It's cold in the house, the wind is whipping it up good outside. I keep finding myself being inexplicably hot today, just sweating for no good reason. A hot flash really. Then the next minute I'm chilled to the bone. Is that complaining? Am I being negative saying that?This post may not make sense to some, but think back to the old cartoons The Flintstones and The Jetsons. Fred would get mad and he would mutter to himself a bunch of nonsense. Mr Spacely would do the same thing until he finally would lose it all over George. I'm kind of like that. I realized I strongly identified with these two cartoon characters and their dealings with frustration and anger when I was about eight. I get frustrated, hot and bothered (literally today) and I mutter. I make loud declarations to no one … [Read more...]

Watch out America Ms. Spears is on the run again. For the second time in one week she's taken herself out of rehab. I have tried not to comment on this whole debacle as it ranks up there with the mess that is now Ms. Anna Nicole Smith's world. Eesh. Who knows what that story really is about. She's destined to have many, many, many processed and regurgitated books written about her just like Marilyn. Sigh. Britney though, really people, her handlers need to watch her more closely. I know her bodyguards are run ragged by her late nights and her family is probably equally as tired emotionally, but can't someone get to this girl and take care of her? She needs some help it seems, otherwise soon we'll see her on CNN as cameras follow her LIVE! and barefoot, in a bathrobe walking around … [Read more...]

It's been one week now that I've been a WAHM. I have to say while it has had it's moments of utter frustration (T.D. not napping, desperately trying to wrestle the keyboard from me to teeth on, etc) and sometimes boredom (T.D. napping and me not wanting to write one more thing) the week was just what I wanted it to be. I've had time to reflect, to write more, to cook some fun and sometimes difficult dishes. I've gone to the gym more and had playdates. My world is a totally different one than it was earlier this month. For that I am glad. I am happy that H and I knew this was what was right for our family.I'm glad that we both knew that with the onset of my going back to work last spring things quickly weren't working. When the Post-Partum depression hit me in April just after … [Read more...]

As many bloggers know there are these great little devices that are called site meters. They monitor the site's traffic, statistics, demographics, what have you. Each week a little report is sent to me of condensed information telling me just who my audience is. It gives me such great information such as the date, time, location and email addresses for my audience. I can see that I have readers concentrated in one area and all over the world. I know who is reading it and when. I read this report often. I know when friends say, "I'm reading it!" and they haven't. I know when my Mom reads the blog. As well as anyone else. Anyone who may think they are anonymous and I that I'm in the dark. I know it as soon as you know it.Lesson concluded. … [Read more...]

Saw this story on the news last night and now again this morning. FDA panel probes birth control pills The government is considering setting higher standards for birth control drugs used by millions, saying that newer pills appear to be less effective at preventing pregnancy than those approved decades ago. Fabulous just fabulous. It now makes the story of my friend who got pregnant twice while on the pill seem like not such a freak of nature. … [Read more...]

I've been reading the book, Julie & Julia and I have noticed two things occuring. One, I am inspired to get back into French cooking which I can only say must be a natural occurence when one reads this book. I like to bake, I don't relish cooking unless it's cooking some big mess that takes all day. That is definetly the case with French cooking. Yesterday, feeling so inspired I set out to make Beef Bourgingnon. Seeing as I am just so boring I can only talk about purses these days and alienate my readers until they become cranky pants. Cranky pants maschoists that is as they still read this tripe. I figured I would set out to make this beef mess that takes about half a day. When it's done it tastes just like a stew that has an entire bottle of burgundy and stick of butter in it … [Read more...]

Something you might not know about me is that I'm a huge purse fiend. I am not ashamed to admit it. I simply love them. I am picky, but there is almost no end in how often I could shop, browse, buy and just love on purses of all varietys. Save for the hideous patchwork Coach knockoff that 'Ugly Betty' carries around with her, and the actual patchwork Coach bag itself, I love most purses. That bag though is seriously ugly. I remember this one purse I had as a little kid. It was black patent leather, in style yet again, and it had three detachable decorative patent leather flowers. One in matching black patent, the other shiny red, and the last one being white. I hate the white one for some odd reason and I enjoyed chewing on the red one. I was three leave me alone! It was my first … [Read more...]

Did I mention that I like snow? I truly do. It's beautiful, clean, and softens the sounds around you. Snow melts though and it also half melts. That's what I'm dealing with now. Half melted snow that has turned my front yard into an icy slick landscape. Perfect for slipping and banging my head on the concrete steps rendering me unconcious. That hasn't actually happened but it almost did this morning. Another thing about snow is that it can tell a story. A story about how at some point someone walked up to my front window and looked inside and then walked back out of my yard. Creepy. That was NOT there yesterday afternoon. My yard was untouched then. A chill hit me on my spine when I saw that and it wasn't because H's 'Wicked Pissah' shirt was not warm enough.My first day as a WAHM is … [Read more...]

Winter has finally wrapped us up in its white blanket. I could barely contain my excitement yesterday over the years first snowfall. The further we drove into Virginia the harder the snow came down. I spent many minutes yesterday just staring out the window with T.D. showing her her first snowfall. Today it's already melting but I don't care. I love the tranquility and ease that snow provides. I love that I didn't have to shovel it off my car at 5 a.m., slipping on icy patches as I hurry to scrape thick ice off the car and get to work on time. Insert EVIL laugh there as it makes me positively giddy quite frankly. When I woke up this morning it was 6:41 a.m. I'm normally at work at this time. I can't say it felt like I was doing something wrong, but things did feel a bit off this … [Read more...]

I've been tagged by Stephanie from 'Where in the World'. How does it work? I reveal five things I've never posted on the blog before. That's hard for me as I have no qualms telling almost anyone deep details and squeamish points in my life.1. I, like Stephanie, did not have a middle name at birth. I chose it when I was 14 and now it's legal. 2. I won the spirit stick at cheer camp. I know. People wonder why I like 'Bring it On' so much.3. I see dead people. Go ahead and call me a freak but anyone who is around me long enough knows it's true. H likes the show 'Medium' because he "identifies" with the husband Joe. 4. I used to be a Republican. A rabid one with pictures of George Bush Sr. and Dan Quayle in my Jr. High locker. 5. I have a sick and sometimes all consuming … [Read more...]