Topics: bella, dining, kids, video, vimeo

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Usually NaBloPoMo snaps me out of my slump, but I just couldn't quite get there this year. There's so much on my mind that it feels overwhelming to try and get it all down here, though I know that that's exactly what will help me put it into.
Topics: alex, angst, crisis, family, health, horses, marriage, memories, menagerie, mental, pets, poodles, romance, showdogs, to my daughter

{"title":"Simple Wishes","post_url":"http:\/\/ninjapoodles.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/simple-wishes.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/ninjapoodles.blogspot.com\/rss.xml","author":"ninjapoodles","date":"2009-12-09 16:13:47","summary":"Usually NaBloPoMo snaps me out of my slump, but I just couldn't quite get there this year. There's so much on my mind that it feels overwhelming to try and get it all down here, though I know that that's exactly what will help me put it into."}

For several months now, we've had a dietary shift of direction here...well, I have, and Alex and Bella have been along for the ride a little bit. What I've given up entirely are sugar and refined grains and potatoes, and I only consume the...
Topics: cooking, food, nablopomo, slow food

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Clicky to view, or read transcript below screenshot: Mom, thank YOU for taking me out to go trunk-or-treating with you and trick-or-treating with Grayson! I wonder what I will be next year... Dracula? A Witch? Scary Godmother? (like in the show Scary...
Topics: bella, halloween, holidaze, nablopomo, parenting, written

{"title":"Best Thing Written In this House Today","post_url":"http:\/\/ninjapoodles.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/best-thing-written-in-this-house-today.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/ninjapoodles.blogspot.com\/rss.xml","author":"ninjapoodles","date":"2009-11-01 12:49:58","summary":"Clicky to view, or read transcript below screenshot: Mom, thank YOU for taking me out to go trunk-or-treating with you and trick-or-treating with Grayson! I wonder what I will be next year... Dracula? A Witch? Scary Godmother? (like in the show Scary..."}

Really, I'm not that good a person. I don't have enough patience, enough compassion. If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd have said that I do...but I'd have been wrong. Because this life is wearing me out before my time. My stomach...
Topics: alex, angst, anxiety, avoision, bipolar, crisis, depression, family, health, mental

{"title":"I Don't Need To Be This Needed","post_url":"http:\/\/ninjapoodles.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/i-dont-need-to-be-this-needed.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/ninjapoodles.blogspot.com\/rss.xml","author":"ninjapoodles","date":"2009-10-14 23:59:01","summary":"Really, I'm not that good a person. I don't have enough patience, enough compassion. If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd have said that I do...but I'd have been wrong. Because this life is wearing me out before my time. My stomach..."}