My husband can really piss me off. I know that’s not kosher to say out loud, but it’s true and I know I’m not alone in feeling this way about my spouse. Any person who never finds their spouse annoying has never been married.
That said, my husband exceeds my expectations for being aggravating, but he does so Continue reading
My husband says I should stop worrying about whether I have the right WordPress theme and just write. I feel like he’s accusing me of procrastinating, and I don’t want him to be right about anything right now because I’m still mad at him because of a tiff we had about Adobe Lightroom, which I’m sure is a bone of contention in every family.
(Did you catch my pun in the last sentence?)
I don’t remember how our argument started but he was trying to get me to learn Lightroom by watching video tutorials. I just wanted him to learn by trial and error or Continue reading
I am going to a writer’s workshop and I feel like an impostor. I once went to a lecture at a podiatry conference and it didn’t trouble me in the least that I was not a podiatrist. I didn’t terrorize myself with thoughts like, “What if they ask me where I stand on custom versus over-the-counter orthotics?” or “How many plantar fascia releases have you done?” And it should have troubled me because there are rules Continue reading
It just hit me a minute ago how crazy this whole thing is. I confided in a friend that I started a blog that I kept locked down and didn’t post to for almost a year, and then I unlocked it but didn’t tell anyone about it (and still didn’t post it to it). As I was telling her about my secret blog, I thought, “Who does this?! This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”
That said, considering I haven’t told anyone about this blog, I am not sure how anyone even stumbles upon it. But apparently it’s possible, as evidenced by the fact that 5 people in South America have tripped over this website. Or maybe it’s just 3 people, from 3 countries, and one guy fell in twice (did I get the math right?). Anyway, to the guy from Brazil: Drop in anytime!
Later…
I told my friend about this blog. I think this is Step 1 in my 12-step recovery from being a closet non-blogging blogger.
Months after writing the last post, I saw it again and I thought it read a lot like I was dying. If there’s one way to let your readers down, it’s to have them think they are reading a terminally ill woman’s blog, but then she never dies.
So, for the record, I am not going to die. I mean, we’re all going to die, but I’m not planning on dying soon (and I hope I didn’t just jinx myself…).
So let’s be clear: I’m planning on sticking around, amassing one strange disease and/or symptom after another. On the upside, the radiology techs all know what kind of music I like and I heard one of them talking to the radiologist about reserving one of the scanners just for me, which is really sweet. Also, I’m really making strides in overcoming my claustrophobia thanks to all this exposure therapy AND it’s really helped with my gratitude. Next time I have to get in my space capsule, instead of thinking my usual, “Oh f@&#, I don’t think I can do this. What if I panic?! I think I’m going to panic!” I will be thinking, “Awe-some! It’s so great to do this without feeling like I’m spinning 300 miles per hour. What a pleasure!”
So it’s all good.
Oh, one more thing. Even if I were to get “sick”, which, as I said, I’m not, I don’t want this to turn into a blog about a sick person. When someone’s sick, suddenly the expectations are so high that they turn into this amazing person who, to their last breath, is only thinking of others and doing good deeds. That is just not a good fit for me.
I stopped cussing when I had kids as a way to lie to them and make them think I’m someone I’m not. Lately I have cussed in front of them a few times, surprisingly with much less remorse than I used to have when I’d slip up. I actually think it’s time they know the truth: They come from a long line of cussers, some of whom elevated cursing to an art form. They should also know that cussing can be a form of coping. Continue reading
I wrote this on January 9, 2015, before I signed up for this top-secret blog:
I really appreciate the feedback from people who have suggested I write a blog. Here are some of my thoughts about it:
I have the privacy settings on, I haven’t told anyone about this site, and I haven’t used my name on this site. So this is a totally safe way of putting something “out there”. But not that far out there. It’s just a toe, dipping in the river blog. I can toetally do one little toe. Maybe.
I’m a little confused by the posting date of this, which seems to correlate only with when I Continue reading
Life on the Edge of My Comfort Zone 