If this is true, I'm spending the next two weeks digging into chocolate sundaes, buttercream layer cakes and a lot of Lactaid.
End of the World: 5/21/2011
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“You Only Live Once”
Bob the Husband: "Honey, you only live once." Me: "If I'm lucky."
When I Clean the Toilet
When I clean the toilet, I close my eyes. I go into a deep state of denial about what I'm doing and imagine that I'm scrubbing an already sparkling clean toilet. I work hard on every inch to guarantee that when I do open my eyes, all I'll see is a gleaming surface.I...
Great, They Plowed Our Street. Now We Can Get Our Car Out!
Snowmageddon!
It was still coming down at 1 p.m.Yes, that's our car I'm standing next to.
White Like Heaven
BLIZZARD! This is why I moved to the Midwest in 1993. Oh, yeah. I experienced my first blizzard in Ithaca, New York in 1993. It was great. My second was here in Chicago in 1999, but by coincidence I was very ill and spent the whole time in bed. This is my first...
To Whom It May Concern
Dear East Coast, Please stop hogging all the snow. Sincerely, Midwest
Regina Rodriguez
Back when I decided to get serious about music, I hired someone to build a website that told people my music. I carefully wrote the copy and gave him the photographs and lyrics to publish. It was 2001 so I didn't really know what I was doing. As early websites often...
On Thanksgiving…
I am grateful to feel grateful at all. This has been a very hard year even though Bob and I weren't even dealing with a financial crisis or losing a home or anything like that. But obviously major surgery causes its own kind of stress. My depression depleted my...
On the Eighth Day of Thanksgiving…
Disclaimer: since I became properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and self-hatred and obsession with food and weight. It's sad. I'm grateful that I've finally started to lose the twelve pounds I put on over my awful, wretched summer of...
On the Seventh Day of Thanksgiving…
I'm grateful for being an American. I never felt this way until I left the country for the first time in my life and finally used a passport at the age of 44. I went to Peru and Bolivia. There I saw what my life could have been if my grandparents hadn't hauled...
On the Sixth Day of Thanksgiving…
I'm grateful for anti-depressants!
On the Fifth Day of Thanksgiving…
I'm grateful for my new cell phone. This is why I have a new cell phone: In 2006, my husband's company began paying for his cell phone. In 2008, they got him a BlackBerry. I was so envious, I insisted that we get me a BlackBerry, too. We could afford it, since we...
Middle-Aged
Bob and I had drinks at The Wit Hotel in downtown Chicago last night. He took this photo which shows me the schoolteacher I could have been.
Getting Out the Front Door
Some people spend their adulthoods moving from one career accomplishment to another. Some pour themselves into raising families and/or building a long-lasting marriage. Some improve their communities, help build companies, nurture their extended family or tend...