The other day, I was talking to my hiking partner about dating — she’s been married nine years and never really did the dating-as-an-adult thing. She lives vicariously through my experience and frequently comments how glad she is to NOT HAVE TO DO THIS. Can’t say I blame her.
Anyway, we were talking about […]

A friend who knows me IRL blogged a happy birthday post for me, along with some (yikes!) photos of what I looked like at 18.
If only I hadn’t been trying so hard, I could have been really cute. In these three photos combined, I have on more makeup than I’d wear in a […]

(no, not in the head)
When I first shared the news of my pregnancy with my parents, they were (as I’m sure you’d understand) pretty shocked. After a few weeks, the news had sunk in and became more real to them. They also (finally) started to believe me when I told them that I […]

“I’m glad I didn’t have a girl. She wouldn’t get to leave the house until she’s 30!”
The Happy Feminist posted about this kind of comment, and she boils it down (mostly, anyway) to a father’s perception of a daughter as a sexual being — in this case, one that should be preserved and protected […]

Today I learned something. If you enter an email address along with your comments for a blog that uses Haloscan, your email address is displayed. Most comment systems I’ve seen ask you to enter your email, but it’s only visible to the site owner. I’d neglected to notice that Haloscan differs.
I learned […]

As I state in my 100 Things list, my daughter’s biological father isn’t involved in our lives in any way, shape, or form. Here’s part of that story:
December 31, 2003: New Years Eve 2004
I join my cousin and her bf at a local restaurant/live music venue. Lord knows, we’ve spent years going to […]

(aka I’m WHAT?!?)
A year ago today, my life changed forever.
In early January, I decided that it was time for me to finally hit grad school, and I found just the program — the Social Psychology department at UT Austin had an amazing degree in an area that suited my interests perfectly! I talked to […]

Note: this is a post moved over from my old blog.
I’ve been a little neglectful in updating this over the past few days, so now I’m going to have to give a synopsis of what’s up in my life.
Last Wednesday (January 21), I discovered that I am pregnant. I shocked myself with my immediate thought, […]