My Sanctuary

Jenn from Serving the Queens tagged me with a meme about 6 months ago.  Being the world's biggest procrastinator, I am just getting around to doing it.  Sometime around the year 2054 I may catch up.

Now we all know that Lawyer Mama hates completing memes.  She loves being tagged for them.  She loves reading them when other people do them.  But she is usually too damn lazy to actually complete them herself.  So perhaps we should all note this day in our calendars.  (We can also note it as yet another time when Lawyer Mama kept annoyingly referring to herself in the 3rd person.)

Jenn wants a picture of my room and a description of the things in it.  It's a wonderful idea, with the thought being that your bedroom, the most private of rooms, says a lot about you.  The problem?  My room is a pit from hell.  It's the messiest room in the house, probably because no one ever sees it so it becomes the dumping ground when we're cleaning up the rest of the house for company.  Sigh.  So what does that say about me?

I'm not sure that I like what my bedroom says about me, but it's pretty accurate.  I usually pretend to be the perfect person with her shit together and ducks all in a row.  Secretly, I'm popping the anti-depressants and falling apart.  So it shouldn't be any surprise that when you come over for dinner, my house looks pretty good.  Because we've stuffed all the nastiness somewhere upstairs where you can't see it.

Oh my god!  I just realized that my blog is my emotional bedroom!

Um, I think I need to go call my therapist now....

I did the meme anyway, despite my breakthrough regarding my neuroses.  I tried to hide the worst of the mess, in typical form.  Don't judge me!

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I also have a few things to pass on.  I'm horrible, horrible, horrible about this.  Usually because I forget who has given me what or where it is.  If I don't copy down the link or get an email from someone, I'm screwed.  So I'm making an effort to pass these on now before the memories are forever gone in the mists of my Mommy Brain.

Julie gave me this:



I was really touched.  I've been so fortunate to have made so many real and wonderful friends through this blog.  It would be nearly impossible for me to name every single one of you.  So many of you have given me hope, support, and an ear over the last very difficult 6 months.  I can't tell you how much that means to me.

I would like to pass this on to a few people who immediately spring to mind.  (And Julie would have been one of them if I hadn't gotten this from her!)