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“Your Mother would be so proud of you”

I’ve never heard these words, or seen them in reference to myself until last night.
When my mother was alive, she hung out with a woman I’ll call Lea. Lea had a daughter my age, more or less, so it made sense to chum around I suppose. Looking back on it now, I’m not sure what [...]

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knock…knock…anyone home?

teh interwebs, they is really quiet lately.
Here’s what’s passing for excitement for me today. (Living vicariously through others since 1977)
Someone is now walking! Brace for impact!
Ratty Ted is missing! Oh the HORROR! (there’s a reason we have Teddy and Teddy 2.0 here.)
Someone else finally just calls to say ‘I love you!” (and yes, I am [...]

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I’m still….

…sweaty….the heat wave keeps on keeping on. Sigh. Fat + summer=BAD.
…in hyper organize/purge/nest mode. I’ve never cleaned out this much crap in my life. Is this what normal people do? You know, actually clean up and throw stuff out? Look out world, so I’ll be knocking out walls and shit.
…knitting baby blanket number 2. The [...]

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Bugging

In the dream came swarms of insects.
Giant wasps I can not stand. Blankets of ants, my arch nemesis of insects. Pouring from a hole in my ceiling as  stood terrified and powerless to do anything about it. Pouring from a wood crossbeam. I refused to get close enough to figure it out further.
I wouldn’t reenter [...]

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Flux-Bipolar Jump Start

Flux
I’m in flux-continual, bleeding flux. I’m here, I’m over there, I’m somewhere else, someone else. BOO! I’m new now.
I’m frustrating as all get out. Imagine waking up next to this everyday.
Kindling
initial periods of cycling may begin with an environmental stressor, but if the cycles continue or occur unchecked, the brain becomes kindled or sensitized – [...]

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tired of the wrong words

Last night, knitting, trying to stay awake after a swim and a long hot day, watching CNN and pondering why dogfighting is seen as a worse crime than rape. Why it’s ok for the famous to be criminals. Wondering who our children can look up to-not who they will, but who they can. Are we [...]

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Light

I think I’m melting.
For realz. This is sucky. Yesterday it was 40C with the humidex, and I think today is near that as well. Im not moving and I’m sweating. I’m so taking the girls to the mall when they wake up. It’s retarded out.
How did I hack this as a kid? I remember days [...]

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Friday Morning…

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Four WHAT?!

So for Mother’s Day, I asked Mogo to get me a subscription to a cooking magazine I liked. I hemmed and hawed between Everyday Foods and Cooking Light, my two favorites.
In the end, I asked him to get me a subscription to Everyday Foods.
A few days after Mother’s Day, he went online, ordered, and was [...]

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GRRRR OVARIES!

I moved desks at work again.
This is nothing new. On average, I move every 6 months or so. Being the only person in my “department” at this site means I get shuffled. Annoying enough. I liked my previous seat.
My previous seat also didn’t include 20 nattering, yattering, blubbering GIRLS. (I don’t care how old they [...]

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They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.

You know what’s hard about talking about mental illness? Talking about it.
I tend to be one of those annoying, share too much of everything type people at work. I’m a very open person, within reason. I like to share my experiences, my life, my opinions, and the odd time, some wisdom.
You can talk about almost [...]

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Didja see! Didja!

My BFF Eden is FAMOUS!
 
OOOH!
You go you universal suing machine!

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Spent

Maybe it’s the heat, maybe it’s the medication, I dunno. But I feel spent, worn out, plain old worn.
My children are irritants. Yesterday it was Popsicles scarfed down at 7 am in their room, quiet as mice, covered in red dye #5. Today, the freaking ice cubes. Then the screeching screaming begins, followed by Ros [...]

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I want

I’ve decided that, at least right now, I don’t want to talk about the mental ward for the rest of the story.
I’m not hiding it, I just feel so conflicted about it, like I’m making things uncomfortable with it. Besides all of that there isn’t much to tell. Walls and TV’s and people you can’t [...]

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Why is it….

that two freshly baked, still warm chocolate chip cookies are awesome, but the third makes you want to puke until your colon comes through your nose?
Blech.

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Test: Rosalyn “Reads”

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Test-Vivian Dance

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On a lighter note

We went to Parlee Beach yesterday. Thankfully, while Mogo saw the dreaded “man-thong” I was only treated to a hairy back with the always mysterious bare spot, and numerous frums (mine included)

 I would have enjoyed myself a bit more if I hadn’t spent the entire time chasing one or both children, but what can you do.

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Need birth control for your teen? Just call me.

Vivian received her first public smack today.
Let me preface this with my standard disclaimer. I do not believe in corporal punishment as a rule. I do not beat my children with sticks, rods belts or any other long, heavy or painful object. But I do not object to a swat on the ass every so often. [...]

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