Not actually me.  Well, it could be me.  I do have skirts.  And hair. So possibly this is me.  But probably not.

I'm Alyssa.  I'm a mom and a wife and a writer and a Christian.  I deal every day with clinical depression and I think I deal with it pretty well; that wasn't always the case. I might use sarcasm is a coping mechanism.

By day I work at a university in California, writing exciting things like website copy, admission letters, and the academic catalog.  By night I write things that make me happy, including this blog.  I hope it makes you happy, too.

tHe Original Guido (tHe O.G.) is my husband.  The Princess is our 5-year-old daughter, and the Monster is our 10 11 12 13 14 15 16-month old son.  I just realized I'm going to have to update this every single month until he's old enough to measure his age in years.  The things I do for you guys.

I chose the pink lady above as an avatar kind of by accident; I intended to put my real face up here but I didn't have any decent photos, so I found a placeholder until I could figure it out. But now I'm madly in love with the pink lady and when I see her, I see me, so she's sticking around. She actually does look like me.

OK, OK, fine. Here.

This one is actually me. Happy?

Here are some posts, if you're new here and want to know more:

An Introduction in Two Parts

The serious (it's an isolated incident):
Seriously, Though: An Introduction

The funny (hopefully not an isolated incident, but the jury's still out):
Meet the family. None of us has ever appeared on Jersey Shore.



Pink Lady image courtesy of Moi Cody via stock.xchng.  I checked with him and he totally doesn't mind that I dyed it pink.  Conclusion:  Moi Cody is awesome.