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Black Coffee in Bed 2008-06-13 13:41:58 I had a bit of a hard time falling asleep last night; that often happens to me when I know I have to get up early. You know that feeling...when you snuggle into bed, look at the clock and think, oh crap. If I fall asleep right now I'll only get seven hours of sleep.And it goes downhill from there. I lie awake and as the minutes tick by I continue to calculate how much sleep I'll get if I fel Read more:Black
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If I'm not mistaken, today was the first time I kissed a French woman 2008-06-09 23:43:19 This morning was the last day of my daughter's preschool class; as it was a special day, and a bittersweet one at that, it was a session primarily without restraints. The kids needed it, the parents needed it, and the teachers needed it.A lot of the parents worked; I took the reigns in the kitchen. Instead of a set snack time, the kids were allowed to wander into the kitchen and nibble whenever Read more:French
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Getting to know me, getting to know all about me... 2008-06-07 00:13:06 I have been extremely fortunate in that since I last wrote this post *ahem*, I have gained a couple of new readers. They deserve (a word I love, okay not really) to know the real me. Here I am:Top 100 Facts About Watch_me Christine1. Watch_me Christine was originally cast as the main character in 24, but was replaced by the producers when she managed to kill every terrorist and save the day in 12
Yippee! 2008-06-05 11:52:38 We're moving again.This time, it's a good thing. No, actually, a GREAT thing.Through a confluence of events, a wonderful home has fallen into our laps. We are already crazy in love with it. It is on one of my favorite streets in our little town, we'll have lots of friends close by, it's super close to my son's school (and that means when my daughter starts kindergarten, we'll be in that school's b
Today I am a man 2008-05-30 23:54:39 Inspired by Neilocha, (on whom I have a bloggy crush) (see how I awkwardly didn't dangle one single participle there?) (I think?) who challenged us to write as if we were the opposite gender (or is it sex?) (I can never remember).My girlfriend just won't let up.It was great in the beginning...the sex was awesome.She got me, you know? As if I'd known her forever. FOREVER.We spent all of our time to Read more:Today
Into the light of the dark, black night 2008-05-25 23:31:05 The other day I was lounging on my sofa; it is next to a big window that faces the street. As I was reading, I heard the clip-clack sound of someone running in shoes not designed for said activity. I looked up, and one of the college students who lives next door was scurrying past."Huh," I thought, and went back to reading.One and a half sentences later my doorbell rang. There she was, standing on Read more:light
Told you I'm shameless 2008-05-21 17:20:16 Hey! I'm babysitting The Fabulous Mrs. Fussypants' blog today...come on over and check out my guest post! And please, leave a comment. Geeze, I'm looking like a LOSER over there.Thanks!
Dare I hope? 2008-05-20 23:51:20 The last few weeks, I've been feeling pretty down, my peeps.Money's not been tight, it's been downright squeezing us dry.We've had a few mechanical issues in our home...and by mechanical, I mean both of the human skeletal and the architectural plumbing sort.And on the emotional front, things that had once kept psychic demons at bay have been threatening to no longer work.As if that wasn't enough,
Schmorgasboard...that's right. Schmorgasboard. 2008-05-14 11:03:55 Things that have been going on in my little neck of the blogosphere:1.) A few nights ago, while traversing the stairs, my feet forgot that they were navigating the darkness of our new home...muscle memory took over and they thought they were in our old house, which had far deeper steps. My heal landed on the step rather than my entire foot. I landed with a resounding THUD on my coccyx.That's ri
Dream House 2008-05-10 21:23:21 My son had a sleep-over last night in our old neighborhood.Okay, I am going to let you in on a secret. I don't like going to our old neighborhood. I avoid it. I am still friends with a few of our neighbors, but I try to meet them at neutral spots. Or my new home, the modest rental.Why?Because it pains me to see our old home. I know I've droned on about this before, but that home haunts me. i Read more:Dream
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Stranger Danger? 2008-05-07 16:09:05 When my son, now closing in on ten, was three years old, I had many intense discussions with him about strangers.Stay away from strangers.Don't trust strangers.If a stranger approaches you, run away YELLING even if they know your name!We even did some role playing; my husband or I pretended that we were the stranger and we used all the best lines on him:"Hey, kid, wants some candy?""Hi, little boy Read more:Danger
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Linking it forward...Suri Cruise ladybug shoes style 2008-05-07 11:35:54 This blogger's story has been knocking about my head the past twenty-four hours.If you're not inclined to follow the linky (but I recommend you do), it's about Katja Presnal, a blogger and mompreneur who owns an upscale children's boutique in Colorado called Simbaco. It seems that not too long ago a friend of Tom Cruise
was in her shop, and purchased some gifts for Suri Cruise
, including a pair Read more:Linking
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These are the days of our lives 2008-05-06 10:16:32 Earlier today, I was IM'ing with a good friend who lives on the other side of the country, and I was asking her advice about another friend, whom she's never met. More specifically, how I should be responding to a particular situation in which I find myself regarding this friend. A situation that has slowly devolved and become potentially insurmountable to our friendship, unless we suddenly are
Belly up and hit the tap 2008-05-01 20:34:42 Not long ago I was at a friend's house, and my four year-old asked me for a glass of water. I grabbed a cup and headed over to the sink."*GASP,*" my friend exclaimed. "Don't use that water, use the drinking water!" "Oh, yeah, right, I don't know what I was thinking," I mumbled as I made my way towards the water tank I'd use countless times over the years I've known her.Mere months ago I would ha
An Engineer's Guide to Cats 2008-04-26 20:49:58 In case you haven't seen this one...if you're a cat lover (or not) you'll laugh. Unless you are dead inside.BTW, here are my three hairball factories: Read more:Guide
WWYD? 2008-04-24 21:07:15 So, today I was at the grocery store with my four year-old daughter, and my mom. Three generations tooling around the aisles, grabbing at things and yelling at each other to PUT them back!At one point I was price shopping for cheap selecting the perfect vintage Pinot Noir for our dinner, when this young dude glides past me and scoops up a bottle of Jäger without even slowing down. I smiled, thi
Coming out 2008-04-22 13:29:57 About three and a half years ago, a friend called me to wish me a happy birthday. We giggled together as she tried to make it through the birthday song, and we chatted about my plans for the day.Then she asked me if I'd voted. It also happened to be our last presidential election day. I had voted, and just to keep the silly going I told her I'd voted for the candidate she hated, the one she'd l
Destroy Words 2008-04-20 04:00:00 My four year-old is soooo post-modern.Earlier today I was on my elliptical, and my four year-old daughter kept asking me how to spell the words "destroy" and "words." She was playing on Word Paint, and frankly I was getting a bit annoyed having to spell and respell the same words over and over.Hours later, I found this on my laptop screen:See what she did there? She destroyed words. Including t Read more:Words
Rob Lowe needs my help 2008-04-19 02:08:00 Rob Lowe...Plus his former nanny...EQUALS...Case closed.
Pass me the Awesome 2008-04-18 16:05:37 In honor of their fiftieth anniversary, Crayola gave kids the opportunity to rename some of the colors in their big 64 box (the one with the sharpener in the back!).Ready to vomit? Here they are... Yellow is now Super Happy. Orange has been renamed Fun in the Sun. Green isn't green anymore; call it Giving Tree. Brown? Bear hug. Dust Pink shall henceforth be called Awesome! B
If at first you don't succeed... 2008-04-17 12:05:42 I've moaned about it here before, but the problem remains.In fact, it's worse than ever.I can't fit into most of my clothes. ARRRRRGH. My friend Mrs. Flinger has written a great article over at Blissfully Domestic about her fitness struggles. In it, she suggests we simplify things by making two basic lists...one of five goals, and one of five means to meet that goal.So here goes:Goals:1. Lose
Good-bye, Yellow Brick Road 2008-04-11 01:10:13 Dear Sir Elton John,I’d like to thank you for helping me when I was in third grade. There was this talent show thing. I fiercely wanted to be in it, but I didn’t know what my talent might be. I settled on baton twirling, as it was something I had recently taken up and it made me feel kinda cool. A friend and I decided to try out together, and we chose your song "Saturday Night's Alright (Fo Read more:Brick
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Breaking up is hard to do 2008-04-05 16:34:41 This week Mrs. Flinger posted a picture of her office. So being the lemming I am (I am not)I decided to do the same (happily I took a photo of my workspace before my camera went caput):I've been living in this rental for about half a year now. You'd think I would have my shit together by now. I don't. This house is so much smaller than the one we sold I just can't find room for the stuff.Here' Read more:Breaking
Fight the Frump Friday...Rock Bottom 2008-04-04 14:46:33 I was intending to write a Fight the Frump Friday
post today. Cuz it's Friday and junk.Buuuuuuut, it's almost 12:30 in the afternoon. I'm in my pajamas. Hair greasy and unbrushed. Ditto for the teeth (and let me tell you, greasy teeth are anything but unfrumpy). My socks have holes in them and my face could use some serious exfoliation.I was sick yesterday, and my daughter came down with a fev Read more:Bottom
Channeling the eleventh grade me 2008-06-16 20:49:38 Dear Diary,A couple of weeks ago in psychology class, we took one of those personality tests that is supposed to assess your psyche...we answered questions by coloring in circles with our number two (teehee, I said number two!) pencil, and our very essence was summed up by a computer report. Awesome!Today, our results were returned, and it said I was an introvert. As if! I'm totally an extrover Read more:Channeling
Early Bird Special 2008-06-30 16:28:40 In preparation for our impending move, I've been looking at everything we own and asking myself, "Do I really want to move it?" Turns out, I often don't!So, we had yet another garage sale. That's the third in less than a year. I've come to learn a little about the garage-saling community over these past months.There are those that come for specific items, like clothes for their kids or books or ga Read more:Early
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Where I whine and complain 2008-06-27 14:23:10 Two mornings ago I awoke to an incredibly loud PHWAP - PHWAP - PHWAP outside. I looked out the window, and there was a huge helicopter flying over my home. It had two big propellers and clearly it meant business. Serious fire-fighting business.Yesterday I was driving with the windows open, and I pulled up to an intersection. I realized the guy in the car next had a cigarette in his hand, which was Read more:complain
David Mamet, David Schmamet. 2008-06-24 11:38:43 FADE IN:INT. CHRISTINE'S HOUSE DAYChristine has a few posts in draft (that will likely never be seen) about the weekend. They are all brilliant and erudite. Really, stuff David
Mamet would drool over.But, right now, she wants to dig deep into her mommyblogger self and talk about what really matters to her at this point in time.Today, she went to Target. As she made her way to to the kiddie clothes
Cause for celebration? 2008-06-21 00:58:39 Well, we finally had a ROCKIN' paycheck. We brought in more today than we had the entire year prior. Yeah, that's how we roll up in here.It enabled us to get up to date on all of our bills. I never thought I'd be fielding calls from creditors. Contrary to their reputation, they have all been quite understanding and polite. Not one threatening to out us to our neighbors! Woohoo!Things I did with th Read more:Cause
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