I am so glad I’m not a Red Sox fan. That game last night would have given me a heart attack. I’m seriously having sympathy pains for all the Sox fans right now … to be sooooo close, then lose it in extra innings is just torture. I guess there are worse things than having… Read More The Fall Classic

I took an online quiz a couple of months ago that was supposed to tell you what your political leanings were. There were several pages of statements, and you were supposed to give them a rating somewhere from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree. One of the statements, in particular, stands out in my memory. It… Read More Assimilation

For the past several years I have cycled in and out of depression and anxiety, and thus far have been unable to find any lasting fix. When Tage was almost three months old, I started having panic attacks and general anxiety that all but sidelined me for a couple of months. I was extremely fortunate… Read More Medicated

Here it is almost ten o’clock on Sunday night and I don’t feel like I even had a weekend. I don’t know where all the hours went. When I got up this morning I was delighted to see what a gorgeous day it was outside, and I had visions of washing loads and loads of… Read More Sunday

I love to sleep. Sleeping is one of my favorite activities (yes, it qualifies as an activity in my book). I have always been a person who needs a lot of sleep and could easily sleep ten hours a night every night. I think the hardest thing about having kids (as in the day-to-day kind… Read More Sleep

I was up until the wee hours this morning looking online for airline tickets for my mom’s visit at the end of the month, and didn’t get to bed until 4:00 am. I really, really did not want to get out of bed when the alarm went off at 7:30. But get up I did,… Read More Long day.

Well, yesterday was a beautiful fall day, with clear blue skies and warm temperatures, but we were black to clouds and rain today. I do feel much better after one day of sunshine, though, and God has been kind enough to let me off the hook about the snow, for a little while at least.… Read More Back to the gloom …

What is it with this rain? I swear, it has been raining almost non-stop for ten days now! All this gloomy weather is making me feel gloomy myself. I want some sunshine and I want it now! I will deny later that I ever said this, but right now I think I’d be plenty happy… Read More Still raining

Ugh. The weather really sucks. It’s cold, it’s windy, it’s rainy, and the sky is one giant cloud that seems to be hovering just above our heads. We were placing bets earlier about how long it will be before we see our first snow. I was tempted to say it would be within a week,… Read More Tired, Gloomy, Cranky

I stayed up last night to watch the Braves game and didn’t get to bed until 4:30 this morning. I’m so glad they won — otherwise I would probably have been exceedingly annoyed at missing out on so many hours of prime sleeping time. As it turned out, though, I didn’t lose as much sleep… Read More Lazy day