I wish my camera worked.
The sky right now is perfect grey – classic winter sky right before it spits sleet or snow at you.
Last night I stayed up and read Stephanie Meyer’s Midnight Sun partial draft. After writing about going to see the midnight release of [...]
About a month ago, my friend Alana [HI, Alana! ] decided that I was going to see New Moon with her. On opening night.
Alana really isn’t one of those people you argue with and so I went online, bought my ticket and spent the next month stressing [...]
If you were following me yesterday on Twitter then you got to read me live tweeting my Nikon camera repair.
Correction.
You got to read about me shocking myself numerous times while I ripped into my Nikon.
We’ve had this camera since 2005 and it’s served us well but a [...]
Yesterday I hopped on Twitter and saw the hashtag “#prayersforAnissa” and had no freakin’ clue what was going on. After asking a couple of people, I found out that Anissa had a stroke yesterday afternoon and was/is in ICU.
I met Anissa in person this past July [...]
When I was little, I went to church with my grandma and grandpa whenever I was at their house on Sundays. Since my mom worked several jobs when I was little, I was at my grandparents’ house a lot.
One thing that I can vividly remember about that [...]
Ollie’s 14 months old now.
He’s been walking for months, nods his head “yes” and “no”, beats up on his sister and does long division. OK. So the beats his sister up part isn’t true…
Anyway, one thing Oliver doesn’t do is sleep through the night. He’s normally in [...]
Am I the only person who still hasn’t gotten the whole daylight savings time thing down?
It just seems unnatural for it to be bright as noon when it’s only 6am. Of course, once it’s light outside, my children [who were apparently birds in a former life] are [...]
Any blogging “expert” will tell you that the key to blogging “success” is to write and write often.
Based on my performance recently, I suppose I’m on the fast track to blogging failure.
It’s just that right now, I feel like I have this basket [mine's one of those [...]
Mirrors are scary things.
If you drank a bit too much the night before, you definitely don’t want to see the scary ass reflection that will be staring back at you the next day.
Then, there’s that whole Bloody Mary thing and do I even need to describe that [...]
I started on this book just about the second that I got it in from One2One Network but other obligations and life in general has managed to get in the way of me writing my review until now.
My opinion of it initially was probably tainted by [...]
Today is probably not the best time to be writing this since I’m sure that if I waited for a couple of weeks, I would have a much more positive spin.
However, Tucker chose today to scan in the pictures that I mentioned in the Porn Drawer [...]
Pretty much the only New Year’s Resolution that I remember for this year was that I was going to use this website to better track my moods. There are a couple of problems with that.
First, I have a very, very hard time writing when I’m feeling “low”. [...]
One of the worst feelings is that of being a prisoner in your own home.
[There was some other dribble here but it was specific to TWO nights ago when I was writing this and since I apparently suck at completing blog post right now, I deleted that [...]
Our apartment building butts up against a nature preserve.
This preserve was a major selling point for us when we looked at the apartment since Cara’s room [now Ollie's room] has a great view of the woods and it’s almost like we’re in a house instead of an [...]
When you’re in young and in college, you look for all kinds of ways to make easy money with minimal effort.
My best friend knew a guy who was a manager at one of the Papa John’s places in town and she just knew that she could get [...]
“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead — your next stop, the Twilight Zone.“
We bought our “truck” – that’s what we [...]
Today, the day of Oliver’s make-up one year doctor’s appointment, Oliver decided to have a psychological break.
Actually, I think that he and his sister did one of those crazy changaroo things like in that horrible movie with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis where they switch places [...]
When I was little – four or five maybe – I would guilt my dad into renting a hotel room at the local Holiday Inn so that I could go swimming in the Holidome[!!!] – you can’t write “Holidome” without including several exclamation points. The hotel was [...]
This is totally a work in progress. I was on my way somewhere else with this and somehow ended up here. Read it if you want but don’t be too mean with your comments. This is the really shitty draft before the shitty first draft. I just [...]
I think it was last year [I say think since I don't actually know when] I was sent a book called Sarah’s Key and whether it was due to the fact that I had other stuff on my plate at the time or just me forgetting' [...]
Before we left for Arkansas on Friday, I noticed that the Cara and Ollie’s toilet had sprung a leak.
Such an impressive [meaning annoying] leak that the floor was covered with water and the bathroom rugs were sopping wet. We turned off the water to the toilet, cleaned [...]
This weekend was Oliver’s first birthday party.
I didn’t say “Oliver’s first birthday” since he doesn’t turn one until the 12 but Tucker will be at Navy Drill this coming weekend and Tucker wasn’t going to miss his son’s party.
It was the way that a first birthday party [...]
We’re back home from Ollie’s birthday party that was held in Arkansas and we’re all exhausted.
Things went great with the exception of the cake but THAT is a story for a different day…like tomorrow.
Cara is in her Hello Kitty tent that’s in the living room. She goes [...]
So I’m all like, “I’m not quitting. I’ll be back.” and then I don’t post anything on here for like five years or something.
Yeah. Sorry about that.
I seem to lack the ability to plan out my month with any sort of success so I usually find myself [...]
Since I found myself a bit behind in my contractually required pieces for work, I decided that TODAY was going to be the day that I got a shit ton of stuff ready and then I could focus on other things. Like cleaning the house. And the [...]
I haven’t died.
I haven’t quit blogging.
I wasn’t so emotionally spent by my past post that I had to hide or take a break.
I have found myself amazingly behind with work and unfortunately, that means that it takes priority over this site. Sucks, but that’s how it is.
I [...]
This past week has been hell.
I know you just read that sentence and you think that I’m exaggerating but ever since coming back from BlogHer, Cara has had HUGE sleep issues. Three hours of screaming and bitching about her room being “too dark” and “too noise” [noisy] [...]
Oh, Internets.
Are you feeling OK?
I’ve read several posts in the past couple of days that have ranged from slightly bitchy to downright mean. Even the comments have been getting nasty with judgments on how someone else should live their life or picking apart a joke.
Then, there’s Twitter [...]
Yummie Tummie sent me two of their tanks for me to wear to BlogHer – the tank and the boyfriend. Though they might be a bit pricey, the return that you see in smoothed bumps and jiggly bits is well worth it.
In case you’re [...]
I have been young and stupid and have worked many, many different jobs.
Some of those jobs I cared about but most I did not. Most of those jobs were more about socializing than rendering a service and my customers were like gnats that annoyed me.
So, I get [...]
Unfortunately [for me], Best Buy has corrected the messed up pricing and I could never get my order to go through.
I thought I had my Christmas shopping all wrapped up.
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I wrote this about two years ago and just rediscovered it again.
I know there are some of you out there who can relate.
Mom,
I hope that you’ll forgive me for writing you instead of calling you; I think I’m taking a break from talking to anyone for [...]
I did something this weekend that I rarely do – I stood up to my dad.
It’s not that I let my dad walk all over me, it’s that he’s usually too afraid of me to be an absolute ass in my general direction. I’ve never chased after [...]
Sometimes, when everyone else is asleep and the house is utterly quiet, it is almost heavenly to curl up with a good rum and coke, a cup of cheap ramen and a good book and enjoy being alone.
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Little know fact about me: I love rats.
Several years ago, while Tucker was at boot camp for the Navy, I became very, very lonely.
I had Sophie, the wonder pit bull, but I still felt a huge gaping hole in my heart where there should have been a [...]
I love it when I’m having a bad day and the FedEx guy brings me food to review.
Ain’t life grand?
Also, my FedEx guy has great timing since my box of goodies got here right around snack time. Cara does love herself a good peanut butter and jelly [...]
Today I actually got to GO IN some houses that I had stalked looked at on the Internet.
We had a list of seven to check out. Seven.
I went into it expecting to end the house looking session being all conflicted and not knowing which of the amazing [...]
One of the very popular topics when I first started writing this blog was Cara and her problems sleeping.
Her problem being that she didn’t like sleeping unless she was firmly attached to my boob or strapped on my in her sling. In desperation, I bought Dr. Ferber’s [...]
Many of my dad’s “weekends” were spent at my paternal grandmother’s house.
Her house is surrounded by about two hundred acres of deep woods and I can remember many nights falling asleep to the music of cicadas and frogs. Still to this day, those sounds put me at [...]
I am NOT a fan of cheap wall decals.
I can remember my step-mom buying some Disney decals for my step-brother’s room when he was little and even then [I was maybe 14] I thought that they looked cheap.
But, I’ve come to the point where if a set [...]
There’s is something especially annoying about being kicked out of a good dream by the thumping of a pit bull tail.
That’s how I knew that Cara was in our room this morning.
Before we left for BlogHer, Cara had occasionally said that she was scared of her room. [...]
I’m not quite sure how I ended up on Chris Brogan’s newsletter mailing list but I’m not complaining since I rather dig the guy.
There is a point.
Bear with me.
In this newsletter that I got today there was a part that has stuck with me through all [...]
When you go to BlogHer, apparently you’re supposed to take about a million pictures so that you can remember the weekend since you might be really drunk tired the whole time and that messes with your memory.
Unfortunately, I only took two pictures – both of them horribly [...]
I know you’re probably getting tired of hearing about BlogHer and hell, it hasn’t even happened yet.
I was going to wait on this post until later in the week but have now realized that Mom’s coming tomorrow and from then on it’s going to be a mad [...]
I’m really good at one thing and that’s procrastination.
I got an email from the hotel where we’re staying in Chicago letting me know what the weather’s going to be like [79 on Saturday!] and I got this nervous [but good nervous] butterfly feeling in my gut and [...]
Yesterday I started writing a post about BlogHer and how I’m going and how I’m nervous and want to puke but everyone else feels the same way so it’s OK because we’ll all be puking together and then I saved that post for a later date [today] [...]
Someone [I don't remember who] on Twitter linked to a CNET [LOVE them] story that asked if mommy bloggers need to “grow up”?
*Disclaimer #1: I haven’t finished reading that story yet since I went to the linked MomDot story about the “PR Blackout”.*
I headed over' [...]
I’ve decided that to parent a two year old is to put yourself in close proximity to a contagious psychosis that no drug can tame.
Normally I would say that I was being melodramatic but after today, and watching Caroline’s mood spread throughout the house, I am a [...]
So, I just stepped in it.
Cara, Ollie and I were all sitting at the table eating dinner and Cara and I were going over animal sounds and what animals live in the ocean-that kind of thing.
Cows came up and I asked Cara what sound they make. “Moo!” [...]
Cara and Oliver’s pediatrician back in Arkansas is the pediatrician by which we gauge all pediatricians.
Dr. Sneed is one of those doctors who actually listens to your concerns, makes you feel like your child is their favorite and talks to you like you have a modicum of intelligence.
When we moved [...]
A new favorite of ours. After your two year old demands that you watch it 30 times in a row, I guarantee that the song will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
At least it’s a short song.
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Sometimes I get stuff that looks cool or is a [...]
Yup. That’s right. Oscar the Cat has gone to live with the cats in heaven and is probably pissing all over St. Peter’s dirty clothes. [Thanks to the Twitterverse for helping me remember St. Peter.]
I called last Thursday to check on Oscar since Mondays and Thursdays are surgery days and [...]
After my virtual “breakdown” Saturday night on here and on Twitter over Oscar, I decided to stay away from the internet as much as was possible so that I could get my thoughts [and emotions] together.
Maybe breakdown is a tad bit extreme but my emotions were extremely raw and close [...]
I know.
I know!
Some of you are tired of hearing about my cat. I know! He’s just a cat but dammit! He’s MY cat. I’m the one who saved him from a hurricane when we first moved to Florida when Tucker joined the Navy.
Oscar was originally supposed to be named Zero [...]
Ollie had his nine month appointment today. He’s 90th percentile for height and head circumference and 50th for weight. I know that I’m the only one who cares about that but I still felt the need to share.
After the appointment, I took the kids to see Oscar at the vet’s [...]
I’ve been putting off this post since about 9 o’clock this morning.
That’s around the time that I called the vet to check on Oscar and around the time that Cara started “calling” Oscar with our home phone.
You know it’s bad when you call to ask when you can pick up [...]
It’s Wednesday and I thought that I would jump back into the Wordless Wednesday foray but soon realized that I lack the ability to just post a picture with no words.
I took these pictures of the kids yesterday. When Cara was a wee lass, we took HUNDREDS of pictures of [...]
Today has been one hell of a day.
It started out alright.
Tucker left for work after dumping Ollie in bed with me. Shortly after, Cara started calling, “SOMEBODY! LET ME OUT! ANYONE?! HELLO?!”. It was cute and I was awake so I let the toddler out of her room and the [...]
I had planned this to be a post about Tucker and the amazing father that he is but if you look at my Twitter stream then you are well aware of the fact that I have become extremely interested in what’s happening in Iran/Tehran.
Iran has interested me since I [...]
Tucker SO asked for this.
I’ve warned him that his emails were in danger of getting published here. Warned him, I’m telling you! But, today, he crossed the line.
Some back story so you’ll “get” this.
Like MONTHS ago, I told Tucker that oxen aren’t a breed or species of animal but that [...]
I’m going shopping this weekend for some clothes for BlogHer.
I’ve mentioned before that Lane Bryant has hooked me and 9 other lovely ladies with gift cards and that’s what I shall be using. I’m not listing the other chicks yet cause I don’t know if they want me to. I’ll [...]
It seems like every female friend of mine has had “something” happen to them.
I have one friend who watched her mother be raped by an intruder and then she was raped as well. She was 15. I have another friend who was date raped by her first boyfriend. She was [...]
When I was pregnant with Cara, I cried…a lot. Then, I got pregnant with Oliver and I was probably the angriest that I’ve ever been in my entire life. Anything and everything would set me off and though I knew that most things weren’t as big [...]
A couple of things happening today.
#1 If you come over here one minute [hour] and the site looks like it does now and then you come back later and it looks different [and possibly broken] it’s because the proverbial shelf-life has expired on my site’s design and [...]
It’s official, y’all. I’m going to BlogHer ‘09!
WOO HOO!!!
The first year I was new to the game and had just started blogging. The second year, I was pregnant and had a very small Cara to deal with. Now, I have an Ollie who will be ten months and can hang [...]
Am I the only one who doesn’t trust the mirrors in dressing rooms?
Call me paranoid but I blame a misspent youth and way too much 20/20.
Every other weekend I was supposed to go with my dad for “his” weekend. More times than not, those weekends didn’t happen [...]
Here it is almost 9 o’clock and I haven’t packed a single thing.
Actually, as I type this, some of Cara’s clothes and her Hello Kitty! towel are drying so that I don’t ruin her little two year old day tomorrow.
We’re heading back to Arkansas for my mom’s family reunion so [...]
At every apartment complex that we’ve lived, we’ve had a pool.
Though I love swimming, I’m not a big fan of the whole bathing suit thing and refuse to wear a t-shirt to cover up so I can count on two hands [maybe three...I have a spare] the number of times [...]
This past week has been filled with phone calls back to Cara and Ollie’s pediatrician in Arkansas.
For what seems like an eternity [but it's really only been about a month], they’ve both had ear infections and they both have been acting like the infections were back.
The new pediatrician’s office here' [...]
I guess there are worse ways to be woken at six in the morning…but at the time that this video was taken, I would have preferred to have just stayed asleep.
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Did you ever have a boyfriend who you just kept coming back to no matter what they did or how much you didn’t want to come back?
That’s how I feel about this site.
OK. Maybe that’s not fair.
I started this website as an extension of a message board journal. The journal [...]
Cara’s dentist appointment went famously yesterday.
Of course, most of you probably had no clue that she had an appointment unless you follow me on Twitter.
I’ve been sucked into the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton and I’m on book 7 and just keep getting drug deeper into the whole [...]
If you’ve read me for very long [that sounds a bit pretentious but you know what I mean] then you know that I’m a bit of a hermit. I’m perfectly fine staying home with the kids until Tucker comes home and then we all go out together. Truth be told, [...]
Have you ever heard the term “phone tough”? I ran into this a lot when I worked for Teleflora. Someone’s flowers didn’t get delivered and they would call customer service [me] and cuss me out.
Click here to read the rest and enter the giveaway.
So, you took [...]
The kids both have ear infections. Lots of fun. I’m trying to catch up on work so here’s a video compilation of our trip.
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I HATE DSL!!!
I’m sitting in the parking lot at Barnes and Noble and trying to check my 100’s of emails while Tucker watches the kids at home. It’s not exactly easy to do the whole email thing while I try and watch my surroundings.
Imagine how pissed I’m gonna be if [...]
This is a scheduled post since I should be putting boxes in the moving truck. Cross your fingers that the moving is actually taking place.
So, another email from Alana:
My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would [...]
Alana sent me this yesterday.
A man was sitting on the edge of the bed, observing his wife, looking at herself in the mirror.
Since her birthday was not far off he asked what she’d like to have for her birthday.
‘I’d like to be six again’, she replied, still [...]
Cara has a double earinfection and I’m packing for a move on Saturday. I’ll update once we get to the new place.
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So, we have an apartment.
I wanted an house and we both LOVED the house we went to see on Sunday but for right now, we have a 3 bedroom apartment with over 1300 sq/feet.
The place has 9 or 10 ft ceilings and has TONS of space. Hell, I’m just happy [...]
You know how one decision leads to another which leads to another which ends up stressing you the hell out?
Yeah. Me either.
We leave tomorrow morning to go to Alabama to look at apartments and houses. We got pre-approved for a very nice sum but still want to look at short [...]
Tucker’s taking a shower right now. He has to go get his hair cut since he starts his job on Monday.
That’s right. Monday. As in the day after the end of this weekend.
Good thing we’re going to Alabama this weekend to look at houses.
To top it all off, Tucker has [...]
If you “read me” very often then you already know that I write for b5media about video games and liquor.
I don’t know if you go to my other sites or not and since I don’t know where you go after you hang around here, I figured that I would provide [...]
Tucker got the job!
If you’ve been following along on Twitter then you know that Tucker had a five person conference call interview Tuesday. At the end of the interview, they told him that they liked him and that they would send his information to the “big guy” and that “the [...]
My child turned 7 months yesterday. He had his six month check-up today. I know…confusing. We managed to get a month behind on his well baby check-ups because of an insurance issue a couple of months ago but it’s all good in the hood now.
Ollie is a hair shy of [...]
Oliver tried to take out his left eye today. Well…not really.
He was up a lot last night and when he finally decided this morning to get up for good I decided to stay in bed and enjoy the almost forgotten feeling of NOT being used as a human pacifier. Tucker [...]
My dear, dear husband has an interview tomorrow.
Hold the balloons and cake.
Work Force-the state’s unemployment agency-called Tucker today and asked him to come in tomorrow to interview for a Veteran’s Benefit Coordinator position. On the surface this seems like a great fit for Tucker. He’s a veteran, he has a [...]
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I was on a mothering forum that I’m a member of and one of the other members posted a poll asking if anyone lets their kids [2 years old and older] bathe without the parents in the bathroom.
Most people responded that they would never leave their kids [...]
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Almost as [...]
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From my friend Alana who works at a bank:
A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack.
“Miss Whack, I’d like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday.”
Patty looks at the frog in [...]
I don’t like asking for money. I don’t like taking money. Basically, I don’t like feeling indebted to someone. If the money is a gift or if it’s in payment for a service then I’m alright with that.
What brought all of this up was an email that I got while [...]
Tucker needs a job.
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I hate job hunting.
HATE it.
When I was in high school and college, I would always take the first job that was offered to me just so I wouldn’t have to fill out anymore of those damn applications. It’s a depressing, monotonous process that sucks my soul dry.
Yesterday, I spent the [...]
I bring you an interesting question today.
When are you [meaning me] too old for an eyebrow ring?
I’ve had mine since I was 18 and now, almost ten years later, I’m still wearing it.
When I worked at Mayo Clinic, I would remove the barbell for work but put it back in [...]
The connections that Cara is making right now astound me.
We always have our TV on.
It doesn’t matter if the TV is on the news or if it’s on cartoons-it’s on and I blame a lot of that on me. For some reason, I have the ADD where I need to [...]
Oliver is down for his nap and Cara just got up from hers. Technically, she didn’t take a nap BUT she did hang out in her room for an hour and was quiet so we’ll take what we can get.
Since I have some work to do, I grabbed up my [...]
Cara and I are sitting on the couch trying to do as little as is humanly possible. We’re pretty good at the sloth thing.
Earlier, Tucker was up getting me some coffee [bless his little pointed head] and a “music video” for Handy Manny came on. First off, since when do [...]
