Posted on | June 21, 2010 | 25 Comments
monday again? well at least this monday i’m not hugging a toilet bowl for dear life, so i guess i have that going for me.
i have sure been in a funk the last couple of days though. i fully blame the weather, who has decided that summer is unnecessary for people in the pacific northwest. yesterday was 53 and rainy and it made me want to get stabby on a weatherman. i suppose it isn’t their fault…but i need someone to take it out on, why not the people who deliver me the bad news?
today is the first day of summer. my fun family summer list hangs in the kitchen, mocking me, not a single task checked off. a bunch of things i desperately want to go see and do and enjoy with my family, alas it rains. i know what you’re probably thinking – um, hello you live in the SEATTLE area. but for those of you who haven’t had the privilege of living in or visiting the NW, our summers are THE reason we don’t all run screaming to california. our (usually) june through late september weather is gorgeous, perfect and makes us forget the fact that we need special fake windows for our seasonal depression (literally thinking i need one soon). the problem with me and rain is that it makes me legitimately angry. getting rained on, getting my feet wet, my hair wet – all bad. all very, very bad. i can deal during the months in which it is supposed to rain, but once june hits – NO.
last summer we spent every weekend in the kiddie pool, grilled corn and burgers, sipped lemonade and got our daily dose of vitamin d, starting before memorial day weekend. here we are the end of june and all we have to show for “summer” is last weekend. last year around this time, this was happening:
this year i’m wearing a cardigan, SOCKS, and the heat in our downstairs is on. last night we arrived home to our neighbor burning a fire in her fireplace. H is wearing her jammies from christmas time (yes, she still fits in them and they are long sleeved with pants, perfect for you know WINTER WEATHER). there is so many things wrong with this picture. instead of being outside at the park or the zoo or the beach, we are stuck inside.
see how weird it makes us?
post summary: i have anger issues re: weather.
ooh! so Top Baby Blogs has reset it’s numbers again. i’d love to stay at least on the first page because of all the awesome readers this site has brought me. some of my favorite blogs and blog friends are people i’ve met through TBB. all it takes to vote for The Haps is 2 clicks, and you can vote daily. whilst you’re there, check out all the other rad blogs on the list! all kinds of super fun, cute sites with great writers and great stories to read. just click below to vote for us! and of course, thanks :]
Posted on | March 8, 2010 | 15 Comments
you know when life gets you down? all at once? and you feel like screaming and crying and eating a pie and hooking up a wine iv and then eating a pasta & cheese mountain and yelling obscenities at old defenseless people and puppies and almost for a second doubting that unicorns exsist?
yeah, me either.
that was not me last week at all. i wasn’t totally sick, dealing with a sick baby toddler, and almost sick husband. i wasn’t. i was not at all tired, mopey, anxious, annoyed, cursing my neighbor, or eating everything in sight by methodically going back and forth between salty and sweet (cadbury egg – popcorn. ice cream – chips. jelly beans – pasta with bacon) (OMG i just gained 6 pounds typing that). i absolutely did not cry because my throat hurt again for the millionth time this season and i most certainly did not tweet about how miserable i was for days.
in no way did i get my first snarky comment on my little old blog (I HAVE ARRIVED!) and figure out it’s probably someone i know. i also totes didn’t cry rocking my fevered sick kid in the middle of the night while she was gulping for air through her stuffy nose. i did not nearly go blind for a second with rage when the cat barfed immediately after i vacuumed and then pushed the nursery door open moments later at the very beginning of nap time.
EXCEPT FOR THAT I DID.
i did do all those things. last week blew the big one. last night i went to bed hoping this week would be better. monday didn’t fail me. thank you monday!
today i awoke feeling much better healthwise, and so did H. we enjoyed breakfast together and she even snuggled with me on the couch. i was able to blog during her nap (did you enter the giveaway? did you? DID YOU?) and she even sat still for piggy tails. we drew on her magnadoodle and played with her new bff, a red balloon the guy at the jiffy lube gave her yesterday (that sadly, is going to make the big night night any second – hims gonna die). scot decided he was going to go play the drums after work so i called my mom to see if she wanted the monster for a few hours. she picked her up after work and i? ran myself a hot bath, poured a glass of white and marinated in my own happiness. a very good day. exactly what i needed.
thank you monday.
post summary: last week can go fall of a bridge. the forecast for this week however is awesome with a side of BOOYAH. note to self: buy red balloons.
Posted on | January 22, 2010 | 17 Comments
also see folder “my gaydar is way off” (which also contains my crush from 7th grade and the character Tyler Briggs from nbc’s ‘trauma’). today my tweeps delivered the sad news to me that one of my biggest celebrity crushes would never give me a second glance. the following is a play by play. try not to drown in my tears as the scene progresses. and please watch your step, those are pieces of my broken silver fox-loving heart.
i mean, right?
hold the phone.
(see i’m not the only one)
(crying in my coffee here, watching the Coopster on Ellen and trying not to scream “why Andy, WHY?”)
(he was after johnny depp but before josh duhamel) (obv)
hours later, still sad:
seriously, not gonna.
(another one bites the dust. love the capitals, shows the true sadness i share)
this was the photo attached, my super up-to-date board on our fridge.
all of which led to my current board on our fridge:
LE SIGH. i mean, he just saved a little boy in haiti from looters. i’m all giving him yet another gold silver(fox) star for hotness and he’s all not liking chicks. and don’t go feeling bad for my husband that i have a huge crush (on the apparently gay) anderson cooper, because someone likes looking at heather graham and natalie portman (not that i can blame him. well on the NP front, HG? meh). this one is going to take me a while to get over. apparently the rest of world already did, back in ’08 when this was discovered. i’m blaming it on a mommy haze, and will be sulking if you need me.
Posted on | January 9, 2010 | 4 Comments
or my 200th post, something phenomenal, or at least fun, should be going on here. sorry to disappoint, but it’s prolly going to be crap. i’m sick. Scot is sick. H is almost done being sick. this is our normal date night, and instead, the little monster is at my moms so we can have a romantic evening of theraflu, soup and a 8pm bedtime. try not to be jealous, ok?
this is the part where i would declare myself a hot mess, but i think you have to be somewhat hot in order to be that. and people? i am not. i’m surrounded by a pile of used tissues (i’d totally post a picture because it’s that mountainous, but honestly i think avian flu can be spread though blog contact and well, i like you.) and my under-nose is raw. i am the epitome of those new nyquil commercials that show uncomfortably sick people sleeping with their mouths open that make you giggle, until that person is you.
last night, i took daytime theraflu before going to bed. bad idea. i felt all kinds of hyped up and when the cat threatened to cough up a hairball (twice), i think i may have thrown her right into the wall (ok A, i am really ocd about gross stuff being on my comforter, and B, i think the theraflu made me a whackadoo. sorry meow meow) in fear that she would harf it on my head. i got NO sleep, tossed and turned all night, and was miserable. now i’m here whining about it to you, when i should be giving away something cool because it’s my 200th post. sigh.
i have nothing cool to say or giveaway. sorry guys. not only do i not have anything, but i’m actually going to ask you some favors (how big of a jerk am i? ok, don’t answer that). one, someone (seriously, was it you?) nominated this blog for a favorite mommy blogger over at babble. so if you like us, please head over there and hit the thumbs up button by our name.
also, on our FB fan page, upload a ugly picture of your baby. it’s just for fun and came about after i took possibly the most ridiculous photo of Harper EVER. i want to see some oogly pics of some cute babies. the ones that people have posted so far are hilarious! so go over and do that. now.
might as well click on the top baby blogs since you’re here. (i think i just heard the interwebs say “what else do you want from me, blood?!”)
me? i’m off to see who can whine louder, me or Scot. happy 200th, readers.
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