Dearest internet,
Hey! Howsit goin’, dude? Really? AWESOME. Have you lost weight? Or done something new with your hair? Well, you look positively splendid. No, seriously. I so totally mean that shit.
How am I doing? Quite a bit better, actually. I started on a new antidepressant — which is actually an old antidepressant, just one I haven’t been on in a few years — and am feeling SIGNIFICANTLY more upright and much less weeptastic, thanks for asking. In fact, I didn’t cry once yesterday, NOT ONCE. TRIUMPH! Of course there’s a downside though, because there’s ALWAYS a downside: last night I could barely sleep at all, felt very insomniac, kind of mentally restless and twitchy — physically tired, but waaaay too alert. I kept jolting awake what felt like every few minutes all night long, which sucked pretty hard. My first thought when the alarm went off this morning and I slapped the snooze button for the first of what would end up being a dozen times was: Maybe I can take a nap after I take M to school… Mmm naaaap… So that’s not good. Hoping that will go away as my body adjusts to the new medication. But yeah. Very, very better. In a few days I hope to shelve the Leonard Cohen and Smiths records for a while and get on with my life, even. I’M KEEPING THE ELLIOT SMITH NEARBY THOUGH. JUST IN CASE. Baby steps, my friend, baby steps.
Thanks to everyone for your wonderful comments and emails and tweets and various other e-messages of goodwill, love, and support over the past few days as I’ve been going through this rough patch. Internet community is often spoken of in sort of vaguely mocking tones, but you all really helped me get through this dark period in ways you probably can’t even imagine. Truly, thank you.
So anyway, M’s birthday is this weekend (she’ll be six years old, MY BABY WILL BE SIX YEARS OLD [weeps]), and I have a Sleep Is For The Weak book signing on Saturday (DC-area folk, please come by and say hello!) which is also doubling as Amy’s shower (because as we all know, Amy doesn’t get anywhere near enough attention), so with all the busy-busy birthday partying and showering and such I likely won’t be posting again until next week. I know, I know. I’ll miss you too! Hugs?
In the lonely interim, please don’t forget to enter the Garden & Gun giveaway for a chance to win a shiny new Nintendo DS and games. Free shit, WOOT! (And if you want EVEN MORE free shit, we’re giving away a year’s worth of Dove beauty products over on MamaPop, so geddonit, holmes!)
Hmm, where else can I send you? OH YES! The fabulous Gwen Bell has posted the second installment in our collaborative series "The Social Media Zombie Ate My Brain: How To Wrestle Your Soul Back From The Gaping Maw Of Interweb Timesuck." (Yes, I still insist on calling it that.) (My apologies.) (Some things just can’t be helped.) (Like my compulsion to insert pointless parenthetical statements.) In this installment — which is Part One of the second installment – you start to get a glimpse into the some of the layers of my online life, and perhaps some insight into why I’m a little bit of a crazy person. Just sayin’.
Now skeedaddle!
Hugs and kisses,
xo Sweetney
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ETA: MamaPop alum from back in the day Jen Lancaster is going to be on Oprah today. OPRAH! Can you believe it? You should so totally watch.
