New Beginnings

I can’t believe it. We’ve lost another person from my home group. So sad.

Today is my baby girl’s third birthday. This day not only evokes all kinds of thoughts that we all have on the day our children celebrate another year of life, but also about my growth as her mother this last year. I won’t go into drunkalog detail, but surfice it to say that I nearly [...]

Behold: the purse! Obviously, it’s not done yet, but I have to say I’m pretty friggin’ excited that I made it this far. See, the deal is that I become obsessed with things (for example, [tag]candlemaking[/tag]) and then lose interest after I realize that I suck at doing it or it doesn’t meet my expectations [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Today is good day. We had a nice morning with the kids before going our seperate ways for the day. Yesterday, I had one of those wreckage things hanging over my head (can you say “taxes”) that I finally faced and dealt with. Well, I’m in the process of dealing with it [...]

I’ve applied for membership to Team Angstylvania. I’m hoping they’ll accept me as a late entry, even though I admittedly suck at crafts. I heard about Renee and Zabet’s very cool webzine, The AntiCraft, from the CraftSanity podcast. It amazes and inspires me that there are so many clever, funny, crafty, talented women out there. [...]

Today’s the day. The [tag]opening ceremonies[/tag] are tonight for the 2006 [tag]Winter Olympics[/tag]. As it is for a lot of people, the Olympics tend to appeal to the sappy part of me and have a very soothing effect on my normally cynical personality. For a brief time, I feel sporty and patriotic…all at the same [...]

Here on my 11 month anniversary of [tag]sobriety[/tag] and my 4th week of [tag]knitting[/tag], I think I’m ready (not) to take on the [tag]Knitting Olympics[/tag]. Since the project needs to be complete by the end of the real [tag]Olympics[/tag] I’ve decided to knit a darling little purse for Princess Baby Monster’s 3rd birthday. Cool, huh? [...]

From CNN.com – Betty Friedan, philosopher of modern-day [tag]feminism[/tag], dies – Feb 4, 2006 [tag]Betty Friedan[/tag] made a direct impact on my life because her book made a profound difference to how my grandmother lived her life. From my grandma and my mother I learned that a woman can choose her path and not have [...]

Another person from my homegroup died. This will be the 3rd in just the last several months. I don’t know how she died yet, but I suspect it was suicide. Poor Mary. Rest in peace, hon. [tag]death, aa, recovery[/tag]

As I creep closer to that one year birthday of sobriety, I have this weird compulsion to relive all of the drama of last year. “How was I screwing everything up this time last year,” is the common question scrolling through the newsfeeder in my mind. Frankly, it doesn’t feel good so I don’t know [...]

We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration. -Hillary Rodham Clinton Yep, that’s right. I opened my big fat mouth and out came a bunch of [tag]liberal[/tag], emotional [tag]woman-speak[/tag] aimed at my annoyingly conservative facto-mondo co-workers. Fuckers. Instead of having a rational discussion about why [tag]Dubya sucks[/tag], I started shrilly [...]