Forays into Sanity, MaybeForays into Sanity, MaybeI am a mother. I am a wife. And I write about them. Just not here, not much at least.
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New Blog Address
2007-06-01 05:17:00 Okay, so I’ve moved the blog to a new address. Still at wordpress, but easier to keep up with. Reasons are, basically: I wrote a completely inappropriate post on my family site, thinking it was this site, and posted it, only to get really horrified emails the next day from my grandparents-in-law. They’re really southern, ... More About: Blog , Address
No net this week
2007-05-31 00:05:00 So sorry for the complete lack of posts. I am writing this right now at my local Panera, because we have no internet access. We’re switching providers, and won’t be back online until the weekend. My previous provider turned off the service a few days early, and the only way I can access anything is ... More About: Week
Escape
2007-05-29 03:00:00 This story is written as a collabrative effort between myself and Sarah Flanigan, who can be seen at her site: Sarah Flanigan’s Pure Fiction. It was a blast, and I hope to do it again. Enjoy, dear readers! The mean summer sun burned a hole in the sky and glared down at me. Mocking and relentless. ... More About: Cape , Escape , Scape , Esca
Grammar, punctuation, and the word ?literally?
2007-05-24 21:52:00 So I’m checking out some of the “blog of the day” on wordpress, which I don’t do often, and I came across this site. It’s HILARIOUS, especially if you’ve ever lived with another human being. Which of course led to this site (overuse of quotations), and this one (inappropriate apostrophe usage), and this one (overuse of the word ‘literally’). ... More About: Word , Grammar , Literally , Tera , Gram
Real or contrived?
2007-05-24 02:30:00 Here’s a question: does blogging need to be real? Is it truth, unvarnished, always? Would it be disingenuous to be a completely ficticious person, fake life, fake story? I get that some blog for the space it gives the writer to speak their thoughts. And some use it as a venue for their writing, their stories. ... More About: Real
Fingerprints in the window
2007-05-23 04:13:00 Sitting, trying to make sense of things. Wondering if the chaos in my head will ever stop long enough to think with clarity. Clarity of water over pebbles in a stream. The thoughts of a child; direct, pure, unfettered. Life meanders, at times. Others it forces itself into small spaces, crowding out all but the very essence of ... More About: Indo , Window , Finger , Prints
Shot of the moon from an airplane
2007-05-21 17:12:00 Normally I’m not one for posting photos, but this couldn’t be denied. My dad sent me this, if you can believe it. I come from interesting people, my dad especially, and he and I share the kind of relationship where he will send me this kind of highly inappropriate yet extremely hysterical stuff. Kind of makes ... More About: Moon , Airplane , Shot , Plan , The Moon
novel idea
2007-05-21 01:26:00 I have three jobs, two of which actually pay me something. I own a business, which is a new venture and is getting off the ground. For that I label myself an electrical contractor, which is a little weird for a woman, but it’s what I fell into. I love owning my own business, though ... More About: Idea
If this thing can do it, so can I
2007-05-17 19:26:00 Perseverance, people. Note to self: try it sometime. More About: Thing
Beat the man, continuously
2007-05-14 02:50:00 Could I have blogged any less this week? Is it possible to have written fewer words, in such a short time span? I think not. Sorry, few readers. I’ve been in such a slump lately. It’s been affecting my writing, my brain, everything. Recall last month when the man lost his job? For several weeks I was ... More About: Beat , The Man , Conti
Old life, new thoughts
2007-05-09 03:18:00 I’m not one to compare; to complain. I rarely look at my life and say “gee, what the hell happened?” Not because I don’t think it occasionally, but because I firmly believe in no regrets. Why waste valuable mental energy, which I don’t really have to spare, on agonizing over things I can’t change? Occasionally, ... More About: Life , Thoughts
Idiots with a keyboard, but apparently no eyes
2007-05-06 06:02:00 This must be read. I laughed for a good five minutes. Take a moment and click over to What’s In A Name? More About: Idiots , Eyes , Keyboard , Rent , Appa
Crazy with a cherry on top
2007-05-04 02:59:00 I come from all kinds of crazy. Up crazy, down crazy, neurotic crazy, obsessive crazy, mean crazy, happy crazy, a little nutty, and well-medicated-therefore-highly-functiona l crazy. I have the kind of family that has all kinds of nuts hanging on the tree, and a few that have fallen off and rolled far down the hill. On ... More About: Crazy , Cherry
Why writers don?t give speeches
2007-05-02 04:37:00 “Honey? You know that bag of trash, the one that’s been sitting in the kitchen since this morning that you were supposed to take out but forgot, and that’s stinking up the kitchen with the smell of last night’s dinner?” “Uh, yeah?” “Well, since it’s been in the kitchen all day, do you think you could possiby ... More About: Writers , Give , Writer , Speech , Speeches
Literary Prune
2007-05-01 03:43:00 New nickname, self-inflicted. The Lite rary Prune. I’m actually thinking of renaming my blog to reflect my absolute and utter lack of anything resembling writing. But I’m back, for now at least. Last week was insanity personified. I cannot bring myself to go into details, mostly because if I do I acutally have to think about what ... More About: Liter , Tera , Rune , Literary
Um?.
2007-04-27 04:24:00 I have two drafts from this week, neither of which I finished. I am so completely stuck in a morass of self-disgust I don’t think my eyelids even want any part of me. I cannot write, I’ve been busier than necessary, and if my relatives don’t get out of my house and go the freak ...
Oh my Lord, I need till Friday.
2007-04-24 05:48:00 I’ve been writing. I have, really. It’s just that I have family in town, my kids have been sick with this horrendous intestinal thing, and the man and I have been looking at houses. The story isn’t finished. Won’t be until later this week. There’s no way I can get it done, not to my standards ... More About: Friday , Lord , Need , Frida
almost-Naked man, without cause
2007-04-23 04:22:00 I’m linking to my own blog, here. Check this out: this was my weekend. http://boolbus.wordpress.com Do not feel pressure to read everything: just look at the pictures of the man. Dude, is all I can say. More About: Most , Cause
For lack of a title?
2007-04-20 02:38:00 I’m not a person who writes with difficulty. In college, I’d sit down the night before a 10 page paper was due, armed with a few measley notes, and manange to punch out an “A” paper in about two hours. With excellent grammar and punctuation. No reflection on my blogging skills, because I’m not being graded ... More About: Title , Lack
nothing of note?
2007-04-18 23:02:00 I got a new camera today, a dSLR, which means that I’ve spent the day playing. Expect nothing, people, until tomorrow. Sorry. I’m too busy capturing everything in my line of sight. Except that I haven’t quite figured out all the features, so some of the photos look like I have no idea how to ... More About: Note , Nothing , Thing
?real? writing, again
2007-04-17 04:45:00 Do you ever look at yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and wonder what on earth happened? Did something crawl on top of your head and die? Were small men pounding away under your eyes with mallets? What in God’s name is that substance on your shirt, and why didn’t you ... More About: Writing , Real , Again
I don?t normally post on the weekends but my idiocy was worth the time
2007-04-14 22:06:00 I was on the computer this morning, checking my email, and I had a link to a photo album that someone had sent me. I click on the album link, and it has a bunch of pictures of some goofy looking kid. Of course, I’d never say that to anyone, but my gosh was this ... More About: Time , Post , Weekend , Week , Worth
Reason #27 why I really should not be a financial planner
2007-04-14 04:50:00 I think we’re trying to buy a house. Maybe. When we moved up here from Charlotte last summer, we did so with the intention of a fresh start. Translation: no money, and very little in the way of material goods. I sold/burned all of my hideous furniture that we bought when we got married (we were ... More About: Financial , Reason , Real , Should , Plan
spam, glorious spam?.
2007-04-11 18:38:00 I have another blog besides this one. It’s about my kids, nothing else, and I write it not for myself but so the vast numbers of family members I have scattered around the country can see on a weekly basis how my kids are doing. Otherwise I’d have to talk to them on the phone ... More About: Spam
being the boss
2007-04-11 04:42:00 I’m putting on the tools, people. Work boots, ugly jeans, and nasty t-shirts. Maybe a cap too, since my hair has a tendency of flopping into my eyes. I have to, the success of my future depends on my ability to wield a screwdriver. Maybe I should explain. I’m an electrical contractor. I’m also a freelance ... More About: Boss , Bein , Being , The Boss
Feminine Mistake, a look
2007-04-10 01:59:00 The book came out last week, and is setting fire to moms everywhere. The responsive thoughts of moms are many, varied and significant, sometimes extreme. Stay at home moms hate the book, working moms feel validated. Those of us who fall somewhere in between can’t decide. To sum it up, in her book Leslie Bennetts, a mom, states ... More About: Take , Mini , Nine , Mist , Look
my little secret
2007-04-05 06:07:00 I have a deep, dark secret, one I have until this point in time, kept completely to myself. It’s shameful, which is why I’ve always kept it to my late nights and early mornings. I read advice columns. There, I said it. Now I can cower in a corner. I can’t remember when I became so fascinated ... More About: Secret , Little , Litt
Complaints terminated, as of today
2007-04-04 17:33:00 I’m done griping about the state of things. I cannot believe I’ve been that person, the one who spends time writing about the same things over and over, things no one really wants to read about. I don’t even want to read about it, and it’s my blog. I’ve been foul, full of angst, and that’s ... More About: Comp , Today , Plain , Complaint , Term
a not so good day
2007-04-03 21:52:00 That’s what I’m having, a not-so-good-day. I’ve tried to help it along, to improve the quality of its hours, but it’s not working. I just want to pay the rent, on time, in spite of the fact that we had to go almost a month between the man’s paychecks. I want to go to sleep at ... More About: Good
certainty of faith
More articles from this author:2007-03-31 04:21:00 I stumbled across this blog today, which talked about the two sides of death. The pain and the joy. I’ve had a lot of death this year. Not me, personally, or I probably wouldn’t be writing this (wouldn’t that be s shade freaky), but family. My parents have lost more people in the last few years than ... More About: Faith , Taint , Cert 1, 2 |
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