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Dear Readers,
Please do not be alarmed by my lack of posting. I’ve had a busy week. In fact, just yesterday I was in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia again, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
I’ve been kind of busy over on the Mom Road Trip site.
(If you haven’t been over there yet I am with Devra and Meagan and we are currently headed toward San Francisco to go to the BlogHer conference.)
Speaking of which… do you want to see me on the news?
Do you want to see me on the news trying to squeeze my ass into a pair of size 8 jeans?
I knew you did. Here it is.
Now, I will try not to neglect you but I can’t guarantee anything. I don’t even know if I will even be able to access the internet the entire time.
Love,
Sarah
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2:58 pm |
This One Kills Me
Originally uploaded by Sarah606
This picture exhibites several reasons why I am a terrible mother.
1) I let my son play in a public fountain in his underpants.
2) It cracks me up that it looks like he is peeing.
3) I posted this picture on the internet.
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8:25 am |
I always used to think I was really bad at math until one day I realized that if I just looked at the numbers and pictures them with a dollar sign in front of them addition, subtraction and percentages were no problem.
Even though I am the polar opposite of anal retentive (if you’ve ever seen my style of housekeeping you will agree I am telling the truth) but I tend to be OCD when it comes to money.*
When we bought our first house we took out a second mortgage. There was about about a three month period in our lives where Gabe and I were both working full time. We decided to pay off the second mortgage (it was only a couple of thousand dollars) and I got weird about it. I used to send the mortgage company between $1.30 and $150 dollars almost every day. I know it sounds crazy. In fact, it probably IS crazy but it is 100% true. Online banking enabled me to send a payment for $9.68 without penalty.
What was my point? Oh right. So today I was checking our online account like I do every day and I noticed that we had more money than we had yesterday. A LOT more money.
And it isn’t a payday.
The government direct deposited my stimulus check. Wasn’t that sweet of them?
I rarely have nice things to say about our current administration but this sure was nice.
Thanks Uncle Sam.
* And my cds and my Netflix queue. Other than that I’m a mess.
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1:48 pm |
In celebration of the reinstatement of SATGS as a safe site on Google I am running the 3rd Annual Traffic Experiment.
If you have played along in the past you know that all you have to do is come up with the search term that generates the most traffic in a six week period.
Last year Ali won with “Homer Simpson Vagina Tattoo”.
No, I’m not kidding.
So hook me up. Pick one phrase that you think people will be looking for. I don’t care how whacked out it is. Leave your phrase, or word, or sentence in the comments.
And this time I have a prize. The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to Build-a-Bear. You can hook yourself up with a Tropical Hello Kitty.
As I’ve done in the past I will be posting updates with your phrase, a link to you (if applicable) and who is winning at the time.
The winner will be announced on August 1st (ish).
Good luck.
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3:26 pm |
This wonderful woman fixed my Google issues.
I don’t know how she did it, but she did. You should all be able to hear me loud and clear now.
Thanks Sarah.
Love,
Sarah
(PS - Can you guys read me on Firefox 3 too?)
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9:58 am |
I’ve got something really exciting happening in July. I can’t talk about what it is yet, but I CAN tell you what it isn’t:
1) I’m not having another baby.
2) I’m not moving.
3) It does not involve surgery.
4) No animals will be harmed in the making of this. (Assuming everything goes as planned)
5) There may be a conflict with my BlogHer ads. If so, you’ll see me around here a lot more often.
Hopefully I will be able to tell you a little bit about it tomorrow.
Also - coming up this week another episode of What the Hell is Sarah Reading? with a real live prize. (Okay, the prize itself is not alive. You got me.) and the winner of the Father’s Day Giveaway.
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10:18 am |
I may or may not have told you this story before but for some reason I feel like telling it. (If you already know this story feel free to skip this post.)
I went into labor at the 28 week mark of my pregnancy. It wasn’t hard labor but the contractions were causing my cervix to dilate meaning that if at any time I were to actually start having major contractions the babies could be born very quickly. Because of this I was put on hospital bedrest.
I was in the hospital for the very last episode of “Friends” ever. I used to love that show. For a while (back in 1995 - 1996) I wouldn’t miss an episode. I used to get mad if people called me between 8:00 and 8:30 on a Thursday night. But truth be told by 2004 I was completely over it and I had absolutely no intention of watching the finale.
I was happily watching an NBA playoff game when one of my nurses came into my room. She was very excited. She couldn’t wait to watch the stupid “Friends” finale. I really liked this nurse and I didn’t want to disappoint her. I knew she didn’t have a television at the nurses station and that she was stuck monitoring my contractions for at least 30 minutes. (I had to do that twice a day. If I had more than six contractions in any hour I was given a shot of terbutaline to stop the labor.) I felt sorry for her and I turned on the much hyped show.
I hadn’t watched “Friends” in a while and I did not know that Monica and Chandler were expecting to have a baby though a surrogate.
Somewhere during the episode the twist came into play. There were two babies. Monica and Chandler were going to have twins.
So while this episode is on I am having contractions. I am having a lot of contractions. My nurse gave me the shot and they didn’t stop.
But I’ll tell you this - I was damned if I was going to have twins on the same day as Monica and Chandler did. How lame would that be? They weren’t even real people.
I was panicked. It didn’t seem fair. I was going to live the rest of my life as the person who had her multiples at the same time as the Geller-Bings.
Screw that.
Somehow I managed to keep the Goon Squad in my body for seven more days. As unpleasant as the delivery was, at least it was ours alone. No one even mentioned “Friends”.
And now you know how my mind works.
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8:45 pm |
Yesterday I took the Goon Squad to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. We took Metro down with a couple of friends from out of town. We had a great time and again took the train back. Our trip was uneventful, but at 2:45 a metro train on the Orange Line jumped the track.
At 2:45 we were on the Orange Line. According to my calculations it was the train that came right behind ours. About 4 minutes into our trip they started making odd announcements about “single line trains” but I didn’t think anything of it. I knew they were having some switching problems on some of the other lines so I figured it was related to those delays.
As far as I can tell nobody was seriously injured but my kids were with me and the train behind us derailed. That just freaks me out.
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1:41 pm |
I don’t know if it is this heat or what, but I’ve got nothing.
I guess this is a good time to do this meme that Vicky tagged me for. (Nothing like ending a sentence in a preposition in one of the two original ideas in the whole post.)
What was I doing ten years ago? Planning my wedding. Well, technically ten years ago I was planning on getting engaged - but close enough. GAbe and I were living in an apartment just down the street from Universal Studios Orlando. I was working for a production company.
What are five (non-work) things on my to-do list for today:
1. Return the overdue books to the library.
2. Go grocery shopping
3. Call the plumber
4. laundry
5. pay some bills
5 Snacks I enjoy:
1. Bleu cheese and crackers
2, Doritos
3, Brownies
4. Oreos
5. Tootsie Rolls
Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Travel extensively.
2. Buy a house with a bigger master bathroom.
3. Go get my masters degree.
4. Pay for college for all of the kids in my extended family.
5. Buy a suite at Raymond James Stadium and fly down for all of the Bucs home games.
Places I have lived:
Mansfield, Ohio
Tampa, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Pomapano Beach, Florida
Northern Virginia
Jobs I have had:
I worked in a record store.
I worked as a receptionist in a music store.
I leased apartments.
I wrote up proposals for an event planning company.
I worded for a production company. They did lighting and sound.
I sold airline tickets.
I sold electronics components. (Not stereos and DVD players, but the things you use to build stereos and DVD players and highly sensitive top secret equipment that I cannot talk about.)
Stay at Home Mom
Blogger
I’m not tagging anyone, but instead I will ask you one question:
What was your most interesting job?
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9:26 am |
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0 pants
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Summer Vacation
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4:21 pm |
