Tara's Lady of the Mountain

the big O

Spilling the beans

C’est si bon!
As I was laying in bed last night, back turned to the N-Man, mentally running though the things I needed to accomplish very early in the morning, I suddenly felt him jump up. I rolled over to discover the N-Man folded in half, semi standing on his head.   I blinked. WHAT are you doing?  The N-Man giggled as he stood there, butt end up,  and whispered, Down doggie. ::blink-blink, blink-blink:: He

A mind is a terrible thing
It’s crazy how our minds can grab hold of a detail and start to run away with it.  Really, as a general species, we are quite an ego centric bunch, no?    Most times I’m able to catch myself when my brain runs away with my logic, but I can get just as caught up in it as the next person sometimes.  Let me assure my readership, what’s left of it after my hiatus and incredibly sporadic thoughts, that if you ever see a vent on here and wonder if it’s directed towards you, it’s most definitely not.  If I have something specific so say to any one person, I promise I’ll just talk to you.  Unless you’re not someone I talk to or want to

When life gets you down… DECORATE!
I’m over it.  Pity party done.  Shit happens.  It’s happened before and it will happen again and the world will keep spinning.  I actually got over it about an hour after my last post but have been too busy to come back and assure everyone that I am not, indeed, hiding under a black  shroud sobbing hysterically. I got up early the next day and headed out to the barn to pack up and move the hoofed one.  No. He’s not sold.  But my trainer, who has been a dear friend for the past two years, took a job out of state (contributing to my Friday sadness and anxiety) so we also packed up to start our own new adventure.  We are now official residents o

Pity party, table for one
It’s funny how you can be crusin’ along, having a great day and then suddenly, in the course of two short hours have the brakes unexpectedly slammed on, causing you to screech to a halt.  I took the N-Man to his preschool’s Halloween party and was, out of the over one hundred families there, the only single parent.  Despite my efforts to talk to the parents of the other kids in his class, kids that he loves to play with and talk about, everywhere I turned I was greeted with suspicion and stand offish attitudes.  The same parents would then quickly turn to other parents they didn’t know, families  like them, make an introduction, more than wil

Feel the love
I’m obsessed with floor plans, carpet samples and day dreaming about being in my dream home.  I can’t stop thinking about it.  Last night as I was pouring over floor plans and pondering the pros and cons of various builders…  sacrifice yard space for the perfect house vs. a good yard outside a house I’m not in love with vs. paying $70k more to get it all… the N-Man appeared.  What is mommy doing?  I told him I was looking at houses.  Did he want to see?  Oh YES!  And as I explained the floorplans and pictues to him I asked, Would the N-Man like to go live in a new house?   He responded with an enthusistic YES f