Everydaystranger

Today couldn’t really get any worse thus far, unless I pop to the loo and find a flame-throwing poxy midget bursting out of my vagina. Now that would be bad. But I do have a hair appointment for this afternoon. I have to go no matter what the decision, as I have [...]

Since apparently I am susceptible.
Honest view sought. My hair:
Long or short?
-S.

I’m the kind of person that is honestly completely happy being alone.
I used to think that there was something wrong with people who were alone. They were incomplete. How could you be you without being around other people to verify the you-ness? I changed my personality to fit the circumstances, [...]

I sometimes look out the window and think about what’s going on outside these office walls, what’s happening in the world, what people are going through.
At any given moment someone is dying. There is a rattling in their lungs. Their breath is catching but they are already gone and have pocketed their memories [...]

It’s a three day weekend over here.
We spent yesterday in the paddling pool.
Today we’re reading, chilling, and having a nice day off.
See you tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s a photo of my hearts.

-S.

I’ve been awake since 3:30 this morning. It’s going to be one of those days.
Acronyms really run a life, don’t they?
IVF.
WTF.
FUBAR.
EDS.
For those unfamiliar with that last one, it’s a biggie. EDS. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. May is EDS Awareness Month.
It used to be the joke, didn’t it? The kid on the playground [...]

I know I’m late on this and have now found myself to be completely unworthy of a book club hosting. Mea culpa, and you may flog me by throwing copies of Moby Dick at me. Alternatively, you can bung those copies into a fire because while I abhor censorship and book burning, I’m [...]

I’ve been able to work from home for most of the week, and every morning Gorby and I go for a long walk through the nearby woods. It is cathartic in the extreme, and I have been doing a lot of thinking there. I know I am viewed as being very introspective, and [...]

I love new job. I really do. Or I should say I absolutely love the company I work for, the projects I run maybe aren’t something that will change the world (although they are important) and the projects I run are in a different vein than the ones I used to do before. [...]

On Saturday we went to a wedding.
The babies stayed home with a sitter.
I dressed up. In real clothes. In real, proper, girl clothes.

The final ensemble was this:

Together we were a couple.

The wedding was held in a registry office in a posh part of London. We parked the car, walked into the registry [...]

It’s innocent. It always, always starts off innocently, often in those vulnerable hours when you are asleep. You are going about your business. You are doing what has to be done in the dark despair that may be your life. You are suffering. You don’t know what to do, so [...]

The Lemonheads are now 19 months old. They still go to bed at 5:30 each night and still wake up at 7am every morning. Sometimes they don’t fall asleep immediately, but they instead pass toys back and forth and laugh like loons. That’s my favorite part.
He is still very much [...]

So this is the new site. I’m closing the other one down now that all the archives are moved over to here, and won’t be writing over there any longer (thank God-maintaining dual sites and dual comments for the past week has done my fucking head in.)
Things are very low here at home, both [...]

Comments are completely broken.
The server move isn’t complete and I can’t get an answer on when it will be done.
My day is packed.
There is a lot of noise in my life right now.
Inside I’m screaming.
Outside you can’t even tell.
Hang in there while I work out what the fuck is going on.
-S.

I had a post about the twins lined up for today, in an effort to pull myself up with my bootstraps, as well as updates on the book club read due this Friday and it being EDS month. I’ve been struggling this past week and I make no secret of that. I’m not [...]

London yesterday.
See my face in the glass of the tube. It is angular, my face. Lines and planes. Hair pulled back and shiny dangly earrings, not my norm but which I am trying to make it so. iPod in ears, songs playing haunting music (Pacem by Kathy Haggerty). Book idling [...]

A week ago I had a Very Bad Day.
Very Bad Days happen to everyone, I know. I’m the first to hold my hand up and say that my life, it’s a bit of a roller coaster. When the cart is at the top of the hill and the wind is in my hair, [...]

Statia [14:22]:
dude
Shannon[14:26]:
Hola hot bed rest mama
Statia [14:27]:
i went into Mini’s room
this morning
he was asleep
butt up in the air
hugging his sheep
i thought you’d like that
Shannon[14:28]:
I love that.
Photo would have been welcome
And you could’ve used it on his prom night, too.
Statia [14:30]:
yeah, unfortunately a flash would have scared the shit out of him in his dark room
Shannon[14:30]:
is [...]

To My Babies -
Last night I woke myself up shouting a number of times. I dreamt bad things were happening to you. My final dream this morning was the greatest of nightmares – I dreamt that you passed away and I was sorting through boxes of your clothes, unable to give anything away. [...]

Never fear. Very soon I’ll tell you about the night I very nearly went round the twist. It’s otherwise known as “last night”. It’s going down in legend.
Anyway – the everydaystranger.net site should be up and running in the next 5 days. In the meantime, I’ll be posting here [...]