A Handy Dandy Reference Guide

 This is blatant self-promotion, but I confess to being slightly agog at the number of mentions that The Book (The Ghost in the House: Motherhood, Raising Children and Struggling with Depression) is creating in the blogosphere. Since I don't have time to do anything else today, here's a list of who's saying what:

http://spyderkl.net/?p=175
http://jbjones.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-wouldbut-i-cant.html
http://www.amalah.com/amalah/2006/08/blog_interrupte.html
http://www.blogsheroes.com/feed/parentinganddepression
http://thismodernworld.com/3069
http://fortherecord.wordpress.com/2006/08/15/dear-dooce/
http://inneedofgrace.blogsome.com/2006/08/16/dooce-reviews-book-about-maternal-depression/
http://www.hipmama.com/node/24153
http://wakingupastonished.blogspot.com/2006/08/so.html
http://orangeconezone.wordpress.com/2006/08/15/more-on-that/

http://jujubeejenny.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/08/skip_right_on_o.html
http://limberlime.com/2006/08/13/maternal-depression-irritability-and-guilt/
http://welborn.blogspot.com/2006/08/ghost-in-this-house.html

And, just so nobody thinks I'm sitting here smoking Gauloises in my Chanel suit while fielding offers from film agents, here's how I have spent my day:

5 loads of laundry
dealing with three force-five swivets/ screaming hissy fits from the 9 year old
one screaming hissy fit of my own
trying, unsuccessfully, to get the 5 year old to nap
breaking up about 8 full-bore screaming sibling fights
packing for a trip to Wisconsin loooong before the crack of dawn tomorrow

This, ladies, is the reason Jane Austen never married.

Oh, yeah, and last item:
eating prunes to cure my constipation (Dooce, are you listening? Prunes, honey. Prunes are the cure.)