Last week I was talking to a co-worker about her life and a friend she has who she feels she's drifting away from. She was saying that she just feels like it's hard to continue to be friends with this person because they don't ever seem to just fix their own problems, and it's frustrating. I...
Monday, April 18, 2016
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Maybe I'm a Vulcan?
I'm sure my geek husband will be a fan of the Star Trek reference here, but this is something I was thinking about the other day while I was painting my guest room. That's how things often happen, I'm working on something that is relatively mindless and can let my brain wander into lots of other...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
My kid is my bestie?
I made a joke the other day that my daughter is my bestie, which is both sad and accurate. Not in the sense that I'm Amy Poehler in Mean Girls walking around like "I'm a cool mom!" or anything, but in terms of shared activities, it's sort of not wrong. We go shopping together, we spend tons...
Monday, April 11, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Nailed it
Sometimes I don't know how much I buy into therapy. I did it for a while, because I needed to sort my shit out, but that mostly just made me realize that "my shit" was largely related to dealing with other people's shit. I think the problem with things like therapy is that it's supposed...
Monday, April 4, 2016
Familiarity
On Saturday morning I was out bright and early with my daughter running some errands and giving my husband some quiet time in the house since it's his morning to sleep in, and he often has some work he has to get done on the weekends so it's nice to give him a quiet space to do that. This seems...
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Broken people parenting
One of the things about being a parent who didn't necessarily have the best examples to work from is that it makes you constantly worry about repeating the bad example you had. It's not passive. It's never passive. It's an active concern that you have that nags at you after every decision...
