I can’t believe it is six o’clock and I haven’t gotten this up yet! I had so many plans for topics this week and I’ve totally forgotten them all. Despite going to bed at a reasonable hour, I didn’t sleep well. The house next door is essentially empty and some neighborhood kids keep breaking in […]

I feel like I have overextended myself with the whole Lent thing. Perfectly heathy eating, perfectly sober six weeks, perfectly clean house, perfectly sane hygiene schedule is all too much expectation of perfection. I remember changing my Lent commitment here once before. Perhaps I should have realized it was too much. So I am going […]

I had planned to write in this week’s open forum about how great things are going on the fighting depression and anxiety front this week. And they have gone very well for me. However today I am having a setback. I stopped doing all the right things last night. I stayed up until around 4 […]

For those of us down here in the civilized regions of the country, February is when we start seeing signs of spring. In just a week or three we will start to see daffodils, jonquils and their narcissus cousins blooming in our gardens. Sure we might get another freeze or two, but the narcissus will be […]

If you follow me on Twitter, or even just read here a lot, you are aware that I often self medicate and then start talking about getting out of this shithole shack I live in. That would require a whole lot of cleaning. Think think of the dirtiest house you have ever known and multiple […]

I kind of want to watch the Golden Globes tonight. But I really should recap RHOA live because it’s a popular post. This is the issue with blogging about TV. Sometimes I don’t want blog about TV because I want to watch something on TV. I recently explained to someone that I don’t listen to […]

First of all, I haven’t forgotten about the Christmas tree contest. I’m just sort of freaking out about it! Literally every time someone sent me a photo I said, “Oh wow, this one is the clear winner!”  I have no idea how to make this decision. I was thinking about having y’all vote. Or drawing […]

I don’t know about y’all, but I am exhausted. Like I may fall asleep writing this. I don’t want to make this a depressing post, but I went to the hospital to day to sit with my sister whose daughter was there for a life long medical issue. My niece seems to be back on […]

It’s Hanukkah!  So put on your yamaka! And it is almost Christmas! Are you ready for all the holiday drama? Do you have all of your presents bought? Did everyone get a tree? I didn’t manage to get a tree this year. I’ve been having bouts of narcolepsy where I just can’t seem to stay […]

First of all, the fires out west have been on my mind all week. The photos and videos on Twitter were so horrific they seemed like something out of a horror movie. The people on social media offering beds in their homes to those evacuating, and the people with horse trailers offering to evacuate horses […]

So the plan was to do a lot of house cleaning today to possibly, maybe, make the living room and dining room presentable so that I could maybe, at some point go and buy a Christmas tree and decorate it this year. Granted, this hasn’t happened in YEARS, but there is always a chance that it […]

One of my pet peeves on Veterans Day is seeing so many people greeting each other with “Happy Veterans Day.” Veterans Day is a more solemn day to show appreciation to our servicemen and women who have devoted their lives to protecting ours. It is celebrated on what we used to call Armistice Day. Armistice […]

Sorry I haven’t posted an open forum the past few weekends. There were so many natural disasters and people dying I just couldn’t write a random post on silly things, and I couldn’t deal with any more tragic news.  The depression and anxiety has been at unprecedented levels I am finally back at just the […]