I could just kick myself. I really could just kick myself- hard, whilst wearing pointy shoes. I don’t know why, but sometimes I am my own worst advocate.

Backstory:

I am horribly underpaid.  Like to an insulting degree.  In my old position, the recession hit hard and I got… Read full post »

I have a friend whom I believe to be well-meaning, but may also be a little socially retarded.  Follow me on this one...

She has a buddy and wants to arrange a fix up.  He's a writer (great), he works as a screenwriter (meh- I guess that's a writer but not… Read full post »

I haven't written for a while.  Well that's sort of true.  I stopped writing here so I could focus on other writing projects and then stopped writing on those as well.  So the reality is I haven't written for a while, and I stopped writing here long before that.… Read full post »

Dear Self,

Sorry to wax poetic and pitiful today.  Everyday can't be sunshine and rainbows, just ride it out.

Best, Foolin' Nobody

 The thing with a break-up that is so resoundingly unique is the weight of it.  It's like gravity is picking on you.  The heaviness in… Read full post »

I had a hard week last week.  There were numerous emotional "challenges" (and I use that term loosely because in all reality, they were giant cock-ups to my chi) but I think I weathered the storms okay.  I took stock of my week over the weekend and I had thr… Read full post »

Dear__________

I'm sorry.  For whatever I did I am sorry.  I am sorry that you don't think more of me than you do.  I am sorry that you feel justified in sending me vitriolic emails and making people take sides. 

If it is due to those nights when I sent my o… Read full post »

I am flabbergasted, bewildered and extremely insulted.  This blog post does nothing but to serve as a little justice.  In fact, add incensed to my introductory sentence.  Someone had the nerve to break up with my email on a Sunday night- My work email no less-so… Read full post »

I feel the need to start off by saying I like pet names in theory.  It's nice to be someone's special someone and pet names are like an inside joke between sweethearts and they can be very sweet...and....sometimes, they can be gross, irritating or just plan inappropriate.

Now… Read full post »

Either this Thursday is May 26th or it's just a Thursday- but  it can't be both.

This Thursday would have been my 5th wedding anniversary.  If, he hadn't given up.  If, he hadn't cheated.  If, I hadn't dismissed his changes in behaviour as simply the melonchalia of a creative.&n… Read full post »

I have decided I am just defective in the most meaningful of ways.  Is it possible that someone could make worse choices?  I can't concentrate on anything long enough to finish it, and that includes big huge projects -like financial planning- to little projects -like laund… Read full post »

I will start this off by saying that I like people, but I don't like people.  I like people in the abstract, I think we're pretty neat. We build cities and design machines, we've create… Read full post »

Well it's happened.  I got my way.  I actually got my way.  I probably should start with a little back-story...When you asked me as a little girl what I wanted to be, I always replied "a writer."  I went to an arts high school in the magnet program thinking… Read full post »

If ever there was a phrase that described my brushes with the law it would be “detained but never deported” (or charged for the matter).  I won’t pretend I’ve never had it coming, I totally did, but there are some things that a little con and twinkle in one’s eye ca… Read full post »

 I was never a huge fan of Valentine's day but I liked the idea of being someone's Valentine though.  Well until last year, when my (now ex) husband took me to see my favorite ballet and dropped the bombshell that, not only was he having an affair but, he was leaving… Read full post »

I am not the religious sort- in fact I have been actively angry at God for about a year and  am now pretty much a confirmed atheist who believes in science, reason and evolution (in equal measure)- but today God bought me latte.

I walked into a Starbucks today to… Read full post »

Last night I cried myself to sleep. It had been a while and maybe I was due. Every little set-back seems to mean more these days. I fight like hell to keep it together because when it comes apart it is ugly.

I know I am better this month than… Read full post »

Today Jonas made a break for it. Tired of eating out of vending machines and drinking shitty coffee with non-dairy creamer he tried running out for a quick bite. Out of no where one of the thick necked security guards stood in the front of the back entrance leading to the… Read full post »

 Yesterday my divorce was final. Yesterday I needed the Universe to cut me a break- no parking tickets, a good hair day and a compliment from a handsome stranger. Got those check, check and check. So why, oh why, did the Universe decide that after months of not seeing my ex-husband… Read full post »

On the tram the other day I overheard a paradigm shift. Not a startling earth-shaking “the Cold War is over hooray let’s all wear blue jeans” kind of shift but a subtler shift that got me to thinking. I was watching a young couple (no older than 16)-he with shaggy… Read full post »

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” Buddhism

Today I had the opportunity to get angry and I took it.

I am an A-type personality and have a low threshold for frustration so I am quick to pop a top every now and… Read full post »

Today I had a passenger in my car.

As a rule I try to avoid having people in my car at all costs. I’m one of those that always tries to get out of driving. Firstly, I hate driving. It’s boring, it’s a tad stressful and it gets in… Read full post »

Ok so everyone has their own style of humor. I get that. I get that people don’t always find the same stuff funny. I even get that sometimes things that are meant to be funny fall flat. But this general rule applies, things that are funny have a victim.

Sometimes… Read full post »

First I loved an actor and wow could he act! He could play the straight man like nothing you’ve seen. I forgave him though because we were young and I should have realized he was prettier than me.

Then I loved a musician; when DJ’s made music rather than just… Read full post »

I have created a blog.. A blog oh God oh God.

I am now one of you! One of the many internet minions who clog up the blogosphere and contributes to the computer’s shift from tool to family member.

I am wired, juiced, uploaded and fried…and now I have your undivided… Read full post »