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Trying stand-up comedy in her 40's, because being a broke single mom just wasn't stressful enough.
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As for me, I Burn All of the Purple Incense; Moving on after a Bipolar Hyper Sexual Manic Phase
As for me, I Burn All of the Purple Incense; Moving on after a Bipolar Hyper Sexual Manic Phase
One of the best things about being diagnosed with having bipolar disorder relatively late in life is that I’ve had a chance to ruin as many lives as possible with my un-medicated craziness. That’s a joke, I am, however, writing this after a hyper-sexual episode. If that term freaks you out, get over it, it’s a real thing and this post explains it better than I could. Sadly, hyper sexual behavior…
The Curse of Introspection, My Bipolar World
The Curse of Introspection, My Bipolar World
I’ve used the term “comfortable in my skin” so often, it’s become a running joke with me (and probably only me) and I’m thinking of expounding on it a little and adding it to my set as part of my online dating bit, because I put it in every online dating profile I’ve ever had, to me it’s another way of saying “I’m fatter in person and I don’t give a fuck, I’m okay with it”. I struggle with…
The OTHER other “F” word….Feminist
The OTHER other “F” word….Feminist
I found this in my drafts from September, 2014, I suppose I never finished it before because I had a stroke a few weeks later, and since I accidentally deleted a very long post about my health bullshit (that had some delightful moments of levity as well) and I’m sad about that, I thought I would check this out and see what it’s all about and it turns out, I like it and I’m publishing it, dammit.…
Taking oversharing to new Heights
Taking oversharing to new Heights
I’ve spent the last week thinking I would be dying very soon. I’ve had some symptoms that have persisted for quite a while since I had the stroke in October, 2014. Symptoms that presumably are not stroke-related. I say are because they’re still mostly happening. I’ve had pretty severe fatigue post-stroke. The kind of fatigue that doesn’t go away with a nap, it’s just always there and it sucks. My…
0 Shades of Grey
When I was growing up, my biggest fear was that I would “go crazy” like my aunt, my dad’s sister. I remember hearing that she was schizophrenic which I mistakenly thought meant she had multiple personalities, I knew that she, like my dad, had grown up in an abusive household, my dad had his own demons but he was not abusive. I thought mental illness meant, a lifetime of mental institutions, shock…
Middle-aged Woman; Interrupted
Most, if not all, of my knowledge of bipolar disorder comes from movie and TV shows, namely, A TV show I watched last year called Black Box, Apparently I’m the only person who watched it because it is no longer on, probably took it off to make room for Snorkeling With the Stars, or some such nonsense, anyway this is not about my disdain for reality television shows, this is about my shocking…
Handi-Ramp Non-slip Treads, Easy to Install and Affordable Solution to A Common Occurence
Handi-Ramp Non-slip Treads, Easy to Install and Affordable Solution to A Common Occurence
I’m clumsy, I’ve always been clumsy, I can’t blame my clumsiness on the stroke, though I can blame the fact that I bruise much easier since I’ve been taking blood thinners for the last 5 years and will have to for the rest of my life.I can also blame this guy, Caramel, our giant, super strong pit mix who more than once has accidentally knocked me over. Our house has a wooden deck on the back and…
My New Normal
The last thing I want to do is whine, that’s not true, the last thing I want to do is any math whatsoever, I’m pretty okay with whining, I just don’t want to be PERCEIVED AS A WHINER. I just want to try to explain what my life is like now post-stroke. I can sum it up in one sentence, everything is difficult now, or more difficult. I don’t just mean big things like getting up in the morning at…
Cautionary Tale
on October 26, 2014, my life changed in a way I truly never thought it would, I knew it COULD but like so many other carefree 44-year olds, I thought I was immortal. I knew that I had health risks that made me more susceptible to having a stroke than most other people and I also knew that I didn’t take care of myself the way I should have but this is all said in hindsight while I type with one…
Fight Like Hell, Baby Girl
Robin Williams
I haven’t written anything on here in ages, and I apologize to my awesome readers for that. I have been writing, just comedy. I have been bitten in the ass by the comedy bug (yeah, sorry about that awful metaphor). When I’m not with my children, I’m either writing comedy, reading books about comedy, or performing comedy. I fell hard, and comedy, she is a cruel mistress (I’m…
