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I've been tagged.  Again.  When I got tagged by two of my friends and fellow bloggers, I knew I was in trouble.  This one is fun, though, and you'll learn all kinds of interesting things about me.  Mom-spirational and The Plucky Procrstinator both said I had to do this.  Go check them out - they are both amazing!1.  Where were you born.  I was born in Simi...

I just had to write about the controversy at Yahoo yesterday, and in doing so, I knew that I would be pushing TTPMOT back a day.  Then I figured that you all would be okay with that if for no other reason than it gave me an extra day to find things pissing me off for the week.Off we go.Unimaginable Crimes Against ChildrenA father in Saudi Arabia is anticipating a light sentence after the...

When you think of a woman who has it all, the family and the career, there is so much more behind the scenes than most people realize. Organization, coordination, the requirement of other people to fill in the gaps seamlessly, is all necessary.  Having it all isn't easy, primarily for one reason.It is, simply put, impossible to be in two places at once.Women cannot be kicking ass and taking names...

In large part, I have avoided writing about pieces of my life here. You guys probably think I share a lot, but trust me when I say that I don't. I've shared bits of the stories with people in real life, with friends I've made online, with trusted confidants.  There are times that I've been at my wits end with it all, questioned whether I was doing the right thing or not.  Asked why.  All...

It's snowing today.  There is already about 4 inches on the ground, though it is hard to tell exactly how much.  It's one of the sideways snow days with high winds and huge drifts. We were originally planning to go down to Denver today, hit one of the museums.Instead, I'm sitting on the couch with a cup of coffee, watching the pre-race festivities for the Daytona 500. This is a big deal...

I have a feeling that we're winding up here for another round of blood sugar struggles.  The instant my son tells me anything feels weird, I know.He was running high last night, woke up high again today.This time, he's not sick.  At least not as far as I can tell yet.He has stress induced hyperglycemia, which basically means that his blood sugar runs high when his body is tested in anyway...

He was down on one knee and Dani stood in their dining room, frozen.  She was unable to move, unable to speak.  Time stopped moving forward and everything slowed to a deliberate pace.  Her heart rhythm slowed and she could taste her breath as it moved slowly from her mouth.  The haze set in.She drew in a long deep breath and closed her eyes, trying to absorb all the pieces of this...

In a few days, my oldest daughter will be ten years old.  She insists that her birthday should be a national holiday since it's so close to Washington's, that we've really been waiting all this time to celebrate the wonder that is her. I look at her sometimes and I ask myself where all the time went.Though the days drag on for an eternity, one day you blink and ten years are gone.Ten years ago,...

There are times when my faith in humanity are shaken more than they normally are.  I'm a generally cynical person these days, so it doesn't take much to make me wonder what the hell happened to society. There are times like today when I question not just humanity, but all the rest of it.  Cosmos, fate, the wisdom of a higher power. When bad things happen to good people, I think that's a...

Life is not fair.Sometimes really terrible things happen to people for no ascertainable reason. We do nothing to deserve them.  We do nothing to bring them on.  We can do nothing to avoid them. Nothing can make it better. Nothing can make it right.There is no answer that is without pain, without loss, without risk.Life is far more complicated than it ever seems to the rest...

Since I accidentally posted what I wrote for today last night, I've had over 12 hours to find new things to be pissed off about. Is that a challenge?MwhahahaMy PhoneMy phone is an asshole.  A lot.  Most of the time I love it and all the wonderful things it does, but it's a pain in my ass fairly frequently.  It doesn't like to be cold.  Or hot.  It likes to be at a constant...

There was so much stuff to include for this that I started writing it yesterday.  Either this week is disproportionately full of shitty news stories or I'm just in the mood to be exceptionally pissed off. I guess it doesn't really matter, since you people seem to adore my rants. Off we go.Are we really talking about a water bottle?Last week was the State of the Union address where POTUS talked...

Three days ago, there were two major news stories the media was circulating.One, a cruise ship that was stranded without power for five days after a fire in the engine room was towed into port. Two, a meteorite hit Russia, injuring over a thousand people. The meteorite got less press coverage than the cruise ship, and I'm not exactly understanding why.  That story exposed the very real fact that...

As a follow-up to my post yesterday, I wanted to write a little bit about the agony and defeat of parenting.As much as it hurt when my little girl told me screamed that she hated me, I took it as a sign that I'm doing something right.As parents, our job isn't to be friends with our kids.  Our job isn't to make them happy all the time.  Our job isn't to create a universe where things always...

It was just a matter of time, and I knew it. From the moment my newborn babies were placed in my arms for the very first time, I knew that today would come.I knew that eventually those words would come out.I hate you.To be completely honest, I'm a bit amazed that it's taken as long as it has.  I have almost twelve years of mothering under my belt, and figured that it would have happened sooner...

Dani sat in the beige chair in the corner, the one with the fake leather that smelled like disinfectant and squeaked every time she shifted her weight.  Her legs were pulled up to her chest and her chin rested on her right knee.  She ran her finger along the windowsill over and over again, feeling the contrast of the smooth frame and rough drywall texture.  She stared out the window,...