It’s finally spring! Flowers bursting into color, sun shining, a toad in my sprinkler system, and…because the trees are budding, I can’t breathe. I’ve actually had to resort to my hate-able rescue inhaler, copped my Singulair from the doctor, and…as usual…I have a gig. And I’m in a panic, hoping I will be able to [...]
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You Take My Breath Away
Posted in Child rearing, Manners, Spring cleaning, allergies, asthma, family, husbands, marriage, pets, procrastinationg, singing, tagged animal dander, cherry trees, cleaning person, clutter, crocuses, dust mites, flowers, forsythia, gigs, honey do list, inhaler, lilacs, Mucinex, mud season, neti, New England, reorganize, singing, Singulair, snowdrops, spring, spring cleaning bug, stuff, tea, tidy, toys, untidy on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Separate Vacations
Posted in Manners, Older men with younger women, Separate Vacations, family, husbands, marriage, vacation, tagged family, husband, parenting, travel, son, planes, packing, tension, relaxation, Disney, Wii, rodeo, Southwest Air, Islip, love bugs, Florida, heat, humidity, tattoo, Triaminic, baggies, security on April 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I find it easier to take a vacation with my 5 year old son than with my husband.
There. I’ve said it.
Even with the three of us, he’s more trouble than triplets. Especially if there is plane travel involved. The packing. The dealing with the nonsense of not being able to carry on all the things you [...]
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 [...]
Robbing the Cradle
Posted in Older men with younger women, Reality TV, family, husbands, marriage, tagged age gap, age gaps, arrest, Danny Bonaduce, divorce, drug addiction, emotional abuse, engagement ring, infidelity, jealousy, marriage, Paul McCartney, physical abuse, rage, remarriage, Robbing the cradle, stepmother on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not a term you hear too much anymore. I don’t know whether it’s fallen out of fashion or it’s become so de rigeur that people don’t even use it anymore.
Saw it on AOL: Danny Bonaduce, 50, proposes to 26 year old girlfriend.
I wanted to get her home phone number, so we could have a heart [...]
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 [...]
LOUD
Posted in Child rearing, family, husbands, marriage, sleep deprivation, tagged bassists, bed, big houses, blended family, children, coughing, discipline, family, footsteps, guitarists, husbands, keyboard player, noise, screaming, sleep, sleep deprivation, stepdaughter, upbringing, yelling on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OK, so I am a singer in a band. Drums (a mic in each) behind me, a bassist who plays harder as the night goes on, a guitarist who needs a 12-step program to stop turning up during the evening and a keyboard player who is competitive with all of them. One would think I [...]
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, [...]
