Sleeplessness.

Insomnia. I’ve never had any experience with it. I’ve known plenty of people who have, however. Tonight I cannot get to sleep.

Oh, I am tired enough, I suppose, after working an extended shift in the middle of my second (out of three) of six day work weeks before year’s end. But dreamland is elusive tonight and I’m starting to get angry.

Tomorrow and Saturday are sure to be at least twelve hours of booze shilling hell. And I’m not the sort to function well on less than seven solid hours of sleep.

I don’t know if this is due to the half pot of coffee I consumed with dinner. Or maybe things I should be concerned with that I am not. Or things I’m overly concerned with that I should not be.

There’s a lot going ’round in my head right now and that’s probably not helping.

I was reading. That usually helps me to drift. Well, until my Touchpad’s battery died, that is.

I’ll see what happens when I attempt to shut down the thought processes.

Again.

Good night, y’all.

I’ll do my best to not be a bear tomorrow.

No promises, though.

5 years.

5 years ago today I married my Beloved on a misty mountaintop in East Tennessee.

I love this man more than life.

Though it was a strange and long journey, I am so glad to have found him.

I love you, baby.

Remembering.

I was at work, a bagel shop in Altoona, PA, when a customer said, “Did you hear about the plane that hit the WTC?” We hadn’t. We turned on the news and were shocked, as we had all assumed it was some small commuter plane that had gotten off course.

As we were listening (No images as we did not have a TV. Only radio which was on NBC News.) the horror started unfolding. Two planes. Then the Pentagon. After a bit, reports started to trickle in about the plane in central PA. Not going to lie, alarm bells started ringing in my head. “Central PA? Where? Why? What’s so important about central PA? What do we do?” No one gave a more specific location and, as such, we didn’t know if it was headed for us. I started to panic a bit. I borrowed someone’s cell phone and called my grandmother in Memphis to let her know I was fine and that nothing had happened to Altoona.

The rest of that day is a blur. I’m not sure it matters, really. All I know is that I won’t forget where I was or what I was doing that day. Its forever burned into my memory. As it should be.

As a military brat I’ve always been patriotic. Comes with the territory. I can’t say that 9/11 made me more so. Perhaps more aware of it would be a better phrase. Whatever our differences politically, this a pretty damn good country and one we should proudly defend.

Heartfelt thoughts go out to all who lost someone that tragic day. To those still suffering. To those who lose their lives every day in defending our home, be they police, firefighters, or our military.

House update!

Well, we are mostly up to par on the painting we needed to get done. MOSTLY. But it doesn’t matter because we FINALLY move in on Friday! So. HAPPY!

I don’t have much else right now. I’ll be sure to take pics once we get settled into quiet suburban life.

News on the house front!

We’ve found a house!

We’re expecting to close on July 15.

I can’t tell you how excited we are about this.

Here’s some pictures:

Hi!

Hey, y’all!

Don’t have a whole lot going on right now.

House hunting is … frustrating. Very frustrating. As of today we’ve had a third house that’s fallen through. No real prospects on the horizon. It’s been terribly discouraging. We need to have something by July. I’m not signing another lease here.

On the TTC front, we’re in a holding pattern until some things get worked out physically. Sorry to be cryptic, but I’m not sure I want to share that just yet.

We were on ‘evacuation standby’ so to speak last week because of Mississippi River flooding. That was entertaining. The crest has passed and the river is slowly retreating. However my friends in Baton Rouge and New Orleans are about to get the deluge now.

We’re heading home for a long weekend next week. Can’t wait to see the family and old friends. And I’ll get to meet some new friends as well!

Till then…

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A win for small business in Tennessee.

A win for small business in Tennessee..

Get Outta My Uterus! (via Blue Collar Mamma)

Read up, ladies!

Hey ladies, are you having pains in your lady bits lately? Well, look down. It's from all those GOP dildos trying to get all up in your vag (There are a few GOP lawmakers who are not total douches): Dozens of bills are advancing through statehouses nationwide that would put an array of new obstacles—legal, … Read More

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TTC.

And we’re off!

…to the fertility specialist.

I can say without any compunction that I am really nervous about this next step. There are things I have a firm ‘no’ about. If any of these treatments will cause me to have more losses, then we’re done. And adoption isn’t an option. I really don’t have an issue about living a childless life if it comes down to it. I want to give this to him so badly, to make him a Daddy, but not at the expense of myself. He understands. Of course he does. That is why I married him.

GOP’s War on Women.

I don’t often share my political thoughts on here, as this is sort of my ‘calm space’.

However, this makes me so angry that I have to share it.

I realize this is from MoveOn.org, and most of you will see this as biased, but these are ACTUAL THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING.

Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP’s War on Women

1.) Republicans not only want to reduce women’s access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t yet. Shocker.

2.) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to “accuser.” But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain “victims.”

3.) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)

4.) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.

5.) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.

6.) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids’ preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.

7.) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.

8.) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.

9.) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.

10.) And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can’t make this stuff up).

Source: The GOP’s War on Women