Category Archives: Memes

Valentine Vlog

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Hiya!

Oops, I did it again. Made a vlog. And I ramble. And can’t sit still and I move all over the place and twirl my hair and stuff.

This is why I’m not on tv. I mean, I’ve been on tv, but for a living. Like stuff.

Anywho, watch it here. And pay no attention when I try to show you the tree because I totally screw it up.

 

 

 

Also? I made a purty picture because I love memes (NOT):

I MADE THIS!

ANOTHER ONE?

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yYes, I’m participating in a meme. Yes, been tagged again. But I’m only doing it because people apparently want to know what’s in my purse. And I’m not tagging anyone. So there. :p

5 things found in my purse

  1. My planner. I never leave home without it. It has ever phone number, insurance code, appointment, e-mail address and list I could ever need. I write my menus in it, my shopping list, my to-do’s…it’s all in there. I’d be lost without it.
  2. These. ‘Nuff said.
  3. Altoids. Curiously strong. And I have curiously bad breath after eating so much garlic. Go figure.
  4. Burt’s Bees lip balm. Yummy.
  5. Sinus medication. Not that whimpy Phenyl-whatchamacallit, either. I use Pseudo ephedrine. The stuff you need to get behind the counter with your liscense in PA because you might be running a meth lab so they limit you to something like forty pills a month. It’s the only thing that gets rid of my migraines.

Five favorite things in your room

  1. My duvet. It’s so fluffy and comfy and squishy. Perfect for snuggling under on chilly winter nights. Down, of course!
  2. My closet. I have a walk-in closet. I don’t own enough clothes for a walk-in closet, so it also doubles as a place for extra linens, the file cabinet, the pile for Goodwill (this is always growing) and the dirty-clothes hamper.
  3. My linen collection
  4. My little purple friend (use your imagination. I’ll give you a hint: It takes batteries. Lots of them.)
  5. The Queen Mother Jade Plant

Five things you’ve always wanted to do

  1. Have a baby girl. Don’t think this one will happen, though.
  2. Go to Europe. But due to my extreme altitude sickness, getting on a plane to go there will be tough. Puke out the nose for seven hours? Not on your life.
  3. I wanna go to the Met. As in, the Metropolitan Opera House. You know, To see an Opera.Yes, I like Opera.
  4. I’ve never been to New York City. Never. Drove by, waved (look kids! BIG BEN! PARLIAMENT!)  but have never, ever been to the city that never sleeps.
  5. I’ve always wanted to learn the guitar. I regret not doing it sooner.

You’re supposed to tag five people, but I ain’t doing it. But I will leave you with my five favorite foods.

  1. Potatoes
  2. Mashed potatoes
  3. Potatoes with cheese
  4. Cheese with potatoes
  5. My husband’s home made ribs.

Meme? MOI?

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Generally I run screaming from Memes, but since this one involves books, I have to give it a whirl. Especially since I rarely read books for pleasure these days (I’m all about reading books that help my family, however). You can thank Mommy Pie later. Anywho, without further ado:

Three Books I want to read but haven’t gotten around to:

Two books that changed my life:

  • The Secret Garden. I read this in second grade and ever since I’ve had a bit of an issue with reading a book and knowing when to PUT IT DOWN. I tend to read cover to cover, even into the wee hours of the night. Can’t afford that these days though.
  • Anything by Jane Austen. Hate to cop out, but seriously, I had to read Pride and Prejudice in high school for summer reading and then I read everything I could get my hands on. I wanted more, more, more. Other kids at school were all, “Wha? You’re reading them on purpose?”

One book I’ve been talking about since they day I read it:

  • A Prayer for Owen Meany. Seriously, how could you NOT love this book? I love a book with twists and turns and surprises and weird stuff. Maybe because I am weird stuff, I dunno. But I can tell you, if you haven’t read it DO YOURSELF A BIG FAVOR. I promise you’ll enjoy it. And if you don’t, PBLTT! By the way, Hollywood? Stop trying to make half-arsed efforts to make movies out of my favorite books. You change too much and most of the time it sucks arse anyways. The end.

There you have it. If you wanna share, play along or filch, be my guest.

Everything You Wanted To Know About DG But Were Afraid To Ask

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I’ve been named several times on various blawgs to do one of those, GASP, memes.  I won’t do seven, or eight, or nine. In fact, I won’t number them out of protest against memes.  But if you abso-smurfly insist, here are a few things about my life right now:

  •  Yesterday I took Bugaboo to the Ophthalmologist, who says that Bugaboo is far-sighted.  Just like his Dada.  He doesn’t need glasses yet, thank goodness.  Could you picture it?
  • Today I took both boys to the new Neuro.  We like him, although since our last Neuro was the end-all-beat-all of Neurologists, I will compare each and every subsequent Neuro with him from now until eternity. I did, however, LOVE the Nurse Practitioner he works with.  Not in a girl-on-girl kind of way, but a respect-for-the-amazing-and-funky-person-who-loves-kids kinda way.
  • Bugaboo’s behavior is out of control right now. Hand biting, head banging (on soft things, but STILL terrifying) and screaming non-stop for hours.  Today the Neuro was able to witness some of it and we made the decision to start the new behavior meds this week.  This terrifies me.  I did not want it to come to this but we are trying to look at it from a “temporary” standpoint.  We have done everything else we can do.  Doctors, nutrition, specialists, wraparound, therapy, you name it. We have no other options.  Even still,once I took him to school he smiled, laughed, hugged and kissed. He is still the happiest child on the planet.  Well, most of the time. Not at 3am.  Nope, not at 4 am, either.
  • Bug Boy is in the clear, will continue on his seizure meds, although we pulled him off the allergy meds.  He had a paradoxical reaction and because anxious and hyper (well, that is nothing new).
  • I had two moles removed today, both of which are suspicious.   I have a growth on my nose that may possibly be a basal cell carcinoma.  It is being freeze dried for a few weeks to see if we can shrink it and then it will be biopsied so that we don’t have to take a dime-sized chunk outta my nose.  ‘Cause no one wants to see the inside of this spooky honker.
  • In less than two weeks my house is going to be torn apart from top to bottom.  And we are doing this voluntarily.  The roof, siding and windows will all go.  We can’t put the air on the whole time they are working on it.  It should make for some fun times. There is a chance that it will be done before the boys are finished school, but I doubt it.
  • My husband went back to work after a week off.  We didn’t kill each other, although there were some ugly moments. We did get to spend quality time with one another every day.  Get your mind out of the gutter, not THAT kind of quality time. I meant, we went on dates out to lunch and stuff.  Sheesh.
  • I am tired. Really, really tired. I should be doing about one hundred things right now, and I am instead glued to my chair in front of the computer because I feel like I am having a mental anxiety attack today.  I cannot get skin cancer out of my head, I am paranoid about it.  Blame my irish skin.  Or my parents, since they never put sunblock on me as a kid.  Freakin’ people in the seventies…
  • I cannot stop thinking about mashed potatoes and soft pretzels. I may have to eat one or the other in a few minutes, lest I go completely bonkers.  I did indulge in M&Ms after the dermatologist to reward myself for good behavior. I was a good listener and didn’t run around and stayed in my seat.  Oh, and I made eye contact and completed my work.  So, I got M&Ms. And Raspberry Iced Tea. I am such a good therapist to myself.
  • I am still addicted to linen. I need to find some tank tops and linen shirts for summer.  Except that means I will probably have to shave this summer…hmmm…
  • I like the fact that my husband is less depressed and back to normal.  Lexapro is a gift from heaven for him…I wish I could have convinced him ten years ago that it was necessary.  It’s just that now he’s gained 15 pounds because he is so laid back about the whole eating thing.  I’d rather have a happy, slightly-rounder husband than a miserable, sleeping-everyday-when-he-gets-home-and-never-playing-with-the-kids-husband.    He now gets nervous if he forgets to refill it, since he doesn’t want to go back “there.”

There.  Happy?

The Year in Review

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I am not much for Meme’s, but I couldn’t resist taking a look back and seeing what I’ve been talking about the past year! So here it is, without further ado:

No posts in January, February, since I kinda just started in March (although I attempted it three times in 2005!)

March:
Where the Heck Have I been?
Ok. This is probably teh worst blog. EVAR.

April:
Deep Thoughts With Jack Handy
I used to love the SNL segment featuring “Deep thoughts with Jack Handey.” I thought it was a scream.

May:
Typical Monday
I have a few minutes to collect myself before the onslaught of activity begins.

June:
My Thirteen Favorite Things that Grow!

  1. Daffodils…love that smell in the spring

July:
Long Time, No Blog!
We decided to take a short holiday at the family’s cabin in the middle-of-nowhere-Pennsylvania. It was divine.

August:
Bug Boy is At it Again!
Bug Boy has always been a bit precocious.

September
Beautiful Morning at the Playground
We managed to get in a great playdate this morning, and I met two more moms of kids with spectrum disorders.

October
Little Man
The other night I caught a tear-jerker-of-a-documentary about filmmaker Nicole Conn and her partner, Political Activist Gwen Baba.

November
Wordless Wednesday
My bowlegged cowboy (homemade for Halloween!).

December:
Pure Exhaustion:
What I should be doing right now:

That was fun, wasn’t it?

It seems like I’ve been doing this blog thing forever, yet it has only been about nine months. I think that this “Year in Review” forced me to look back at what has transpired in the past few months and I now realized that it is NO WONDER that I am exhausted and ready for 2007! So much has happened to us. 2006 was crazy busy, my friends.

I’d like to thank you for reading this and for coming on this journey with me. I enjoy putting my thoughts out because writing this blog helps to keep my head EMPTY. The days that I do not reflect on my life I find I have difficulty drifting off to sleep due to having thoughts roaming aimlessly about my head. Believe it or not, writing this blog has been therapeutic for me, in a strange and distorted way. It has enabled me to continue on my journey for self-discovery.

I am not one for New Year Resolutions, per se, but I do like to look at where I’ve been and see where I need to go. I prefer goals. My goals remain much the same: To be a better wife and mother, to take care of myself, physically and spiritually (and mentally, let’s not forget I need tons of work in that area!) and to learn everything I can. I have this unquenchable thirst for knowledge. I like to read everything I can get my hands on. It is one of the few times I can be perfectly still, lost in a book. As far as new goals, I’d like to continue to get my body in the best physical shape to to continue to eat better, but I would like to try some new foods and new methods of exercise. I am thinking of taking a class at the Y to broaden my horizons (and to force me to be accountable!). I will also sign the boys up for Swim Lessons. As for Darling, my goal for him is to be a better listener for him and to let go of the small stuff. Every year I get better at the nitpicking and (as my older sister counseled me the day of my wedding) picking battles. It isn’t important that he doesn’t rinse the sink after shaving. It is important that he comes home each evening to a decent dinner, a warm hug, time with the kids and a supportive wife.

That’s it in a nutshell. Still the same ole me, but with added ingredients. Kinda Like New Coke, but it tastes much better and I don’t have to go back to the old formula when no one buys it because I really am Coke Classic with some extra cola syrup thrown in. How’s that for an analogy? And I don’t drink Cola!

Happy New Year! Haouli Maka Hiki Hou!

Oh yeah, I’ve been tagged

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I normally don’t like to do this stuff, but I wanted y’all to see how pathetic my purse is. I have never carried a purse (went right from backpacks to diaper bags) so this is new territory for me. So, without further ado, here is the list of things in my purse, thanks to Tracy for the tag:

  • Calender
  • credit cards
  • id cards for Y
  • License
  • pocket change
  • $7
  • pen
  • lip balm
  • Cell phone
  • sunglasses

Yup. That is it. Kinda sad, huh? I have never been a makeup kind of girl and I don’t carry a hairbrush even. I think there is one in the glove compartment of my car. I used to just shove a wallet and whatever else I needed into a diaper bag. These days I don’t even know where to put my keys (usually in my pocket).

Ok, I will tag…Crissie.

Guilty by Word Association

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Don’t usually like meme’s, but this one is kinda fun. I’ve been tagged by Heather, so here it goes:

Hilarity – Ensues

Faith – of Our Fathers

Chocolate – Dark!

Crayons – Wax

Book – Club

Ok. My five words are: Chicken, walk, brain, unique, sex. So, Crissie and Nancy, get to work! Tag, you are it!