Words can never hurt you?

There are some words I just can’t stand. ‘Moist,’ for instance. I hate it. The way it sounds, the way it feels to say- I don’t even like to eat cake described that way. It gives me the oogies. For real. I have friends who can’t stand ‘panties.’ It doesn’t really bother me. It’s a [...]

The Weekly Phone Call to My Parents

Ring. Ring. Ring.
Dad: Hello.
Me: Hello! How are you?
Dad: Your mom went to a basketball game.
Me: Well, I missed calling you this weekend, so I just thought I’d call and say hello. What’s new with you?
Dad: Just waiting for House to come on. Your mom should be home by 9. I’ll tell her you called when she gets [...]

Why I Voluntarily Live With a Crazy Person

Because this blog has become my venting outlet and a place to hide from the insanity of my life, sometimes the worst parts of the fiance’ get showcased and the positives get ignored. In the interest of letting you all in on the other side of my life, a list of reasons why I stay:

Every [...]

How to End Up Exhausted on a Monday

Plan for a “date” on Friday immediately after you get off work.
Meet your “date” (or fiance’) for happy hour.
Follow with a three course dinner.
Follow with a movie.
Go to bed at 3:00 am.
Wake up Saturday at 10 am, lounge around house, and work on freelance work.
Get phone call that your unfinished short stories will be published. [...]

Look Ma, I’m a Real-Life, Honest-to-Goodness, Writer

Good news for my non-paying literary “career” today. Last week I spotted a post on Craigslist looking for short stories from local Pittsburgh authors and replied with some of my feeble attempts cobbled together in the last few months- all very rough drafts. This afternoon, the phone rang.
It turns out that a local publishing class [...]

A New Banner for Eleanor

Hooray! Your non-tech-savvy correspondent has figured out how to change the banner photo. We will all miss the books that came with the site (may they rest in peace).
However, I am totally grooving on this spunky lady. She’s a Pittsburgher like myself (taken in Carrick- home of the fiance’- in 1953). For the full-length shot [...]

Acting “as if”

The emotional roller coaster of the last few days has been a wild ride. The fiance’ disappeared on a workday, or rather, never came home the night before. And didn’t call or show up before work. Later that evening, I got a call from his mother. He had called her from some guy’s apartment. When [...]

Avoiding Reality with a Fun Survey

This serious-topic-avoidance survey was provided to me by A Blog of Her Own. (Thanks! Even I am sick of my own drama at this point…)
Here are the rules:
Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Share six (6) non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
Tag at least 3 people at the end of your post [...]

Appreciation

I appreciate all of your kind comments. This has been a difficult two days and I assure you all that I will give you an update in the next two days. In the meantime, I will try to find some answers to give for what is going on. I promise that I am o.k., and [...]

2:30 and all’s wrong

No word from him. No nothing. I am so restless I could scream.