August 12, 2008 | Friends, I Love Beer, If It's For Free It's For Me

I have a one day turnaround.

Yesterday I got home from Albuquerque and tomorrow I leave for Hot Springs. Today consists of doing laundry and trying to procure a broadband card so that I can do my job while on the road. I also had library books to return (the library is becoming like the video store for me. With all of my late fees it will soon become cheaper to just start buying books again.) and grocery shopping.  Then I have to repack for myself and the kids before we leave in the morning.

It took me a while to wrangle up the Goon Squad and convince them that we had to go get a broadband card. I can’t imagine why they weren’t excited about it. Maybe if I had mentioned it would enable me to show them YouTube videos of transformers and princesses in the car they would have been a little bit more motivated.

So just as I was thinking this was going to be a pretty crappy day the greatest thing happened.

The DHL guy showed up at my door. (DHL, that is the yellow one right? You know, not Fed Ex, UPS or the Post Office, but the other one.) He had a big heavy box for me.

This particular box sloshed and it required someone over 21 to sign for it.

It was beer! For me!

I had completely forgotten but back in April I was in a wedding. Two of my favorite people married each other and for my bridesmaid gift they gave me years membership to The Beer of the Month Club.

Now you see why they are two of my favorite people.

I know I said beer of the month, but actually I get a mixed 12 pack every other month, or maybe it is every three months, but today was my lucky day!

Ever since that nice man brought beer to my door I have been in a good mood. I haven’t even had any yet but just knowing it is chilling in my beer fridge makes me happy.

May 7, 2008 | Friends, My Soapbox, Other Bloggers, TV

How great is it to turn on The Today Show* and see your friends on there?

Kristen, Jill, Mir and Heather all did great jobs.

I enjoyed the segment even if Kathie Lee Gifford is pretty much a tool and obviously hasn’t spent much time reading blogs. Did she actually say she was afraid of the computer?

She is worried about Dooce exposing her child to people, yet I know what Kathie Lee’s kids names are and what they look like too. What is the difference between talking about your personal life on a blog or talking about your personal life on a morning talk show. Oh, right. People are still reading blogs on a regular basis.

Photo used with permission from Mir.

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* Fine, you caught me, I never would have just turned on The Today Show by myself. I find it mind-numbing, but I got the tweet from Kristen that they were airing the segment this morning and so I set up my DVR.

March 18, 2008 | Friends

When I was in 10th grade I started hanging around with a girl named Jennifer. (yes that is her real name).

One day I was in Spanish and this girl I didn’t know, but who was also in that class walked up to my desk and said “Watch out for Jennifer. She will stab you in the back.”

That is how I met Lori. I thought she was crazy and also kind of a bitch. Why would she just walk over to a stranger’s desk and start trash talking my new friend?

Six weeks later Jennifer tried to steal my boyfriend.

Six weeks and one day later I marched over to Lori’s desk in Spanish and told her she was right and I should have listened to her.

That was 19 years ago. Lori and I have been friends ever since.

Lori was a bridesmaid at my wedding and next month I will return the favor when she marries Matt.

So you can imagine how excited I was when she scored a job in Northern Virginia.

November 2, 2007 | Friends, Other Bloggers, ROTFLMAO Award

I am guilty of playing favorites. Not so much with my kids, but with bloggers.

I’ve been known to nominate my friends (my real life friends) for blog awards before. I know it seems like nepotism, but also I think it can also be chalked up to the fact that I hang out with these people for a good reason.

In Lumpyhead’s Moms case it because she cracks me up.

So I am nominating her post - well, not even so much her post as much as I nominate her son’s Halloween costume for the ROFL award for October.

Lumpyhead was the best DJ Lance Rock EVER. And Kudos to LHM for making the costume. She is my hero and my friend.

And if you don’t know who DJ Lance Rock is clearly you don’t watch enough Yo Gabba Gabba.

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For the rest of the October nominations go visit Chicky Chicky Baby or Metro Mama.

October 4, 2007 | Friends, Other Bloggers, Sports

Two days ago I got an e-mail from my friend, fellow twin parents and mommyblogger Gidge.

It said this:

So since our respective beloved teams are playing this weekend………wanna make it interesting?
I’m suggesting that whomever loses has to write a post about how great the other one is …BLOG CHALLENGE? UP TO IT?

So of course I jumped on it.

The problem? Her team is the reigning Super Bowl champions The Indianapolis Colts and my team is The Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Her starting quarterback is Peyton Manning. Mine is Jeff Garcia.

Her starting running back is Joseph Addai. Mine is out for the season.

And the game will be played in the RCA Dome. The Colts ALWAYS win at home.

Anyway - Go Bucs!

I’ll be over here writing my essay about how rad Gidge is. But I’ll be writing it with my fingers crossed.

And I’ll be happy to never have to use it.

Stranger things have happened. I mean - I accidentally made two people at the same time. I lost a contact on my cat. Harlequin NASCAR romance novels exist. The Bucs could win.

But I won’t be holding my breath.

September 19, 2007 | Friends, Other Bloggers, Pictures, Sports, badassery

My Friends Have Cool Friends

Originally uploaded by Sarah606

Check it out - Mike Ditka, Mommy at Work and Gale Sayers.

Clearly her job is cooler than mine. I bet neither of these guys spit zucchini on her yesterday. I mean - we didn’t discuss it, but I think it is safe to assume that they didn’t spit anything on her.

I personally cannot remember running across any hall-of-famers in my line of work, unless you count watching “SportsCenter” at nap-time.

Come to think of it - I get to watch “SportsCenter” at nap-time. Maybe my job isn’t so bad after all.

May 21, 2007 | Friends

I carry my camera with me almost everywhere. So why don’t I have one single picture from our dinner last night at Chris and Beth’s house? (I know I should list them in alphabetical order or put Beth first because I knew her first, but I still have trouble with making things that end in a “s” possessive.)

Because the kids were playing so nicely that we actually got to talk. Like grown ups. I’n not kidding. We talked about books and movies and music and all of the things I used to talk about before The Goon Squad was born.

It was really nice. Even though we’ve met a lot of really great people since we moved up here it is always so cool to make friends with a new couple. It is that comfortable dynamic where everyone just gets along with everyone else. It is also really nice to be able to talk about kids and not talk about kids with the same people. Does that make any sense?

They don’t mind me changing Ian’s poopy diaper on their very expensive area rug, and hermaphrodite midget porn only came up in conversation once. Well, maybe twice, but that was it. At least as far as I remember. There was yummy lasagne and wine too. I’d love to blame the hermaphrodite midget porn thing on the wine, but Chris doesn’t drink so really we have no excuse for that. And even though Ian knocked Mia down and made her cry and Claudia dumped an entire bowl of pasta on their floor, I still think they want to hang out with us again.

(Suckers.)

I still wish I had taken at least one picture.