My friend Aimee, my awesome friend Aimee is co-creator of the Kid Art Auction for Earth Day!

The beneficiary will be The Nature Conservancy. It is their mission to “preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.” All donations are tax deductible.
Visit the Kid Art Auction For Earth Day 2009 Pool and peruse the masterpieces from all the kids participating.
Bidding starts at $5.00 for every work of art.
Make comments on each piece of art’s Flickr page to place your bids.
If your kid wants to make some art or you want to link to the auction, go HERE!
Don’t forget:
My friend Aimee, my awesome friend Aimee is co-creator of the Kid Art Auction for Earth Day!

by Charlotte

Gah. I am feeling better. Thanks for all the lovely comments and emails and flowers (ok, no flowers). Everyone was so supportive, but I still know that there are people for whom “my illness” pushes away. My personality, temperament, whatever. I struggle with it.

1) my husband, who is amazing, so amazing when I am having some serious crazy. wow
2) the boiler isn’t working. still, but now I am finding it funny. i am still craving a hot bath though.
3) kitties
4) my friend’s one month old baby who smells soooo good and has the fuzziest best head ever
5) my friends
6) going to blogher
7) automatic ice maker in the fridge excellent psychiatrist
9) drugs
Some are repeats, ’cause dude, I love my kitties and babies, and husband.

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Comments open. I am a dork, Mark told me how to fix it and I forgot. derrr. As you were.
Still around. Posts percolating but not all suitable for a blog that as of yet, has not been found by my parents. My poor niece is not telling anyone as far as I know and I actually feel awful laying the smack down when I have always known that at any moment someone really tenacious(and technically savvy AND related to me) could find me. I am trying to find a new domain name that fits what feels like a big change. I just had a nice time with my mom and told her that on Friday, I found myself so depressed, so profoundly sad and hopeless that I just broke down and sobbed. In my car at first and then made it home to cry to hard I threw up and peed my pants! Goodbye readers who don’t like to much information!
Of course my mom asked why. Lots and nothing. I am mentally ill. I hate saying those words, but it is true. I see a psychiatrist regularly and for the rest of my life medication will be tweaked and fiddled with and I will likely have lots of ups and hopefully only a handful of major downs. So, know I don’t know why on Friday, some horribly song on the radio seemed to trigger a drying episode. That is whole mystery of depression, bi-polar, these things we suffer from, there is no cure and often no sense to it. Sure, THINGS happen and we, OK I do not react the way people who don’t suffer from major depression react, but often there is it. On my radio. I feel out of control. Like my car will swerve into oncoming traffic, literally and metaphorically. I feel like I don’t have control over my own mind, my own heart. My poor heart that is abuse by both me and my illness. I am not an innocent party here. I still let things hurt my heart that I shouldn’t give power to. Things I should LET THE FUCK GO OF ALREADY. I feel way too old to not have learned the lessons of self protection. Forgiving myself. I cling. That girl in grade 7 send a note to some other girl that i found saying i was annoying and i can see the handwriting and remember how i felt like it was last week. LET IT GO. It is like my heart has this gigantic database of things that hurt and I can conjure them up at anytime. World’s most reliable software! ! I can search by any parameters – age, hurt by;name, gender, date, what shoes I was wearing, where the hurt took place (that one in grade 10 in the cafeteria was a son of a bitch), the overalls with polka dots were perfect for 1985 though. Laurie, my friend, made friendlier by sxsw, told me twice, briefly, stop giving that power. Laurie, is smart and wicked in a good way, a great writer, beautiful, wonderful, and you want to be her friend. She listened to all manner of my blathering while we were in Austin and feel grateful for that. I wish she could live on mu pocket, not as angel (not that she is’;t one), but as a compass. I don’t know my emotional direction for shit right now.
Ultimately I know I need to find my own way right?. The medication will always be there, but surely I can learn right? I can hard wire some things in my heart to protect it from others. From myself. First job ion order for me is where the hell is magnetic north? At least for me.
posting (last night) that the comments were not working gave me a chance to watch some tv and think about this post and worry that it comes off needy and insane, sort of. i worry that this type of post pushes people away, freaks them out, makes the very people i want to be friends with not want to be my friend. my broken compass is telling me sometimes i should shut the fuck up. my heart tells me to talk.
jen

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Honestly, I will not go anywhere without somehow letting people know how to find me. Until this site goes poof, I will still post some benign things to keep you apprised of my every move. or not. I am here until I am gone, if that makes sense.
I am still at sxsw and finding it a bit difficult. Partially because of the whole being blog outed and partially because i feel out of place and I often socially inept. I even bought some cigarettes, don’t tell Mark. They help and I don’t know why. I had a lovely time with Sarah and Katherine and Elisa for dinner last night, good people.
There is a alltop/kirtsy event tonight which should be nice, i will likely know people and perhaps even give Guy Kawasaki a hug, because he is the awesome.
I have free USA calling for the next few days, so if anyone needs to, twitter me, email me, etc. and I will call you.
xo
jen

Family has found blog (hi Niece 1!). My 12 year old niece found me. I love her, but I can’t expect her to keep this a secret. No plans yet.
SXSW is lovely so far.
Talk soon
xo
jen

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1) GO TO wecovet.com We are having a COACH BAG GIVEAWAY. A beautiful buttery soft, sleep with in your bed, coach bag giveaway.
2) I am going to sxsw and if you are going and like me a little bit, send me your details. I will send you mine. Baby.
jennifer@jennui.com
3) frantic with trying to pack for somewhere which was HOT (80sF) to NOT (50sF) at least for the first few days. Do I still need sandals? What to the what?
Ummmm. That is all my brain can hold. Getting hair done today.
Still have almost no hot water. Service people can wang my wang.
Of course, I will have email, iPhone, carrier pigeon, etc if you want to tell me you love me while I am away.
Loving you!
jenB

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I thought after my my post about my inadequacies as a mother and a wife, I would write a little about things am good at.

I believe Daniel Craig is hot
I don’t always wallow in my own crappy crap and there are days when I look in the mirror and think that I am okay.
Grace in Small Things

You would likely like me. I would likely like you.
xoxo

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Check out jennui.com/tonic for the winner! Huzzah!
More reviews and giveaways as they arrive.
I know some people feel like those of us who do giveaways and reviews on our site to be selling out and or pimpinh out our blogs. For what it is worth, I only review and giveaway products I feel fit with me and my personal tastes. I don’t hesitate to comment on what I think could be improved in said products. I also don’t do reviews or giveaways unless the company or PR representative is sincere and honestly?, nice.
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