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The Little Black Book of Style: Take Two Birkin Bags and Call Her In The Morning 2007-09-19 09:00:00 I have a new review up over there on my other blog:
Don't let my current look fool you. I didn't always walk around in sweatpants, a faded Gap t-shirt and shoes that look like they were run over by a truck. You think I went out of the house without lipstick in my twenties? Back in the day I actually got my hair cut more than three times a year, had neatly pedicured toes and my belt freqently Read more:Black
, Style
, Morning
Tales From Middle School, Part I: Those Who Truly Suffer 2007-09-17 05:19:00 Everyone knows that middle school can be quite traumatic. The too-early mornings, the frantic schedules, the daily lunch grind. It's all too much to bear.
I'm not talking about my child's angst - I'm talking about mine.
It's safe to say that middle school is totally and completely kicking my ass. Kira has been a sixth grader for exactly seven whole days and at the end of each of those seven Read more:Tales
, School
Of Mommybloggers and Young Love. 2007-10-04 02:30:00 Jenn and her partners in crime over at Mommybloggers have chosen to feature me this week. Crazy you say? Not as crazy as the fact that they actually found a few people to say some nice things about me. Thank you Jamie, Jodi, Contrary and Mary Tsao - your checks are in the mail. Mary, I know I promised you a pair of Jimmy Choos for the extra FameCrawler reference in your tribute, so don't Read more:Young Love
A Perfect Day: A Promise Fulfilled, Valet Parking and a Gourd Mousse 2007-10-17 19:32:00 I know it's hard to believe, but I occasionally lapse in my stellar parenting skills. There's the time I forgot to crease the plastic wrap correctly on those sandwiches I seem to be making every five minutes, or the one time I cursed in front of my kids. And then there are the unkept promises, those rare times when I say I'll do something and then fail to come through, like promising to get them Read more:Perfect
, Parking
, Mousse
This Totally Blows. 2007-10-19 03:22:00 I don't do product reviews on this website, but while doing one on my other blog I remembered that the product had another use, namely for making awesome bubbles. I Googled it and found the video below. I love it, mostly for it's soundtrack, which is a song by Joe Jacksonthat I had forgotten about. Note that the ingredients are probably the same ones used at most fraternity sex parties.
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Pepperoni or Cheese? Simple Question For Some; Vexing, Mind-Blowing, Life-Altering Decision For Others 2007-11-12 08:38:00 A couple of weeks ago I was asked to help out at Back-To-School night at Kira's middle school. This is a chance for the parents to meet the teachers, and the PTA and booster clubs at most schools use it as a fundraising opportunity to sell food and drinks beforehand. While the idea of putting on a pair of plastic gloves and dishing out five hundred pieces of pizza sounded daunting, I hadn't had Read more:Cheese
, Simple
, Question
, Others
Sweatpantsmom Is Getting Her Blogging Back On. 2007-12-10 01:49:00 I remember when I first started this blog, and how I was diligently posting every single day. That went on for awhile and I was so proud of myself, all the intricacies of my life I was laying out for everyone to see! How wonderfully interesting my mundane comings and goings were! How amusing every word and cough and burp that came out of my children sounded! I just imagined how the entire Read more:Blogging
I've Got Christmas Gift Ideas! And Neither of Them Contain Coffee or Alcohol! 2007-12-20 09:00:00 I don't usually use my blog to hawk wares, but I just reviewed two products over on my other blog that are worth mentioning here. One is a toy for kids, and one is a toy for adults. Although if you're like me, you'll want to play with both of them.
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For the past few months my nine-year-old had Read more:Coffee
, Christmas
, Alcohol
, Neither
, Contain
I Wish Someone In This House Would Get a Record Deal So I Could Afford To Remodel My Kitchen 2007-12-17 19:30:00 Somehow, in between working a full time job, taking out the trash, getting the kids ready for school and keeping his wife happy, my husband managed to record a CD! Rigel and his band, Nine2Midnight, spent countless hours and subjected themselves to hundreds of beers to get some of their songs onto vinyl (or plastic, or whatever CDs are made out of. Whalebone? The ashes of dead rock stars?) Read more:Record
, Kitchen
, House
, Remodel
, Record Deal
Come See For Yourself How Short Ryan Seacrest Really Is 2008-03-06 01:48:00 My latest post is up at Kango. I wrote about American Idol this week. Not so much about the obsessive hold the damn show has on me and my girls, but about what you can expect if you're kind of crazy and decide to come to Hollywood and try and see a live taping. It's not something I'd really want to do, since half the fun is sitting on the couch and shaking our fists at the screen and shouting Read more:Yourself
, Short
, Seacrest
, Ryan Seacrest
My Nose Would Start To Itch 2008-03-04 03:18:00 I'm sure most of you have already seen this, in which case you can stop reading right now and go back to sipping your coffee and surfing porn. But I was amazed by the whole thing, not so much for its grand scale and its artistic merit, but because I really can't imagine standing still for that long without sneezing, or coughing or starting to drool onto my shirt.
Don't try to tell me you Read more:Start
Where George Clooney Eats Calamari 2008-02-28 02:40:00 My post for Kango this week is all about where to see celebrities in Los Angeles. This is something people always ask when they're visiting from out of town, but to be perfectly honest I never know what to tell them. You're just as likely to see someone famous at the dry cleaners as you are at a club on Sunset. Also, over time everyone in L.A. starts to look like a celebrity; you're not sure if Read more:George
, Clooney
Wintertime in Los Angeles: Put On Your Fleece Thong 2008-02-19 21:44:00 My weekly post is up over at Kango. This week I was asked to write about wintertime in L.A., which made me laugh because when I sat down to write it was around 70° here. In fact, the only time I put on a sweater last week was just to cover up my pajamas when I dropped the girls off at school.
I ended up writing about a trip we took right before Christmas, where we did see actual snow. Of Read more:Angeles
, Fleece
, Los Angeles
A Special Kind of Humor 2008-02-18 04:15:00 Okay, I admit this may not be funny to some of you, as it falls under the category of 'industry humor' and may have a narrow audience. Sort of like your uncle the accountant who's always cracking those lame sex jokes about "making deposits" and "early withdrawal," maybe it'll cause you to roll your eyes and leave the room.
But for Rigel and I, this represents a knee-slapping good time in the Read more:Special
, Humor
The Traveling Pants 2008-02-14 00:05:00 I was recently hired by Kango, a new travel website, to write a weekly post about things to do in L.A. I'm looking forward to this new venture, as there's nothing I enjoy more than going somewhere and then making sure everyone I know finds it as unbelievably fascinating as I do. That trip I took to the recyling plant? Let me tell you about all the different kinds of plastic I saw, and don't Read more:Traveling
, Pants
I Still Won't Let Them Eat The Burritos, But I'll Consider a Fish Stick 2008-02-11 15:10:00 Hey - remember that little tirade I went on last week, about the sick cows and the bad people that cut them up and fed them to our schoolchildren? I mentioned that I had already sent an email to our superintendent voicing my concerns and essentially demanding to know precisely what cow part was in which box of meat and exactly which school's freezer that cheeseburger was sitting in. I wanted to Read more:Burritos
, Stick
Don't Eat The Burritos 2008-02-04 04:05:00 A few nights ago I was watching the evening news, and sandwiched in between the stories about Britney Spears' current meltdown and the latest fad diet (it's tea!) was a hidden-camera report about a California slaughterhouse being investigated for using inhumane methods to get sick cattle past inspectors. (Aside from being carriers of E. coli and salmonella, downed cattle may signal the presence Read more:Burritos
Our Milkshake Brings All The Toys To The Yard 2008-02-02 01:10:00 Meet Milkshake, our new kitten.
Ever since Mookie, our ornery, cranky 16-year old cat died a little over a year ago, we'd been promising the girls a new kitten. When I say 'we' I really mean 'me' on behalf of 'us,' since Rigel wasn't too anxious to get a new cat. Come to find out that those big balls of cat hair clinging to his bass amp weren't really helping his sound any, and he always only
Oh, Brother. 2008-01-21 19:54:00 I was so excited when Kristen, Cathy and motherbumper invited me to a virtual baby shower for Julie, aka mothergoosemouse who is expecting her third child - her first boy! I've been away from the blogosphere for awhile and didn't even know Julie was pregnant, but I was honored to contribute by doing a post on raising sons.
And then it hit me: I have two daughters.
But I thought about it and Read more:Brother
Well, At Least It Wasn't "My Humps" 2008-01-14 22:28:00 The girls spent the night at their friends' house on Saturday night so that Rigel and I could get away for a whole, blissful 24 hours. We stayed at my favorite hotel and pretended we were rich, spoiled rock stars. Although, I did steal all the toiletries again and this time even tucked one of their beautiful pens into my purse, so I guess that would make us more like tacky, thieving, rock Read more:Humps
Put Another Candle on The Rum Cake 2008-01-11 21:15:00 Today is my birthday. For some reason I've never wanted to reveal the actual date of my birthday on my blog. I think with all the talk about cyberstalking and I.D. theft I got paranoid, and was afraid that some psycho reading my stories would somehow find a way to break into my bank account and steal that forty-nine dollars in there, or harm me for using too many serial commas. So let me just Read more:Candle
Christmas Comes But Once a Year, THANK GOD 2008-01-08 03:10:00 Happy New Year!
How was your Christmas
? I'm sure you're all still warm and fuzzy from the sights, the sounds and the smells of the holiday; the lights on the tree, the sounds of bells chiming, the smell of ham.
I am, too, but for me it was seeing the door slam, the sound of my child sobbing and calling me a liar and the smell of my brain on fire inside my skull as I fervently tried to dig
My Butt Hurts Just Thinking About It 2008-03-13 14:15:00 Every now and then I start to feel bad about myself and the fact that I don't get out more. For instance, there was that one day last week when I didn't even set foot outside the house until it was time to pick up the girls at school, and even then I pulled a half-pajama maneuver, stayed in the car and used my cell phone to summon them to the van. It's crazy behavior, and if this keeps up I'll be
Going Green in L.A.? Doesn't Always Mean Driving a Prius 2008-03-16 00:54:00 My latest post is up at Kango. This week I was asked to write about how Angelenos might celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Is this a holiday? I've always figured that if it didn't have its own, two-aisle special section at Target it wasn't worth celebrating. But come to find that there is plenty of Irish revelry scheduled for March 17 here in Los Angeles, and a lot of it centers around beer. Not Read more:Prius
, Going
, Green
, Driving
, Going Green
Is That a Pastrami Or Are You Just Happy To See Me? 2008-03-23 01:53:00 I love food. Eating it, cooking it, watching it being prepared, shopping for it - why, Rigel sometimes accuses me of being more excited to see a steak than I am about seeing him. I told him that's totally untrue, that I'm always happy to see him but would be freakin' ecstatic if he were laying sizzling on a plate, covered in a nice peppercorn sauce and accompanied by some garlicky mashed Read more:Happy
'Autism: The Musical' is Awesome, But (Really) Don't Take My Word For It 2008-03-25 17:07:00 I was talking to a friend recently and as is my habit these days I started going on and on about "Juno," how it was my favorite movie and how great it is and how it - yes, this is the best part - it was written by a blogger! Which for some strange reason failed to elicit an overly enthusiastic response from my friend - I think her actual words were, "Really? And it was good?"
A few days later Read more:Autism
, Musical
Choosing Between A Dancing Mouse and a Stuffed Bear 2008-03-27 18:30:00 I remember when Kiyomi was turning six and had decided that the only place she wanted to celebrate her birthday was Chuck E. Cheese's. Not looking forward to an afternoon filled with screaming, the pinging of video games and hair matted together with a combination of punch and cotton candy (not to mention that stage show with the break-dancing Mr. Cheese) I bravely suggested an alternative, Read more:Dancing
, Mouse
, Stuffed
Brainetics Can Make You Smarter and Fun At Parties 2008-03-26 11:15:00 I was recently asked to review a product called Brainetics, a DVD learning system designed to help children in grades 4 through 7 master math and language skills. Seeing as my kids spend about 90% of their waking hours in front of the TV, I was hoping for something besides a DVD to sharpen their math chops - something more low-tech, like an abacus or a stone tablet with carved roman numerals.
'21': Why Hollywood Continues to Be Racist 2008-03-28 23:33:00 I won't be going to see "21" and it's not because a review I just read compares the film to a "two-hour commercial for the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Bureau." And it's not because that same review called lead actor Jim Sturgess "not particularly interesting" and Kate Bosworth an "onscreen vacuum."
No, it's because I haven't been so offended by Hollywood
since they cast David Carradine in Read more:Racist
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