I did a post not so long ago about attention seeking behavior. I have issues with attention seeking behavior. Serious issues. Like… it makes me want to drive a fondue fork into my eye, run shrieking thru the streets and bleed all over the person doing it; cover them in eyeball juice then smack them [...]

  Yeah, I got some.  In fact, I slept until nearly one in the afternoon today.  But why, you may ask, when I went to bed at like….  oh…  NINE last night?   In a word — Taylor. See, I’m out of ambien.  This is a huge bummer because I’m a chronic insomniac (and have [...]

“Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of [...]

“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.”~ Sarah Ban Breathnach I read this quote today and it made me realize… How often do you hear people say: When I was younger… Oh, I remember the time… God, those were the days… We had so much fun then… I [...]

So…okay…Call me petty and selfish but I swear to GOD I’m going to start hiding the portions of things that I expect to get, regardless of what it is.I bought a pound of potato salad today because I had a craving for sammiches on kaiser rolls and potato salad.I got two TEASPOONS of the potato [...]

I’m sort of a hoarder.I mean…I don’t save “stuff”, I throw away old clothes and furniture, I don’t collect anything…but I have this tendency to hoard food.Maybe it’s not hoarding. It’s more like… I pick and nibble.Say, for example, I go to the store and buy Taylor some Doritos and Colin some Funyuns and Sandi [...]

So I’m supposed to be all happy and shit. I mean… the Dude I love just asked me to marry him, Christmas is coming – which is my very favorite time of year, our financial situation is looking up – despite some big debts… and here I sit, stuck in the middle of a bunch [...]

“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.”~Sarah Ban Breathnach I believe this.Living in the past is something far too many people do. You cannot grow if you like your past you more than the present. What sort of life can you have if what has been is always [...]

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.” ~Anais Nin To not do this is one of my talents. I may wander thru life bumping into [...]

“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.” ~Margaret Cho, weblog I have had one room-mate and been married twice. Until I met Taylor I truly felt I was incapable of living with anyone other than my son. But Taylor [...]

“This is the true joy in life; the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will [...]