I’ve been reading this blog by a gal named Heather B. Armstrong called www.dooce.com. She is f-ing hil-arious! I saw her on the TODAY show (which is weird since I never, ever watch the TODAY show because they annoy me) a few weeks ago on a piece they did on “Digital Moms.” The title caught my eye since it was so um, annoying, yet apropos. I almost shut it off but there was Heather. Her website/blog was recently named by Forbes as one of the top blogs in America. Anyway, she was so funny and well-spoken that I checked out her site and now I log on every few days to get a laugh. I encourage you to check her out; be sure to go to the “About this site” tab for her bio and also read the Daily Style and Daily photos. She’s a “reformed Mormon” (her words), and recently wrote a book about her ordeal w/ PPD and subsequent admission to a mental hospital. Poignant and funny, seriously. She also Twitters, Sarah, and she’s hysterical.
So Mommy, do you work for us now?
So I’m into my second week as scullery maid and eh, it’s not SO bad. I’ve only had one nervous breakdown really, and it didn’t last that long. I’m actually finding that I’m kinda digging all the cleaning, really, which IS a little scary. I mean, this is ME we’re talking about! It’s just that I keep wiping and scrubbing and wiping and scrubbing, say, the kitchen counter…and when it’s just perfectly sparkling, JP will leave a bunch of crumbs (I know! How dare he!) and just ruin the effect–which really pisses me off, you know?
Where’s the vodka, anyway?
So sitter is gone and I am good. No great, really. I am also cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. Here’s just one example why: this past weekend, my daughter decided to eat JUST the middle of the OREO cookies IN HER ROOM and leave all the outside chocolate cookies tossed on the floor. Broken in little pieces. After our cleaning lady had already come and gone. Isn’t that just special?
Blurry bunnies
Do you Twitter? Only when I have an orgasm…
TV LAND
The DL (that means the down low, Mom!)
So somebody asked us (that’s the “JP and Rachel” us) for some couple info the other day. I thought everyone knew our story, especially most of my family who reads this blog, so I won’t rehash the whole “we dated 3 months and he proposed, got married 5 months later and no we weren’t even pregnant, and we’ve been together going on 17 years and 2 kids ages 9 and 3” story. Plus Sarah just did something similar on her blog and I’m bogarting the idea. So here goes:
An angry letter from a reader?
So here’s an angry letter I received about the post I wrote about being acne free. Here it is in its entirety:
I’d like to thank the Academy…
For those of you who watch American Idol I finally figured out who Danny Gokey looks like…Robert Downey, Jr.! It came to me as I was watching the red carpet arrivals at the Oscars last night. It has been bugging me and then pow! There it was. Do you agree or am I crazy? I think it’s a little freaky actually.
I enjoyed the ceremony this year, actually. I thought Hugh Jackman was great. I loved how the past award winners came out and talked directly to the nominees and got them all teary and googly-eyed and awestruck. I loved Anne Hathaway and Kate Winslet especially. And Angelina’s earrings were spectacular–course, her date’s not bad either. I thought everyone who should win, did win. Yes, even Sean Penn–probably because he made me laugh at how even he admits how hard it can be to like him. But if you can separate the man from the actor, he deserved it.
At least that’s what I hear–I don’t see movies the Academy likes to nominate; first off, I have a 3-yr old and a 9-yr old…we either watch Wow Wow Wubzy or iCarly most nights. Secondly, when my honey and I do go to the movies, he will say “Sure honey, let’s go see that one about the wrestler, or that one about the Indian kids.” Then, when we are actually getting ready to go, he changes his mind. “Wait a minute. It’s subtitled? In Hindi?! Yea, that’s not gonna happen. I don’t care that half the world has seen it and loved it. I hate subtitles. Let’s go see that new James Bond. Or how about Mall Cop? That looked really funny.” Welcome to my life.
So yea, I heard Sean Penn deserved it. He did look really good in the commercials.
Random thoughts for the day
Awesome Anya!
So my girl has finally done it…she is the K-Notable Knight of the Week! So what the heck does that mean? After 5 looonng months of school and what’s that….(oh God, math) 20 or so weeks (minus 1 or 2 for vaca) of checking her teacher’s website hopefully every Monday morning–and then looking at me with those big, beautiful hazel eyes full of sadness and dejection when she DIDN’T get it….she got it! And what does getting it entail? A free Jamba Juice, a free Ruby’s Diner Kid’s Meal, and a free round of miniature golf or go-cart racing at a local place. And the envy of all the other kids in the class who haven’t gotten all that cool stuff yet.
Why is this week different from all other weeks, you ask? Well, she has been kicking some serious tushy on every one of her spelling tests (100+ every week); 90+ on vocab; 90+ on math; and on and on. The only dark cloud is Spanish (C+) but Lukey told her he would help her with that. He does watch “DORA” you know.
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