Do you ever look around at the world of blogging and what it has become? Stylized life, all the fluff none of the filth? It's like the Photo-shopped version of life.

I have been part of this blogosphere long before the word blogosphere was even a word. Way back before people started making money at it, and way way back before people started posting their stylized, how-to, look at me, look at me, I'm Martha Stewart version. Blogging was a way to relate to people, in a genuine way. Now, it's a way to make you feel like a complete and utter failure at life because your house doesn't look like that, and you don't dress like that, and crap, whose cookies look like that for the school bake sale anyway?

I have one husband (Lt. Dan), one daughter, (Only Child), three dogs (The Musketeers), and one cat (Cat). This blog is my real life, and trust me, there is nothing stylized about it.

I will post what I think, how I feel, what works for me, what I do in my spare time, how I raise my kid, my relationship with my husband, my job, how I am too lazy to workout but really need to because I am super fat and would like to be able to wear clothes without it being WORK. That's a biggie. My weight gets in the way of everything.  Moving on.

I do like to do the things that you see on all these other blogs.  I like to craft, I like to take pictures, I like to garden, I like to make my home pretty, I like to make myself pretty, but I am no expert at any of it, AND, I don't have the 15 hours of time it takes to style it up pretty and take pictures of it. My life is kind of messy, I'm sure, just like yours. I am not here to give you advice, and I am not here to tell you that my version of life should be your version of life. This is just me, and how I do it.

So, dear readers of this blog, I am just a person, living her life, sharing it with you if you care to share it with me, and if ever you see that this space have become more like an issue of Better Homes and Gardens and less like, holy shit, my house looks like that too, then you need to bring me back to reality. Mmm kay.