Ok, first let me warn you - this is not going to be a warm, fuzzy post. Any of you who have young children, and by young I mean kids who still openly love you and have yet to realize how uncool you really are, may want to skip this post altogether. I don’t [...]

Ok, so it finally happened: I missed a day. Damn.
However, since this year is Leap Year, and Blog365 should really have been named Blog366 - I’m still going to make it! Woo-hoo! (Love my logic, don’cha?!)
It does mean that I can’t miss any more days, though, and that might be a bit [...]

This week I can sum up all that I am fed up with in one word: settling.
I’m fed up with playing small, even though I didn’t think I was.
I’m fed up with stinkin’ thinking that is so pervasive and sneaky and tricks me into thinking that I can’t when I damn well can, that I [...]

Look out world - Suzanne’s shit-bucket is full and it’s time to dump it out and start over.
I now declare Fridays on SuzanneSays… to be “Fed Up Friday” wherein I shall vent, whinge, bitch, moan and otherwise talk shit until I relieve enough mental constipation (a.k.a. pressure, self-induced or otherwise) that I give up the [...]

Ok, maybe I won’t ever “get it”. I just don’t get how a certain someone could consider it any kind of evil-doing on my part to send his daughter to stay the weekend with him. I just don’t get how I end up in the bitch category for that. Particularly when we have no [...]

I only WISH I appeared this calm, cool and collected to my students this morning!
It was…one of THOSE mornings…
I had woken up at 5:30am, glanced at the clock, and happily turned over and burrowed back under the covers for another hour of slumber.
Not 30 seconds later, I swear, I opened my eyes to: 8:28 staring [...]

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks, then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.- Zora Neale Hurston

In my situation, what was misunderstood was my intention.
But intention - or more accurately, the correct interpretation of intention - is subject to personal filters, attitudes, sense of [...]

If Oldest Son (fyi: 20 yrs old) doesn’t start showing some true initiative about getting a job, I’m going to come un-F*CKING-done. He’s got such a negative self-concept and world view, and it’s making him such a freeloader.
AAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!
(Thank you - I really needed that!)
Every time I ask him about what he’s doing toward [...]

There are not that many things that make me come unglued these days, and for that, I am thankful. Coming unglued is not something I enjoy doing - it takes entirely too much energy which could be used more constructively elsewhere, and it usually ends badly. Plus, it sets a bad example and teaches the [...]

Oldest Son is having some difficulty in making the adjustment to being back under Mama’s roof. In fact, more than some…try a whole truckload.
It’s quite entertaining to me that he assumes because he’s now ‘of age’ that somehow gives him the right to make rules and, even more cheeky - ignore rules in my house.
NOT.
I [...]