good to hear from your on this post :)

My son and I were both completely enamored with the Twilight series (although he is team Jacob and I am team Edward) and are looking forward to the next book which is being celebrated with a Vampire Ball at our B&N. I’m glad I’m not the only Mom who loves sharing books with my teenager. I haven’t read “UGLIES” yet but my son has them. Maybe I’ll make that the next series I tackle.

I love good coffee but I also drink Nescafe clasico freeze-dried. I got used to it in Mexico and to me it tastes better than Starbucks at about 1/50th the price.

In other news… The United States of Tara got picked up for 12 episodes. Does this mean you will have a full time job when you get back?

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6567231.html

Bring me some coffee back!

xoxo

Please be careful. Hubs went to Columbia for business and actually wore a bullet proof vest. I kid you not.

xoxoxo

http://www.doahleigh.com/index.php/the-doctor-is-in/

some of the games, make me sick and dizzy. i’ll always love mario. as well, they’ve held their monetary value so i guess our demographic is pretty heavy.

Eventually my mom got so sick of me playing that game that one night when she called me for dinner and I didn’t turn it off (but I’m about to save the princess, mom!!!), she grabbed the box, ripped it out from the TV and threw it off the back deck onto the cement driveway two stories down where it shattered into a million pieces.

Good times!

Love,

Joe

That’ll get you through some of these hard times. The others? Lean on friends. That’s what we’re here for.

p.s. Check your email. I sent something last week hoping it would inspire!

I have found a great cure lately. Read about it here - http://www.stopgrindingteethnow.com

I love lizard pushups. The other day I saw a little lizard chase a bigger one off his patch of wall. Then he did a few victory pushups to celebrate. I swear I could hear his little voice squeaking, “You want a piece of this, huh? HUH? Who owns this wall? I own this wall!”

I speak fluent lizard, as you can tell.

Leah, please write something! I know you’re in a funk right now, but what could be more therapeutic than blogging about it? We (your readers) miss you.

I take effexor now along with trazadone and Wellbuterin which I have been taking for years.
You guys are freaking me out…..my psych said trazadone is not a big deal, not many side effects, nonaddictive and works great with both my meds……any other opinions on that I should know about??

When you put it in your mouth at night,you will NOT grit your teeth. It really works.

As for coming off Effexor, the doc said “stop it” and I did. Now I would come off it s*l*o*w*l*y……… even thought I’m the impatient sort.

Right now, I’m coming off of Xanax. Been on it for 20 years and my new doctor won’t refill it. He said I’m bound to be addicted to it. I said “SO what? It works and causes no problems” but he dug in his heels.

Angela- can’t you off it slowly? Best of luck to you with that, hope it isn’t too hard for you :)

angela - everyone’s experience is different but i encountered hallucinations and brain electric shocks. hope yours goes better. my advice would be to go sloooooooow.

Good luck to you!

bruxism. my god that sucks. i suffer from from teeth grinding while asleep, and clenching while awake.

after trying several items, the NTI thing has worked for about two years now.

my chiropractor also aided in the prevention of the muscles getting tense in that whole head area. it helped tremendously once i shared some history with him that i’d previously left out.

I am depressed about money myself. I haven’t paid my bills this month, can’t afford child care, etc, etc. But I’m trying to keep it together so I can think of a good way to solve this.

I wish the same for you! Tell us about Mother’s Day, hope it was lots of fun. Take care.

Personally, all I want is for someone, anyone, to just plain visit my blog and maybe….oh should I even SAY it? Maybe like, come back cuz they enjoy it. But YOU, YOU could make a living out of it!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(that’s my post modern digitized interpretation of applause)

Keep putting yourself out there so the job will find you when the time is right.

You’ve raised such great kids, they will survive the occasional misstep. They gotta learn. Give them all a hug from me. Joe gets a hug too, but from a safe germ-avoiding distance.

Yay for progress on your health. Big YAY!

Blank walls can be soothing. Think PD.

I miss seeing your photos, though. Use flickr as your walls.

thanks :-)

I actually hugged the book at that point. Thank you is all I can say. After surviving being the daughter of a Maunchhausen Syndrome by Proxy parent, and suffering from many induced, near death, illnesses during my childhood (and the physical ramifications in adulthood) those of us with abusive childhoods need a secret handshake.

Thanks so much. This is my very first visit to your blog, and I’ll definitely be back.

And I really hope the job of your dreams turns up soon!

Smiles,
kari & kijsa

ONE Lexapro, and the symptoms left immediately, but I’m now afraid when I start a drug, of the day I’ll have to stop it.

As for blank walls versus covered in photographs, I go through cycles of preferring one over the other. Start with blank walls, as nail holes aren’t very attractive. Enjoy the spaciousness, then start thinking about photos and paintings as winter approaches.

Hope this helped.

I’m so glad to see you write this. I know you’ve struggled for a long time with having to take meds, and I’m glad to see you not wasting energy longing to be off them.

Peace.

Also glad to hear you are making peace with your meds. It is what it is, sister.

Do you think you’ll be able to come to SF for Blogher? I’d love to meet you if you do :)

You probably don’t know this, but I admire you and your writing so very much. To call you a friend on top of that? It’s a sweet thing indeed.

Kelly
xoxo

If I hadn’t PREORDERED, I’d already have it read by now. Waaaaaaaaaaa

Take care.