What a difference 2 years and 10 months makes

I miss blogging. Or really just putting my opinion down on paper (or electronic paper.) It has been a long long time since my last post - 2 years and 10 months. Plus a few days. A long time. Needless to say, what a difference those 2 years and 10 months have had on my life!! Namely... Bran the man. My little monkey. My 15 month old who basically is my heart walking around in a small blond (Who knew I could have a blonde kid?) body. Which leads me to this - 1150pm on a Sunday night when I should be sound asleep I am typing a blog about nothing. And everything. You know you have to start somewhere, right? And this feels like a restart although I'm too lazy/smart to actually restart an entire new blog. Why, when this one is still here and ready to go and has a less-gray, less-mom-pooched, less bag-eyed picture of me. Not to mention how much of a techy-moron I am. So...Rock on! Ok so that's it. My promise to myself is more blogging. Becoming a mom has altered my life drastically and while I miss a lot of things I don't do anymore (happy hour w/ friends, movies in an actual theater, pedicures/pretty toes, long nights making pottery, non-gray hair) I am happy to trade it all in for the new amazing thing in my life - Bran. The truth is.. .I WANT to trade it all in for him and his dad. I love just being with the two of them at home doing nothing. And by nothing I mean everything. You think you know what you're going to be like as a mom. You think you'll feel this and do that and cook x and still do y. And then you become a mom. And you look back on your pre-mom self and think - You were a moron. You thought you knew everything, but you knew nothing. NOTHING. So that's where I'm at. Tired, ugly toes, gray hair, and happiness. Oh, and a cold. Because kid in daycare = constant cold. But that's for another blog...

Temptation

Here it is in one little word - iPhone.

Seriously... How did I live without one? And more importantly, who will do my laundry while I am too distracted by my phone?

It is so beautiful in it's little purple case...

I think I could be a tech-geek! But probably not. After all I am still resisting cable...

After the Love

Driving home late last night I caught a glimpse of something sad in the alley. There, next to the dumpster, was a sure sign that the romance has disappeared for one of my neighbors.

There it was. A valentine's teddy bear, thrown away like garbage.

But not even like garbage... I mean garbage at least makes it into the trash can!!! The owner of this bear must've been so over the teddy-bear-giver that she couldn't even bother to lift the lid...and make the effort to get the discarded love-token actually into the dumpster. So there it sits... next to the dumpster. Beat up and dirtied, waiting for a dog to come by and pee on it.

It inspired me to write a poem... a haiku if you will... in honor of this sad site:

Next to the Dumpster

She must hate his guts

Tossed away with pure disdain

Teddy bear trash heap

In Honor of V Day...

... some things I love this week:

1. Snow skiing on a sunny day with a fellow dare-devil. FANTASTIC weather this weekend and perfect snow conditions, what more could a girl ask for? I also discovered how dreadlocks are made: wild hair whipping in the wind + goggles-band + scarf = dreadlocks.

2. The Olympics. I loved the opening ceremonies. I think winter Olympics are my favorite!!! Bring on the ice skating and the moguls and the ski jump. How do they do that, by the way - the ski jump with the acrobatics in the air. Unbelievable.

3. The fact that my friend Nan had a bird fly down her chimney and I am not the only one with such weirdness happening to them! Mine was a pigeon, hers was a small bird... but still... birds down chimneys = common after all.

4. Blueberry coffee from 7-11. Try it. You'll love it. Not that I drink coffee anymore... I'm an herbal tea girl now. But, just in case I was drinking coffee a little bit, I might be drinking the blueberry coffee from 7-11. Maybe.

5. The Bachelor. I know it is trashy TV, but I love it. So entertaining. Plus they went to St Lucia for the fantasy dates and that is my favorite island. Seeing it made me want to go back for a visit. I could definitely stay at Le Sport. In case anyone has a free vacation just laying around.