Posts By: MJ Pullen
M.J. Pullen is a distracted writer and the mom of two boys in Roswell, Georgia, where she is absolutely late for something important right now. Her books include quirky romantic comedies and playful women's fiction. She blogs erratically with writing advice, random observations, and reflections on raising very loud kids and dogs. Join her Distracted Readers newsletter list for updates, free content, giveaways and more.
What I Hated About Today: The dead rat in the crawlspace. Discovered with my nose. YUCK! Gratuitous landlord drama. (Seriously? It’s been 9 days!) My fifth aborted attempt at a nap this week. Having to miss out on (a) dinner and (b) time with a dear friend, because MLM was exhausted and overstimulated and needed […]
Darling hubby is out of town this evening, and MLM is long tucked away in his bed; so tonight it’s just me, the trusty laptop, Sixteen Candles and a plastic cup of wine. Aaaahhhhh…. If you haven’t noticed, 30 Days of Blogs has really turned into more like “30 Blogs in 40 Days” or something […]
CSR: Thank you for calling Comcast/AT&T/Other Big Conglomerate. How may I demean and frustrate you today? ME: Yes, hello. I’m having a problem with my service. CSR: I’m not even a little bit sorry to hear that, ma’am. Actually, I was really enjoying a conversation with the people in the cubicles around me, and you’re […]
Whew! Sunday morning and I am enjoying my first pot of coffee brewed in the new house, while my boys are both napping upstairs. If you’ve been paying attention, you may have noticed that I dropped the ball a bit on my 30 consecutive days of blogging. (If you’ve been paying attention that closely, I […]
It’s been a long day, friends. I’m at work between clients just now; and this has been the most peaceful part of my day so far. Otherwise it’s been lots of packing and hauling and being really, really angry at the Comcast people. It’s amazing how much power over us some companies wield, like those […]
Quick blog tonight – first, I just really want to say “thanks” to everyone for the good vibes, phone calls, texts, etc. It’s been a long but satisfying day. And we have a house! And a condo! And four days to move!! The closing went relatively smoothly today, at least compared to how badly things […]
I’ve blogged before about my (selective) perfectionism, and how it can sometimes hold me back from getting things done. Needing to get things juuuuust right can really be paralyzing sometimes, because all the work it takes to do something perfectly can seem really overwhelming at the beginning of the task. Please don’t get the wrong […]
In the process of packing today, I pulled some things out of a junk drawer I hadn’t thought about in a while: six little blue and green ceramic vegetables. Two pea pods, two string beans and two eggplants. Anyone who has been in our house knows that I often have things stashed in unexpected places, […]
At this point in the weight loss cycle, I’ve been through denial, more or less hit bottom (or top, if you’re looking at a graph of pounds) and started the rebound. One or two small successes generally get me on the road and then that warm, fuzzy inspired feeling takes hold. This is the jazzed […]
A couple of weeks ago, there was quite a bit of hubbub in the literary world around Jonathan Franzen being crowned the ‘Great American Novelist’ by Time magazine, as well as being given two impossible-to-get New York Times book reviews before his new book Freedom even hit the shelves. There has been sort of a […]
