Entries from October 2007

October 31, 2007

sorry to rain on your parade…

but i don’t do halloween. i mean i’m just not into the whole thing. first, there’s the whole history of the holiday (which you can find here), and then all the spooky crap that comes with.
i don’t do spooky crap.
i don’t like being frightened so i refuse to watch scary movies and i don’t even [...]

October 30, 2007

job #3 (continued) - post baby

so here i was working at the tour company basically coordinating school field trips. how in the world did i ever land there??
anyway, it sucked. tour dude had suggested that i chaperone field trips…with my family…on weekends. oh, he was trippin’. he had me all messed up in the game, honey. mama doesn’t do weekends. [...]

October 26, 2007

i’m grown ’cause…

a friend recently forwarded an email to me that lists 25 ways to tell you’re grown-up. some of them i could mildly relate to and some were so daggone dead-on that it had me crying for my youth. oh, boo-hoo…
not that i’m some old hag… i’m 33. okay, that was a lie, i just turned [...]

October 25, 2007

nablopomo

i signed up for national blog posting month (nablopomo)!!
yipppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
(i would’ve entered the nablopomo logo here only wordpress won’t let me so if you’ve got some tips on how to make that happen i’d appreciate it… thank you very much.)
i actually did this signing up thing a while ago, but i haven’t posted anything about it [...]

October 24, 2007

job #3 - post baby

after dumping the receptionist position at the private school it was time to stomp the virtual pavement once again. you know, send out resumes like a freakin’ madwoman and jumpin’ at pretty much whoever said yes because hey, i needed the dough.
i had years of experience as an editor, but there weren’t that many editing [...]

October 23, 2007

stolen goods…

i got this from much more than a mom

so here goes: 
1. What kind of SOAP is in your bathtub right now?
irish spring… i know, i know… but it was on sale and i was broke and well, you know how it goes… 2. Do you have any watermelon in your refrigerator?
uhhhhhhhhhhhh, no.
3. What would you [...]

October 22, 2007

the human jukebox…

my 2-year-old son dutch has GOT to be the bossiest little child i’ve ever encountered. so much so that i’ve nicknamed him “boss of nothing” (i mean, ’cause really, just who does he think he’s bossing around here??) but every now and then i give in a little to his whims.
dutch: mama, sing “oink oink here, [...]

October 19, 2007

job #2 (continued again) - post baby

so the first day in my new post as receptionist at a k-8 private school wasn’t the greatest. if you’ve been following along, i’m sure you agree. and honey, if you the think the second day got any better… well, just read what happened next.  
i was a little frustrated i must say when i walked [...]

October 18, 2007

i’m so gucci…

i was chasing dutch around this morning in my attempt to get us ready and out of the house at a decent time. it’s so not easy now that he’s an active 2-year-old. but i managed to get him still for oh probably about 32.7 seconds. just long enough to wipe him down with a [...]

October 17, 2007

job #2 (continued) - post baby

so it’s still my first day as a receptionist at this private school. i was just getting situated at my desk when the phone started ringing like crazy. there was one student in “my” office at the time and she said, “you know, i think you better get that.”
oh yeah, that’s right. i’m the receptionist. [...]