I am Susie Fairchild, and this is my personal blog. I am a psychotherapist by profession, but I don’t do therapy here. This is where I play, and ramble, and practice writing, and throw the occasional party.
I am in my 40s, and have one good husband, called Jif; one good preteen daughter, called LG; and one very bad dog (VBD) called Biscuit. Two out of three ain’t bad.
I live in a pretty little city in the Mid-Atlantic region.
For a couple of years, I had a blog here, but I had to move because of the riff-raff in the neighborhood. Most of the posts from there have relocated with me.
As I start this new blog, I am struggling with a neurological disorder that my blogfriends have christened “WTF Disease.” It’s not diagnosed, as yet. I look forward to deleting this paragraph as irrelevant some day. Soon. Until then, I have had to curtail some of my work in the mental health profession. To make up for the lost income, I sometimes wrap my head in duct tape and rob a liquor store.
The current tagline, “If this ain’t a mess…” is my recycling/repurposing of a passage in the book, “No Country for Old Men,” by Cormac McCarthy. As of this writing, I haven’t read the book, but my husband did, and he read that excerpt aloud to me, knowing I’d take a liking to it.
email me at whatwasit at comcast dot net.
What Was I Thinking? 
What, no comments on Susie’s “About Me” page? Maybe the Canadian contingent is confused because it doesn’t say “Aboot Me” but no one else has a valid excuse.
Hi, Susie! I’m wearing wax lips on your behalf. I knew you’d want me to.
Hello. I’m the riff-raff.
There goes the neighborhood. 😉
***plops down on the sofa***
So… I’m here for the party.
i totally suck at parties.
and no, bucky, I don’t mean like that…
But, anyway, I digress…I’d come to the party just to hug you Susie m’dear!
Susie, I am blessed. I just spent waaaaayyy to much time over the past 2 days reading your blogs and I have not laughed that hard since last spring, when 2 girlfriends from high school and I went on a “Girls Gone Mild” weekend. (That’s the kind of weekend you have after the age of 40—wine tastings, old movies, and laughter.)
I’m glad I found you.
You will be on my mind and in my prayers.
I just found your blog and have enjoyed reading it. I too have a WTF neurological disorder, though mine is diagnosed… I got it in 2004. I understand the suckiness of it all and enjoy a good laugh too. Thanks for your blogging, keep it up!
I found your blog through another blog, and have enjoyed reading it. I’m not trying to diagnose you, or tell you anything you probably haven’t heard before, but I had a friend who had pretty similar symptoms as what I’ve seen you talk about here. She was diagnosed with something fairly uncommon(my husband is a doc and he’d never heard of it) called MSA(Multiple System Atropy…not related to MS). It’s not a good diagnosis, but it might be something to check out if you haven’t heard of it already.
You’ve got the kind of blog I want to curl up with on a sofa on a rainy day and read. I don’t have the kind of computer that I can do that with, so I’ll settle for stopping by again.
Really looking forward to reading some more. Something in your tone in a few blogs that has a little bite, a charge; good for the health like cayenne pepper.
Cool that you’re a PT (I know, that’s not short for pyschotherapist). I’m a LMBT (that is short for a body therapist). Have one site on LMBT related writings that I haven’t been working on – cause PHOTOs are so quick and immediately rewarding – BEING [somassieme.blogspot.com]. But these days I’m more of a BLG (not short for bi/lesbian/gay) but definitely short for someone who b.l.o.g.s. more than the day has time for – more than definitely making up for lost time the past 50 yrs.
Anywho… very cool! And you’ve got almost a full year under your belt, and close to 90 thousand guests (however they count them, don’t matter, cause I know they aren’t all you!)
Great to see.
Hope you find out WTF is up with the WTF disease soon! Duct tape is a real b**** to get out of your hair.
Hang in there, there’s a hillbilly crossing all parts that the WTF disease is just cooties or something.
Susie – I know you have more than a lot on your plate but I wanted to share something with you.
I was recently watching a show where a woman had her own version of WTF disease for over two years – everything similar to what I have read on your blog – she was tested multiple times for Lyme (blood tests) and all tests were negative until they did this not often done urine test for Lyme and it was positive. The documentary said that the urine tests tests if you ever had Lyme whereas the blood tests tests if Lyme is active in your system.
I am so sure you have probably covered all of this already but on the off chance that maybe it might be a path you had not explored I thought I would pass it along. If you want more details on the show just email me at mkdsmall[at]gmail[dot]com.
I just came across a printout of your About Me page that I’d downloaded in May 2008, when I was just getting ready to launch my own blog (that says a lot about my housekeeping). I revisited your site today and loved reading about your mother. My own mother is advancing in age, and it made me stop ro collect my thoughts about my own mother. Thanks.
When I read that your tagline was from a book you’d never read, I was cracking up. Our book for the upcoming book club is “How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read” – You’re already living the life! I’ll stop by more often.
ok im late…i found this blog cuz i used the word “maypops” and googled it to see if it was a real word and ended up here…u are high-larius and my new shero…carry on
I just want to say that you are a breath of fresh air in the blogspace. Your posts reveal you to be a wonderful woman and have lightened my difficult year! Your guide to swimsuits has revolutionised my life. Thanks you for existing and good luck with everything – I hope you have a truly happy life x
Well hello there in the mid-Atlantic. I was looking for a bathing suit for a rather large 12 year old, on whom almost fits a women’s size 14, but a little long in the torso. Anyway, I got tired of coming up with search terms like, plus size prepubescent girls, and finally googled bathing suits for chubby kids, and I wound up on your blog about buying a beautiful bathing suit and wearing it proudly. Glad to meet you Susie. I hope by now, June, 2015, you have discovered what the heck is going on in your head. I have digressed from my quest, but I must say, I’m glad to have been sidetracked. I hope you are well.
Prune Rooney (formerly from the Atlantic, now closer to the Pacific)