color me pissed. there's nothing i hate more than spending 30 minutes writing an awesome post and having your screen refresh on you and delete the entire post. savesavesavesavesave. i should learn to save. but i never will. i'm so bad. anyway, since my brain is fried and i won't remember any of it, … [Read more...]

The world can be an ugly place. As MotherWoman and MadHatter pointed out on their blogs this week, just turning on the news can make you despair for humanity and for the future: college kids being gunned down in Montreal, Amish schoolgirls taken hostage and shot... it all makes me want to shut my … [Read more...]

Hi gorgeouses, I have a raging headache because I'm on a serious detox program -- getting healthy! -- with the fabulous Dr. Adam. So, let's get right to it: AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL: DING-DONG THE BITCH IS DEAD! Monique -- gone. Haha! Loo-hoo-ser! Karma's a bitch, ain't it, Mon? Serves you … [Read more...]

Being a mom is all about balance. if you are a stay at home mom, it's balancing things like naps and meals and grocery shopping and cooking dinner and carpool and laundry and playdates and doing the dishes and signing permission slips and returning phone calls and the like. if you are a working … [Read more...]

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank goodness I have this blog to EXPRESS my utter EXCITEMENT that JACK (from Young and the Restless) pulled it off! He bought Jabot! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Jack is House of Kim! YES YES YES YES YES! WHEW! AHHH...SIGH....sigh....sigh. Haaaaaa! I'm not even a … [Read more...]

It takes a special kind of person to hold someone’s hand as they die or to comfort a family as they find out their loved one is terminally ill.  Often these wonderful and kind people who work in palliative care, making the last days of a person’s life comfortable and free of pain, are … [Read more...]

So, today is sucking pretty ginormously. Still sick, with pounding headache, and just lost a morning's worth of writing and link-wrangling to the mud-suckage that is Typepad. A whole post, GONE. No amount of Tylenol makes that pain go away. All of which is to say is, what follows is a pale imitation … [Read more...]

Week: 19 Pounds Lost: 38 It must be the time of year, but I find myself focusing inwards, becoming reflective, introspective; mindful. Perhaps it's just that autumn has always meant the beginning of the school year for me, so I'm in the habit of dusting off the old noggin' and stretching the neurons … [Read more...]

i know i said that i was going to try to NOT watch new shows this year. i have enough on my pvr as it is, and little to no time to watch them (this season i don't have a baby to nurse in the middle of the night...i must say, if i had to find a perk in the night-time breastfeeding gig, it's that i … [Read more...]

As promised, I tried out two of the recipes from my last entry, and have lots of feedback, tips, etc. for you. First: Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies: Chocolate HeavenThis one lives up to its name! Easy to make and oh, so yummy. As my husband said after his taste test, "anything with this much … [Read more...]