Lucky Mom
Jan. 21, 2010
Razorsharp Gaydar
For some unknown reason, I’ve always had a keen sense of identifing gays folks. I don’t mean the obvious types but the more obscure, possibly still-in-the-closet types.
Not sure where it came from, maybe hanging out with my gay buddies in Seattle. Or maybe because the night I met my husband we went with a group of friends (both straight and gay) to a ‘gay’ bar. Not sure.
Years ago I worked downtown Seattle with one of my best gay friends Erik. He would periodically test my self-proclaimed expert gay identification skills and was highly impressed.
One day; however, he insisted he meet an on again, off again boyfriend I was sorta seeing.
He had heard about him and was sure he must be gay.
I said no WAY though a bit of fear did come over me on the way to sorta boyfriends office during our lunch break.
Was I wrong? Is that why we really didn’t get along? More importantly, was my perfect gaydar slipping?
Jan. 5, 2010
Industrious
My 3.25 year old daughter is quite the industrious little thing.
We celebrated New Years Eve at a friend’s house, kids included.
Julia had dinner and three small popsicles throughout the evening. I didn’t think too much of it.
Apparently, her stomach did.
Dec. 28, 2009
New Years Resolutions
Alrighty then!
Let’s get to it.
Lucky Mom’s very own New Years resolutions for 2010!
Easy! Fun!
(Hardly)
Dec. 2, 2009
I Had An Affair With Tiger
O.k. not true; he called but I never returned his call.
Here we go again. Another famous, rich, talented person 'apologizing' for his actions. This requires me to climb back up onto my soapbox to complain, bitch and ridicule. So, I'm going to.
The first and most important thing I want to bark about is, why are cheating men so bad at it?
They're such boneheads, they leave voice mail and text messages? Evidence?
Really? Are they hankering to get busted? Do they really believe it won't get out? I'm going to guess a random cocktail waitress probably doesn't make a ton of money.
Why would a talented, seasoned cheater, diddle with a gal that will make more than her annual income if she tells?
Shouldn't they cheat with rich and famous married gals who have just as much to lose?
It's like Peter Cook's shenanigan's with a teenager.
Nov. 27, 2009
Black Friday
In my 44 years, I have (had) never participated in Black Friday.
The mere thought of parking miles away from malls and other shopping venues has always been nothing short of pure misery.
Then, the crowds inside - repulsive. (oh, with the exception of the Grand Opening of the Nordstrom Rack here in Austin last month - I'm not completely stupid, though I only made it about 20 minutes until I started getting crowd panic).
I've always hated queuing up for anything unnecessary. Not that my time is all that valuable, rather I just can't stand still that long. I get all jittery, a bit cranky and start making faces at people who aren't looking. It's simply all wrong.
Nov. 8, 2009
Secret
Well, it’s no secret my husband was recently layed off from his job. In fact, I blabbed it to anyone who would listen and many who’d wished they hadn’t, in hope that someone would know of an opportunity for him.
However, on a different, much more important note, I have a crucial secret that I can’t let get out.
For many, many years, I’ve bitched, moaned and complained about my hair. I have curly frizzy hair that only gets frizzier in the humid Texas air.
I’ve cut it off, straightened it, twisted it, pulled it back, up, around, sideways; flat-ironed it and stuffed it into hats and caps.
I’ve never been happy with it.
Oct. 15, 2009
Flu Vaccine
As most people who know me well know that I don’t get myself or my kids vaccinated for the flu (bring on the boos).
My personal reasons include that I feel getting the flu is part of life and when one gets it, if they’re healthy they should recover just fine.
Flu vaccine ingredients scare me. What they can do to children scares me.
The swine flu for children kinda scares me but not as much as a hastily made vaccine does.
I had the swine flu a couple of weeks ago and it wasn’t much more than a mild irritant to my usual daily routine. I didn’t exercise, I slept a bit more than usual and ate slightly less.
Took Tamiflu. Done. I’m fine. My kids didn’t even get it.
Oct. 4, 2009
Happy Birthday Julia~
Happy birthday to my ‘baby’ Julia who turns three today.
Didn’t I just have her, via extraction out of my middle region?
The resulting ‘awning’ says I did. No scar, just a, say, bit of an overhang that fortunately can be concealed even in a two piece bathing suit.
Julia is a very 'funny girl' (I'm repeatedly told by her preschool teacher when asked how she's doing in class and with her peers. I'm not sure how to take it but the stories I hear and from seeing her around her brother and others, I understand the 'funny' title).
I’m also finding her really fun to hang out, just the two of us. Especially now, that she appears to be departing the 'terrible twos'. She's kinda becomming my new BFF.
Sep. 15, 2009
More to Love
Less than two months after my last confession, I'm at it again.
This time is a little different however.
Tonight is the two hour finale of More to Love.
Sep. 7, 2009
Least Stressful City To Live In
I always find it interesting when I read articles about the best city for singles, or worst city for unemployment, housing price drops etc.
It seems one article says you must live in city 'X' due to the wonderful employment opportunites and then the next month it says you can't possibly live there you moron as you don't quite fit the perfect demographic.
When my husband and I were researching where we wanted to live and raise our family, and decided Seattle for us (11th most stressful city), certainly wasn't it, we kept coming up with Austin as the end all perfect answer.
Aug. 26, 2009
Backpack
I experienced a bit of a mishap if you will with regard to my ridiculously thorough and extensive investigation of children’s backpacks.
As Alec has not needed a backpack before (in his prior school, they were ‘prohibited’) I, as usual over thought the hell out of it conducted an extensive research project in order to find the perfect one.
Considerations:
Size
Pockets, zippered and non zippered
Varied sizes of each compartment
Mesh compartments
Insulated areas
Durability
Nice, padded straps
Lack of cartoon characters
Being able to sell it to him as his only request was SPIDERMAN.
(WTF? Everyone knows I’m a solid color gal and I needed a way to direct him away from Spiderman).
And most importantly, coordination with his clothing, shoes, hair color and lunch box.
Kidding. Sort of.
Aug. 17, 2009
SIX
Alec is officially six years old.
He celebrated over the weekend with his very first pool party, opened some gifts, enjoyed his friends and most importantly ate well, pretty much crap. This makes him very happy.
I try to continue capturing important occurrences and events via the millions of pictures I take and this, my website.
Assuming Alec continues his penchant for techie stuff (like his daddio), he’ll be reminiscing over old scrapbooks web pages, gazing at his childhood memories on-line as I’m the worst scrap booker ever (as in, I don’t do it – ever.) I mean it.
Alec got an iTouch (second generation he demanded) for his bithday in order to play games. Not fun games I say, rather 'video' games etc. Didn't get this interest from me.
Aug. 2, 2009
FISH
A couple of weeks ago, I was getting all ready to take care of my NEW BABY (swimming pool) complete with ensuring the proper water chlorination, pH level, learning to ‘Backwash’, Acid Demand etc. when my husband did something very odd. (‘agreeing’ to the pool was certainly odd so maybe he's on a 'doing odd things' streak).
It was odd in that he never buys anything on impulse.
No shoes, handbags, makeup (hard to believe if you’re a girl) even X Box games are researched for days, weeks, sometimes months and then purchased only at half price shops/internet.
He also only obtains the exact amount of items at the grocery store (assuming he can find them).
Jul. 27, 2009
The Bachelorette
Apparently I am a broken record. I repeatedly say I'm not going to watch The Bachelor or The Bachelorette EVER AGAIN!
And then I watch it again, only to be disappointed.
Actually, I'm not exactly sure what would make me happy when the final rose is extended (or in the case of Austin's own Brad Womack, withheld).
I always feel so let down.
Probably nothing. This show has got me psychologically roped in and it p*sses me off.
So, here I am all excited and anxious about tonight's final episode.
I plan to settle in with a nice glass of wine, turn off the phone, put the kids to bed early and face the sad fact.
I'm addicted.
Jul. 22, 2009
Happy 40th
My darling husband turned 40 years old today.
Finally. I never really liked being older than him (not cougar older) which I can't change but at least his wife isn't 40 something while he was still in his 30's any longer.
I guess it will be a different story when I turn 50. Oh, but that's a LONG way away. It IS.
I decided to scan (which took about 15 hours) the pictures we have on-line in order to have a nice compliation of pictures of Christian.
As I've known him for about 25% of his life, I've finally completed the compilation and whittled it down to oh, 125 pictures or so.
I met Christian in early 2000.
It was much quicker to add them to Flickr which I've done. Here they are in chronological order!
Happy birthday sweetheart! We love you insanely.
Kristine, Alec and Julia
