Today's my birthday - yay! I get to eat as much cake as I can! And also reflect on what's happened in a year ... I'm in such a different place mentally; last year I was still recovering from something that happened in January and still struggling with drinking. I took my last drink in … Continue reading Birthday
Category: memoir
The Blahs
Today is a blah kind of day. I woke up before my alarm but then after the kids left for school, I climbed back in bed and fell sort of asleep for an hour - a bad habit I started this winter on days when I just couldn't face the day. I've had major depression at … Continue reading The Blahs
Taking Stock
What follows isn't entirely proofed. If I wait to proof & edit it, it's going to be 2012 and I'll be writing about a hangover, which will be much worse than this, I think. Last January when I started this blog, I was fighting through another bout with depression. I honestly don't know that I've … Continue reading Taking Stock
Next?
This post might throw you for a loop; read my posts from winter 2011 if it does. One of my uncles, the one who will never change, the one born with fetal alcohol syndrome (which wasn't exactly recognized in 1965 – look at me, making excuses!), the one the same age as my oldest cousin … Continue reading Next?
#TheGoldenStallion
It's surprising how little there is to watch on TV on a Friday night. We stopped subscribing to the premium movie channels in favor of Netflix streaming through the Wii, which lately has not been working well (or really, at all). So last night, I was back to my old entertaining favorites: channels without commercials … Continue reading #TheGoldenStallion
Going my own way, again
First there was roller derby and then came the new job: two of the biggest changes in my life since 2009, the year I went back into therapy & back on meds for depression. Well, one of those new things turned out to be not quite what I hoped for and instead of sucking it … Continue reading Going my own way, again
Roller Girl?
Trying to come up with a roller derby name is hard. I'm not even sure sometimes if I'm really a derby girl/chick: am I fierce enough? Ten years ago: yes. Twenty years ago: definitely yes. So I'm going back to some of the music I listened to (and have continued to listen to all this … Continue reading Roller Girl?
