Image via Wikipedia Or, “What Lara keeps telling herself in order to make it to her birthday in April 2009 without crawling under a rock.” I’ve been working really hard on this, because last Christmas was a royal, heartbreaking disaster for me. I mean, it’s going down in the history books as one of my top 3 worst ever Christmasses. And it was really and truly all because of the man in my life. No one died, no one went into the hospital, but my entire life was so screwed up last year. I refuse to ever let that happen to me again. Here are my top reasons to be happy being single this holiday season… Please share yours in the comments! [Read more] [Read more]

“Imperfection” by enggul via FlickrHere’s the thing. I’m not perfect. I’m not living on my own right now, I’m not making quite what I’m intending to make, and I’m living with my dad for the time being. I know, I know… the way I see the world and it’s inhabitants is far different than the way others might see it. But damn it, I was talking to a guy on IM this morning and when we got to the part where I explain how and why I’m living with my dad, he suddenly disappeared. Actually, it went something like this: [Read more] [Read more]

Okay, I apologize for the long stretch of time here but I’m back on track with the Being Fabulous Series now! For some reason, this holiday season I’ve been finding myself craving all these luxurious things. Expensive jewelry, gorgeous perfumes, high end makeup and beauty products. Could be because I’m finding myself more exposed to them since taking over The List Maven, but the reality is that it has a LOT to do with my last relationship. [Read more] [Read more]

Image via WikipediaOkay, so I meet this guy on Yahoo! Personals and he’s kind of cute. He’s a big guy, you know… which I tend to gravitate towards, because 1) I don’t like skinny guys. 2) I like guys who are at least my size or bigger, or somehow make me feel smaller. It’s one of those “protective” type attraction things I think. But anyway, he’s cute. Pretty eyes, nice face, and so on. So we finally get chatting on IM, and I learn that he works with two guys I know from the fire department. One of them is a total piece of crap, so I tell the guy that if he’s going to do any checking up on me, to NOT ask that guy. We have a mutual hateship going on, and neither of us has anything good to... [Read more]

Image by aaron.groh via FlickrOh my! Now, I’m not posting this as an argument for or against gun control laws, and I don’t want this to become a place where political wars are waged, but can you believe that a man actually “accidentally” shot his wife during sex?Would you believe it still, if you knew that he once served 60 days in jail for assaulting her? How about knowing that at the time of the shooting, she was labeled his “estranged” wife? And I thought the only dangers of casual sex were STDs and pregnancy… wowza! Am I the only one who doesn’t really think this was an accident? [Read more]