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by Marilyn on October 6, 2008

Mondays sure do suck, don’t they? I hate to use the word “hate” a lot, because it’s such a strong feeling and to use it too often is to a) dilute it’s potence and b) foster a lot of unwanted negativity in your life. But… it’s Monday. And if you can’t hate Mondays then what can you do? So I decided that for one day a week I would just embrace the hate and make a list of things that are ticking me off. Some Mondays I might not run this feature. After all, not every Monday sucks and there’s only a finite list of things to hate each week, right? But gosh, I’ll bet getting some negativity off my chest (and ever-so-helpfully spewed into the Internet!) will help get me through the day.

I hate freecreditreport.com commercials. I hate the message that the most of them send (which is that someone else is often to blame for the dude’s poor fortune… the one where he rants about his wife’s poor credit and wishes he’d known about it so he wouldn’t have married her is the worst). I also hate the stupid songs the guy makes up. This is more true for the more recent commercials. The only one that is halfway decent is where he’s working at the restaurant and is dressed up like a pirate. The rest SUCK. Especially the “rap” one. Makes my ears bleed. So not only do I like the image they’re trying to put forward, but I hate the songs. HATE HATE HATE. Plus, (as if I needed more reason to hate them) it’s all a lie anyhow. NICE.
I want to kick McCain and Palin and their stupid campaign in the ass. I don’t want to vent too much, and disturb whatever Republican readers I might have, but DAMN. The more I hear, the more I want to not only tear my hair out but theirs as well. I’m so tired of the lies, half-truths and the manipulation of the public. Why can’t we stick to issues instead of hinting at some nebulous (and pretty much untrue) associations with racial overtones? SERIOUSLY? Honestly, it’s obvious to me that McCain is just lashing out because he knows Obama has the upper hand right now and it’s just sickening. This month can’t pass quick enough, as far as I’m concerned.
Charter cable is really pissing me off. For the last week we’ve had really spotty service. Anything over channel 100 is hit and miss these days. Which really sucks on a MONDAY when I really wouldn’t mind some NOGGIN to keep Liam happy. I don’t want to watch Nickelodeon because of all the obnoxious commericals. And since the service is spotty, I can’t even call up Blue’s Clues on On Demand. AAARGH. At least the box isn’t overheating every 30 minutes anymore but COME ON. We pay for this service and we should be able to watch HBO whenever we damn well feel like it (thank god it was working last night so I didn’t have to miss “True Blood”!). I’d have them send a service technician out but I’m scared to death that they’ll deem the problem is on “our end” and bill us up the wazoo for it. NO THANKS. Right now, I’m just counting the days until our contract is up and we can switch back to satellite.
I hate pretty much anyone who shops at Walmart (myself excluded, of course). I swear, that store has the RUDEST shoppers of any store on the planet. I’m talking about the clumps of people who are always in your way when you want to get something off the shelf, but then if you are in THEIR way then you get the Glare of Death. I swear, I think there’s a new syndrome out called Walmart Rage. Everyone in there is just so MAD all the time. And yes, that includes me. I swear, my blood pressure was through the roof when we were in there on Saturday. WTF? God, I wish we had more Targets. And at least ONE Super Target.

So what are you hating this (not-so) fine Monday? Feel free to share the venom in the comments. Let Monday have it!

by Marilyn on August 18, 2008

Everything is so cluttered. And it’s not just my house (though, lord in heaven, the clutter in this house threatens to eat us all). My mind is filled with useless clutter. So, since I have to start somewhere and it’s unlikely I’m going to be starting with the house itself anytime soon, I’m starting with my mind.

How to you de-clutter your mind? You spit out the random snippets of things that are dancing around in there, clamoring for your attention in a blog post, that’s how. Now you know.

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Thanks for everyone’s questions about WordPress! Keep them coming! I’m not sure when I’m going to start the series, but I’m thinking it’ll be sometime this week. So stay tuned! I’m seeing a lot of the same sorts of questions so that tells me what you all REALLY want to know. Which is good! And I’ve got some great ideas. Hopefully, I can help some people out. And if I lure just a few people away from the vile clutches of Blogger, then I will consider it a raging success.

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Liam is feeling unwell today. He was unwell yesterday too. Runny nose, slight fever. General crankiness (beyond the normal “I’m 2 years old and a little shit”, at least). Poor guy. He was very upset this morning when we couldn’t find his dolphin. Because heaven forbid the child should have to drink his morning milk without dolphin in hand. I’m hoping he starts feeling better before he a) infects me and or b) infects Evie. I do not want Evie to get sick and I can’t afford to feel under the weather right now. Plus this is a particularly sucktastic week for Kile at work so he can’t afford for me (or him) to be sick right now either. Sick, sick, go away!!

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Evie is sleeping in our bed pretty much full time now. I know I had mentioned putting her in her crib a bit before, but we’re kind of moving away from that. At least for now, we are. Liam was 10 months before he slept in his crib and until then he had slept in our bed for naps and bedtime. Since Evie is just shy of 5 months old, I figure we’re sort of jumping the gun anyhow. She has already been taking naps in our bed, though admittedly, she often draws me in with her for at least 20 minutes or so. I took a cue from what we did with Liam and the past several nights have been taking her up to bed when Kile’s putting Liam down and start nursing her. Kile comes in when he’s done with Liam and reads a story to Evie while she finishes up and then it’s off to dreamland she goes!

So far, it has worked great. She’ll wake up maybe once before I go to bed, and it’s usually shortly after she goes down so I figure she’ll stop doing that fairly soon. It sure has been strange to have the evenings entirely kid-free around here. Nice, but weird.

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Hey, I’m doing my own ads! I toyed with BlogAds (again… I had run them once upon a time but… meh) and for the last week I tried Performancing ads. Which was well and good until I got an email from a sweet gal telling me that she had been trying to purchase ad space on my blog with the Performancing ads and kept erroring out. Well, shoot, that’s not going to do! So I found a WordPress plugin and am serving up my own ads now. Middle-man be darned!

So this fabulous gal and her WAY cute products are now my very first advertisers! Check out the link under the BlogHer ads in the righthand sidebar. Click away and let her know that you think she rocks too (cuz she so totally does).

And if you’re interested in advertising, check out my new advertising page for details. Look at me, trying to be all legitimate and stuff!

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It’s less than two weeks until I get my iPhone. The waiting is TORTURE.

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How awesome are the Olympics this year? I barely remember the Olympics in Athens or the one in Sydney. I guess I’ve been a) busy and b) uninterested. I think Twitter has really helped the Olympics be awesome this time around, as have all the blogs. Getting to be excited about it with a bunch of other people at the same time what makes it fun, right? GO PHELPS. That man could probably get away with murder right about now. Golden boy, indeed! Shoot, all the American athletes have been amazing this year. The gymnasts just blow my mind, for example. I’ve even enjoyed watching the athletes from the other countries. There have been ome great stories this year and I love watching the human spirit at work! Good examples of this: the women’s marathon and the runners from Jamaica. I’m going to miss these things when they’re done.

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Good gravy I’m tired today. Trying not to rely on the Rockstar too much this week but I think I’ll have to make an exception today.

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I stop and realize where I was at one year ago today and I can’t believe it’s been a whole year and that everything last year really happened (well, maybe not the positive pregnancy test part because I do have a wee, adorable baby to cuddle this year because of that!). Last August was a nightmare. I wouldn’t say this August is a dream or anything, though. I wish I could just go ahead and get this funk behind me once and for all. The thyroid pills help, but I still have more “off” days than “on” days

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Okay, time to move on with the day. I think I’ll go get some Rockstar and give my ass a proverbial kick. Do Mondays always suck this much?

by Marilyn on June 30, 2008

This is how it gets to be 5pm on a Monday afternoon and I still haven’t posted. First: You make it a Monday. The end.

GAH. Of course, you all read about my weekend, so you should understand where I’m coming from. It’s hard to come down from something like that. I’m pretty sure there wasn’t near enough alcohol consumed either. In fact, come to think of it, I don’t think I had ANY alcohol! Dangit! I hate when that happens.

My online time has been very broken up today. A few minutes here, a few minutes there. Not a lot of time for a) posting, b) reading blogs, c) commenting on blogs (goes without saying), or generally getting anything done around here that remotely resembles housework. I did do some online shopping in the last 24 hours, which you would think would be fun but is NOT. We’re still trying to make staying at Westin on Friday night work so that means corners are being cut EVERYWHERE. I need to find/raise/make/save money wherever I can manage. So far, not doing so hot (see the above online shopping). It’s a work in progress. And the stuff I bought is sorta “gotta have” anyhow, so I guess that makes it… okay?

Anyhow. All of that aside, I wanted to share some girly goodness with you all. Witness what my husband did to Evie when he got her dressed yesterday morning:

He stuck a bow to her head! Actually, it’s a “clippie” that has a bow on it (parents of girls know exactly what a “clippie” is, right?). Anyhow, he used the ol’ Karo syrup routine and stuck it on there. And, yeah, it was kinda adorable. But it was a hot day. And the bow would not stay put. Soooo, when we were at Walmart, I searched for some simple headbands. You know what a tall order that is? Now, I generally dislike baby headbands because they all look ridiculous to me. All satiny, lacey, spangley… BLEH. No thank you. My baby is not a Bratz doll, thankyouverymuch. But, lo and behold, I was actually able to find some SIMPLE headbands. No adornments (well, one had an applique style butterfly on it, but it was very understated). SOLD. And now, we have something to clip the clippie to!

Kill me now. I know I said I would never do the headband thing (did I ever say that on this blog? If not, know that I said it in person. Often.) but this is CUTE. So I guess this means I’ve joined the Dark Side or something. Whatever. Like you could resist these cheeks:

She will conquer BlogHer ‘08 with those cheeks, mark my words.