Hot House Momma

The end

2007-04-23T16:13:00.000-07:00

Time-Tested Beauty Tips
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone ...

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived,
reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Sam Levenson

Note: this is the complete poem Audrey read to hers sons, Sean and Luca on Christmas Eve 1992. The author, Sam Levenson wrote it for his grandchild.

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This is one of my favorite poems. I thought it would be right to end my time here with something I love. Something positive. I always wondered if I would know when to stop blogging. Now I know-that in fact, you will know when the time is right.It has been so much fun sharing all the good and bad in life. Sharing comments and laughs with many of you. It's time for me to focus on my family and business. Simply stated.
Good luck to all of you.
Love,
HHM

Red eye

2007-04-11T11:08:00.000-07:00

Yippee. We leave today for New York. Or I should say tonight. We are taking a red eye. I guess I will finally understand why this flight is named the same. Any recommendations for sleepy time?
HHhubby and I decided to take this flight, so we could fly together. This was the only way he could be where he needed to be Thursday.

drum roll please............................

I have a chance to be interviewed by ABC news for Etsy and my jewelry shop. If you have never been to Etsy you must go, there are so many good finds. I'm so excited. It will require getting off the plane, going to our hotel freshening up and flagging a cab (i'm so new york) across town. But it's worth it. I will keep you posted. I even heard that the camera makes you feel and look thinner then you are.
So exciting.

Easter was fun with the kids. They were collecting snails. Nice. It was also my parents 40th wedding anniversary and my aunt's birthday. So there was a lot of celebrating. A family friend even made a wedding cake. It was a mini replica of my parents wedding cake. What a nice thing to do.

So why do people turn into total "bits" when there is an accident on the freeway. Seriously a fire engine had to get through on the left side of the fast lane and this dumfk chose to use this tragic oppurtunity to get ahead and drove behind him through all the traffic in his sidekick. Nice.

HHboy said he would like to "do london." Uhm ok. I guess one of his buddies in his class is going to London and so now HHboy wwould like to "do" London.

And seriously why is my neck starting to look like a chicken. Do they have neck lifts? All those years of no sun block.

Really necks and shoulders are sexy.

Get your sexy on.

Start spreading the word

2007-03-30T14:35:00.000-07:00

I'm leaving real soon. I want to be a part of it..... New York. Yippee. I can't wait HHhubby has a business trip and I am going to meet him there for a fun weekend. Hopefully we will have time to see a show. I've never seen a real show. Any recommendations? We are also going to meet my friend and her hubby for dinner. I can't wait I haven't seen her in at least two years (the last time I went to NY). Although it will be a quick trip, most likely going via red eye-it will be worth it.

HHhubby will work the first two days and then we can explore. The Hubbs also has family there, so we can hopefully meet up with his cousins. I think they still live in the East Village.

We did manage to go to Monterey last weekend. It was a spontaneous trip which was great. I love doing this. As you have kids you do this less, and we should really do it more. We stayed over Saturday night and then went to the Aquarium Sunday. Really it is pneomnal place-internationally acclaimed and all. The kids had a blast and then we met friends for lunch. Fun beach side with a cold beer.

Things have been busy here lately. Nothing unusual, but the daily grind. We had a bout of pink eye here both HHkids and then a bloody nose yesterday. Not me HHboy.

Today I got my brows waxed and I'm ready for the world.

Not much else to report, I am having my first jewelry show next weekend. So I need to start planning and getting everything in order. I was able to get some other artist to donate some goodies, so each person will leave with a little bag of goodies. Who doesn't like girly freebies.

And I will also be raffling jewelry. Don't you wish you could come. I do.

I had to retire from writing at Fluff. Writing as Vanity Flair was fun, but even though the site has a ton of traffic there as little interaction. At some point you need people making comments. Even if its just to say Britney is a fool. Or Trump wears a toup. You get the idea.

Hope everyone has a good weekend and hopefully there will be more post soon.

What does your DNA say?

2007-03-19T09:39:00.000-07:00

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

K.T

2007-03-18T20:05:00.000-07:00

I absolutely can not wait for the following to return: Entourage, Sopranos and Rescue Me. Someone hook up our TiVo!

Anyone out there like KT Tunstall? She is my new fav. I saw KT (we're on a first name basis now) on Ellen last week and she is so cute. Well in a performer cute kind of way. Her music is just so girl and upbeat.

I can't find my nano. I feel very lost. Do you know that feeling? So I have been lugging around HHHubbys IPOD. It seems mammoth compared to my lil o'nano.

We went to the city Saturday night for dinner with friends to celebrate HHhubby's birthday. It was a lot of fun and the night went by way to fast. The place we ate at was a restaurant and bar. Meditteran food with small plates. So we tried a ton of different plates. I have to say the bathrooms were reminiscent of the most disgusting bar bathroonm ever. It was hard to handle. Specially sober.

I will spare you the details of the business the girl in the stall next to me was handling with a handful of friends in the stall. Gross.

I'm loving this nice weather and feeling more inspired to shed my whale fat. But at the same time I still love chocolate.

My business website is 99 percent running, just a few more things to tweak and I am done. It has been a lot of work but so much fun and I have learned a lot, about myself and the world of business. I actually started my own business. Yay!

Hopefully, I will be posting more often now that this work is behind me! (well you know the non creating part)

Hope you all had the luck of the Irish on your side!

Happy St. Paddys Day!

I think I can

2007-03-07T08:25:00.000-08:00

Last night was the last night of my beginner photography course. It was a long 8 weeks. The class started out really very slow and a little remedial. Because lets face it some of us our savvy with the workings of simple things like memory cards and batteries and some aren't. I see why all of this mentioned need to be explained.

Last night we met by the Train Station and did a night shoot. This was the most fun we had the whole 8 weeks. Actually taking photos and applying what we have learned about light and shutter speed. I have posted some photos for you to see. It is just utterly amazing with the light and inner workings of the camera can produce.

(just worth noting, the first train that came by scared me shitless. Those caltrains have a lot of power)( on a good note, I found a new bakery, with turkey and brie sandwiches and just yummy godness)

I look forward to taking the next course in the summer. This class will be the one where we can actually apply all that we have learned in this class.

After you take a photography class, I don't think you ever look through the lens the same. As well as look at someone else's photography the same.

Here are some photos of our downtown area, the local courthouse and some other landmarks. All of these photos were taken at around 8pm. So it was really dark out.

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This picture is a little fuzzy, but if you can beleive it this photo was taken at night. The sky was black.

This photo is from downtown and give you an idea of what the photo would look like with out the proper adjustments

Here are two photos after proper adjustments.

Housekeeping

2007-03-05T13:03:00.000-08:00

I love the sunshine. Today, I am personally requesting more. Greedy I know.

Does anyone out there know what taking antibiotics for to long causes? Yeah, well without giving you all details. I am experiencing this for the first time in my young life. Gross.

I have been tied up in trying to get my business started. Who knew how much work and time it would require. Don't get me wrong I love it and am very excited about it, but I like not working. The hardest part has been designing the website. There are just some things I just don't understand about aesthetics and functionality. Either way we are almost there.

I've been trying to be dedicated to going to the gym. I think I lost one pound. NO really I don't know because I just don't do the scale thing, but seriously folks. When you go to the gym, you should automatically start glowing or something. Just to keep you going. Wednesday I will try my first spin class. I also need some new butt shrinking songs for my Nano. Whatcha got?

Favorites right now are:
Chris D. It's no over
Fall out Boys Arms Race
Justin T Rock your Body
Jamiroqu
But I need more!!!

If you haven't already go sign up at 5 minutes for mom. Who doesn't like to win cool prizes.

double vanity

2007-02-27T10:07:00.000-08:00

So this post is two fold. One I want to boss you around and send you all over to
Fluff.

To read Vanity Flair and the others. We have lots of hits on the site- but a lot of people are shy about commenting. We would love to hear from you. Any old thing.

On another note. Let's talk about vanity. My vanity. Most of my life I have been unhappy with my smile. Well, my teeth to be exact. I have been playing around with the idea of getting veneers for the last year. No chicklets please. I had an appointment for a consultation and had to back out. So now it's time to reschedule or dismiss the plan.

Yesterday, I went for a teeth cleaning and my hygienist basically was trying to talk me out of veneers. See said that generally veneers are for people with really bad teeth. I.E. discoloration, chipping, problems of that sort.

She said that my teeth are nice and that with a little gum and tooth contouring I would be happy with the results. Which I am all for.

Another recommendation was to try invisalign. I am considering going for the consultation. But the consulation is $100. The thing is you have to wear the aligners about 23 hours a day. The length of months would depend on my case. Now I have never had a retainer. Though as a kid I would pretend I had one, because they seemed cool. We would make the jolly rancher candy's press up against the top of our mouths.

I never had braces.

So I won't say my teeth are f--ked up because they aren't. They just needs some love.

Anyone out there have any information they want to share?

Rainy Day Fun

2007-02-24T16:35:00.000-08:00

Since today was an icky day we decided to take the HHkids to HHHubby's work to see dinosaur bones and a space ship. Here are some photos from the day. The scooter rides with the kids seems totally safe. I wasn't even worried at all. Gulp.

HHgirl was literally being swallowed by all those balls. The last photo was right before she got fingernail deep in mud. The girl might carry a purse but she isn't afraid to get dirty.

Me, I nearly crashed the scooter my first time around.

It's a girl

2007-02-24T16:30:00.000-08:00

Is there nothing sweeter then driving by a complete strangers house and seeing a sign that says "it's a girl." You don't even need to know the couple to understand what they are feeling. What precious memories. The sign paired with pink and white balloons all over. Cars overflowing the driveway.

I saw this on my way home today and was tickled pink. Really I was.

The feeling wasn't so long ago.

I just found out one of my closest friends is pregnant. Yipppeee. I can't wait!

Over the moon.....

2007-02-23T16:47:00.000-08:00

This is a pair of my latest earrings "moonswoop." If I don't promote my self-who will.
Just kidding, but really I do. And since you are all so loyal, you don't mind hearing me talk (again-gasp) about Cheeky Jewelry. Right. If you haven't already go check out my renter. Click Click.

Here and back

2007-02-20T16:04:00.000-08:00

Wow, I feel like over the past few weeks I have been all over. Non existent if you will. The ear infection that I picked up was something awful. It tooks almost a full week to feel human. Now, I still have a plugged ear, but the pain has subsided.

I had no idea how hard it would be to function with hearing in one ear. I swear it heightened my taste buds. That our the medicaiton or vicodin were messing with my buds. I ate salad one night and it tasted like an ass patty. Whatever that tastes like.

It was HHBoys 4th birthday party on Saturday. We had his party at a place called Safari Run it was so cute. It is marketed as a healthy fun place for kids. Lots of over sized slides and climbing gyms. Evne the Adults were getting into the fun.

The kids had about an hour to play and then were wisked off to the next room for-CAKE.
This is why you have a party, right? For the cake. My parents were unable to make the party -since my dad hadnt been feeling good. But all is better now and we'll catch up with them soon.

After cake it was off to the game room and then the kids had at it, playing skee ball. Again the adults had more tokens then the kids.

We invited family back to our house for pizza after and by 10pm, lights out. We were pooped.

So I am pretty boring lately.

I've been playing catch up and trying to get my little ol business off the ground. There sure is a lot to do. Specially when you have no business sense what so ever.

So off to photography class tonight!

I could use a starbucks. Anyone want to bring me one?

Books and more books

2007-02-20T15:53:00.000-08:00

What do the books I've read say about me? What would your list look like? I borrowed this from someone in the blog-o-sphere. It reminded me of books I want to add to my reading list. There are several books that arent on this list, that I have read, but just arent on this list.

Look at the list of books below.
*Bold the ones you’ve read
*Italicize the ones you want to read
*leave blank the ones that you aren't interested in. If you are reading this, tag your it!

Write now I am reading Augusten Burrows' Side Effects. I recommend all of this books. Just fun reads.

1.The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2.Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3.To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10.A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12.Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)xx
13.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16.Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie(Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True(Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)xx
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth(Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100.Ulysses (James Joyce)

The one where he uses a flashlight to look in her EAR!

2007-02-14T14:17:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone-
No posts around here lately or at Cheeky. So depressing. We went to the Mountains for four days and had a great time. It even snowed. And then on the way back I decided to get a god awful ear infection. Then my father was in the hospital. A very long few days. I am up and among the living today. I will write more soon. Still on the mend and can't hear.

Me and my buddy decided to be groupies(while on vacations) and follow Chris on Tour. Then I had to give up a trip to see Chris in Arizona.(ear infection was ruling) Sad about that but can't wait to hear details and share them.

More of Chris here. She met him -she did.

Will write more later. I can't hear and it's making it hard for me to type. I dunno know why-just is.

By the way my Dr.(new and yet on his way out) looked in my ear with a camping flashing light and was shocked and surprised when HE COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING!

That's all I'm going to say about that.

HOT!

2007-02-05T15:57:00.000-08:00

Let me start off by saying, I was officially star struck. But this is how our evening started.

Nichol drove down from Sacramento and we waited patiently for concert time.

Pix showed up with these shirts for us to wear. Notice where it says "sign here."

Yes, we wore the shirts. And surprisingly enough, we weren't the oldest groupies at the show. The show was at Slims in San Francisco. The venue holds at capacity up to about 800-1000.
We were able to move freely and grab a cocktail or two or three. The opening band was Cinder Road. Who actually were very good. If you look back at the photo of the shirt you will see that I have a signature. It was the hancock of the lead singer of Cinder Road formerly known as Plunge.

After each band finished performing we moved our way up closer to the front. The second band was Eve to Atom. Not my favorite and since there was no stage diving or moshing - I was out.

On to the main event. See below:

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Yowza. Chris performed and gave an awesome show. He really has the stage presence down. Once he lost the euro scarf he was all good. Honestly I only knew one of his songs, the ever famous "It's not over." But before we left I really grew to like his music more. He also did a great cover of Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2.

After the show we made our way around back. Someone told us that if we went around back that is generally where the band members leave and hangout. The club is about a block long.

We were able to see about 100 yards down the alley and what do you know there was Chris D throwing back a beer or something.

*Special note my friend Nichol who was gracious enough to take me to the show, is a die hard fan. She was ready to wait him out.

So I obliged.

At this point I decided to walk around to the other side of the alley. Where earlier security was present.

I took a deep breath and walked back to the alley right toward the whole band. Now I know they aren't Cold Play or something, but I didn't want to get yelled at.

Things you do for friendship.

As I walked up guess who had just walked back in the building. Damn. We did meet a lot of the other band members and managers, but no Chris D.

We waited it out and after ONE hour. Chris was whisked away like a prize fighter with the hoody over his head and wannabe security whooshing him to his tour bus. The Bus which we were standing right in front of.

No signature just a glance and a thank you.

We finally decided to call it a night.

Guess who came out of the bus after? Yeah we missed out. Which broke my heart because it meant so much to my friend.

Anyway, next time.

It was a freaking awesome night. Thanks J and N for the night!

Yumm-o

2007-02-05T15:20:00.001-08:00

Alright, I'm joking about the YUMM-o doesn't the wierdo Rachel Ray say this tag phrase? I really do like some of her ideas and actually have some of her books, even a subscription to her cooking mag but not the yumm-o. Sorry if you are a fan. I made this casserole recipe last week and it was really good and easy. Nothing monumental but good.
Add some Parmesan, you got a meal.

I plan to write more about last nights concert, but redbull gave me wings and I haven't returned from my orbit, yet.

CHRIS ROCKED
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Chicken Artichoke Casserole (serves 6)

6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves, cut in 1-inch strips (Trader Joes has chicken already cut in strips which makes it super easy)
4 tablespoons butter (I use half butter, half olive oil)
2 cloves garlic, pressed
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
1 jar marinated artichoke hearts, drained
2 tablespoons flour
1 can chicken broth

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In a skillet over medium heat, brown chicken lightly in 2 tablespoons butter, add garlic and mushrooms, keep cooking until chicken mixture is smelling very garlicky.
In a baking dish, add the browned chicken mixture. Place the artichoke hearts atop the chicken.
In the skillet melt remaining butter and add the flour, whisking to blend (no lumps). Add the broth and cook until thickened, then pour over chicken mixture.

Bake 30-45 minutes.

Serve over brown or white rice.

Feeling Hot Hot Hot

2007-01-31T16:35:00.000-08:00

Is there nothing f**king hotter then the inside of a lean-hot pocket?

Why I was eating this nastiness is besides the point.

Jeezus.

Teeny Bopping

2007-01-30T15:13:00.000-08:00

I'm going to see a concert this weekend. Nichol and I are going to be bringing it back to the high school days. Maybe I should fluff those bangs up. My friend Nichol is in love with Chris Daughtry and her sis/brother in law pulled some strings-and she picked me.

We are going to San Francisco to see Chris live! This has been a "to do" on her list.

I am bailing out on my hubbys big superbowl party! Whoops! I am going to do whatever I can to get back stage. Well not "whatever", but something!

I will.

Tagged

2007-01-27T08:20:00.000-08:00

I got tagged. Errr But I'll play nice.

THE RULES: Each player of this game starts with the 6 weird things about you. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says you are tagged in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

1. I hate having dirty feet. It creeps me out!

2. When I pass the front door I always check to make sure it'a locked.

3. My hands are mushy-like they have no bones. Well they do, but they feel squishy

4. There is a werid single hair that grows on my hand, by my thumb

5. I love fresh strawberries, but do not care for any other food item that is strawberry

6. I cant eat chicken off the bone.

So thanks to she for tagging me.

If you are here reading, consider yourselves tagged. Come ON I had to do the meme!

5 minutes for mom

2007-01-25T21:35:00.000-08:00

Some of you may be familar with 5 minutes for mom. I just found out about their site and I think it is a great source of information. Go on over and check the goods out.

"Susan and Janice are hosting The Ultimate Blog Party March 2 - 9.
This will be the place to be. Get your blog noticed, win prizes, hang out with your friends and meet some new ones."

There are a great selection of prizes that will be given away in their drawing. I personally we'll be giving away a pair of hand crafted earrings from my jewelry site. I plan to let the winner select from a few pair on the site.

Anyway-who doesn't like winning prizes. I do I do.

dung

2007-01-25T14:26:00.001-08:00

I came home and found a cat swirl up on my bed. Right now, I don't like my cat.

Pink

2007-01-24T20:53:00.000-08:00

Holy snikes bat man. What has been going on here. Things have been haywire. In a good way-but busy.

I'm working to get my jewelry business launched. You do not want to know the fees designers are charging for storefront web design. It's absurd.

Not to mention that I spoke with a designer today and he explained to me that they keep the costs down by-outsourcing to other countries. Wrong answer.

From another company based out of New York I get a quote of $18,500. Yes, you read that right.

The search continues. HHMomma is open to suggestions.
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THE BUMPS

Tonight I went to the gym for a sculpt class. I love this class and I think I am actually seeing results. The instructor is squat happy. But I love her passion and the class. Do you ever have those moments in your head where you almost do something-you know you shouldn't. Well at least not in public.

Not anything like that.

More like, we were doing cross lunges with weights and "Can't touch this, by MC Hammer" was playing. I almost started doing the "wooahh woahhhh" dance.

What's wrong with me?
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Photography Class

Holy shit. Great class confusing as FK. Mostly because the teacher tells us one thing about the speed and light. Then she tells us to forget what she said. Which presses us all to find out when we would use this light feature or whatever. She responds "we'll talk about it later ."

We'll see what I get out of this class. At the very least I get to spend time with friends.

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The Lost Phone

Last weekend we went to a surpirse birthday dinner in the city and by the time we got there the birthday girl and hubby were smashed. And they were smashed good.

BG was on the table giving an Academy Award speech.

After the dinner we were going to move on to the second party (another birthday party -a co-worker of HHH)Clearly no one from the dinner party were going because they were lucky to make it back to their house.

Four of us decided it was time and we went on to another party at a bar called HOME in the Castro area in San Francisco. We had time for one drink and then this party was moving on to another bar. So we hopped in the car and drive to the club. This was one of those nights where we got parking right away. (and in the city)

We ended up here for a private party. This is one of those places where you are firmly reminded that you once were cool. Before kids.

No sign for the club, just a bright pink light. In the know-people.

We went in and had a great time. There were a ton of people we knew. We danced drank bubbly. Basically re-lived the single days. It was fun.

Then like all good things it was time to leave. There were so many details, but basically we got in the car to drive home and my new cell phone had fallen out of my purse. My one day old cell phone.

HHHubby had to run back in. No luck. We are leaving the city and he decided to call my cell phone. A woman answers.

We drive back to the club and get it.

I pee in a gutter behind a parked car.

We drive home.

Did I mention I was classy?

hash-brownie?

2007-01-22T22:14:00.000-08:00

HHBoy asked us for a hash-brownie today. Err what? I made low-fat brownies. I think he was confusing the hash brown and a brownie. Yes, that is it.

Then as I was getting dressed he asked me if I was putting on my bib. My bib? Oh yes, my bra.

We went on to Target as we cruised by the lingerie section, he mentioned this:
"Those sure are BIG bibs, mommy."

OMG, he is not even 4.

Gulp.

I plan to post more tommorrow. You know it's a crazy night when your friend gets a call that a club has your cell phone. Whoops. This would be the new cell phone I just purchased Friday.

Who's calling?

2007-01-19T15:04:00.001-08:00

Today I'm on the road taking HHboy to school. Off we go. My friend Sam was going to stop by. I pick up the phone to call and let her know when to come. The screen is black. This is werid. Hmm. I reset the phone. Nope. Still black.

I drop off HHboy and my phone rings. So now we know the phone works, but I just can't see my phonebook, who's calling or much else.

I call my provider which is also the store where I purchased the phone.

Guess when my year warranty was up?

January 9. (which equals 10 days ago)

Guess who didn't purchase insurance?

Guess who isn't happy.

I went to the store and looked at new phones. Prices range anywhere from $179-$499.
Do I want to spend money on a new phone? No.

When I hemed and hawed and acted like I was going to walk out without a phone, the manger pulled out the "special discounted" phones.

I left with a $70 phone.

I'm still mad.

Signed,
Grump in Cali

Vibe'n

2007-01-17T12:09:00.001-08:00

If you haven't already go see my renter. Sugar Momma likes a little sugar in her bowl.

SM is also begging YOU to unload a problem that she has (and get a free Vibe!) You have to see what she is talking about. I won't tell.

Last night was the first night of my digital photography class. It was a snoozer.
My friend Lisa and I are taking the class. There are actually three of us taking the class but L had to stay home and take care of sick hubby. The first meeting was very basic. I did learn something about apertures and depth photography. So this is cool.

It was funny because there is one older lady in the class who just wasn't having a good day. Either that or she was giving off o' da-bitch. Wow she was mean.

About everything.

The worst part was at the end of class our Ansel Adam's worshipping instructor was holding up photos from Desert Storm and working to evoke some emotion and explaining how personal and deep photography can be.

We were all sort of sharing this zen moment if you will.

OL pipes up "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO COLLECT THESE PAPERS?"

Oh my.

So back next week. I'm looking forward to learning more, mostly to take photos of the HHkids and for my new jewelry business. I also would like to learn about working photos to canvas. Sounds cool, eh.

Go get some sugar!!