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Random Things
I made scones yesterday for the first time and burnt the heck out of them. I still ate one for breakfast this morning since we were out of milk for my cereal. It was awful. I hate when I fail at baking things.
To prove that I don't always fail at baking, however, I give you this AW of cupcakes I baked recently (and based off cupcakes SecretHeart posted here months and months ago from hellonaomi):
I also have a random complaint this morning re: the Bump. Since I'm new 'round those parts, I don't post much but if I see one more "ZOMG, I'M IN LABOR/my water might have broke/I went to L & D for the 5th time this week/Labor Watch for blah blah blah" I might stab myself in the eye with a blunt object. It's like most women hit 3rd Tri or 34 weeks and decide that it's time to have the baby.
"Once I got a bath bomb that, once exploded, filled the tub with confetti. Little sharp metallic pieces of confetti. The product description said nothing about confetti. Oh look, there's a tiny, sharp metallic blue star stabbing me in the labia. HOW RELAXING. " - NoisyPenguin
Re: Random Things
How are you due in a month?! I feel like you just got knocked up. WHERE IS TIME GOING?
My randoms: Lorne has to teach this morning and a friend of ours volunteered to watch the kiddos for us. I'm really hoping they don't give him a hard time.
For the last couple weeks, every time we've had sex I've had to hold in a fart. Concentrating on holding in a fart makes sex a lot less enjoyable.
We had a snow/ice storm last night so I am home from work today. It is almost 11 and I am still in my PJs. This is proof that I would be a terrible SAH housewife.
We have our anatomy scan tomorrow. We are planning on finding out the sex. I cannot freaking wait!
Those cuppycakes are adorable!
You should just fart, Noisy. Maybe Lorne is into that.
Owen has an ear infection, which makes sleep time insufferable. I'm so glad to have a break and be at work today.
My jeans are a little loose today. Hooray for weight loss!
We made a delish dinner on Saturday, knockoff Chipotle burrito bols. Barbacoa, corn salsa, and cilantro lime rice all from the skinnytaste website. Home run. It was amazingly good.
I'm exhausted today. My commute was hellish - the wintry mix makes me very unhappy.
It was nice being off yesterday, but Miles was in rare form by the end of the day. I'm guessing this had to do with not sleeping well on Sunday night, combined with crappy naptime yesterday. Then, Jason didn't get home from work last night until after Miles went to bed. When he finally did get home, I was already through a 1/2 bottle of wine and watching tv, and the house was a total mess. I had lost the will to clean by then.
I'm 98% sure I'd be an alcoholic if I had to stay home with the kid every day. I'm awesome at this parenting thing.
I am currently a SAH housewife and I woke up at 6, made my H coffee/lunch and walked him to the front door. Then I fell back asleep on the couch watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta and woke up at 10. I am still on the couch and still in my PJ's. I kid myself into thinking I had a productive morning by making the lunch/coffee. I really hope this "nesting" thing kicks in soon so I feel like I get things accomplished.
Also, YAY for your anatomy scan! I was so excited the night before ours.
Noisy, I actually LOL'ed at your fart random. Holding in the fart may be equivilant to a kegel though, so I'm not sure if it's a positive or negative for Lorne.
"Once I got a bath bomb that, once exploded, filled the tub with confetti. Little sharp metallic pieces of confetti. The product description said nothing about confetti. Oh look, there's a tiny, sharp metallic blue star stabbing me in the labia. HOW RELAXING. " - NoisyPenguin
Hymen - do you have an inkling about the sex?
Ugh, I just got through my email from the weekend and I had SEVEN frantic emails from the same person, one from Saturday, two from Sunday, and four from yesterday up to four hours ago. He's concerned about paperwork for something that's not happening until October. I can grow and birth a baby in nine months. It probably won't take that long to submit your paperwork. Jesus.
Coley is a better SAHW than I am. I kiss my H bye from bed and then go right back to sleep.
I've had great scones from bakeries but have never found a good recipe at home. They always taste so bland.
Noisy, every time I think of the baby, I picture girl. Not sure if it's intuition or what, but I think I'll be surprised if they tell us it's a boy.
I've had three dreams about the baby so far. In the first one, it was a boy. In the second one, it was genderless. The third one, it was a girl but then ended up being a cat. So my dreams are telling me nothing.
I forgot to brush my teeth last night. I realized it when I got into bed but by that time I was too comfy to go do it. Plus, I had already put on lip balm and hand lotion.
I work from home 2 days a week and on those days, I usually only change out of my PJs 10 minutes before I have to leave the house....if I have to leave the house.
11/11/11 = 5 years. Woah!
I actually enjoy Sprout tv.
I sent a scathing text to my BFF about my husband last night and then realized that I had actually sent it to him. Text fail.
My son has decided that 4 am is his new wake-up time. While I've never accomplished so much before I go to work at 7:30 in my life, it's kinda rough.
Grapefruits are freakin expensive this year but i crave them. grapefruit sanitizer is appealing.
I am having violent disturbing nightmares every night. last night I was being chased in a mall by really mean pimps that wanted me to be in their Ho gang. i ran passed my ex-boyfriend but couldn't ask him for help because then his family would be in danger, then i couldn't find my husband but didn't really try because i diddn't want him to gt hurt. Then i was hiding under a table trying to swipe a wig fromt eh top counter without being seen.
Shamon, to all of it. I was 99% sure I was going to bite it and drop Mucho on her head walking over to daycare. I didn't.
I'm also 99% sure my mommy gene is broken. First birthday party invites? Via Facebook. Theme? I laugh in the face of themes.
We planned to have sex last night, but fell asleep cuddling, which never happens. It was an awesome cuddle. We need to do both more often. I think Mirena might be f'ing with my drive.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
My mom just sent me this youtube video of one of my step father's employee's. She sent it to me because the the song is going to be used for a bunch of March Madness promos on Fox Sports, which is cool. But I can't understand the purpose of the monkey in costume. Plus it creeps me out.
Speaking of YouTube, another productive thing I did this weekend was randomly play videos of crying babies so my cats get acclimated to the noise. Is this weird? My H thought so.
"Once I got a bath bomb that, once exploded, filled the tub with confetti. Little sharp metallic pieces of confetti. The product description said nothing about confetti. Oh look, there's a tiny, sharp metallic blue star stabbing me in the labia. HOW RELAXING. " - NoisyPenguin
I had a dream on Friday night that one of my students was trying to kill me with a knife. Like, he was full-on trying to stab me in the stomach and slit my throat. I woke up SOBBING and cried for a good 5 minutes before I fell back to sleep. It was terrifying.
hahaha.
I have 3 cats who used to be the center of the household and we didn't do anything to really prepare them other than taking away their breakfast a few months before Jack was born. They adjusted very quickly and don't bat a whisker to any of his noises now.
This made me think of both PICA (Donkey's blog) and My Strange Addiction on TLC. Do not succumb to the sanitizer, Sam.
"Once I got a bath bomb that, once exploded, filled the tub with confetti. Little sharp metallic pieces of confetti. The product description said nothing about confetti. Oh look, there's a tiny, sharp metallic blue star stabbing me in the labia. HOW RELAXING. " - NoisyPenguin
Hymen -- I am convinced you're having a girl. So congrats on your future son!
I feel like poop today. One side of my throat feels all sore and inflamed.
I watched An Education this weekend and thought it was a really good movie. It should be required material for every teenage girl who thinks she's special and so mature for her age.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I have a cold. It sucks.
For the past week I have been going to bed at a normal time (10-ish) and waking up at 2-ish and not being able to get back to sleep for an hour plus. It's awful. I either think/stress about work things or beat myself up for stupid personal/supermom fails that don't really even exist. I'm cuh-razy!
I think it's funny/sad that no one responds to OOT's posts.
I have spent more time than I'd care to admit trying to decipher some of her posts (I feel like the kids in Good Will Hunting, trying to solve those crazy hard math (?) problems). This weekend'swas rough--5 stars rough.
"Once I got a bath bomb that, once exploded, filled the tub with confetti. Little sharp metallic pieces of confetti. The product description said nothing about confetti. Oh look, there's a tiny, sharp metallic blue star stabbing me in the labia. HOW RELAXING. " - NoisyPenguin
I had the worst commute ever this morning, and was late for court despite leaving the house 45 minutes early.
I haven't worked a full week in over a month, with the holidays, sick days, snow days, and holidays. I don't know how I'm going to adjust next week.
We leave for vacation on February 28 and I can't wait. I bought Ian two really cute bathing suits yesterday.
My dishwasher started backing up into the sink and then the pipe from the sink into the garbage disposal came loose last night. We had quite the party washing dishes in the bathroom after little bit went to sleep.
My drive in this morning was a bummer. The schools were out for snow all last week and then for MLK Day yesterday, so this was the first morning I had to contend with school traffic since coming back to work. I'd gotten spoiled.
Those do look good. Maybe lemons have been the missing zing.
Thanks Kristen and Noisy! I love making things like that because they're like puzzles, trying to figure out what cookie cutters/random things to use to make fun shapes.
Rosen, I think you have convinced me to get back on the wagon and make those scones. I am more of a cranberry orange girl, so I'm thinking of using orange zest instead of lemon. I'll report back my success or failures next week.
"Once I got a bath bomb that, once exploded, filled the tub with confetti. Little sharp metallic pieces of confetti. The product description said nothing about confetti. Oh look, there's a tiny, sharp metallic blue star stabbing me in the labia. HOW RELAXING. " - NoisyPenguin
This is adorable.
I could not decipher that last one. Too much percocet perhaps.
I'm extra boring today, I don't even have any randoms to speak of.
Claire Elizabeth 12/31/2011
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He's so classy. Was he wearing a little business suit or anything?
I've watched one of my coworkers go to the loo at least 6 times in the last 3 hours. I hope she doesn't have some kind of illness she's contaminating my toilet with.