-in-law, niece, and nephew, and birthday presents for one of the SILs and for the BIL that really need to get wrapped and mailed. I was not actually finished making them all until March, but that still means they've been sitting around for about two months ( Read more... )

( TMI, just for my records )

( TMI, but with a recipe! )

When I woke up this morning, there was a woman in bed with me. Instead of the_original1's torn jeans and witty t-shirts, there were flowing skirts and patterned, gauzy shirts in the dresser drawers and in the closet. I had to push aside lipstick and mascara in the medicine cabinet to get at my toothpaste. It's not my makeup. I don't wear the stuff. There ( Read more... )

I went to K-Mart tonight to get a few necessities. After picking up my gigantic package of toilet paper, a king-sized box of powder laundry detergent, and a tube of toothpaste for the Things, I was trying to find the travel coffee mugs. I am not used to this K-Mart, and couldn't find them. Instead I found the clearanced Christmas candles. While ( Read more... )

Henry and Mona, in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First came love, then came marriage
Now no more babies in a baby carriage!

( At least, not this month. (Warning: TMI, girly stuff) )

( I warned you. It's very boring. )