A Barrel of Nelsons

Someone on a forum recently said she bookmarked my blog and couldn’t wait to read it. So I figured that I should probably post or something like that, eh? (Also, welcome any new readers… and old readers, regular readers, infrequent readers, readers who know me in real life, and readers who Googled something and ended [...]

When I was a sophomore in HS, back in 1999, I started dating my second boyfriend. That was a rollercoaster ride in it’s own right. I’m feeling acronym-y today so we’ll call him TBWBMHT, The Boy Who Broke My Heart, Twice. He’s not terribly important to this story other than contextualizing stuff.
JB of the title, [...]

Though I’m pretty sure it will take a turn or seven at some point.
I have really deep-set eyes. It’s kinda part of having high cheekbones, which I love to death, but it also means that I get and have dark circles a lot and because I’m so pale, they really stand out. Of course, I’m [...]

There’s a slight issue with looking at pictures of other people’s kids. (Jen posted some adorable shots of E-baby on Facebook btw.)
I haven’t seen a current picture in months… The last one was around Easter. Please don’t remind me how long ago that was.
I don’t know what color hair my daughter has. She had a [...]

So from tomorrow morning until late Thursday, we’ll be gone. Then I have my job interview on Friday… which so much pressure. I know it’s not meant to be, but it is.
So, the Family Drama (which I still feel is worthy of the caps) hasn’t really gone away, but my parents (or at least my [...]

As I so often put it, I’m from Small-City Indiana. Up until I headed off to college, our biggest move was across town. There was a high likelihood that most of the people I met knew my parents or grandparents or knew someone who knew them.
Contrast that to Jeff who has moved more times than [...]

I just wrote a huge reply/comment to a post that Jen made about her daughter’s firstdad. I thought I’d bring my thought processes back over here so I can expound aka babble more and not take up her space. Sound good?
Like I said in my comment, I really struggle with Jeff and who he’s told [...]

Written on April 2nd, I just had issues and couldn’t get it posted until today.)
I keep sitting down to write, and then I keep walking away without doing so. Anyone know what the small repeated bumps on some rollercoasters are called? Camelbacks? I think that maybe it. Anyways, that’s what my emotional rollercoaster is running [...]

This is one of four posts that I started to write, but two of the others usurp other peoples posts in a way maybe and I don’t want to do that. And the third is kind of a re-statement of something I wrote on forums and isn’t fully formed yet. So yeah… here goes this [...]

Let me tell you about my friend Joe… Joe is Irish-Italian-Polish-American, which makes him rather loud and opinionated. Or maybe he’s just loud and opinionated normally and it gives him lots of excuses. He’s lived in Texas and Chicago and I still don’t understand how he ended up in Columbus. He’s Republican and Catholic. He [...]