Obsessively tracking packages. . .
Mom's ring is ready! They got to go to the jewelry store on Saturday to look at it and hold it and try it on. Alicia and Jude were in town and they got to see it too!
Then the ring had to get shipped out of state. This is to smartly avoid huge amounts of NY Sales tax.
The tough part it the waiting and the nail, biting and the breath holding to make sure that the ring gets to the right address at the right time and does not get lost.
Of course it was insured or so we thought (that's not mom's story to tell), but it got to Grandma's house and grandma got it.
Then today grandma has to ship it to Frank's work. If all goes as planned Mom will have the ring on her finger tomorrow night!
But until then mom is obsessively tracking the package every step of the way. Holding her breath until Frank has it in his hands! and then gives it to her to obsessively worry about not loosing for the rest of her life!
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006
All that has to be said
This is great and amazing and we all know money saving.
1-800-Free-411
No joke it is free!
I can't even tell you how many times mom has freaked out because her cell phone bill is way over because of the $1 a time charge for using just plain 411.
This is a good day!
1-800-Free-411
No joke it is free!
I can't even tell you how many times mom has freaked out because her cell phone bill is way over because of the $1 a time charge for using just plain 411.
This is a good day!
Friday, January 20, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
It's My Birthday
I am 2 today.
This past year has been great. Not only am I 2 but I am going to have a dad!
As I grow older I have really begun to sleep more which makes mom happy! Is it only down hill from now. By next birthday I will be sleeping 20 hours out of the day!
Woo Hoo, Happy Birthday to me, maybe mom will let me chicken and cream cheese on the table!
This past year has been great. Not only am I 2 but I am going to have a dad!
As I grow older I have really begun to sleep more which makes mom happy! Is it only down hill from now. By next birthday I will be sleeping 20 hours out of the day!
Woo Hoo, Happy Birthday to me, maybe mom will let me chicken and cream cheese on the table!
Monday, January 16, 2006
Babysitting
So mom got to baby-sit a bit this past weekend! Frank and Mom went over to a former co-worker of Frank's house and did a few tasks. Mom's was to baby-sit her son Magnus and Frank's was to build her some shelves to store her bikes under.
The day was wet and it has been a while since mom was alone with a 11 month old baby. Petra and Frank went to buy the wood and all mom could think was ok, now what do I do. This simple idea of entertaining a baby suddenly got a lot more complex and has made mom really think about her own life.
Mom grew up babysitting for all the neighborhood kids and baby's, and it just came so natural. You play with the toys and sing dumb songs and do whatever the child wants to do. It's fun and when it's over you get to go home, and your experience stays there with the baby.
Now that Frank and mom are getting married, the simple task of babysitting brings on a whole new connotation. Everything starts getting related to her own life.
Annie also a former co-worker and friend of Franks who came over to help said. "let me change the diaper I need to practice." Annie just also got engaged and is thinking about the idea of having babies now that she knows who they will be with.
Babysitting just went from a fun after school job, to practice for when there's a kid of her own.
That's new, weird, confusing and exhilarating.
Now all the skills and the nurture aspect inside mom has come out and is directly thought about in terms of one day when "I have one of my own this will come in handy".
Mom keeps finding out the there are more and more levels and feelings that happen once you have certain things in your life squared away so to speak . . .
All in all the weekend was fun, mom cooked a whole chicken last night for the first time! And she did not burn it or leave it raw (still clucking).
The day was wet and it has been a while since mom was alone with a 11 month old baby. Petra and Frank went to buy the wood and all mom could think was ok, now what do I do. This simple idea of entertaining a baby suddenly got a lot more complex and has made mom really think about her own life.
Mom grew up babysitting for all the neighborhood kids and baby's, and it just came so natural. You play with the toys and sing dumb songs and do whatever the child wants to do. It's fun and when it's over you get to go home, and your experience stays there with the baby.
Now that Frank and mom are getting married, the simple task of babysitting brings on a whole new connotation. Everything starts getting related to her own life.
Annie also a former co-worker and friend of Franks who came over to help said. "let me change the diaper I need to practice." Annie just also got engaged and is thinking about the idea of having babies now that she knows who they will be with.
Babysitting just went from a fun after school job, to practice for when there's a kid of her own.
That's new, weird, confusing and exhilarating.
Now all the skills and the nurture aspect inside mom has come out and is directly thought about in terms of one day when "I have one of my own this will come in handy".
Mom keeps finding out the there are more and more levels and feelings that happen once you have certain things in your life squared away so to speak . . .
All in all the weekend was fun, mom cooked a whole chicken last night for the first time! And she did not burn it or leave it raw (still clucking).
Friday, January 06, 2006
How to plan a wedding on a small budget
This is more of a rhetorical question . . .
Mom and Frank want to have a wedding for as many of their friends and family as possible but don't want it to be fancy pantsy.
Who out there has planned a wedding before on a small budget?
One of the keys mom keeps saying is to tap everyone's assets. And ask tons of favors.
Hmm who wants to volunteer their time and or special skills and or great ideas to mom and frank to make their wedding fun and special?
Anyone? Anyone? Please? . . . .
Mom and Frank want to have a wedding for as many of their friends and family as possible but don't want it to be fancy pantsy.
Who out there has planned a wedding before on a small budget?
One of the keys mom keeps saying is to tap everyone's assets. And ask tons of favors.
Hmm who wants to volunteer their time and or special skills and or great ideas to mom and frank to make their wedding fun and special?
Anyone? Anyone? Please? . . . .
Monday, January 02, 2006
Happy New Year's All!
Ok we will not try to explain away the past two weeks and lack of post. It has been mentioned and now we shall move on . . .
New Years Eve was soo much fun, John, Noreen and Bingo
came in from Boston on Friday night to Stay with Mom and Frank and the party did not stop until they left.
There was Multiple meals that were eaten out, tons of drinks and many funny times.
It sorta culminated with the Annual New Years Eve bash at Kristi's house.
Kristi is a RD at NYU and has a stellar pad in a dorm. Her apartment on the regular market would cost $5000 a month
(it was that big)
All of Mom and Frank's friends went to the party and everyone was drink in and celebrating the possibilities of 2006!
Alex brought really good champagne!
Mom's resolutions this year will be pulling off a big wedding on a small budget and opening her business with Frank.
(More on the business later)
Happy New Year To All!!
New Years Eve was soo much fun, John, Noreen and Bingo
came in from Boston on Friday night to Stay with Mom and Frank and the party did not stop until they left.
There was Multiple meals that were eaten out, tons of drinks and many funny times.
It sorta culminated with the Annual New Years Eve bash at Kristi's house.
Kristi is a RD at NYU and has a stellar pad in a dorm. Her apartment on the regular market would cost $5000 a month
(it was that big)
All of Mom and Frank's friends went to the party and everyone was drink in and celebrating the possibilities of 2006!
Alex brought really good champagne!
Mom's resolutions this year will be pulling off a big wedding on a small budget and opening her business with Frank.
(More on the business later)
Happy New Year To All!!
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Oh man, How cute
This is Alicia and Jude's baby: Anias Nova
When mom went to visit her over Thanksgiving she put her in her crib and made all the animals visit with her.
I like this picture cause I am bigger than her, that won't be true for long.
It was funny how much mom did not want me to lick her. I mean come on I was not going to hurt the baby, I am breed to do well with the elderly and children!
To end this pic takes the cake:
Mom made Frank and Alicia pose like they were an unhappy couple who just had a kid.
HeHe, fun with camera's!
When mom went to visit her over Thanksgiving she put her in her crib and made all the animals visit with her.
I like this picture cause I am bigger than her, that won't be true for long.
It was funny how much mom did not want me to lick her. I mean come on I was not going to hurt the baby, I am breed to do well with the elderly and children!
To end this pic takes the cake:
Mom made Frank and Alicia pose like they were an unhappy couple who just had a kid.
HeHe, fun with camera's!
Friday, December 09, 2005
Snow
Mom made me look like a fool this morning.
Really is all that clothing necessary?
WE live in Brooklyn, not Alaska.
I am a dog, I have hair all over my body.
Anyway, now Kris can make fun of mom she because mom is always making fun of how many clothes she makes Milo wear.
Check out this cute of mom and Kris while your at it.
Soo Heroin Chic . . .
Really is all that clothing necessary?
WE live in Brooklyn, not Alaska.
I am a dog, I have hair all over my body.
Anyway, now Kris can make fun of mom she because mom is always making fun of how many clothes she makes Milo wear.
Check out this cute of mom and Kris while your at it.
Soo Heroin Chic . . .
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
So how do people feel about name changes?
mom is thinking about changing her last name to her "intended":> last name.
She has thought about always taking her husband's last name since she was a little girl, but now since it has become a reality she really has to think about it.
Her worries are not about oh gosh her career is staked on her last name, but it is an identity that she has had for 26 years.
Hmmm ... Not to mention it is a god damn pain in the ass.
What would you all do?
mom is thinking about changing her last name to her "intended":> last name.
She has thought about always taking her husband's last name since she was a little girl, but now since it has become a reality she really has to think about it.
Her worries are not about oh gosh her career is staked on her last name, but it is an identity that she has had for 26 years.
Hmmm ... Not to mention it is a god damn pain in the ass.
What would you all do?
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Engaged
Today Frank asked mom to marry him, and she said yes!
Mom and Frank are getting married!!!!!
I will have a dad! Not just a positive male role model!
More later . . . . . . .Time to Celebrate!
Mom and Frank are getting married!!!!!
I will have a dad! Not just a positive male role model!
More later . . . . . . .Time to Celebrate!
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Out blogged
Mom and I think that Frank is out blogging us. He has gotten more comments than mom got when she first started her blog.
Hmmmm.
Maybe she should not have promoted him if she was going to be so jealous.
In other news
Who wants to know about baby Panda's?
I am going to introduce you to Butter Stick. (a friend Jessemy at mom's work told her about him)
Butter stick or (Tai Shan's) is a baby panda at the Smithsonian museum. He was born here and now is going to be sent back to China when he gets older.
Could you just squeeze him to death?
Check out the slide show!
Hmmmm.
Maybe she should not have promoted him if she was going to be so jealous.
In other news
Who wants to know about baby Panda's?
I am going to introduce you to Butter Stick. (a friend Jessemy at mom's work told her about him)
Butter stick or (Tai Shan's) is a baby panda at the Smithsonian museum. He was born here and now is going to be sent back to China when he gets older.
Could you just squeeze him to death?
Check out the slide show!
Monday, November 28, 2005
Easy button
Sometimes it is easier to have someone tell you what to do, than have to figure it out for yourself.
We are not talking a dictator ship, maybe more of a mentor teacher type person to come in and take an interest in mom's life.
All mom wants is for someone to manage her money, to tell her what choices to make in terms of jobs and her future. And to help her figure out what it is she wants to do and be when she grows up.
It all should be simple right?
It would be if mom did not decide that she needed to work and be in the arts. And feel that every job she has that is not in that category just puts her farther away from this goal that she does not even know anymore.
You know you are about to have a breakdown when:
you tell people your job and you are embarrassed.
You make up white lies to make your life sound better.
You live in the past and just stall and put focus on weird stuff in the present to make it all not see such a big deal.
Getting paid to do what you love, should be easy. If mom wanted to be a doctor/professor/librian/restaurant owner there are career paths with ladder rungs to climb up.
There is no ladder in mom's way. She has to invent one to climb and can't figure out what it's focus will be.
She has so many can not's and dislikes and stipulations that it's almost impossible for her to find something that she does not mind doing in the meantime while she searches for what she wants to be doing forever.
Too bad going back to school to hide is to expensive a detour.
Where is the easy button, does that only exist in 5th grade?
The time when you are smart enough to plan your future but young enough to have your parents still tell you what to do, and how to achieve your goals?
PS please take this survey for a friend!
We are not talking a dictator ship, maybe more of a mentor teacher type person to come in and take an interest in mom's life.
All mom wants is for someone to manage her money, to tell her what choices to make in terms of jobs and her future. And to help her figure out what it is she wants to do and be when she grows up.
It all should be simple right?
It would be if mom did not decide that she needed to work and be in the arts. And feel that every job she has that is not in that category just puts her farther away from this goal that she does not even know anymore.
You know you are about to have a breakdown when:
you tell people your job and you are embarrassed.
You make up white lies to make your life sound better.
You live in the past and just stall and put focus on weird stuff in the present to make it all not see such a big deal.
Getting paid to do what you love, should be easy. If mom wanted to be a doctor/professor/librian/restaurant owner there are career paths with ladder rungs to climb up.
There is no ladder in mom's way. She has to invent one to climb and can't figure out what it's focus will be.
She has so many can not's and dislikes and stipulations that it's almost impossible for her to find something that she does not mind doing in the meantime while she searches for what she wants to be doing forever.
Too bad going back to school to hide is to expensive a detour.
Where is the easy button, does that only exist in 5th grade?
The time when you are smart enough to plan your future but young enough to have your parents still tell you what to do, and how to achieve your goals?
PS please take this survey for a friend!
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Jamaica Plain we go!
It's that time of year again.
the time when cars are rented and I am drugged, stuffed in my bag and put in the backseat of a god damn car.
Can you believe it!
Mom and Frank are going to grandma's house for Thanksgiving.
This year it is going to be a bit different, because we will be staying at John and Noreen's house in Jamaica Plain.
We have to stay there because we are going to be taking care of their dog Bingo,
(That's him in the middle)
while they are eating Turkey else wear.
I am optimistic about the time that we will have, I get to see Alex,
Grandma, Bingo and on Saturday Alicia's baby!!!
(Who's now on the other side of her)
Hopefully along the way I will be slipped tons of Turkey and stuffing!
the time when cars are rented and I am drugged, stuffed in my bag and put in the backseat of a god damn car.
Can you believe it!
Mom and Frank are going to grandma's house for Thanksgiving.
This year it is going to be a bit different, because we will be staying at John and Noreen's house in Jamaica Plain.
We have to stay there because we are going to be taking care of their dog Bingo,
(That's him in the middle)
while they are eating Turkey else wear.
I am optimistic about the time that we will have, I get to see Alex,
Grandma, Bingo and on Saturday Alicia's baby!!!
(Who's now on the other side of her)
Hopefully along the way I will be slipped tons of Turkey and stuffing!
Monday, November 21, 2005
Mom kicked ass
Frank made mom participate in her first bike messenger race ever on Saturday.
It was called Cranksgiving and it was run by the New York Bike Messenger Association.
Oh gosh was mom nervous. She tried every which way to get out if it. Even on her way there she was thinking to herself she could just pop one of her tires and then they could not do the race!
Good thing that she did not because once mom got over her initial fear of being judged, everything was great.
They arrived and people were chill, and milling about. Laying down, people were taking photo's and video.
People were rolling in late, hungover and later. This was not the high competition environment that she thought that it would be.
Maybe it was because this was not an Alley cat, it was a glorified canned food drive race.
It was totally thrilling and fast and it took mom's legs a bit too long to warm up in the cold weather. Espically when they had to book it down the westside highway.
A bit about the course itself.
It went from 34th and 11th Ave to Battery park and up to York and 87th. That is just a rough sketch. The funniest part was that at each stop everyone had to get off their bikes and lock them, and run into a store and buy something that was on the list.
This really made it not only about speed and traffic skill. People were tested on how good they did in a grocery store!
Look at mom and Frank at the start, they are smack dab in the middle!
At the end of the day as tough as it was, and as chicken shit as mom thought she was, she would do that type of race again.
It was called Cranksgiving and it was run by the New York Bike Messenger Association.
Oh gosh was mom nervous. She tried every which way to get out if it. Even on her way there she was thinking to herself she could just pop one of her tires and then they could not do the race!
Good thing that she did not because once mom got over her initial fear of being judged, everything was great.
They arrived and people were chill, and milling about. Laying down, people were taking photo's and video.
People were rolling in late, hungover and later. This was not the high competition environment that she thought that it would be.
Maybe it was because this was not an Alley cat, it was a glorified canned food drive race.
It was totally thrilling and fast and it took mom's legs a bit too long to warm up in the cold weather. Espically when they had to book it down the westside highway.
A bit about the course itself.
It went from 34th and 11th Ave to Battery park and up to York and 87th. That is just a rough sketch. The funniest part was that at each stop everyone had to get off their bikes and lock them, and run into a store and buy something that was on the list.
This really made it not only about speed and traffic skill. People were tested on how good they did in a grocery store!
Look at mom and Frank at the start, they are smack dab in the middle!
At the end of the day as tough as it was, and as chicken shit as mom thought she was, she would do that type of race again.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Africa?
Ok so the time that mom has had to travel is slim and in her past, her trips have also never been long, but now that she has had a chance to save a bit this will change.
Frank and mom are thinking about going on a long trip somewhere, as first it was Australia,
then Eastern Europe maybe around the Mediterranean sea.
Now it looks like it could be Africa.
How happy would mom be! She would be in a place that gives you the opportunity to go and Safari when ever you want!
It would remind me of how it was this past weekend with Milo staying over!
We know how much she likes animals, so this would be the total amazing animal experience! That and the other experience of living on a Farm . . .but we can get in to that later.
Anyone have any trip recommendations?
Frank and mom are thinking about going on a long trip somewhere, as first it was Australia,
then Eastern Europe maybe around the Mediterranean sea.
Now it looks like it could be Africa.
How happy would mom be! She would be in a place that gives you the opportunity to go and Safari when ever you want!
It would remind me of how it was this past weekend with Milo staying over!
We know how much she likes animals, so this would be the total amazing animal experience! That and the other experience of living on a Farm . . .but we can get in to that later.
Anyone have any trip recommendations?
Monday, November 14, 2005
Frank has a blog!
Meet my Positive male role model Frank. He now has a blog. Check it out!
Frank
Joins the blogosphere!
Go Frank Go!
Frank
Joins the blogosphere!
Go Frank Go!
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Vote
Today is the day that everyone should get off their lazy ass's and Vote for Mayor!
No excuses. If you don't know where to go just call the board of elections and ask.
212-Vote-NYC
or log on to
http://vote.nyc.ny.us
Do it!
No excuses. If you don't know where to go just call the board of elections and ask.
212-Vote-NYC
or log on to
http://vote.nyc.ny.us
Do it!
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Wow. A breath can be taken
Mom can now relax sort of.
The show is over. All the family is back to their perspective homes.
She is no longer sick as a dog.
She got to see a movie, and go to the MOMA and eat some great food.
The lyric closed.
Mom and Frank ran in to Antlered Girl on the street.
Prussian blue went into hiding!
Things are getting back to normal.
But she just got a call that her best friend Alicia had her baby!
Woo hoo.
It is a girl 7lbs6oz.
Congrats Alicia.
More on the baby later.
The show is over. All the family is back to their perspective homes.
She is no longer sick as a dog.
She got to see a movie, and go to the MOMA and eat some great food.
The lyric closed.
Mom and Frank ran in to Antlered Girl on the street.
Prussian blue went into hiding!
Things are getting back to normal.
But she just got a call that her best friend Alicia had her baby!
Woo hoo.
It is a girl 7lbs6oz.
Congrats Alicia.
More on the baby later.
Friday, October 28, 2005
Blinded by the claw
Last night I poked mom's eye out.
Well really I ran across her face at 12:30am and scratched her left eye pretty badly.
Mom shot up out of bed screaming and sobbing. She thought that she was blinded. Good thing that I did not get anywhere near the cornia.
Frank of course jumped out of bed and tried to calm mom down. All mom could do was yell and scream at him. He was trying to be the "take charge in emergency situations" type of guy. And all mom wanted to do was punch him in the face cause she was scared she was going to be blind.
Finally after excessive flushing, tons of visean, and a bit more panic, mom started to calm down.
Frank took the high road and decided to drug her with Tylenol PM to make her go to sleep.
Good choice, cause all mom would have done was sit up and panic all night and not let me cuddle with her.
Gosh all I was trying to do was climb over to the top of franks head. Mom's head just happened to be in the way.
The next morning, mom could not get up out of bed, her eye was swollen and she had a "sleeping pill" hang-over.
While Frank was making coffee extra strong, he said "I'm sorry I drugged you", to mom.
I think that because mom is going to be ok, and cause this was an accident. Frank apologizing for drugging mom was my favorite part of this whole eye experience!
sorry mom!
Well really I ran across her face at 12:30am and scratched her left eye pretty badly.
Mom shot up out of bed screaming and sobbing. She thought that she was blinded. Good thing that I did not get anywhere near the cornia.
Frank of course jumped out of bed and tried to calm mom down. All mom could do was yell and scream at him. He was trying to be the "take charge in emergency situations" type of guy. And all mom wanted to do was punch him in the face cause she was scared she was going to be blind.
Finally after excessive flushing, tons of visean, and a bit more panic, mom started to calm down.
Frank took the high road and decided to drug her with Tylenol PM to make her go to sleep.
Good choice, cause all mom would have done was sit up and panic all night and not let me cuddle with her.
Gosh all I was trying to do was climb over to the top of franks head. Mom's head just happened to be in the way.
The next morning, mom could not get up out of bed, her eye was swollen and she had a "sleeping pill" hang-over.
While Frank was making coffee extra strong, he said "I'm sorry I drugged you", to mom.
I think that because mom is going to be ok, and cause this was an accident. Frank apologizing for drugging mom was my favorite part of this whole eye experience!
sorry mom!
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