Thursday

Outerwear at ON is 50% off!

old-fashioned

Tempting Tuesday

The owl clock (available from Tottini, via Girls Gone Child)

Shoes (and the occasion to wear them)

This ring

Good deals...

Cotton Babies is having a sale on cloth diapers...

Kroger doubles coupons.  You can get Campbell's soup for nearly 30 cents a can!

Deal of the day at Best Buy... clock radio/docking station for MP3 players

Wordless Weekend: WHOA!

Wordless Weekends: flashback

Now he's half Aunt Christine's height.

Funny Friday: toddler tango

I discovered recently that They Might Be Giants, Bare Naked Ladies (Albert's favorite band), and a slew of other "adult" bands that I love make children's albums as well.

TMBG has one called "Here Comes Science" and another called "Here Come the 123s".  My favorite line was an old joke... Why was six afraid of seven?  Because seven "eight" nine.

Make a list of things you want to do before the end of this year...

Make a pair of pants

Make pajamas for Albert for Christmas

Go to Florida

Try some new whiskey

Learn to do something new

Wordy Wednesday: This is my life (the first hour)

[alarm clock] BEEEP.... BEEEP... BEEEP...

:::SLAM:::

[alarm clock] BEEEP.... BEEEP... BEEEP...

:::SLAM:::

[alarm clock] BEEEP.... BEEEP... BEEEP...

:::SLAM:::

[alarm clock starts playing salsa music]
me: WTH!!!!   Oh yea... Albert likes the salsa music, and we put it on the radio last night.

[get dressed, contacts, meds, toilet routine... wake up the "boys"...]

[morning na-nas with Albert, kisses goodbye to all, and Mama is off to work]

NaBloPoMo 2011

Here we go again... trying to post every day in November.

Wordless weekends will be photos only.

Make-shift Monday - lists of stuff

Tempting Tuesday - something covetable

Wordy Wednesdays - full blown posts

Thrifty Thursday - the latest deal I scored

Funny Friday - a good joke or funny story

Wish us luck...

Funny Thing of the Week

Albert has figured out that it is HUGE fun to feed other people.  So now, when he's eating crackers, he'll hold it up like he wants you to take it.  That or he'll try and SHOVE it in your mouth.  Which is kind of funny... and he giggles and laughs and does it again and again.

When we last left our heroine, she was perfectly healthy...

And then I fell and sprained both ankles.

And a week after starting PT for ankle sprain, I fell and injured my knee at work.  I have an MRI scheduled for next week.  The suspected injury is a meniscus tear and an MCL tear, both of which would require surgery.

Yippee.

WANTED: personal assistant

My life has been subsumed by baby tending.  It's EXHAUSTING.  I'm finally at the point where I care that my life has been subsumed, but I don't know if I have the energy to DO anything about it.

I spent nearly $100 at Lowes yesterday on stuff to either a) baby proof or b) organize/clean (aka - baby proof).  Maybe I'm going overboard.  I'd really like to just stick Albert in a bubble to keep him safe from harm and germs.  That would be a LOT easier.  And probably cheaper.  I bet I could rig something out of bubble wrap and duct tape...

Sunday Sillies

http://comics.com/

http://www.thebureauchiefs.com/

http://www.CakeWrecks.com/

Wordless Weekend Post

Links I love:

http://www.stuffproject.com/

http://www.etsy.com/

http://allrecipes.com/

http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/

Happy Saturday!

Champagne

A Day for the Bubbly
October 27, 2010 | New Jersey Monthly
Thursday is Champagne Day around the globe 

 

Missed this... and a day... but onward we march.

My filibuster reading list

My sister and I were talking about how Congress members now just THREATEN to filibuster.  No one actually does it anymore - the threat is enough. 

We both remembered the movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and how Jimmy Stewart's character actually does filibuster to prevent a bill from moving forward - he reads books and keeps talking the whole time.  Her filibuster reading list would be "The Hobbit".  I chose "Jane Eyre".  Then we realized the Lord of the Rings trilogy would be even better.

But the best idea we had to read for a filibuster was The List of Reasons that I am Awesome.  A start below:

1. I am me.
2. I have wavy hair.
3. My thumbs bend backwards.
4. I can sing the National Anthem.
5. I like tea.
6. I know the names of the Seven Dwarfs.
7. Who wouldn't want to be me?

What about you?  What would your filibuster reading list include?

Day 2

Tell us the story of a piece of jewelry you own. Where did it come from, and what does it mean to you?

I have a gold chain that my parents bought for me as a Christmast gift. I don't remember how old I was. It has several charms on it that represent all the important things in my life - so I can keep them close to my heart:

• a gold locket - with a picture of my mom and dad inside - my dad bought it for me as a Valentine's gift when I was in high school. My sister has one as well - this was the same year he bought my mom a diamond tennis bracelet.
• a gold cross - my parents bought this for me when I was 8 years old and made my First Communion. Two years later, they unwittingly bought the same one for my sister. It had a diamond chip in it, which fell out a few years back. I had it replaced - one of the first diamonds I bought myself.
• a lavalier - again, from my parents.  It's a carved badge of my sorority.
• a small gold circle - I bought this for myself after I had my son, and it has his name stamped into it.

In reference to NaBloPoMo prompt... http://bit.ly/c3H1uS

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

have decided to National Blog Posting Month. Wish me luck.