ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ouch! Ugh! Ugh! Ouch! Sigh! Ouch! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ouch! Sigh! Ouch! Ugh! Ugh! Bleh! Ouch! MuthaF*$#*!!!!!! Yea, I think that just about explains what is happening in my gut right now…or lack there of. Sorry guys! I know some might say, “Such language!”. Yea, well I…
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Surviving SoCal’s Version of Fall
Apparently it’s Fall. But I am afraid Los Angeles has yet to receive the memo. You see even though we pass by the Gap store fronts with it’s beautiful Fall collection and we drink our pumpkin spice lattes and we watch the wind blow across the football fields, we are…
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Happy National Coffee Day!
There is no way I could let this day go by without giving a shout out to one of my favorite things in the whole wide world…COFFEE!!! Today is National Coffee Day and it’s a day of celebration, love and peace! Don’t laugh, I love coffee! And a good cup…
Mommy and The Bad Day!
Someone asked me today if I felt so lucky to have my j-pouch at the risk of sounding completely negative, rude and ungrateful, I answered, “not today.”. What the hell kind of answer is that, Brooke? I mean really. You were dying. Literally, wasting away and bleeding to death. You…
Gray Clouds Covering The Blue Skies
I never really know how to appropriately start posts on topics like this one. The topic of Depression. I’ve touched on it lightly in the past and you may have read or heard me talk about it in various interviews, but I’ve never really put it out there. I think…
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Hippo Invades Kindergarten
Well it’s happened. Hippo has been in kindergarten for about 3 hrs and 47 minutes and counting. We’ve got about an hour and thirty minutes left in our first day. Yes, I said OUR first day. That child wouldn’t have a first day of kinder if I didn’t go through…