About Me
The author of this blog is Josie: a confused, slightly neurotic, seriously sleep-deprived stay-at-home mum from Staffordshire in the UK. Desperately holding on to the last of her twenties, she veers wildly between madness and brilliance, never entirely sure which state she finds herself in at any particular moment.
She is occasionally funny, frequently emotional, entirely bewildered, and tries too hard, but is doing OK despite all these things.
Her days are mostly filled with doing her very best not to be too bad a mother to her rather demanding and spirited young son while stealing all available free time to write, paint, think, grow and try to stay sane.
She spends far too much time online, finds people confusing and wonderful and terrifying, and is suspicious of anyone that seems too normal.
She has a husband too, somewhere. He is probably hiding.
This blog has acted as a platform for her growing passion and talent for writing, and to her surprise has developed a dedicated (and kind) following, encouraging her into the world of professional writing. As well as writing, she’s also rediscovering her artist talents after many years of pretending she didn’t have any and is planning on studying Fine Art and Sculpture full-time from September as a way of finally pursuing her dream to take her art work a bit more seriously. She’s still not entirely sure what she’s doing with her life but she’s hoping she’ll figure it out as she goes along.
In between toddler wrangling she also keeps an eye on Judith’s Room, the online creative writing community she created for women, deputy edits the Great Toy Guide, and runs a popular weekly Writing Workshop here at Sleep is for the Weak.
She mostly blogs about her love of writing, being tired, cake, and why on earth no-one told her motherhood was this hard.
You can contact her here or catch her on twitter where she can normally be found spouting jibberish, and saying HAHA! a lot.
Note: Images on the site, unless her own work or otherwise credited, are taken from stock.xchng.
You write beautifully – humour and sparcity: a combination I rarely achieve but often aspire to.
I would love to join our writing workshop – I need to start writing ‘out’ rather then further ‘in’, which is where I fear I am heading…
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Just for you, because you deserve it and your words are wonderful indeed http://wp.me/pF4hl-5i
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Found you through Linda Jones on FB. What a great site! I’ve got a 11 month old and (it’s just past midnight now as I type) I’m fighting sleep to meet my deadlines (FB isn’t helping, I know).
I’ll read more of your work when I’m wide awake. Love the blog title! Delusion in Year 1 works well for me 
Best,
Chryselle
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by You Are Human: There Will Be Times In Your Life When You Panic « NEW DAY NEW LESSON
[...] This blog post was written for writing workshop #17 run by Josie at Sleep is for the Weak. I chose the second prompt: Has there ever been a time you felt panic [...]
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Josie George, Tim Jana. Tim Jana said: Very original, self depricating and utterly funny blog by a Satffs woman@porridgebrain, a great read http://bit.ly/aeyDl5 [...]
Awwww, you're doing so brilliantly lovely. I would love to do a Masters in creative writing. I did all the CW modules possible on my Eng' Degree as well as a creative writing dissertation and I learnt so much. You're going to fly. xx
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why suspicious of anyone that seems too normal ?
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Josie
I'm trying to find your post about when you decided to stop breastfeeding and the ambivalence of it. I can't find it. I want to link to it from an NHS local blog post I'm doing about World Breast Feeding. Can you send me the URL?
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Hi Jo, no I can't find a post on that either. Are you sure it was me that wrote it? I know it was something I talked about a lot at the time but I don't remember writing a specific post. Happy to do you a piece for your blog though if you'd like, or help in some other way.
Thanks for thinking of me any way!
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Jo Ind Reply:
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:44 am
Well I WAS sure it was you – a post about how sad it made you feel and yet how liberated and I did a comment saying ambivalence is the essence of motherhood. But there again my brain is porridged too so I can't be sure of anything any more
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Josie Reply:
August 2nd, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I *THINK* that was a Twitter conversation. I think. Could be wrong. Sorry!!
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Josie Reply:
August 2nd, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I *THINK* that was a Twitter conversation. I think. Could be wrong. Sorry!!
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[...] Obviously there is an exception to this rule. Which is of course the person i love and married. He is one of the ONLY two people in the world i would accept constructive criticism from and mull over it. Today was one of those days, were everyone seemed to be getting on our nerves. Until at 3 in the morning when the nerves seemed to turn towards each other. Now without me going into graphic details, let me tell you my ego was shot down like donald in duck-season. And it was messy. One of the first statements that go through my head in situations like these is “I am a calm and composed individual” , which actually didnt work this time around, and so my brain train moved on to the more intense “Let it go…” track. And then suddenly i was flying… the thought that put the silly smile on my face, which actually ended our little spat right there was, “Wow… I have something to let go now, I am SO blogging this on Josie’s Workshop” [...]
porridgebrain Reply:
July 14th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Because they're the REALLY weird ones
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