Chasing Happy

One girl’s efforts to pull herself up by her bootstraps, even though her boots are too cute to have straps.

Dirty secret

So, I haven’t been honest with you.
There is something going on with me.
Something, really, going on in my marriage.
The real reason I haven’t been working out, or thinking about healthy meals, or cleaning my house, or shaving my legs, or spending time here with you all is something I haven’t had the strength to talk [...]

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In my defense, I did say I was sorry

About that last one. I really feel terrible that I managed to bring down my friend who has conquered morning sickness only to be brought to dry heaves by my website.
And then I was going to update but the only thing that happened was that D’oh declared he was no longer going to take stuff [...]

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Bad news

Well, Internet, I have totally whiffed on this. I am seriously annoyed with myself about it, but I lay most of the blame at the feet of the sleeping sickness I appear to have come down with that makes me decree that it is Time. For. Bed!!! at earlier and earlier times of the day.
In [...]

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Stinking family!

Yes, too much family frolicking and imbibing yesterday ruined my perfect blogging streak. Oh well.
To make myself feel better about my lapse, today I commandeered the Wii that my nieces and nephews got for Christmas and gave my husband the beating of his life in Wii boxing. And internet? Even if it shouldn’t, that felt [...]

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It’s late

And it’s a school night, so we’ll have to make this quick.
So, let me just admit to you now that in honor of my dog’s birthday tomorrow, I went out and bought a digital camera today.
I know.
But, in my defense, we have been without a camera for many months now, and I have been unable [...]

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Do you have anything to say?

Because I sure don’t. Nothing of note happened, no traumatic childhood memories rose to the surface, no mean old ladies came into the library.
At one point though, I did have the following exchange with a lady WITH A HAT ON:
Hat lady: Excuse me, miss, but do you all have a, um, what do you call [...]

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Breakfast with Santa

Driving home today, I saw a sign on a firehouse advertising a “Breakfast with Santa!” And I thought to myself, “Hey, I went to one of those once. It scarred me for life, perhaps I should write about it!”
And so:
When I was little, and all through elementary school, my parents continually forced me to hang [...]

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Place holder

Are you watching this? Because I am. And it has totally sucked me in. And so, even though I am doing this, I can’t post anything of substance. For some reason, I have to know if they give the guy who fixed the engine another t-shirt. So, this is a crappy place holder of an [...]

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Out of touch

Yesterday, I received a birth announcement from a friend of mine. Had I known she was pregnant, that probably would have been less of a surprise. Granted, this is not a close friend, but we went to each other’s weddings (I went to hers by my damn self, no less…in Amish country! Alone and single [...]

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Being thankful, about a week too late

On the actual day of Thanksgiving, I was feeling a little ornery and a lot sleepy, so I didn’t really give too much thought to being thankful. I was much more focused on giving the secret evil eye (it involves a lot of behind-the-back eyerolling) to people. Which was completely evil and unseasonal and very [...]

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