DoozieLife

This week, I returned to my job. Not my everyday, raising children, trying to keep the house from being absolutely disgusting and all the pets fed and alive for another day job.. but my real, income producing, thought required job. I am , and guess I always will be, a graphic designer. [...]

This week, Troll Baby’s dad Bill, moved out. It was the end of a tumultuous couple of weeks. Ending relationships is always much harder than starting them, if this week was anything to go by. Especially because both of us still seem to care about one another, but right now that’s not [...]

So, some weeks turn into slow motion.  Each day becomes a blur of worry and exhaustion.  This week, with my daughter in the hospital, and my relationship going into its last tortuous week of “ending,” I have had all I can take.  Food tastes like crap, sleep taunts me all night, remaining just out of [...]

I am a writer, writing my life as it happens.  My mode of writing is this blog.  It is real life, written as it happens.  When you write, this is called transparency – in other words you aren’t hiding behind a shield of made up bull, pretending life is all perfect, or exaggerating how bad [...]

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I started this post on the tenth of January.  I have struggled with whether I should write about this path my life is taking.  I don’t want to hurt anyone in my family, I don’t want to hurt the father of my child.  However, to quote someone near and still dear [...]

It’s funny really.  Moms are tough.  I mean, think about it… We go through ten months of gestation, experiencing leg cramps, sleepless nights, incessant peeing, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, barfing, heartburn, constipation, searing pain in our sides from our uterus expanding, an awkward sense of balance and countless other untold physical discomforts just to squeeze something [...]

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Today is my kind of day.  Troll Baby and I slept in, the boys played quietly and cooperatively when they woke up (quite an accomplishment for a 17 yr old and a 7 yr old, lol), we had coffee and cinnamon rolls with orange icing.
I have been browsing Craigslist, making my plan of [...]

When you look ahead to the new year, what do you see?  For many of us, we are currently in a state of financial uncertainty, emotional duress and an all around feeling of blah.  I think there are few who can deny that 2009 has ended on a sour note in at least some aspect.  [...]

So today my son kindly asked that I stop writing about him. I decided that he’s right, I have enough crap of my own to write about that I will cut him a break for a while!  Besides, I always have K-Dog and Troll Baby to give me more material.  K has been pretty [...]

So, last night I posted about the change happening in our household… What I see as a new beginning, a chance for friendship, a family that will grow stronger.  I think DoozieDad feels the same way, from the beginning he told me… (and I didn’t write it down right that minute, so I am paraphrasing…)  [...]