I love that my dad's response to the blog post about my anxiety developing from the spiritual warfare framework of evangelicalism was basically, What the hell? This couldn't possibly have been my fault. Nevermind the fact that I clearly remember him preaching a sermon when we lived in Ohio, (age 4-7) about the devil consulting with his demons on ( Read more... )

I signed Rachael up for two summer camps. One, starting 7/21, is a drama camp where they act out stories and create art to go along with it. The other starts on 8/11 and is a "weebotics" class where she'll build robots with Legos, learn to use motors and sensors, and using computers. I figured that I should put my money where my mouth is and get ( Read more... )

That time your conservative fundamentalist relative jumps on your beliefs and you think, "Holy shit! Now I totally want to come back to the church."

I had lab work done last week. For once, my vitamin D is great. Somehow, taking 1000 units a day worked out. :-P But my thyroid is borderline low. Like, the lowest score you can have and be within normal limits is 0.8, and I have 0.8 low. So we'll repeat the blood work in 3 months.
It's not out of the realm of possibility to have a low thyroid. My ( Read more... )

I had a dream the other night that I quit leading my Girl Scout troop. It felt great! It was rather disappointing after I had been up for a few minutes and realized that it didn't actually happen.

Leading the troop has really confirmed for me what I thought I've always known about myself: I don't mind being in charge of something or having a big ( Read more... )

I've lost my first Facebook "friend" since I started the blog. It was a mom of friends I had growing up in my church. Maybe it was the statuses and blog posts that used big scary words like "fuck". Maybe it was the posting of less than glowing things about the evangelical church. Maybe it was the fact that I admitted to being agnostic. Perhaps the ( Read more... )

I started following a fellow mommy blogger here in NOVA yesterday. She's posts about living with bipolar disorder. I commented on a post she wrote and she responded. I also posted by blog post about Rachael's 5th birthday yesterday.

Late last night or early today, she had posted a blog entry on What to Expect about scaling things back and just ( Read more... )

So I've thought about starting my own blog. It will be completely self-centered. I'm thinking about calling it The Julie Project. Here's why: I have a tendency to like moving from project to project. (Think Pres. Bartlet- "What's next?") I also feel like that I'm on a journey of self-discovery. I'm trying to figure out what I like, what I believe, ( Read more... )

Anyone else having trouble seeing LJ posts on the LJ app? It keeps saying I have no local friends posts. It did that all of a sudden the other day. I can still see my old posts.

So I guess my mom is pissed at me for setting stuff up at her house for Rachael's party. She says it's other stuff going on, and I believe that. But she was bothered by me taking country decor off her sideboard and putting up decorations for the party. She said she didn't realize I'd be decorating inside. (Because calling to say that I need to come ( Read more... )