2 weeks ago, my dad came over to spend the weekend at our house. He said he was going to be in LA anyways for a consulting gig and wanted to make a quick trip over to us. I thought it was a cool opportunity and didn't think much of it because consulting gigs for him in the past have been small projects. However, slowly but surely, the truth ( Read more... )

this property that we rent has some very severely neglected landscaping. there are quite a few collections of plants that have become overgrown and are turning into harbors of fungus and mold. Not to mention the arrival of poisonous and invasive species. The fruit trees in the backyard are starting to suffer the effects of neglect. Over the past ( Read more... )

I have begun to realize that of all the people we've invited over to our house for dinner, nobody has invited us in return. 

both manuscripts have been accepted to MTNA!

oh that special purgatory that is potty training. let's go dana!

I'm in a murderous mood with the landscaping these days. It started with the 2 trees on the side of the house. I don't know what they are, but they look like pecans. However, instead of pecans, they drop red crunchy berries that nothing will eat. When the leaves dropped, they dropped so thick that when raking it up, I found earthworms wallowing in ( Read more... )

Today we went to the doctor at the end of the line, the pediatric orthopedic specialist, a 45mile round trip in rush hour traffic both ways. To date, 3 doctors have told me that Dana's little broken clavicle will just magically mend and stretch and grow with her. 2 of which were specialists. Despite my skepticism, it's turning into a dead horse ( Read more... )

what a horrible, wretched day. today i saw the x-ray of my little girl's collarbone and it is snapped in half like a little pencil. on top of that, it's "as displaced as possible". i spent the whole morning and early afternoon dragging her around all over creation to see doctors. first her normal pediatrician, then the x-ray place, then back to the ( Read more... )

another day another virus mopping the floor with my overly-ambitious ass. there are so many things i have to get done this week , fuck!

In about an hour 2013 will arrive for me. It's getting harder and harder to do this. I've got 2 kids and a sick husband asleep in the house with another day of busting my ass to keep them all propped up coming in the morning. Luckily for me, netflix has a whole new selection of superhero cartoons for me to gorge on.