Read about my battles with Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), my mental health, surviving both childhood sexual abuse and a 12 year relationship plagued with emotional abuse, as well personal projects / challenges, and anything vaguely Jem-related.
It would be superfluous to call the last decade “life-changing”, given that I was 13 at the beginning of it. Nonetheless, there is no other way to describe it. I lost my brother and my Nan within 2 weeks of each other, met Karl, left school, gained a niece and nephew, completed college, got my… read full entry »
I’ve had the majority of my antenatal care through the local midwife-led unit. It’s a very relaxed atmosphere, a great team of midwives who’re all there for you and make you feel like you’re the only woman in the world currently having a baby. Clearly that’s not the case, but it’s nice to be made… read full entry »
This is an odd entry in that Karl regularly chimes in (quoted). However, given that what I’m about to discuss affected us both, I’m sure you can understand. If you’d asked me this time last year my opinions on ‘mommy bloggers’ and ‘mommy blogging’ I’m sure I’d have given you a cynical retort about the… read full entry »
Thank you all for the well wishes, congratulations, advice and support on my last entry, and via e-mail/twitter. I can see that my bastard child has some expectations to live up to. ;) For the record, I’m sure that — despite the heathen, unmarried environment into which we’re bringing this child (with lesbian grandparents no… read full entry »
I have a small confession to make… I’ve been telling you all a few little porkies. I keep telling you all I’m sick — well, there’s no untruth in that — but I’ve fabricated as to why. There is no mystery sickness, there are no allergies, I’m not coming down with swine flu (hah). In… read full entry »
I should have known that blogging about not blogging would be an invitation for something drastic to happen, rendering me all but incapable of blogging, resulting in… blog irony or something. (Don’t count how many times “blog” appears in that sentence.) The fact that I have a tummy bug, and a cold on top of… read full entry »
Seem to have caught a sicky bug again, so not feeling up to much recently. Just posting so that if you’re waiting on an email from me or anything like that, you know why it’s delayed. Will get through everything as soon as possible. :)
I’ve thought about writing this entry several times over the past few years. Each time, I decided against it because I’m aware that there are plenty of women out there who have it far worse than I do. Women who have to work for minimum wage to support their kids. Women who have to deal… read full entry »
I am, generally speaking, a non-drinker. I tend to go months and months without anything alcoholic in my system. This is partly because I don’t really have a social life, and partly because I am aware of the downsides to drinking (who wants a dodgy beer belly?) That said, I consumed my fair share of… read full entry »
I just wanted to say a quick thank you for all of the birthday wishes yesterday. E-mails, facepoop messages, the thread at Snark, the thread at the q*bee bbs.. it was quite lovely. I had a nice day, got some great (geeky) books off Karl and a hot chocolate mug set and maltesers from the… read full entry »