"When are you going to write a book? Quite honestly, I think you should. You have such a beautiful gift."I've been told I should write a book for a while. Even Role Mommy said so! I have to say that I am indeed working on it. It's just incredibly hard when you only have blips of time to do that work plus everything else. For me to write a book or even get enough of my act together to send something off to publishers would take s o much concentrated time and effort on my part.I promised H I would do it by the end of the summer but then my weekly sitter up and quit on me. So the whole working on the book thing isn't going as well as I would have hoped.Here's the thing though- would you even buy a book I would write or am I just wasting my time? … [Read more...]
Product Reviewer Welcomes You to Her World
7 a.m.- What the heck is that bizarre hellish chirruping noise? Almost like a chirping bird, almost like a mechanical cat tied in a sack being sent up river. I slam the array of buttons on the Alarm 3000 that I'm testing out this week hoping it shuts the damn thing up. Wait! Where the heck am I? I don't recognize the duvet cover I'm sleeping under. Oh right, I put a new one on last night from that store that only makes things out of bamboo and hemp. The indigo blue color is dyed by real ancient Phoenicians!7:05 a.m.- In the bathroom jackhammering my teeth with the latest Sonic toothbrush and wishing I had some Novocaine or maybe anti-nausea medicine. This toothbrush might seek to eradicate gingivitis but it is also systematically wiping my gums clean out of my mouth! Only the … [Read more...]
I’ve Got Sweaty Wrists
I wouldn't call it sweating so much as it's dripping that I'm doing right now. I got the opportunity to go on a morning run today versus my normal evening jaunt. There is something so wonderful about starting the day literally hitting the pavement. Humidity has not yet set in and there is still a haze in the air. As I run on the trails and various sidewalks in my 'hood I can smell this sweet summery scent that just lifts my spirits and makes me inhale deeply. It is entirely uplifting.That is until I decided to veer off my intended track and bypass a gaggle of women who were out for a morning stroll. And when I say stroll I use that term quite lightly. It was more like a creep. Suddenly I found myself doing my final minutes up the biggest hill in my neighborhood. I had The White … [Read more...]
The Hills They Break Me
Holy Mountain of Death... it must be ninety-bazillion degrees outside and my legs feel like they are in cement casings. Where is my runners high? Where in all that is holy and stamped with a Nike swoosh is my moment of running zen?! I am deep in the trenches of one month of running. The times are getting longer and my body is telling me to quit. The hills in my 'hood are r-e-lent-less. I'm not playing around here and my lower body knows it. My heart having been gargled by Jillian for weeks beforehand is quite up to the task. My feet are sufficiently callused from years of doing the Avon Walk. It's my mind and my legs that are weak. They see another hill coming and just want to cave. The brain says, "Hey legs...psstt...legs...up here. Listen, you don't have to take this punishment … [Read more...]
Meeting Jen Lancaster
Last Friday I took a trip two years in the making. I boarded a metro train bound for the city and met up with a friend. After a delightful dinner of tapas and sangria and a quick stop for cupcakes we made our way to the Jen Lancaster, Pretty in Plaid, book signing. Awww... look at the cute crazy stalker fangirrrl.I know you are already like, "Uh, what is the big deal? She's just some author. What are you some crazy stalker fan or something?" Well, I could be. I did after all wear lime green pants, a pink polo and pearls. And the above mentioned cupcakes. Divine, by the way. So while I could be construed as crazy stalker fangirl (hmm.. despite the lime green pants and pearls I'm really more of a fangirrrl, anyways...) it is more that Lancaster's first book came to me at just the right … [Read more...]
I Confess
Forgive me Jillian for I have sinned. It has been two weeks since my last Shred. I didn't mean to lapse for so long but by day five of level two my knees had just about had it. No amount of working with Anita was helping either. I swear I'll do double pilates today and jog for ten minutes in place to appease you, Ms. Michael's. Just don't make me gargle my heart too hard when I jump bag on the Shredhead wagon to hell, er I mean weight loss and ultimate fitness. Can I please drop and give you twenty and just erase the Easter candy debacle of 2009, the cookies, brownies, french fries and that pitcher of Sangria I had just last week? I don't know how I imbibed all that wine, I swear! … [Read more...]
It’s a Good Morning All Around
You know what's a great way to start a day? First, take a baby that has been blissfully sleeping through the night for the past week and allow them to wake you up every two hours. Said baby is not content at just seeing you enter her room but instead glares at you, flails her arms about and screams as if to say, "Hey, Feedbag! Hustle! Feedbag, Hustle!" Second, add in a Tiny Dictator who awakens at 4:45 a.m. to wet the bed. More screaming and hot tears ensue and just as H, who thankfully got up to take care of that hot mess of problems, crashes back into bed the dog throws up rather loudly into her crate right next to you. The smell permeates the room in about 2.5 seconds and you realize you have no choice but to start the day.The laundry monster you spent all day slaying the day … [Read more...]
On Going Back to Work
Sometimes an opportunity presents itself in such a way that it cannot be resisted. That is exactly what happened to me a few weeks ago when we were in the thick of the evening ritual of sit-down-eat-your-dinner-now with holy-crap-the-baby-is-crying-and a side of we-still-need-bath-and-storytime-to-go-down-without-a-hitch followed by the cry of hurry!-where-is-mommy's-wine!! A friend called stating that she had a new position opening up in her company and it would be just perfect for me. I could travel! (think exciting locales like Boston, SoCal and maybe even Lubbock, Texas!) Sleep in a hotele w Polsce, eat room service and read a whole book like these History of Texas Books on a plane. Such bliss cannot be believed. Did I mention that it pays and pays enough to make child care … [Read more...]
Calling Webster’s Dictionary
I'm tweeting, I'm IM'ing, and um... yeah, not really posting or doing anything worky right now. Oh wait. That is my job.In the midst of it all I think I made up a new word today- blogfrence. I think it's pretty self explanatory. I'm totally calling it and when the NYTimes uses it in the next few months for one of their articles about bloggers and how we seem to all be superstars or what have you they are going to have to refer back to me. The same goes for Newsweek. Mine!Not satisfied with my meager blog post today? Check out some of these fine ladies. … [Read more...]
I’m a Way Bigger Dork than I Thought
From the land of the intensely liberal and oh my god! is that Steve Jobs? I might just squee if it is. I'm in NoCA for a bit and lovin' the balmy sixty degree temps, the food, the drink, the swag, the drinks. Will there be more drinks later? What? It's Cali- no one smokes here. If you even think about it they look at you like you are beating a sack of puppies with a sack of kittens at a children's birthday party. I've already seen more yogis than I can shake a protein-infused aromatherapy stick at. Seriously- a girl could geek out here big time. If um.. she was prone to such things, which I'm like clearly not. Yeah, right. Who am I kidding? I check into my hotel (hello Stanford!) and rip open my bag 'o' goodies looking for the tech loot-mmm... tasty new flip camcorder all for me... oh … [Read more...]