Archive for July, 2008:
revelations during a marathon of tori & dean
July 31st, 2008 / 4 Comments » / by S. Elie
Why was I up until after midnight watching tivo’d episodes of Tori & Dean? Best of all my husband (
he’ll kill me for saying it) was sitting right next to me. The same man who hates girly flicks and anything mushy.
Maybe we are drawn to the show because we’re in the same situation, okay wait, no my dad wasn’t a entertainment mogul, no I didn’t grow up in Hollywood, no I don’t have paparazzi following me, nor do I have oodles of money or even know what it is like to have oodles of money.
Okay so we don’t have much in common after all, but what WE do have in common is that we both have two adorable little kids. I won’t say who has the cutest (me, me!) because that wouldn’t be polite. We both have a somewhat difficult relationship with our mothers; hers does seem way more complicated. But who really does have the PERFECT relationship with their mother. We are both working moms. We both are trying to survive in Los Angeles, are struggles differ but overall we both seek success.
spreading some comment luv, with a new plugin
July 30th, 2008 / 7 Comments » / by S. Elie
Spreading some comment love with the Commentluv Wordpress plug-in. As Ryan Seacrest always says on the KIIS morning radio show, “You know I love ya.”
was it something i said?
July 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by S. Elie
Yesterday my page rank dropped to a 1 from a 3. Was it something I said?
oops, the formula
July 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by S. Elie
I got up this morning and BOOM it finally hits me what I forgot to buy at the grocery store last night. Just as my son is drinking his LAST bottle, I remember I forgot to buy formula. Driving to the grocery store at 5:00 am just to spend $25 on formula. Is not fun. Oh well, the life of a parent, right?
an earthquake, imagine that?
July 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by S. Elie
Yesterday my daughter experienced her first earthquake, well not her VERY first one, we live in southern California. But the first one she actually gets. I was at work, um working of course and everyone takes a beat, “Is that an earthquake?”
Yep that’s an earthquake (mild shaking). Then SHAKING and then it was like, “EARTHQUAKE.” Most people dart under their desks. But there was some random lady wondering the halls, looking at us like we were crazy. Anyway, it was a 5.8 or something enough to get your heart jumping a bit. So of course I called my husband and of course everyone in the tri-state area is doing the same thing. Luckily text messaging works. Go AT&T Wireless.
But we can’t get through to the daycare. So I have my husband try, while I attend a meeting. Amazing how quickly work resumes after the earth shakes.
So he gets through and finds out my daughter is totally freaked out. She was crying and latching on to her teacher, who also never experienced an earthquake before. So they suggest he come pick her up in case of aftershocks.
When he gets there she is so happy to see him, but is spilling out the traumatic story to him. “The table was shaking.” “The monsters were stomping”. “The robots were stopping and being loud.” I would be scared to if there was a GIANT MONSTER STOPPING. To here this was pissing in the pants scary, literally.
I tried explaining to her what it was that night but I’m not sure she gets it yet. I guess we need to start practicing some earthquake drills.
wordless wednesday
July 30th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by S. Elie
2nd child syndrome
July 28th, 2008 / No Comments » / by S. Elie
I swore it wouldn’t happen. I promised myself I wouldn’t let it be different. I blame time. I blame technology. I blame, well everything except for me!
It is true my son has become a victim of the 2nd child syndrome. We didn’t rush him to Picture People for that 1st born picture. In fact I am ashamed to admit we haven’t taken any “professional pictures” since he’s been born. I know bad mom, right. Don’t get me wrong we have a ton of pictures of him.
Yes mom, I know you’ve been waiting to see them. They are all hidden away on my digital camera or stuck in the technical abyss of my hard drive.
So feeling guilty I decided I would take some pictures of my little boy, so many that we even maxed out my camera! This was a long process indeed, because my camera battery is, well jacked. I would take some pictures then that stupid battery light would come on, so I would have to charge the battery and wait. It’s so annoying because every time he would do something totally amazing, I would get that stupid red light!
So now you are probably asking, where are the pictures, at least I know my mom is. I’ll get them up soon, I promise.
For my dear little boy, there may not be as many pictures of you, but I love you still the same. Trust me, because I was a victim of the 2nd child syndrome and know exactly what you are feeling.
twitter updates for july 26
July 26th, 2008 / No Comments » / by S. Elie
- I need to do some cleaning, it’s going to take me all night to clean out my inbox. Fun times on a Friday. #
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twitter updates for july 25
July 25th, 2008 / No Comments » / by S. Elie
- Stuck in traffic at 11 pm, gotta love LA traffic #
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love has no boundaries
July 24th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by S. Elie
A friend of mine sent this to me.
