A few days ago, I realized I've spent over half the past year not drinking due to being knocked up. I have nothing to show for for all those missed beers. I don't think I'll be observing Dryuary this year ( Read more... )

... to a shit year. I've met some neat people, and spent some good time with family and old friends, and achieved a few very hard-earned goals. Overall, though, 2015 has sucked syphilitic donkey cock. I think I'll burn the calendar when the magic hour comes.

I had a second miscarriage a little while ago. This is very short version, because I can't think about it without crying, and as a nurse there's only so much crying I can do before I start worrying about dehydration ( Read more... )

Overheard my first catty behind-my-back comment at work today. I am trying to be philosophical about it, since I find being pissed at people to be mostly a waste of energy. I also refuse to ignore it. I skipped lunch to ask her a bunch of questions which were relevant both the conversation I'd overheard and the afternoon's work. She strikes me as ( Read more... )

New job starts October 5th! It's not night shift! I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the wages: roughly three times what I was earning back at the bakery, with more predictable hours. (I'm trying not too look to hard at how thoroughly my sense of self-respect has become entangled with my personal financial status; right now, both are ( Read more... )

What a roller coaster week this has been. I can't even go into the half of it. Things I can say: Wednesday afternoon, I was told I didn't get the job I really, really, really wanted. Suffice to say, I'd made some tactical errors, and there was nothing else in the pipeline. I bawled my eyes out. Thursday afternoon, they called back and said there ( Read more... )

I went to the beach yesterday with a friend and his three year old son. It felt so good, watching that kid roll around on the beach, and throw sand at people, and take off running down the boardwalk butt naked and screaming, watching others judge me for being his too-hands-off slacker mom. So complete, dancing and playing one-two-three-up and ( Read more... )

I am officially a licensed, if unemployed, registered nurse. That is all.

Last night I had one of thos nightmares you can't quite wake up from. In it, I had to take boards (which is scheduled for next week, btw) on paper because the usual testing computers were full of bedbugs. One of my instructors and the president of my class were proctoring, and they would not stop talking and making announcements. In their really ( Read more... )

This one was selling a "state of the art wireless home security system." I don't like very loud noises. I don't like superfluous electronics that suck power all of the time. I don't trust wireless appliances. And no sane person is going to break into a house with three pit bulls, especially a house where bikes and dogs are the only genuinely ( Read more... )