Warning: This Is a Rant

Keep scrolling if you're looking for rainbows and unicorns.

My girls have been without medical insurance since Oct. 2012 when their dad was laid off. As coincidence would have it, I was laid off about the same time. I can't afford insurance for us right now, so I applied for temporary health benefits from the state of Arizona. Unfortunately I was too upfront and honest when I filled out the mountains of paperwork and during each of the in-person interviews.

How To Banish Your Gorilla's Forever

So when you last left your heroine I was crushed remember?  That handsome guy that made my heart skip a beat every time I saw him was gone. For real gone. He moved to another state with barely a ‘good-bye’ and a pat on the butt like I was an old college buddy. And I was left crushed, which necessitated more wine and random dates than is generally thought acceptable.

Do Gorillas Have A Conscience?

Okay I lied. Well not really lied. More like circumvented the glaring truth that taunted me mercilessly. Lying sounds so calculating and full of bad intent. As Anais Nin would say, 'I simply chose to see things not as they are, but as I am'. Or as I wanted it to be.  The man I’d been falling head over heels in love with for over a year was wrong for me. I knew it, he even knew it.  My idealist heart purred sweet nothings in my ear; “but, he knows just how to make me laugh”, “and he’s got a fabulous job”, “and he’s so delicious bed”…

Let's Just Get This Out Of The Way Shall We?

To blog or not to blog, that is NOT the question. Not in my case at least. The question is why am I blogging and why do you want to read it? YOU are probably an acquaintance of mine and will read this out of curiosity or *gasp* perhaps you feel obligated? But who the heck do I think I am anyway? And why would I think that you'll want to follow my blog? *Deep sigh* So many questions.