Have you ever just wanted to drop everything and run away? To find a place where reality doesn’t exist and something more peaceful does? I call this place the unreality. It’s the place where everything in the world is right, is just, is fair, is happy. It’s the place where the underdog wins and everyone …
When Collard Greens Attack
While most people are making their new year resolutions and plans for “new year, new me,” I’m sitting on my sofa with my DoorDash order from Zaxby’s wondering why the breading on their boneless wings is hard enough to cut my gums. It’s safe to say I haven’t quite made it to the point of …
Chasing Sunsets
I believe that life is a series of epiphanies that bring us to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes we have to endure the same epiphany like it’s new until we finally get it. I don’t have brain damage (unless you count the two concussions) that would make me learn things at a slower …
In the Spirit
For the first Christmas in many years, I didn’t put up a Christmas tree. Last year, I was so excited to decorate the tree and the rest of my house. This year I was doing the waltz with a Sitz bath and just hoping that somehow, the tree would walk out of the closet and …
It All Happens So Fast
Time passes and years build upon years. One day you find yourself like me, sitting in a public place watching people and asking myself how did I get here? Not my physical location but at this point in time and space. It doesn’t feel that long ago that I was a child on an elementary …
Cheese Straws and Giving Up
I planned to make my famous cheese straws for some thoughtful Christmas gifts. I bought my ingredients yesterday and even set the cheese out earlier today to soften. I shredded my cheese with the grater attachment to my Kitchen-aid mixer. This is the attachment I just had to have but have used maybe twice in …
Fitting In Is Overrated
As I sit here, shaking Sweetarts onto my shirt and eating them from the little pocket my cleavage makes in my shirt, I can't help but think that I will never fit in. Truth is I never have. That probably doesn't come as a big surprise. I'm known for oversharing about a lot of things …
The Next Phase
The good news is in and I'll start with it. I have my pathology report and it looks like everything is good. No evidence of invasive carcinoma! Woo hoo!! I go for my official follow up tomorrow but at least I know that I don't have cancer. The bad news is that I have moved …
Rescue
I'm four days out from surgery and still feeling quite sore. I didn't expect things to feel quite like this. I really didn't think I would be hurting this bad for this long. But, here I am, in the pre-dawn hours of a misty Sunday morning with a throbbing bottom and a love-hate relationship with …
The Sitz Bath Chronicles
As a mother who had her babies via c-section, I was not familiar with the concept of a Sitz bath. I knew what it was but had just never participated. That was until about 3:30 a.m. when I pooped razors. Not literally, of course, but close enough. In my infinite wisdom, I thought that a …
Messpot Diaries 