In honor of Vivian, and rubber nipples…

Last night, while watching my stinky feet ( I hate socks and have sweaty feet, ok?) Vivian blurted out
“I wish I had rubber nipples to stick in my nose so I couldn’t smell your stinky feet!!!”
ah, youth. I watched FAR too much Ren and Stimpy as a teenager, and I’ve proudly passed the torch. They [...]

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The light today.

Late afternoon light, like honey.
We walk into the woods behind us, new green surrounding us, the slow hum of living engulfing our bodies-leaves unraveling, small creatures finding their legs, the undecided spring wind in the air between our ears. It smells warm, like yeast rising in a winter kitchen.
I am at home here. Memory incessantly [...]

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“Let us stifle under mud at the pond’s edge and affirm that it is fitting and delicious to lose everything. “

I’m sitting in the waiting room to do my stress test, staring at an older woman, and a younger man. He’s going on and on to her about his stroke-how it felt, what happened, matter of fact like, as if telling a fable he’s told a hundred times before.
She’s desperate for it, for his pain [...]

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Pride goeth

Today I had to take Vivian to her school for one last orientation session-she got to ride the school bus, and sit in a class while I endured yet another literacy lecture. I had primed her to have FUN FUN FUN! so we wouldn’t have a repeat of a few months back where she bolted [...]

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Need a reason to stick a cloth bag in your purse?

This shit makes me want to cry…and reminds me why we continue to change our habits.

 

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Ovaries exploding…NOW!

venessa FINALLY had her new baby!
Please drop by and wish her happy day-this is baby number 4, and frankly, I’m in awe of this woman.
 

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Saturday Randoms

-We’re walking out of a grocery store towards the garden center, and as usual, Rosalyn is doing the 3rd old funny walk, and manages to land flat on her face. Mogo helps her up through the crying, tells her she’s fine and says “Don’t worry, you’re a tough cookie.
She screams “I am NOT.A.TOUGH.COOKEH!”
-I hate Twitter. [...]

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Skip-a doo.

 

I truly dislike taking my kids to the park. I really do. You sit and stare at them flailing around-hell, I don’t really remember anyone taking me to the park. The only one my mother would have taken me to was at the beach, or our sad excuse for one, and she hated water. Her [...]

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Living Color

In my head, they all merge into one woman. Graceful, creative, caring-they are everywoman-or perhaps the idealization of her. They speak with one soft lyrical voice, laugh with wisdom and ache with sadness.
I rapidly page through all of them, pausing to evaluate, lips twisted in thought.
The girl I wanted to hate, before, whose beauty and [...]

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Fuller

I am full up. Full up with wine and song and cookies and women and nods and smiles and silence and cacaphony and understanding and fear and warmth and pattern.
My brain stomach is full.
It will take a few days to process the most time I’m spent with women talking ever. Normally I run screaming from [...]

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It was a nice day yesterday

Today…not so much. Rainy grey windy….but if someone could send me 850$ for the fantastic painting I saw earlier, it would be a sunnier day….

 
 

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If all else fails, color their world.

                          
Most mornings around here are hurried, irritated moments. I don’t rise early-I tend to stay in bed as long as possible, since I never shower in the morning (today being an exception so I don’t gross Mad out of the car). Hurrying to get dressed, eat, create a lunch etc etc with a three [...]

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2 More Sleeps!

2 more sleeps til Blog’er-Atlantic Canada’s answer to Blog’her, but with more talk and less ad revenue.
I’m excited. I get to meet Mad (who is nice enough to cart my ass there and back) and Kate and Hannah and Bon, and a few others I don’t believe I know. Very excited for an entire weekend [...]

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If you were wondering

Walking 3 miles or so in 17 mile a hour winds SUCKS ASS.
I say it almost every day, but the weather here is horrible. It’s either freezing or windy as shit. Just no wind-that’s really all I ask…
However, watching some moron trying to drive around the barricades blocking off a road, despite the giant “Construction Zone-NO [...]

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Why I hate the internet

People like Cindy. (Link broken so we give the troll no fodder. I believe the title of her site is Needle Girl or something if you’re that curious)
And I quote:
The poor woman either blames herself or someone else for every sad and horrible thing that’s ever happened to her. (Tip from the blog: make things [...]

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“The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. “

Are you satisfied?
Our company moved into a new building today, a spanking new(ish) place, replete with new car smell and everything. For the most part, I observed that the move went pretty well, which is quite the achievement. My desk moved ok, most of my stuff arrived, everything I needed to do my job was [...]

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Happy Mama Day

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Testing…

In ten years
Originally uploaded by thordora

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Bipolar and PMS-My personal Axis of Evil

The last few months have been unpleasant. 26 days of the month are normal, copacetic, happy, sometimes sorta down, tired days.
3-5 days of the month are not.
My natural state is one of fairly rapid cycling. I can, literally, go from giggling uncontrollably to crying in a minute. I’ve done this. I hate it. Mixed states [...]

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The agony and defeat of Barbie

Tonight, I did something I swore I would never do.
(And no, those of you with your minds in the gutter, it doesn’t involve that.)
I bought Rosalyn a Barbie.
Granted, it’s a fairy barbie, with wings, but it’s still very white, very slim and very un womanly.
She loves it.
Anyone who has known me for any period of [...]

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