Red Neck Ruby Rides Again

In the advent of my bariatric surgery, I've made huge changes to my diet. However, there are so many foods I miss.   I miss pasta. I ne...

I am so sick of putting up with passive-aggressive communication from my family members.  Then, a friend makes a comment in a chat, so I cal...

The question of late is, what is neurodivergence? "You mean thinking differently is special somehow?" (This has come up with the ...

 I'm watching, "Black Barbie," and I'm feeling my privilege.  The one thing that I really relate to that the women in the ...

 Today, we've been married 24 years.  It's absurd to think of anything in my life being that old other than me. Two years ago, Mumu ...

Tonight, Hubs was swinging the passive-agressive grumpy jerk attitude like a battle axe, and I just wouldn't tolerate it. He saves that ...

I'm really depressed.  I'm struggling with all the issues of my body not working and my insurance not currently covering bariatric s...

 Appropros of not a damned thing, I found an etsy listing for glow in the dark dildos with suction cups on the end.  I'm sitting there l...

I think I need to write about stuff I know.  No one seems to be putting all this stuff in one place for people.  I'm going to.  I'm ...

I just saw the movie, Unrest . The title is supposed to refer to how people should be stirred up by the status quo and how poorly fibromyalg...

I haven't written here in a bit.  I've been writing a lot on Facebook, so it seems like my impetus for writing here has gone, but to...

As I've come late to diagnosis of my fibromyalgia, I am coming to the realization that there's so much bullshit around the diagnosis...

Well, I'm looking at trying a dill pickle recipe, shortly, because my cucumber plants are going nuts.  I was realizing, too that my squa...

I don't think I realized how difficult it is for other people to can stuff.  I really am constantly surprised by people who say,"Oh...

My mother taught me to can.  I am teaching my daughter to can, too.  My garden is starting to hit its stride, thus, my three cucumber plants...

After recently watching episodes of, "Wire" I am finding it difficult to not be surprised about the recent death of Freddie Gray. ...

One of the things I'm finding out about having fibromyalgia is how interrelated everything in our bodies is. Autoimmune disease leads to...

I just discovered Pinterest.  As one person said upon hearing this, "You, of all people?"  Yeah, I know.  I just keep all my recip...

I've been feeling like crap the past couple days.  I overdid on Saturday.  I've been keeping track of my sugars and fighting through...

Today started off at 550AM. I woke up with a round or two of IBS.  We dropped Genny off at school, went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel.  I...

Fasting sugar was 150 again.  Gah. I had an almond butter and jam sandwich.  I slept a lot. I slept from 12-330, 5:30-830, and 1130-300.  ...

I woke up at 1230. Fasting sugar was 151.  To be fair I slept for 13.5 hours.  I went to bed last night about 1030 because I had to take a l...

So I am going to keep a food/caffeine intake and "how are you feeling" journal for a couple weeks.  I have a friend who's been...

I'm having some kind of food reaction.  It's been getting so freaking bad.  I mean sometimes, I get dots that look like bug bites, b...

I am thunderstruck by spring.  I mean, there's that whole adoration of my husband that happens this time of year.  He has been humping a...

Do not post amber alerts about missing kids, if you haven't verified that the child is "still" missing. That's just stupi...

Dear Manufacturers of Clothing for Females under 20, Please consider the fact that most schools require that straps be the width of a dollar...

You know those vague, awful emails that the world is going to end or that we're on the edge of catastrophic, mass genocide?  My mother s...