Are you aware of this trend? Wearing mix n match socks? And they sell ‘em in a pack with only three single socks. WTH? Well Honey bunny loves it. What I think is hilarious; the fluorescent colors! Hello? 1980s? Did you want your colors back?!
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Lookie here. It’s Thursday. So, you have the option to read about my Wordless Wednesday photo from yesterday. What do you think? Interested in hearing the deets? Well, either way I still get to write all about the pic. I took this picture nearly two summers ago. Obviously, or not so obviously, during the traditional Disneyland Electrical parade. I’m surprised & thrilled that it came out so well. Clearly I’m not a professional photographer so anytime I can get pictures to look this good I’m excited. It’s Cinderelly! Cinderella! This particular trip to Disneyland was the first time we took Pumpkin & the 2nd time we took Honey bunny. My mom and her husband came with us and some of our friends that live in the LA area met us for a couple days of fun. It was hot as is expected in the summertime in LA. Didn’t matter to the gremlins they loved every minute. Plus we usually try to stay at the Grand Californian Hotel cuz it ROCKS and they have killer swimming pools which we always take advantage of in the afternoons to cool down before heading back into the parks for nighttime fun. We’re hoping to go back this summer however that is still all up in the air what with Honey bunny possibly testing for her black belt & the husband’s plans to have a 39 1/2 birthday bash in Las Vegas for us. Thanks for listening (or reading if you must be technical),
Welcome one and all to this week’s edition of RTT or Random Tuesday Thoughts. I’ll do my best to write coherently despite the post title or maybe I won’t; I’m under enough pressure as it is. So deal with it. Over the weekend we got to see Bill Cosby perform live. Yes, he’s still alive. I say this only because a couple of my friends asked me that question ~ Is Bill Cosby still alive? He put on a great show! He walked on stage right on time and didn’t stop talking for two hours. The man is still a laugh riot. I was actually crying from laughing so hard. There was even snot dripping outta my nose. Seriously. OK, I know that’s kinda disgusting but it’s true. He was that funny. All but the last part was new material that I’d never heard before. He ended the show with his legendary Dentist bit. You know the one I’m talking about right? Funny shit people. Nope, I haven’t written my thank you cards. Yep, I am aware that another week has passed. I’m fabulous at procrastination. There are tax papers that I need to get working on both for business & personal taxes and I’m gonna refer you back to the last statement above. Birthday parties abound. Both gremlins have been invited to parties within the next couple weeks plus their own birthday’s are coming up shortly. We’re trying to convince them to do a joint party and when I say joint I mean a party together at the same time not a joint that you would smoke cause that would be bad to have that sort of party with a bunch of little kids. Heh. Anywhoo, if they have the party together then they can have it at this really cool place filled with jump houses. And I’m sure you know how much kids love the jump houses. Well, also adults who act like kids love jump houses. Why are we forcing them to have the party together? Because that place is expensive, yo! Pumpkin decided to get up in the middle of the night again & climb into bed with the husband and I. Making for another delightful, oh so restful night sleep. Bwahahahahahha! Not really. If she isn’t sleeping basically on me, then she is sleeping with her arm or leg flung over me. OR! She is sleeping horizontal to our vertical and thereby forcing each of us to the outer edges of the bed. Good times. I finished the book club selection finally. We’re supposed to meet on Sunday for brunch to discuss. I’m actually more interested in the brunch part. The book was fair. Title: Sister of my Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. It didn’t end the way I wanted it to. In fact, the whole book wasn’t the way I wanted it. But I didn’t write it so what I want doesn’t really matter, does it? I guess I’m just used to the no brainer books that I generally read that are all the same. I like it that way. There is enough drama, confusion, and whatnot in my regular life that I don’t want it in the books I read. Yeah, I’m one of those people. Escapism. Works for me. Thanks for listening (or reading, if you must be technical), The title of this post might lead you to believe that I’m gonna discuss how to be good to planet Earth. But you’d be WRONG! I don’t really care about the planet. I kid, I kid. I care a little. Ok, so really this is an idea that I picked up from Enna’s blog and specifically her post “Pork from a year ago”. It got me thinking that I should reminisce about the past some more and maybe share with you good folks a few of my posts from the past. Sort of like ghosts from the past. But less ghostly. It only took me months to complete. Heh. Now, are you starting to get the tie-in with my title? You all have brains, I’m sure I don’t need to explain it anymore. Reading through these old post also reminds me that there once was a time when I actually wrote posts with a central topic, a beginning, a middle, and an end. Oh well. Life is busier now. And I don’t have as much time to focus on my writing. I’ll start this out with a post from my other blog that I seem to have forgotten existed until a nice person commented on this post about growing up. The scary thing is it was from nearly 3 freakin’ years ago. Holy mother of —. THREE years. And the angst that I was feeling then has multiplied by infinity. You can do the math. This post is one in which I frustrate my daughter. Mwahahahahaha. I’m so glad I get to torture her every now and again. Still haven’t figured out how to keep everyone from yelling at each other. How about this… mommy has a tantrum the likes of which no one has ever seen before. I still haven’t gotten my time out. Bedtime = funtime or not really. Although I must say, it is getting a smidge easier since Pumpkin is getting older. In which I have to have the talk with Honey bunny. I need a wife to do my laundry cause I really don’t like to do laundry. But then who in their right mind likes to do laundry? Thanks for listening (or reading, if you must be technical),
Hi! It’s Friday night and here is my very 1st Friday Fave of 2010. Which I’m pretty sure you figured out from the title of this post. Right? Riiiiight. Please to enjoy a short but nevertheless sweet FF! Oh, I know allllllll about this! My gremlins are on me like this always. This is a little bit old but I had to include it! We are so lucky to have received one of these wonderful guys. And we only had it for a week before Christmas. I forgot to move the Elf two days. Oh, I eventually remembered at 4 or 5am. Imagine jumping outta bed running around the house to move the damn thing. Good times. Can’t wait till next year! Crazy! I mean how wild is this? I wonder how well this works in the real world. Uh huh! That’s the truth… Coooooool!! I really dig this gadget and would to get my hands on it if only cuz it looks so cool. I absolutely love this picture. The color, the texture, the light, everything. OMG I had to include this because I can’t get enough of the photobomb. Perfection! Thanks for listening (or reading, if you must be technical),
Welcome to the new year! And the first RTT of the year 2010. I’m sure, like many of you, I’m still adjusting to saying/writing 2010. Wild. Not like I didn’t see it coming or something. It’s just mind blowing that we’re here already. Just reinforces my belief that time is flying by on one of those flying cars that we’re all supposed to be driving by now. Heh. Gah! I don’t want to write thank you cards. I managed to get out of Christmas cards by doing a photo card through email. Heard of Smilebox? No? I hadn’t either until I decided I didn’t want to have to address, stamp, lick, and write a gazillion cards. Seriously easy system & I had it done in a few minutes. Now I just need to figure out how to do my thank you cards that same way. Apparently, my little Pumpkin wants to be a cheerleader after she finishes karate… 6 years from now. I just found this out myself during her karate class today. She’s always good for some chuckles. Speaking of karate, Honey bunny has another chance to break a board that will enable her to continue on with her group to black belt testing this summer. If she doesn’t break it this time, then she’ll move to the January 2011 group. No matter what happens, it is how it is because that’s the way it was meant to be. This morning while I was driving Pumpkin to school she started having a conniption fit because she wanted to take her jacket off while she was strapped down in her car seat. So she proceeded to get herself all tangled up and she was forced to endure that state for the remainder of the ride to school. Needless to say, she didn’t like it. I’m sure I could have pulled off to the side of the road at some point and fixed the whole thing but I had warned her what would happen if she attempted to remove her jacket. I didn’t pull over. I remembered something that my friend has told me over and over, “It is our job as parents to frustrate the hell out of our kids. Life is frustrating and they need to learn how to deal with frustrations as early as possible.” Let me tell you it was HARD listening to her frustration, anger, and tears. It took every ounce of my strength NOT to pull the car over to help her. Seemed like the longest three minutes of my life. And no, I’m not joking, it was really only three minutes but damn did it feel like eternity. Getting old sucks beyond all sucking! I’ve gone and jacked up my back in some new fashion while exercising this morning. SUPER. Happily, though, I’m dropping those extra pounds I put on during Christmas and New Years when I couldn’t seem to leave a piece of food uneaten. I heard a quote from Kate Moss yesterday that it’s her belief that no food tastes as good as skinny feels. OK! Before you blast me about Kate Moss being too skinny and blah blah blah, she makes a good point. I REALLY enjoy being able to fit in a size of clothes that I haven’t worn in approx. 20 years. No, unfortunately, I’m not exaggerating. Between getting married, getting lazy, getting pregnant ~twice, being busy, and being more lazy, I put on a “few” extra lbs. Well, not anymore! And so, that is why I’m going to repeat IN MY HEAD (just in case you were thinking I’d go around saying it out loud) “no food tastes as good as skinny feels”. This is the first year in maybe 4 years that we aren’t going to CES in Las Vegas. I’m kinda sad. I really like all the techno gadgets and stuff. Seeing all the latest products from all the top companies was always cool. Plus, I love Las Vegas. So despite being extremely busy, I still wish we were going. We’ve had some excellent times at CES & in Las Vegas more specifically. Perhaps next year we’ll go. To CES. We can’t go more than a few months without going to Las Vegas! I flew 6 times last year and 5 of those flights were to Las Vegas. Thanks for listening (or reading, if you must be technical),
Aaaaaaaaand here we are again. It’s Tuesday. That means I get to spew some randomness all over this post for you to enjoy, if you will. I have a raging headache that is like a herd of cattle wearing metal spikes on their hooves while stomping on my brain directly behind my left eye. Good fun people, good fun. How is it possible that there are only two days left in the year? WTH happened to the other 11 months and 29 days? I’m officially four months behind on reconciling bank statements. But I’m slowly making forward progress! And frankly, that’s all I can ask for at this point. Going to see the Sherlock Holmes movie with the husband, sister, and friend tomorrow night! Have you seen it? It’s supposed to be really good. I’m excited about seeing this movie. On Sunday I took the gremlins to see The Princess and the Frog. LOVED IT! I could see it again about 30 more times. Really. Probably I’ll be taking down the Christmas decorations this weekend as this week is completely booked with work and other events. Seriously NOT at all excited about doing this. And wasn’t it just yesterday that I was putting all the decorations up? Speaking of Christmas, we got some fantastic gifts from Santa this year. Including the wii, wii fit & rock band for the wii. Squeeeeeee! We’ve been having a blast playing with all the games and testing out all the instruments. Still reeling from this happening the other day. Pumpkin has crawled into my bed every day for the last week somewhere between 4-5 AM and it’s kickin my butt. I need SLEEP. Cause lets be real. You can’t sleep right when a 4 yr old is elbowing you or kneeing your back or smothering you with half their body. Am I right? I’m right. No doubt like everyone else, I’ve eaten my weight in food over the last week. No? You haven’t? Oh, damn. You mean it’s just me? Heh. And haven’t been exercising. Partly that’s due to a back problem I’m re experiencing. One of those nights that Pumpkin strolled into our bedroom I decided that I just couldn’t put up with it so I went to pick her up to carry her back to her bed when I heard a snap, crackle, pop sound from my back. Not what ya wanna hear. It’s been bothering me ever since. Last time I had this issue I had to take Cortisone pills to get the disc off of the nerve in my spine & back into it’s proper place. We shall see how this ends. Thank you for listening (or reading, if you must be technical), So Christmas was last week, as I’m sure you all recall. Santa brought us a wii, wii fit & rock band ~all in all a great score of gifts as far as I’m concerned. There’s another story in there but I don’t have time to go into it all right now. Perhaps at another time. The reason for this post is to share the wonderful story of how… hold up I’m getting ahead of myself a little… let me step back and tell you about it from start to finish. Since getting the wii, wii fit & rock band we’ve been playing these games just about non-stop. And having a blast while doing it, I might add. I suggested to Honey bunny that we try the wii golf. They have a 3-hole practice mode & I figured that would be a good start instead of doing the 9-hole game which would take waaaaaaay too much time, attention, and energy from both of us. Anyway, so we got started and it was going along just fine until she got to a more challenging hole. Yep, that’s when it got *ahem* interesting. See, she was getting a little frustrated that she couldn’t get the ball around a tree (and what I find amusing about this is how realistic that scenario is… how many golfers get pissed when they’re stuck behind a tree or in a sand trap and they can’t get around/out?). OK, what came next is really the crux of this post… so she says somewhat under her breath, “I hate it when the fuckin’ thing…” Uh huh, you read that right. My 9 YEAR OLD daughter said “fuckin”. I looked at her and she looked at me. I asked her as calmly as possible, “did you actually just say what I think you said?” Immediately she runs over to me, throws her arms around me, and begins crying, “oh mommy, I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry!” I had flashbacks from the movie ‘A Christmas Story’. Well, I didn’t handle it quite like they did in the movie. I thought about putting soap in her mouth, I thought about sending her to her room, I thought about grounding her for a week but I didn’t do any of those things. Instead, I hugged her really tight and then had her look me in the face while I asked her not to say that kind of thing EVER AGAIN. WHAT the heck was I to do?! I mean I’ve said the ‘F’ word in front of her on SEVERAL occasions (totally not on purpose, mind you)!!! Plus there’s the fact that she had just spent a day & a half with her older cousins. Much older cousins. Cousins that don’t watch what they say around younger kids. Cousins that only monitor the things they say when grown-ups are present. Do you sense a pattern here? I’m trying to blame it on the cousins. Of course I know it’s not entirely their fault. Yes! I do realize that it is my fault. I’m the Mom. It’s always my fault. Hopefully, she freaked herself out enough worrying about my reaction that she won’t say that again. At least, in front of me. Thanks for listening (or reading, if you must be technical), 
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