I'm sick. I hate being sick. I really do. Especially now that I have T.D. for a few reasons. 1. I don't want her to get sick and inadvertently get a whole roomful of daycare kids sick.2. I cannot get that old Robitussin commercial with "Dr.Mom" out of my head now.3. I have no PTO or sick leave (that doesn't exsist here) to take. I am achy. I am congested. I am Jack's spleen. For some reason that never stops being funny to me. I still love my Fight Club! My throat hurts. Are you feeling my pain? Dayquil only does so much. How I drove to work today is a mystery to me. I think the Pathfinder just intinctively knows (but not scarily Christine-like knows) how to get here each day. So I sit here at my desk, under my bountiful flourescent lighting, and sip my tea with lemon. I brought … [Read more...]

It seems Jessica Simpson is remaking Dead or Alive's song 'You Spin Me Right Round' (Like a Record). Good God is there no limit to what this girl will remake/steal? Seriously has she no shame? I do not want to think of her when I hear that song. Or any other. When will the madness end that is all things Jessica?!? I used to think she was ok when she had Nick by her side. Now? No thank you I would not like some more of what she has to offer. If I see one more pic of her with Ken Paves and some giant bag and even bigger, messier hair (I just don't get that one- you have a hairstylist as your b.f.f. yet your hair looks like crap) I'm going to have impale myself on something. So this is probably my last post because US Weekly should be rolling hot off the presses any minute now with … [Read more...]

And sleep is my "precious". Seriously what is up with T.D.? All of a sudden her little internal clock is working on a whole other continent's time schedule. Last night H and I sat down to watch a movie. We wisely started it before T.D. went to bed knowing full well we were already on little sleep from the night before and wouldn't last past the witching hour of 9 p.m. in our house. Plus it's a Sunday night- big week ahead, and we need our sleep. Yeah, that's what we tell ourselves so we don't feel like we're 85 and going to bed after our early bird dinner. I put T.D. down about 7 p.m., she was incredibly cranky so why not. As I walk back downstairs into the den I see H on the couch curled up and almost completely asleep. No! Not yet!! TOO early!!! I wake him up and we continue with … [Read more...]

Recently H and I have been discussing the future of our little family unit more so than we have in the past. This is mainly because we would really like it if I could stay home and work from there and be with T.D. more. This is our goal and we've been trying to take steps to get there as much as possible. Be it a new budget or taking on extra work whatever. Then I get an email from a friend the other day that made me wonder, if I'm home all the time what are H's expectations of me concerning the actual house. How much housework, errands, etc would I be taking on or did he expect me to do because I'm home. Even if I'm working and taking care of T.D. (who as of late has become extremely demanding between the hours of 1-4 a.m.) There was a time in our marriage, in the very beginning, where … [Read more...]

According to H/Mogul you don't need love to be married. Well, yeah. But, it does help. I'm not in total agreement with him on this one. I know that some people have arranged marriages and they work, usually because love grows from that. I think he's trying to say that respect has to come into play pretty seriously and mutual likes and dislikes. Maybe I have him wrong though. I could. I've only had one cup of coffee this morning. Things brings me to another issue though entirely that I've been bumping up against lately. The marriage/baby snafu I will call it. Because it is. It's chaos and disruption and a continued one. I know I know- that is all very normal. But, see I've just come to the realization that I honestly thought that H/Mogul and I might be immune to that. We have a … [Read more...]

Last night H (who seriously doesn't want to be called H anymore and has suggested some embarrassingly bad names like Super D. Um... no, nice try) asked me for the millionth time to watch this motiviational/inspirational (read mumbo jumbo) DVD with him. I resisted for as long as I could. It's 90 minutes he says. 90 MINUTES?! When do we have 90 minutes on a weeknight were we are awake and actually processing information?! Finally though I decided to give it a go. I skipped the gym (yes, H this is why I skipped the gym because this was important to you so I put my quest for buns of steel aside for you.) and I headed home to watch this thing.It started off incredibly hoaky with some woman looking like Halle Barry from X-Men speaking with an Aussie accent running around Da Vinci Code like … [Read more...]

It has come to my attention that some of you have actually started doing this little excercise with me and I think that's just great. I try to do this each day, either in the morning as I wake up or as I'm falling asleep. Sometimes it's more like, I thankful for my health and that everything is ok with....snnnnnnnnnzzzzzzzzzzzzz. But, usually I can list at least three things. So here's todays.1. My house. I like it. It suits my needs. I have a roof over my head which is more than some people can say.2. There is food in my house. Probably an over abundance. Again, more than some people have in a month.3. I am able to buy gas for my car without worrying about paying for it. This is a serious problem for some people these days.These are pretty basic but if you think of the basics you … [Read more...]

Hey Kids- guess what movie that is from? If you guess correctly I'll send you something nifty!Seriously I will. The title does have a point. For you regular readers you know I have strong feelings on certain issues. Dick Cheney- love to hate him. It could be a hobby of mine. Actually it sort of is. Darth Vader- love him. When I was a kid I wanted to be him. I would sit at the dinner table and breathe into my milk glass so that I sounded like him. I didn't want Princess Leia underoos- I wanted the full on Vader costume. I like my dark side of the force. Another love of mine is all things Batman. I love the Adam West Batman and all the movies minus the one with Ahnold as Mr. Freeze. That one just sucked. I was quite pleased with the introduction of Christian Bale as the new Bruce … [Read more...]

Lately I'm so busy at work that I rarely see my co-workers except in fleeting moments at the copier or whizzing by them in the hallways. We're all busy right now it seems with no time to check in with each other. One thing that I've noticed that has started happening from this is the -"So HOW ARE you? It's said in a long drawn out way full of meaning. It never fails to stop me in my tracks, my brain temporarily halts and I look up at them and think-ooh what? What do you mean by that? Who have you been talking to? How much do you know? Why are you asking? All these questions run through my head in about 2.5 seconds. I casually will say everything is fine. Sometimes I blurt out too much. Which I immediately hate myself for. I wonder- am I being paranoid? What have I told this … [Read more...]

I'm taking part in the 2996 Project and to any other fellow bloggers out there who want to take part just go to http://www.dcroe.com/2996/ and join. I've been assigned Tyler V. Ugolyn, age 23 I think this is a good idea. I hope we don't ever forget what happened that day. … [Read more...]