I almost wept for joy when I heard the squeaking grinding gears and backing beeps of the snowplow. Last night at about 10 PM, I felt all my back muscles finally relax. It was like Christmas; I couldn’t sleep. FREE AT LAST!
I’m a New England girl. It snows, it’s gone, life goes on. 12″ of [...]
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Lines From Snowbound
Posted in Child rearing, body image, husbands, marriage, sleep deprivation on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
Posted in Acid reflux, Easter, body image, diet, family, holidays, sleep deprivation, weight, tagged Acid reflux, aging, bacon, booze, carbinated beverages, chocolate, citrus, coffee, dairy, Easter, Frank's Red hot, hunger, Italian, Mucinex, oatmeal, onions, pizza, postnasal drip, purple pill, rice, singing, toast, tomatoes, Tums on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have now officially become an old guinea woman.
I wake up in the morning and kid myself that the sensation I feel is hunger, and that coffee will pacify it. One cup of coffee. Two Tums. I used to have several cups of coffee, but now…it hurts. I can feel it in the back of [...]
Me Time
Posted in beds, body image, diet, family, husbands, marriage, procrastinationg, sleep deprivation, weight, tagged coffee, dishwasher, facebook addiction, housework, Janet Evanovich, making beds, making dinner, me time, procrastination, self distraction, vocal warmups on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am really good at self distraction.
I generally have some basics I have to get done to move the day forward…dishes rinsed and in the dishwasher, clean ones out. Beds made, general tidy, Ed fed and dressed, at school with lunch if required. Vocal warmups (every day), work out if I can. Larder refilled. Dinner [...]
Kardashian Habit
Posted in Child rearing, Kardashian, Reality TV, body image, diet, family, weight, tagged cancer, dancing with the stars, TV, addiction, Kardashian, Reality TV, motherhood, DVR, sharing the TV, Santa, toys, Real Housewives of Orange County, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Rock of Love, Brett Michaels, OJ, Nicole Brown Simpson, death, divorce, grave, DWI, nude modeling, Bruge Jenner, PETA, cellulite, media, thighs, fans on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would say I am not addictive by nature. I would also say that motherhood has completely shredded my attention span to the point where I can’t sit still during an entire program. I watch Dancing With the Stars on my DVR when I can, and then I can get up and dance with my [...]
Fat Kids
Posted in Child rearing, body image, diet, family, weight on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I must have watched the movie “Stand By Me” at least 20 times as a teenager. Coming of age movie, Stephen King, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’ Connell as the “fat kid” (now grown up and married to a Victoria’s Secret model). It came on TV the other day…the leech part. I watched, and [...]
3:30 AM. Or So.
Posted in beds, body image, diet, family, holidays, husbands, marriage, sleep deprivation, weight on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Up again. I squint and basically have to deform my myopic eyeballs to see the red numbers on the clock. 3:38 AM. I don’t know whether the clock is still off by a few minutes or not, but again, it’s way too early to be up.
I’m hot. I take off my socks. There’s a peculiar [...]
Fat and Skinny Had a Race
Posted in Child rearing, body image, diet, family, husbands, weight on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently the concept of “fat” has entered my five year old son’s awareness.
I blame myself.
He stretched out his Playdoh yesterday and asked me, “are skinny people stronger?” It seemed like a weird question. I answered, “Not necessarily. Muscular people are stronger.” Somewhere he had decided that skinny people were stronger than fat people. Now, I [...]
Mange, Mange
Posted in Child rearing, Manners, body image, diet, family, husbands, marriage, weight, tagged bacon, boyfriend, bringing up kids, Bushmills, Chinese, cooking, dinner, Dora fruit snacks, Doritos, eating, food, husband, Joy Luck Club, ketchup, lasagne, life lessons, Makers Mark, Manhattans, mom, mother, pancakes, sharing, steak on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I saw the movie The Joy Luck Club (yes, mom, I did read the book), one of the scenes sticks out in my mind. One of the women brings back a boyfriend who isn’t quite “with” the whole cultural difference thing, and her mother, who has doubtless been wringing her hands over this encounter, [...]
The Christmas Bra
Posted in Christmas, body image, bras, daughters, family, mothers, underwear, tagged bikinis, birth control, bras, bullet bras, Caldor's, college, Connecticut, D cup, daughters, family, flat chests, Goodwill, granny panties, lingerie, mothers, nursing bra, padding, sex drive, sexually active, sexy, sister in law, sports bra, teenager, underwear, underwires, washing machine on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yup. I’m up two more bras for Christmas. Thanks, mom!
I think maybe, once upon a time, I’d asked my mom for a bra for Christmas. A SPORTS bra. I forget which Christmas, but I didn’t get one. I got the usual…white, seven hooks in back, bullet shaped cups, lined, no underwires, heavy duty shoulder straps. [...]
