I love me some Freecycle. I think it is one of the best things on the Internet most days. Every few seconds my email inbox is updated with new items that are available for free. All I have to do it pick them up. Most of the time it is some pretty good stuff. An XM radio system here, a set of living room furniture there or even maternity clothes in your size. It's green, good for the community and for the wallet.Other times you run into postings like this -OFFER: One Water Heater. Heater is broken and cannot be fixed. It has been outdoors for some time too. Will need two people to pick up this heater as it is heavy.So, basically it is scrap metal you want removed from your yard for free, huh fellow freecycler? You don't want to do it yourself … [Read more...]
You read. You comment.
I wrote a post last week about media pressures on women to look hot. It went out into the internet and all I got back was the sound of crickets chirping. I said to H, "I really thought that would generate some discussion, some comments of some sort at least and it was like, nothing." He replied, "Look, you are an intelligent writer but you are very moderate. You write something like that and it is as if the reader reads it and thinks, "Right. I can agree with that point of view." There is no controversery, nothing inflammatory to get people riled up. That is what generates comments most of the time." So basically I need to start saying stuff like this to get comments?People who own cats are dirty, filthy beings.orAmerican Idol is for losers.orWomen who … [Read more...]
I Dream in Facebook
It's true that I've been known to "think" in Facebook before. Now I'm apparently dreaming in Facebook. I woke up this morning only to realize that in my dreams last night I had taken a job at Facebook. OK, I might also be reading too many online Bachelor (on the wings of loooovvve..) forums lately but that's not the point. As I spent my first week getting acclimated in my new job at FB, what I did I'm not entirely sure, I realized that all the people I worked with were people I had had 'friended'. For reals, y'all. This dream was a straight up social media nightmare.Everywhere I turned in my office I saw someone's goofy profile picture. Status quotes hung above their heads changing frequently as they posted yet again another mind-numbing … [Read more...]
Personally, I Like Boobs With My Wine
While browsing my local Home Goods store this week I came across this fine piece of stemware. How did they know that I was looking for a pair just like this? Really though, I think I need a full set. Heh. This precious cup was called 'Dancing Queen'. 'Princess', 'Diva' and 'Cowgirl' were all present as well. Collect them all. … [Read more...]
Got Blog Block? Me too.
I'm suffering blog block right now. I'm not about to write about four year-old party excess or how I'm still so stinkin' tired everyday. Somehow I still prevail and write elsewhere though and not about what I typically write on here. OK, just a little bit but go ahead, venture out and read me somewhere else. It is fine, I swear.Read about my ability to make ears at Honest Baby. I'm a pro.Find out how I learned to say 'Yes' at DC Metro Moms. It's still a work in progress.And as always you can find me writing about green items and more at TheFind. They pay me and actually have loads of cool stuff there daily. It's quite the awesome website. I hang out there a lot. … [Read more...]
Four
It is hard to believe that four years ago we were in the midst of another series of Winter Olympics. As I labored with you I complained to H, "I've already seen this figure skating couple!" To which he replied, "Uh yeah hon, it's 3 o'clock in the morning. They are repeating things now." Right. We had been at the hospital since seven a.m. for your induction. You clearly did not feel like making your entrance into this world even though you were already two weeks late. Today you are four and you still hate getting ready in the morning, putting on anything that isn't "pajammies" and heading out the door. You much prefer to while away the hours bare foot and comfy with copious amounts of blankets, pillows and stuffed friends surrounding you.I … [Read more...]
Musical Flashbacks and Burgers
H and I took the kids to a local burger place the other night because a.) he suggested it and b.) there is nothing better to my always nauseous stomach than a cheeseburger (handmade), fries (handcut) and a coke. Seriously. It's like manna from heaven right now and keeps me content for hours. I digress. While there I noticed the smattering of people throughout the restuarant were all various ages and backgrounds. There was the military Dad with his two middle school age girls, the teenage boy stopping by with his mother, another teenage boy silently chomping away with his parents, just as silent seated next to him and a few random college age kids. Throw in a few guys alone and in their middling 30s and 40s and you had quite a collection of … [Read more...]
New Faces and Places
Maybe we have been cooped up in the house too long because of all this winter weather. Maybe it is the seed that H repeatedly tries to plant in my head about TD branching out her set of friends. Whatever it was, we took a trip just down the road to new horizons this week. We went to a group play date. Did your hand just fly to your mouth as you gasped in shock? I know. I broke our ridiculous and now monotanous routine of work, gym, school, work/play, neighborhood play, dinner, bed. Wake up and do it all again. Gag, snore. I don't know why it takes me so long to do these things. I don't know why I don't schedule them myself. Oh right (smacks forehead) I hate entertaining. That's why. Hives. Hives! There would … [Read more...]
Because It’s Funny
King Tut is back in the news these days and proving that you can find anything on the internet, there is this little gem that manages to cross two decades together along with two types of entertainment- stand up comedy a la Steve Martin and children's television. Anyone else who was an Adam West Batman fan like myself (I had him on my red plastic phone's speed dial as a kid. Robin always got put on hold, unless he conferenced in with Batgirl.) will love this video.Continuing with the media theme there's this Old Spice commercial. "Tis brilliant!" I proclaim. Gone is the stereotypical clean shaven "Dad" type actor and instead replaced by, er, this- on a horse. … [Read more...]
Wall Snot & Dust Bunnies
I don't know how it's possible but I'm nesting. Already. I'm barely four months pregnant and I can't stop organizing and cleaning. My perfume is no longer French gardens after a monsoon but vinegar and earth-friendly toilet cleaner. One day I'm ripping apart The Comedian's closet or sending TD under the crib to retrieve lost baby socks and the next I'm wiping snot off of the walls. Yeah...no one tells you just how disgusting kids can be, do they? I mean dirty diapers, the spitting up you are prepared for, but wiping nose gremlins off your four year old's bedroom wall? That's just not something I thought I would ever have to do or use a putty knife to do it. Did I mention the crusted milk I removed from each and every slat on The Comedian's crib? Yup. I scraped that off … [Read more...]