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 [...]
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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 »
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 addiction, Brett Michaels, Bruge Jenner, cancer, cellulite, dancing with the stars, death, divorce, DVR, DWI, fans, grave, Kardashian, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, media, motherhood, Nicole Brown Simpson, nude modeling, OJ, PETA, Real Housewives of Orange County, Reality TV, Rock of Love, Santa, sharing the TV, thighs, toys, TV 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, [...]
