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Hey, are you new here?

By April on 20th March, 2009 19 Comments

So I guess I didn't scare you off, huh? Good! Welcome back!

Just wanted to say hi to any new visitors from the Ultimate Blog Party which started today. I used to blog more often but between being a single mom and running my own business, this poor lil blog kinda gets neglected.

Anyway, here are just a few things I’d like to share with you about myself:

My blog is called That Crazy Mom because, well, I am. I’ve been diagnosed with a mental illness and not only am I completely open about it, I also poke fun at the whole “crazy” label too. I just blogged about it recently on this post.

Like I said, I’m a single mom. I have an 18 yr old daughter, a 16 yr old son, and a 6 yr old daughter. I don’t use their real names and you won’t find any pictures of them here. But if you see me refer to Sissy, Bubba, or Princess…that’s them. And Doodlebug…she’s my grandbaby. She joined our little asylum on January 4th, 2009.

I am a business owner. I started out with a Virtual Assistant biz but now I do blog design and online business management.

I’m the founder of Bad Mommy Blogger. Go check it out. Seriously.

There’s some other stuff but I forgot what I was going to say. I tend to do that in real life a lot too.

So thanks for visiting my little blog. I love comments too. They make me feel good. Leave me one and introduce yourself.

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Detox Sucks and I have a survey for you

By April on 14th March, 2009 1 Comment

Sorry to disappoint my exes and their attorneys or whoever else they have spying on me. I am not talking about drug detox. Feel free to have me tested however you want. Even hair follicles. I swear I won’t go all Britney Spears on you. Seriously, I cried when I cut off 10 inches of hair. There’s no way in hell I could shave it.

I’m talking about detoxing from junk food. On Monday, I started on nothing but raw food, eating nothing but fruits and veggies. No Diet Pepsi, no dark chocolate mint Three Musketeers, no Southern Style Chicken Sandwich and sweet tea. I even switched to soy milk and stevia instead of cow’s milk and sugar.

Ohmigawd, just reading that is making me hungry. This is just so not fun. The first two days I had a pounding headache, probably from the lack of caffeine. Oh wait, now that I think about it, I did cave in and have a Diet Pepsi on Monday or Tuesday. By Wednesday, I was dying. Like Asian-bird-flu-spinal-meningitis-ebola-virus dying. My whole body ached, I was tired, my throat was scratchy and I lost my voice at one point.

If I’d had the energy, I would’ve crawled to Taco Bell/KFC – and stopped at Pizza Hut on the way – just to make it stop.

But I’m glad I didn’t. I feel a lot better now – and I lost 6 lbs – although I’m still sick…feels more like a cold than a flu though so that’s good.

Now while I lay on the couch and watch old episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu, would you mind taking a few minutes to answer a quick survey for me?

Click Here to take survey

Merci, mes amis!

(I probably totally screwed up my French but who cares, right? I highly doubt my 10th grade French teacher is reading this and if she is its not like she’s going to email me to tell me how disappointed she is.

Filed under Blogging, Totally Random

Happy birthday to That Crazy Mom

By April on 5th February, 2009 2 Comments

No, its not my birthday.* Just the one year anniversary of That Crazy Mom.

I’ve blogged off and on for about 5 or 6 years but it was always through places like MySpace, LiveJournal and Blogger. One year ago, I bought this domain name, started out just redirecting my Blogger account to it and just completely moved to self-hosted WordPress shortly after.

So happy birthday to ThatCrazyMom.com.

* Feel free to send presents anyway.

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We need to talk

By April on 4th February, 2009 18 Comments

I have something I want to share with you. Its a very personal video blog post about a very important subject: childhood sexual abuse.

Sexual abuse is not something I talk about a lot but I do talk about it openly when the subject arises. Thanks to the 12 for 12k Challenge, I have a reason to talk about it and a way that you can help.

Did you know that in the U.S. childhood sexual abuse affects 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys by the time they’re 18? Did you know that the effects of childhood sexual abuse include mental illness, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, suicide, homelessness, and crime? Did you know that we’re spending billions of dollars to treat these effects?

There’s an organization called “Stop Child Sexual Abuse” that has launched a campaign called “Stop the Silence” which is aimed at preventing sexual abuse and providing treatment for survivors. Here’s how they describe their mission:

The Mission of Stop the Silence is to expose and stop CSA and help survivors heal worldwide. Our overarching Goals are to:

1) to promote healing of victims and survivors; and

2) to celebrate the lives of those healed.

Through our work, we aim to address the relationships between CSA and the broader issues of overall family and community violence, and violence within and between communities. Our focus underlines the importance of a shift in focus on positive development within our social complexes (e.g., the relationships between men, women, adults and children, cultural groups) to support peaceful – and to hinder violence-prone – relationships.

So what can you do? Watch this video. Then visit the 12 for 12k Challenge website and do your part.

UPDATE: I’ve added the ChipIn widget from the 12for12k.org site so that a) you can just go straight to the donation page after you’re finished reading/watching this post and b) so anyone who reads this post can see how much has been donated so far. There’s a “copy” button on the widget if you’d like to do the same.
After you’ve done that, I want you to email me at thatcrazymom@gmail.com, attach a copy of your receipt showing your donation, and I’ll provide you with a free custom Twitter background. I wish I could afford to match your donations but I hope you don’t mind settling for a freebie and my undying appreciation.

Thanks for listening. Now here’s the video…oh, wait, one more thing… I want to apologize for the wobbly video. I was sitting on my bed and Princess kept coming in then climbing up and down, up and down…. And I apologize for looking like a total dork too. I’m not one of those women that can cry and still look cute.