Well, here I am. On the brink of another summer, filled with bikini’s, family fun days at the beach and endless heat waves. God, I can’t wait. My Husband and I both, thrive off Summer. The warmth of the sun is in our blood and the waves from the ocean, seem to calm our coagulated veins. This summer, however, I have no tragedy, no baby bump and really, nothing stopping me from WOWING- both myself, and my Hubbls. So I’m slowly preparing myself to take on the full, and complete P90X challenge. There’s a few things I have to get situated, before launching the full thing- but I’m going to track it all here. Complete with gruesome photos of my before, during, and after progress. There are a few modifications I’ll make to the … Read entire article »

Oh my god… the last 2 days, for whatever reasons, I haven’t been able to get a solid nights sleep, so I lurk in this awkward state of drowsiness and right before my body drifts off, it suddenly twitches itself back to reality… and the whole onset of drowsiness starts over again. It’s pretty beat. Plus, the kiddo makes his was into our bed, around 2am.. and from there, proceeds to train his tiny mixed martial arts skills on us. A few square kicks to the face, followed with a little fist of fury…… rounded off with a full body slam, and it’s no wonder that sleep scrams-aye (Latin Of Pirate, new language) after his early AM visits. Good times. Despite the lack of sleep, and thereby – lack of … Read entire article »

For pete’s sake….. My blogging guru and I have been back and forth trying to sort out the issues with the formatting on my page… which suddenly, feels like it’s the most important thing I’m dealing with at the moment haha… I guess that age old saying of not knowing what you have till it’s gone, is proving it’s accuracy after all. I didn’t realize, during my writing sabbatical, just how closely intertwined I had become with my little site here. Anywhoo… on to daily news. I’ve accepted a job with a local, online publication here… working as a Blogger and Marketing Assistant. I’ve got to say, I’m incredibly excited to be writing again, but a little nervous too….. I was explaining to my sister recently, that it isn’t so much … Read entire article »

So it’s been awhile… and looking back at past writings, I find myself thinking… damn… I was one witty lady. Then I find myself thinking… where the hell did THAT chick go?? I feel like all my “bright and shiny” sparkle took a backseat over this last year of Heavy Doom… as I’ll henceforth dub it. Quick snapshot… We’ve relocated to the bright beaches of Panama City Beach… but being in a location where we know NO ONE.. other then The Man’s family unit… we’ve yet to truly get out and about and cause some mischief… I feel almost like a fat kid in a candy store, watching all the deliciousness this town has to offer, but unable to access it. I dream of days spent surfing, paddleboarding, skating… swimming, tanning…. … Read entire article »

God it’s been forever since I’ve written… or even had the luxury to write. I was looking back over past things that I’ve gotten up on my soap box about… and have to admit that wow… I was alot wittier back when my only concerns was if the Man liked me and my personal finances. As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that maybe I’ve become complacent or *gasp* dare I say… indifferent, to the world at large. I don’t understand HOW America has allowed Sarah Palin to still be a public figure.. and quite frankly.. it freaks me out a little. She has to be the biggest nitwit, with the largest trail of wrong doings… that I’ve ever seen any public actually have. Yet… here she remains. Everything that comes out … Read entire article »

Ohhhh what I wouldn’t give to have an hour, uninterrupted, to get out all the things that have happened. As you know, my Mom passed. I miss her. I do. Duh. The thing that I find almost ironically poetic, is that.. the Mom that she was trying to hide me from versus the Mom she tried to pretend to me she was…… is actually a cooler version of Mom, then what I knew. Fuck. That sounds bad doesn’t it? I don’t mean it in a bad way… what I mean is that I wish she would have been comfortable enough with herself, the good things about her, the bad things… her present, her past… everything… I think that she thought less of herself then what was really necessary…. but if … Read entire article »

even though I still can’t imagine being even remotely interesting enough to be stalked (I mean.. .followed) whatever… you can keep up with my absolutely random updates at twitter.com/ryariot It’s like my blog but in 160 characters or less. Yep. … Read entire article »