ReallyGinny's Page

For a few days I was cross-posting between my LiveJournal and this page. Now I'm just posting my daily entries on my LiveJournal....y'know, if anyone is actually READING my posts or anything.

You know what's on my mind today? Comfort, and all those little habits
and preferences that surface when you're feeling under the
weather...comfort foods, comfy clothes, favorite old movies, things
like that. It's on my mind because we are currently on week two of a
virus making the rounds of the household, leaving secondary infections
in its wake. It started benignly enough as just a mild cold for all of
us; now I'm in the throes of a sinus infection so nasty it makes
self-trepanation seem a vi… Continue

...even though I'm a mother. I never planned to have children. I
wasn't even sure I wanted children. After twelve childless years of
marriage and a miscarriage, I assumed motherhood was out of the
question and I was perfectly okay with that assumption. Six years ago
(nearly to the day now that I think about it), when the second line
appeared on the pregnancy test, my first reaction was to drive back to
the drugstore and buy five more tests. Over the course of the next
three hours, thanks to copi… Continue

If I'm going to be posting every day in November and you're going to be
visiting and reading my journal, I think it's only fair I tell you more
about myself. After all, if I didn't know you that well I certainly I
wouldn't rush up to you on the street and start divulging every minute
detail about my life....well, okay, I might but I do know it's not
proper social etiquette.

Shall we start with the name of my journal/blog, Really Ginny?
So named because I've had hundreds and hund… Continue

When I signed up for NaBloPoMo a few weeks ago, I had no idea how much it would intimidate me. It was intimidating enough to step up and proclaim that not only do I have a blog, I have a blog so interesting people will want to read it every day for an entire month! But then I started visiting other blogs and reading well-written, thoughtful, insightful and clever entries and realized I have a long way to go. Now I’m convinced I can’t even string two words together in a coherent manner and eventu… Continue