Okay, so the Cake Wrecks blog often has me guffawing, but wait... did you notice???

Look closer...

No, don't scroll down...

Yup, the first cupcake featured on the NON-wrecky "Sunday Sweets" is BethAnn's Studio Cake cupcakes from last year, submitted by yours truly.

Small potatoes to winning the Food Network Cake Challenge, or being featured on Martha Stewart's Dreamers Into Doers competition, but I had a hand in this one. Nice.

I love this:



I'm going to the music store soon to look for the sheet music.

On the whole, I hated the score to Twilight, so I don't want the whole book, just the one song. Wish me luck.

I've been off Prozac for 9 days now. I was hesitant to post about it, since I didn't know how I'd do. I watched closely, especially come Wednesday when I knew it was out of my system (based on dose and half-life), to see how I was doing.

I've found that you CAN watch yourself TOO closely.

I have to remember that I'm ALLOWED to have emotions. I'm allowed to be frustrated, angry, and sad, so long as it's within reason, and balanced with happiness, love and laughter.

I'm guessing I needed the meds like I could have used electroshock therapy. But I'm still watching myself.

I PASSED!!!

That's basically all... :-)

Just call me Amanda Aaronson, RN, MSN, PhD(c) - the little "c" for "candidate". Looks pretty cool, though.

I've been given the opportunity to experience something new again. No seriously, don't read that as sarcastic at all, I mean it. I honestly see everything I experience as an opportunity to learn, and gain compassion.

I developed postpartum depression.

I'm not scared to say it. It definitely limited my ability to function for about a week and a half before I realized I wasn't going to get better on my own anytime soon, and I made an appointment. I have no patience.

I started Prozac on Monday. I've had three doses, and I feel like myself again, though I'm still quick to tear up. The pharmacist warned me that I'd likely feel an immediate reaction the first week, then possibly dull again the second week, and by the third week, I'd be at whatever level I will be for the dose and medication that I'm on, and that THAT is the time to assess how well the medication is working for me.

I think, though, it's definitely working, thank goodness!

I've also been taking St. John's Wort, SAM-e, a magnesium supplement, and restarted my prenatal vitamins. I'm hoping to stay on the lowest dose of Prozac, as so far my side effects are minimal, and wean off of it as soon as possible (though the doctor recommended I stay on it for about six months, to make sure I get out of the "danger zone" of postpartum depression - so "as soon as possible" is looking like May), so I'll keep up the supplements as well.

I definitely have a new sympathy for women who do otherwise uncharacteristically stupid things as a result of PPD, though.