Archive for January, 2008

Busy Little Bee

I know it has been a while since I posted my “Oh woe is me, Natalie’s gone away what will I do” post.

I’ve been pretty busy. Here are the highlights.

I’ve spent the last two weeks –

Deciding what to call my documentary.. drum roll please…. The Gospel According to Jessica

Talking on the phone with Natalie’s sleigh bed manufacturer. Please deliver her bed before she goes off to college.

Taking Harrison to his eight month appointment … 18.1lbs baby!

Starting a bunch of product review guides – Harrison is in the middle of an organic baby food product review. Too fun!

Missing a NY1 segment because of delays in Chicago. Bad O’Hare. Bad. Bad.

Feeding 46 year old birthday girls baby food.

Waiting on line at Shake Shack in cold weather. Colder weather. The coldest weather ever.

Preparing for snowstorms that don’t show up.

Dropping Natalie off at Tada!

Eating dinner in Long Island with the kids’ Grandma Jenny

Picking out a dress coat at Lord & Taylor for Miss Nat with her Grandma Jenny.

Squeezing into a pair of pants I should fit into by now but blame my holiday food induced coma.

Hearing my eyesight has gotten better.

Getting compliments on my temporary glasses.

Forgetting to order my contacts.

Piling up laundry.

Donating items to the Goodwill.

Renting Sharing cars.

Blogging everywhere else but here.

Witnessing a woman who reminded me of my grandmother have a health problem in the studio.

Jumping on the kid’s bathroom step stool because I thought my brand new, clean apartment had a mouse. (The noise was coming from Madison, the Chinatown turtle.)

Tiling my bathroom floor. OK, maybe I’ve just bought the tile, put it on the floor, picked up and put it back in the box. But it will be tiled soon!

Being cheated on by Jessica who went to Isabella’s with Valerie after I cheated on her and went there with Laine last month. (Two wrongs don’t make a right people!)

Freaking out that the audience giveaways were hiding somewhere in NBC

Getting the best manicure/pedicure but the most frightful eyebrow wax.

Being offered spokesperson positions

Having Crain’s New York Business take my little idea and put it in print.

Dealing with computer problems causing me to miss lunch with Leslie. (Hey Al, when you created the Internet, could you have made more reliable email too!)

Watching pointless horror movies like The Hitcher and ____________.  (I won’t admit the other one.)

Listening to my iPod.

Talking with strangers at airports.Booking segments into spring.

Charging my cell phone one day. Not charging my cell phone.

Eating bad sushi with Donna and then better pizza.

Receiving phone calls from Time Warner Cable at 10 30 at night asking if the technician could come by then to fix my DVR

Writing health articles for American Baby magazine.

Registering for two tradeshows I was planning on missing but now have been guilted into attending.

Hurting my toe. Still hurts. Ouch.

Wishing I didn’t eat at CPK with Jessica the cheat.

Writing product reviews.

Shopping at Banana Republic for segment clothing. Nothing. On Sale. Nothing. Regular priced.

Relying on solely what’s in my closet for my television appearances. (Oh no!)

Checking out so many reality show debuts (or season debuts) that my brain has turned into mush.

To Grandmother’s House She Goes

Natalie leaves today to spend the remainder of her Christmas vacation at my Grandmother’s house.
Six days without her.
Of course she’s in capable hands (that was never a question!) but it always feels so odd when she spends more than a night or two away because I never consider spending that much time away even to travel for work. 
So six days is pretty major.
I know even bringing this up will cause me to hear from a few parents wishing they had someone nearby who could give them a break once in a while.  I know. I know.
But I still feel weird. I just do.
Its six days without making Shirley Temples, running errands, playing the Ladybug Game, having her show me her favorite yoga postures – “This one’s the hardest, mama.”
I think Luke misses her too when she’s gone for a few days and we both look like mopey mopes around the house.
It’s not like the boys and I will have nothing to do while Nat’s away.
We’ll play.
And well, I’ll clean the apartment.
Oh yea, and work.
If all else fails, when Luke and Harrison go to bed, I can always resort to enjoy some reality televisionor not.

My Only New Year’s Resolution

Last year, I made around eight New Year’s resolutions.

Kept six.

(I think. It’s too early in the morning to go searching for blog posts from 365 days ago.)

One thing I know is that being stuck on a plane near a Petri dish full of sick people forced me to not keep one of the big ones.

And it upset me. I cried about it not being fair. Like a whiny baby. Wait. Not even Harrison complains.

But from what I can remember off hand, I did pretty well – resolution wise.

Note to self: Stop flying to O’Hare.

Oh wait, I’ll be there next week. Fun.

New note to self: Fly to and from O’Hare but pack everything that can battle a cold.

Bring on the stomach flu.

Anyway, this year, at a bright old 21 minutes into the New Year, I’ve decided to only make one New Year’s resolution.

Do not edit.

Not even my blog posts which resemble high school hallway tangents.

And not myself. With what I have to say. When it comes to what I believe is the right decision for me.

Which means I’ll probably not post some days.

Who am I kidding…

(But then again, how is that different from my usual posting frequency?!)

Ha!

Hello 2008.

This should be an interesting year.

It could all be so simple but you rather make it hard”

Blog Widget by LinkWithin

Directions

Grab This. Show Love.

January 2008
M T W T F S S
« Dec   Feb »
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
Alltop, all the top stories

Help Fill the Tank