The kids are off to school but I’m not on my way to a taping at Better TV yet.

I’m in my living room going through DVD features for a season of a television show I’ve already watched.

This isn’t like watching a movie for the 10^th time (read: Hitch), this is me going through clips from the 3 Disc set of Top Gear 10.

Why it’s taken 10 seasons for BBC Video and Warner Bros to bring my favorite car entertainment show to DVD in the U.S. I don’t know but it’s finally here.

And I finally have a copy in my hands.

You would think I was just asked to challenge the Stig (a silent mysterious racing driver on the series) by the way I am excited.

This is Top Gear the show that when rumored to be coming to the U.S. caused me to start thinking of ways to weasel my way onto the show even if the British hosts (Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May) wouldn’t be cast in the U.S. version of the show.

Sure this may seem a little unexpected coming from me (unless you noticed my blog theme – duh!) since moms are supposed to drive minivans (not I) but I was going to get them to think differently. I was going to challenge the Stig even if it meant driving a Prius although I secretly hoped I would be in a Lambo Gallardo Superleggera on the test track. I would be with the U.S. cast of hosts but remembering the antics of the BBC hosts (like crossing the English Channel hoping to break Sir Richard Branson’s record).

Ah a girl can dream. I am passionate about luxury cars. Which is not to be confused with a Marissa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny name the tire marks of a car model type of car fanatic. But I am someone who has missed her stop on the subway because of reading the du Pont Registry.

Never seen any of the 11 seasons of Top Gear? You can find out why viewers in 100 countries love this show by previewing the season here. You can also take a peek at the interviews with Simon Cowell and Helen Mirren.

It’s available on DVD today and many of you will want to own it on DVD after watching the preview.

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I know you’ve been wondering where I’ve been. *snicker*

I’ve gotten handfuls of DMs, texts and emails asking where the heck the new blog posts are. So thank you. I mean thanks for the emails not from those weird men sitting in prison writing me after watching me on early morning TV. I know, I know, who else did I expect to write me? Who else is up that early? Shouldn’t really be a shock to me to get emails asking me to put them in a diaper and spank them. Or to find out people are looking up “ugly foot sex” and are finding this here blog. 

Anyway, you care, you really really care. I find it nice to be thought of. Actually everyone finds that to be nice. Not just me. I’m just like everyone. Just either a bit fatter or a bit skinnier. A bit shorter or a bit taller. But you get what i mean. I’m just like you except I live in the 10028.  And you live in the something else or we’d probably be friends. I’m weird like that. I make friends fast. Blogher 2009 should be a hoot.  (Hmmm maybe I should buy that plane ticket and reserve that hotel room finally…)

Speaking of blogging, I haven’t taken a break from blogging regularly. Really I haven’t.  I’ve been crossing many things off my never ending to-do list. There’s nothing better than the feeling you have after crossing things off your “to-do list”.  You know its true.  Lately, I’ve also been crossing off quite a few things from my list of firsts.  Like publicly trying to set up @mochamomma with @johnlegend. Hey, what can I say, I’m very helpful to my friends. And it helped me cross off #28 on my list - Do onto others as you would like done to you.

With all the stuff I’ve been getting accomplished, one thing has been a constant. I have been spending too much time sitting around waiting (people in charge can be soooo slow. must be all the money in their pockets.) so I’ve been eating pretzels.  Drinking nonvodka cranberry by the carafe.  And of course eating dessert. You know me well. 

Oh and I have a few things going on behind the scenes. Which is just a nice way of saying “Dude I don’t want to talk about it. Because if I wanted to talk about it, I’d be writing about it now.”  But they’ve been keeping me really busy.

It’s a fun idea to talk about my day until I go to press ‘publish’ and then it doesn’t seem interesting anymore.  Maybe in a few weeks there will be 200 posts up because I’ll finally just press ‘publish’ on all of them.

So to recap… I’m cool. I’m eating for twenty (squashing pregnancy emails now. no, i’m not). I’m working.  I’ve been blogging too. Just not making them live. 

Still with me?

Anyway, here’s the most important thing, my kids are healthy. And even happy when I let them log on to Twitter.  I have hugged them so tightly so much over the last week.  Poor kids probably feel like a squished sandwich hanging out at the bottom of a book bag.

The universe is just playing mean jokes on me. Every single day. When the universe stops kicking me in the groin, pulling my hair and calling me names, I’ll be back on a more regular schedule.

Wait, first I have to finish my comedy routine for Comic Strip Live. Everything seems to be taking priority over this blog.

Uh oh, Twitter really is killing blogs. As long as it doesn’t kill the funny. ;) 

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Seven years ago when I started Savvy Mommy it was to provide parents (and expectant parents) with a resource for parenting advice and give them answers to their product questions.

Waking up to a few thousand emails every morning and replying to all of them has always been a daunting task over the years. But it has also been a great feeling for me because families are asking for my help. Exactly what I hoped would happen.

For the first time ever, I have decided to have a “No Question Goes Unanswered” day – one day only.

Tomorrow – Monday, April 6, 2009.

I’ll take the challenge of answering parenting or family lifestyle questions all day whether they are emailed to me or sent as a tweet.

If you are on Twitter, feel free to ask me a parenting or family lifestyle question at @SavvyMommy.

Tell your friends and family. Publicists and journalists on deadline, ask away.

What topics will I be answering questions?

Pretty much everything — pregnancy, parenting, family travel, speed cleaning, summer camp, birthday party ideas, time management, Mother’s Day gift ideas, family car or family mealtime.

And to answer the obvious question - Why am I doing this?

It’s simple.

Because until this weekend; I never realized how upsetting it can be to not receive a response to a question.

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Car Song – Foolish Games by Jewel  “Excuse me, think I’ve mistaken you for somebody else. Somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself“

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