“The hardest part of all this is my loss of security and my lack of control over my own finances and future. I feel vulnerable and completely powerless to change any of this. It angers me that other people are determining my fate. Especially since they are doing such a pathetic job of it.� ~Dawn...

I have some kind of mental health issue along the lines of OCD and/or OCPD and I need some help fleshing it out. (Long) I have seen doctors and other specialists and will continue to do so, but right now I am making use of this excellent resource that is the hive mind: A coupe of years ago I posted ...

I just realized I have no idea where the eff I am supposed to shove two dogs while I oil soap the hardwood... I think I have to shut them in the master bathroom. This will be amusing! Bam is so good to me - he's doing our bedroom carpet for me so I can do sheets and shit. But seriously, where the fu...

  Hey, it's Paraskavedekatriaphobia Day everybody! Did you watch out for black cats (isn't that terribly racist?), avoid crossing under ladders (as if there's even an opportunity for that in today's paranoid construction job), and, honestly, who opens umbrellas in the house anyw...

It's delicate when an adult-son-stuck-living-at-home-with-parents politely asks, "Uh, Ma. Is your post today long or short?" "Depends on your perspective, I guess. On a second read, not having looked at it since I published it late last night, I thought every word of it too long. Maybe it's better n...

I don't have near enough pictures of my son in his first year of life. I threw so many of them away. I can't quite put my finger on why I did that. I think it's because they didn't look perfect enough. Or maybe it was because I didn't want to be reminded of that time or how I felt. I didn't want a r...

I think I am a hypochondriac. The fact that I made that statement really goes to show how neurotic I am, but then again it would not be proof of hypochondria if I am indeed a hypochondriac. There are eleventeen thousand different useless things that I could be worrying about and I worry that I can't...

I collect the children from school. As usual my eldest son is disheveled. I sometimes wonder what he believes the purpose of a backpack is in his life? Something extra to carry along with his... Autism and humor, not necessarily an oxymoron!...

This interweb series of tubes thingy is a funny place. And it is such because of the crap I read that is passed off as “news”. And, the news is stating that since it is getting chilly outside again, it’s time for our annual visit to find out where all those nasty germs are hiding. ...

Andy is going through a slight OCD phase. He recently went through and paired up all the shoes in the house. He also went through all the toy bins in the house (there are several in various locations on three floors) and collected all the stacking cups to put them in order (see picture below). From ...