Displaced. Dysfunctional. Discombobulated.
From the category archives:
First of all, I want to assure everyone that I had an absolutely wonderful vacation visiting my family in New Mexico for the Christmas holiday and I plan at some point to muse over the events, observations and funny bits at some point, but I realize that I just cannot get past everything that has [...]
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I bought my house in November of 2006 for a little more than 200K at 6.5% and zero down. Yes, you read that right. Zero down. My dad won’t shut up about how I am probably one of the last few people who got a zero down loan. I am [...]
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This holiday season I’ve been feeling as though the holiday cheer has been sucked out of everyone. It just hasn’t felt much like Christmas or whatever holiday you subscribe to. Maybe it’s in part because I haven’t put my own decorations up since I’m going out of town and the last time I [...]
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I recently spent several days at a satellite conference — basically the real conference was in Florida but my boss sent me to a nearby Marriott to watch speakers make presentations via satellite as I sat in those horrible, uncomfortable hotel chairs and had to endure snow storms to show up on time. Anyway, the [...]
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As I prepare for my annual holiday vacation to New Mexico to see my parents and grandmother, I once again find there’s a lot of prep work to be done, especially with all of the new and improved security measures at the airports. I mean, a lot of thought has to be put into [...]
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I’ve always loved the lights and decorations at Christmas. There’s just something beautiful and magical about the glitter, the gaudiness, the overabundance of it all. Red, green, gold, and silver — sparkling, twinkling, flashing, shining — You just have to be happy this time of year despite the crowds and the traffic.
However, despite [...]
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Goddess of Billing. Queen of Math.
These are honorifics I’ve been christened with over the last few days. I kind of would like to know when they will be added to my name badge and if a raise comes with them.
Even though a few months ago, our boss and the uptight member of our [...]
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As you know, one of my crazy uncles passed a month ago, and I was somewhat relieved because he was somewhat of a mooch on my mother.
This uncle had a son — well, there is a boy who from birth this uncle had claimed as a son though no one in the family thought the [...]
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I’m feeling better this morning. At the very least I was able to eat most of half an English muffin, which considering saltines weren’t a good idea even up to yesterday, I see that as a great improvement. Yesterday I was doing quite well on very small amounts of yogurt and bananas though. Also, I [...]
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As you can see, there was no Thursday Thirteen here this week. I started working on something clever and enlightening to offer up too. However, my life has been derailed this week by some sort of stomach virus. I will spare you the icky details. I didn’t even go to work yesterday and from Wednesday [...]
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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
-- Pat Conroy
What: The discombobulated inner-monologue of a single, thirty-something, displaced Southerner in small town New England.
Where: Maine
