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  1. A Review of Helpful Things for Self-Hosting Starters

    10/15/08 5:12pm by shesgotbaggage
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    Hooray! Today is the day that the blog design is really done and I can stop messing with it for awhile. Most issues have been resolved and I’m finally very happy with the way this thingie both works and looks - even more so because I did it myself, and that’s a fun feeling. I spent a lot of money this summer on things I couldn’t afford, meaning a professional blog design got cut off the list. I was kind of jealous of the people who had such pretty pages on their own domain names and blog lust kicked in.  Read more >

  2. Put Asunder

    9/30/08 6:29am by shesgotbaggage
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    It's 6 am and I'm in my study, tap-tapping away at my keyboard while E snores. I can't sleep. Twelve hours ago, I turned my phone on vibrate as I was getting ready to go to dinner with a cute coworker I have been sort of dating for the last two weeks. More on him some other time. On my way home, I discovered I'd missed a text from Mel, followed ten minutes later by a call from her husband.  Read more >

  3. Fear and Self-Loathing

    9/8/08 3:59pm by shesgotbaggage
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    Hi. My name is Rebekah and I’m an alco- well, I might be an – okay, the Alcoholics Anonymous website quiz indicates that I have a drinking problem. That is to say, I have no problem drinking. A lot.  Read more >

  4. An Open Letter to Angry People Who Are, or Think They Are, Fat.

    7/25/08 1:42pm by shesgotbaggage
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    I am 5’3” and I weigh 120 pounds. Yay me. And I am just as entitled to worry about my health and appearance as you are. The problem I have with you is that you don’t seem to believe that I am just as entitled to TALK about it as you are. Today I was on the elevator with two of you, my coworkers, heading to lunch. You were talking about how you wanted the ribs or the fried chicken but should probably just have the mandarin salad with lite dressing and a glass of water, and what would I be having?  Read more >

shesgotbaggage

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shesgotbaggage
Member Since
July 2008
About Me: 

So I’ve got baggage. But it’s all cute and it matches, and that’s the main thing, right? “Lessons learned the hard way” take up most of the suitcases, the ex-boyfriends are stuffed in the steamer trunk, and my medication and bipolar disorder fit snugly in the carry-on. And I can’t ditch that one at the check-in counter.

This is not the life I bargained for when I called off my wedding at 22. Before that time, I’d had about 3 boyfriends and never “just dated” anyone. I figured I’d just have a few more and find the right person in much the same undramatic fashion as I found my ex-fiance.

That? Did not happen.

Since then I’ve had a few proper boyfriends, about eleventy-three dates, and one complete and utter nervous breakdown (which, if you ask me, is a great way to get three weeks off work when your shrink signs the right papers). I’ve dated doctors, a chef, a computer programmer, a fireman, several cute military men, and an engineer. One said he loved me, one tried to hit me, one almost broke my bed and two broke my heart.

I write openly. This blog has my heart all over its figurative sleeve. Some of it’s snark, some of it’s sad, some of it’s silly. All of it is real - and you can believe that if you can believe my English professor who once told me that my writing skills do not lie in fiction. I was informed that my characters’ dialogue was neither believable nor realistic, and I ought to stick to my strengths in academic and research writing.

So every post in here that recaps the events of my life is as honest and true-to-experience as I can capture without carrying a video camera around everywhere to remind me of exact dialogue and so on. Because really, you can’t make this stuff up.

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blogher,depression,mental health,bipolar disorder,romance,jeep,saint louis,hospital,breakups,relationships,love,dating,boyfriends,alcoholism

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