Darren Rowse over at Problogger.net is running a series this month called 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, and I've decided to follow along. He was going to start the series on the 1st, but ended up having to delay the start to the 6th. Warmed my heart to see a big-time blogger have to give himself a little more time to get his act together. I'll likely be doing this in spurts and batches because, as you know if you've hung around here any length of time at all, I have "issues" trying to blog daily. :)

I guess last you heard from me, the kids were enjoying snow days without any snow and we were roughin’ it without a furnace for two days. Damn – that was almost 3 weeks ago. Well, I’m not even going to offer up any kind of excuse (if any of you are still out there) because there are only really two things that keep me away from here: 1) being sick...

Thirteen Things That Bug Me My single gray eyelash That I can clean a room and 10 minutes after the kids are in it, you can’t tell I did anything My bed not being made (don’t fall out of your chair on that one, Mom, but it’s true!) People who say one thing and do another My chin hairs…or how ’bout the fact that I have them in the first...

Completely Clueless (a.k.a. PDD’s father) had some consequences come home to roost today. A Federal Marshal showed up at my house looking for him and I quickly told him he has not lived here for two years. The warrant was for non-payment of child support (no, not to me, but to his first wife for their two children, known here at Big Sis and Big Brother.) ...

Ever have a flash of insight as to just how convoluted and complicated your life has become, to the point that you just shake your head and laugh? Such a flash hit me this afternoon, thanks to my ex (for whom I have not yet determined an appropriate name in this blog, though currently Completely Clueless is one of the kinder, gentler front-runners.) Long before I met...