Lucky Mom

Secret

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:11:00 -0800

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.

Flu Vaccine

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:31:33 -0800

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.

Happy Birthday Julia~

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:04:20 -0800

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.

More to Love

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:31:03 -0800

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.

Least Stressful City To Live In

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:47:50 -0800

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.

Backpack

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:52:09 -0800

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.

SIX

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:35:14 -0800

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.

FISH

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:31:31 -0800

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).

The Bachelorette

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:07:48 -0800

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.

Happy 40th

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:48:04 -0800

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

Pool Progress

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:07:42 -0800

The pool is getting very close to completion!

The ~~now outdated as I'm just now getting to writing this post and we're actually already swimming in our new pool~~ latest pictures of the pool are below.

Maybe it's because I'm still ~~high~~ on cloud nine about actually getting my own pool but I've found this whole 'pool building' process extremely interesting.

I think I want to build pools now.

Hypocrisy Makes Me Vomit

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:07:35 -0800

This past week has been pretty sad for our old icons.

We knew Farrah wasn't doing well, Michael appeared to not be doing so well and Billy Mays appeared to be perfectly fine.

What I want to ~~go on a diatribe about~~ discuss in this post; however, is the blasted S.C. ~~hypocrite~~ Governor, Mark Sanford.

Parent's Pics - 2009

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:50:43 -0800

Hey, remember when I won the 'Housewife Award'? Probably justified due to the reason I won it.

But now, I've been nominated as one of six best local Austin blogs. No, seriously.

Yep, I've received 1% of the total vote. I'm surprised and well, curious.

I'm curious as to whom would actually vote for my site and more importantly who would actually nominate it?

What if 100,00 people voted. That'd be cool.

What if only 100 have voted? Ouch, I guess that represents my own vote.

Anyway, there ya have it. 1% of the voters like my site best (or merely just felt sorry for me)

Swimming Pool Progress - f/k/a, Life Is Good

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:26:25 -0800

Thankfully the pool is coming along nicely as it's 100 degrees lately and the neighborhood pools are getting waaaay overcrowded.

After my husband and I returned Sunday from our lovely 7th anniversary ~~weekend~~ 20 hours away, we took the kids to one of the neighborhood community pools.

Life Is Good - Part Uno

Wed, 20 May 2009 10:39:35 -0800

My ~~wet~~ er, sorry, I mean pool dreams are coming true.

We are getting a fu*%ing pool! I'm sick with excitement and can barely hold onto my composure.

So much so, that the poor contractors have had to repeatedly deal with me.

No, not that way.