Posts from — November 2007

Wow, I’m in a mood today. It’s not a bad or a good one, it’s just a strange one. It may be because I’m cleaning, which in the end makes me happy, but during makes me crazy. Also, there are chemicals and dust and sketchy fumes involved.

To give you an example of the weirdosity, I opened the refrigerator earlier to get a Diet Coke and on the top shelf sat the ginger root that I bought a week or more ago to make a new recipe (that never got made). I can’t bring myself to throw it out, because it made me feel so posh and grown up and chef-esque to be buying a ginger root at the grocery store. I made sure to make special presentation of placing it slowly up on the self scan so that other shoppers could see and admire it, and then was promptly stumped about what kind of produce I was supposed to ring it up as. Vegetable? Fruit? Herb? I had to call the clerk over. But that was ok, because it gave more people time to see my gourmet selection!

BUT HOLY HECK I DIGRESS….

Back to the withering root in my fridge. I saw it laying there, neglected on the shelf, and the exact thought I had was “Good gosh! What is that thing? It looks like a disembodied penis!” And then I got my Diet Coke, shut the door, and went on my way, totally unphased that there was a potential dismembered member in my refrigerator.

I think that’s more than enough reason to call it quits on the cleaning.

And to think, we were going to just rake those leaves right up and put them in bags.

But then the Lorso decreed, “No! We shalt not rake the leaves into piles! We shall henceforth create a small city, in which there will be coffeeshops and libraries and grocery stores and a Moe’s, and whatever else the Bug doth deemeth to his liking.”

And so it was.

Sidenote: This equals HOURS of free kid entertainment and gives Mommy time to do things like get a Flickr account and blog.

I need a holiday from my holiday. I’m glad to see family and all, but after a while ALL THE THOUGHTS IN MY HEAD ARE IN CAPS LOCK BEGGING FOR ME TO SHOUT THEM OUT LOUD. Fortunately my self-control wins out. Most of the time.

Also, I’m beginning to wonder if having a two year old isn’t a lot like having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. There’s just no rest. No rest! Two-year olds don’t really go for “hanging out”, which is what most holidays consist of, at least in my family. I think Bug is tryptophan-resistant.

Which is why for Christmas we are having a nice ham glazed with Benadryl.

…for turkey, party mashed potatoes, cornbread dressing, and pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese. And for fairly good metabolism.
…for big clawfoot bathtubs and the grandparents who have them.
…for the rain in North Carolina. They needed it as badly as we do.
…that my family didn’t in fact die from the meatloaf that I made a few weeks ago.
…for the Lorso. And, of course, for the Bug.
…and for a lifestyle that allows me time to enjoy small things…and to blog about them.

(And thanks to you for reading…)

1. My Snapshot Archive will soon be no more. This is because I am slowly approaching hull breach on my file space on Wordpress, and need more room, so I am going to sign up for a Flickr account. You’ll like it, I promise! I can give my pictures catchy titles! Plus, you can see more of them.

2. Is it just me, or does every woman now have Posh Spice’s haircut? I’m just wondering.

3. I get so pissed off after Thanksgiving, because I keep forgetting that malls become crazy madhouses with millions of shoppers. So inevitably I decide one day to go to the mall because I need some regular old thing like a bra, and then I realize that it will be a miserable miserable experience, and I think, “Geez, all I want is some freakin’ underwear! And maybe a cinnamon pretzel! But NO, the entire population of Atlanta is there, buying their Aunt Alice crystal candle holders. Damn the season of giving!”

4. Brace yourselves, but I have come to the realization that I may not be able to maintain the every day posting during the Christmas holiday. What can I say, I’ll be on a 7 day cruise over New Years. And as much as I love this blog, I don’t think I’m going to use my excursions in Mexico to find an internet cafe and tell you all about the awesome midnight chocolate buffet I went to the night before. Although you KNOW you want to hear all about that.

That’s all for now.