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Dress me!

When I was in college, and we girls on the second floor of Darrow Hall used to go out on Thursday nights to the local dance bar, my friend Denise would always skip into the room at 8:30, clapping, saying “It’s time to play Dress Denise!” And then we would all help her choose which […]

Haircut report

Breathe again, my friends, for I am here to tell you all about my hair. I know you were worried.
I had an appointment today at the Fountain of Youth salon in Cranberry, which I chose solely because it’s Aveda-affiliated, and I have always had extremely reliable results from Aveda salons. However, finding this place was […]

hair experiment

ARGH.
As we all know, I have been battling this weirdo head of hair for some time.
I never know what to do with it or how to take care of it or how to style it. It’s huge, it’s fluffy, it’s puffy, it’s dry. It waves weirdly and sticks out funny and […]

Permission to make a mistake, Cap’n?

On the phone with a good friend the other day, talking about all this Modern Day Anxiety bullshit, when I was gently reminded that sometimes? People make mistakes. And guess what? Nobody died. It isn’t the end of the world, no matter how much I think it might be.
Just granting myself the human right to […]

I need a week in the woods

I also need to throw away my television.
This week I have given up caffeine and made a deliberate change for the better in terms of my diet (meeting the RDA for fruits and veggies several days going!). But I still feel anxious and overwhelmed. I still worry about chemicals leaching out of the bottles and […]

Keeps on comin’

So! Back to the ER for the third time in two weeks yesterday. Developed a full body rash and then my tongue started swelling up and one of my lymph nodes swelled as well. I had a panic attack, thinking I was going to suffocate.
They wanted to do a line of steroids for the rash […]

Bad as it may seem, it could always be worse

Boy! I am having a hard time writing about my feelings these days. This very minute I am feeling full of vim and Ovaltine, but here are a few worries I have had over the last two weeks.
What if:

That canned fruit I just ate is infected with botulism?
I have a large cancerous tumor but don’t […]

I wish to hire a grown-up

Because I think I’m too adolescent for this parenting thing. I stuck my tongue out at Owen today when he asked me “why” one time too many. I flooded the laundry room trying to do laundry. And I am just too tired and defeated to do anything but sulk and wish I had a door […]

I stand corrected. Again.

Mac was a drooly ball of 100% sweetness yesterday and then slept all the way until 4:30 a.m. He must have been reading my archives and decided to throw me for a loop.
Last night I set to Googlin’, because the import of a comment that Kmel made finally registered in the oatmeal mush of my […]

Let me tell you why I SUCK as a salesman.

I keep hearing the voice of Chris Farley in “Tommy Boy” knocking around my head.
Tommy: Hey, what’s your name?
Helen: Helen.
Tommy: That’s nice, you look like a Helen. Helen, we’re both in sales. Let me tell you why I suck as a sales man. Let’s say I go into a guy’s office, let’s say he’s even […]

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