My Name is Mommy

It’s really hard to feel sorry for your kid when he’s crying because he bit his own finger while eating because he wasn’t paying attention.

You can’t tell me this isn’t the cutest dog ever. I want!!!!!!

And, AND, it fits the whole, “dogs tend to look like their owners” thing. I think we use the same hairstylist!!
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One of life’s great tragedies is the inability to pursue all that stirs the heart.

I don’t care how comfy your three day old socks are. Changing your socks is not about your comfort, but about the quality of life for those around you.

You’re welcome.

…when you’re still up watching odd game shows in the wee hours.

Janet Reno is over 6 feet tall? And who guesses her over Muhammed Ali, because he was still on the board? I definitely would have guessed him first. As it happens, they both are. Not Mel Gibson, though.

I’m not, though still on the tall side for a girl at 5′8″. And I love it. I used to be able to claim 5′9″. The kids shrunk me.

How ’bout you?

Gill tagged me for a 7 random facts post. It’s taken me awhile to get to it, but here we go!!!!!!

1. I learned how to start an IV the other night. No, it wasn’t on Bald Man’s arm. Are you kidding me? I wouldn’t want to have had to try to resuscitate him, too!

2. Bald Man and I got to meet Sonic the Hedgehog (I can’t write that all cool and geeky like Jonic does) last night.

3. I spent a few summers walking beans. And one detasseling corn. I don’t think I spelled that right. Oh well.

4. I love it when my toenails are blue. It just makes me happy. (ha, at first I wrote, “when my toes are blue”. That would be a different situation entirely.)

5. I love to experiment when I bake. New experiments are usually fantastic. I can never quite reproduce them, though.

6. I’ve decided to stop coloring my hair. I’ve been coloring my hair since early college, I think. It’ll be interesting to see how many grays really are there, now.

7. I can remember the name of every crush I had from the age of 6 on. Very sad, I think.

I’m not very good at passing on the tags. If you participate, let me know in the comments!

UPDATE: Gill’s original post indicated that it was to be eight random facts. Ooops.

8. I’m not a “details” kinda girl.

*I’d hate to be on a live TV show. Our local news people are experiencing technical difficulties right now. Here’s a snippet of what’s going on:

“We’re going to watch some video of a brawl on a baseball field. There were fists flying and everything. Okay, we’re not going to watch the fight. Just trust me, it was a fight. Now, we’ll go to the weather. It’s going to be a beautiful weekend for swimming….or anything else you want to do this weekend…..(looks to his left)….meteorology?”

This went on for a few minutes. They’ve now ended the broadcast. Yeah, I wouldn’t want that job.

*So, at one of the festivals that we went to last weekend (oh man, it was a week ago already! that flew…), this guy cracked himself up. Baldman and I were in line for funnel cake…..mmmmmmm, funnel cake….which was by far the longest line at the festival. Anyway, we were behind a guy who was in his mid-50’s, I’d guess. We were in front of two girls who were probably about 16. The two girls are both on their cell phones texting.

The guy looks at the girls and says, with a smirk, “You know, it would probably just be easier to talk to each other.”

And then he starts cracking up. I mean, like when you’re laughing and you just can’t stop til you’re crying and about to wet yourself cracking up. I don’t know if he wet himself. It was dark out there. But it was a good few dozen funnel cake sales later before he stopped.

I’ll just let you imagine the look the girls gave him.

No, we don’t live in the boonies. Yes, we are probably one of the last cable holdouts. No major reasons, just cheaper, and when would we find the time to watch anything anyway? Hmmm…I started this with a point…

Ah, yes, we have 6 channels. Guess how many of them were showing the President’s speech tonight? 5. Yes, fully (Baldman?, thanks) eighty-(mumble)% of the available channels were broadcasting the speech. What did I think of it all?

Well, NBC definitely had the prettiest presentation, but PBS was the simplest with only the logo in the corner. No need for fancy titles or flowing flags, just a logo and the speech.

Ohhh….you wanted to know what I thought of the speech? Yeah, I knew you really didn’t.

Yeah, so it only took me 8 months to remember to complete my “About” page. You know, the one of those three links up at the top that was of relatively no value. So, if you just can’t get enough of me here, you can discover more drivel about me there. Enjoy.