Random Daily Thoughts
1) I hate the whole “green” phenomenon. I don’t hate the concept behind it, I hate the stupid green shirts, the idea that someone freaks if you are not “crunchy” and I really hate the word crunchy. WTF does that mean anyway? Crunchy like lettuce cause its green? The greenest thing I do is pee in the shower. I am pretty sure humans will die if we screw up the planet and the planet will still live on-with or without us. No biggie.
2) I have been seeing so much “God/fate/meant to be” stuff used in a negative fashion lately. Especially on twitter. “I’m praying for your salvation.” “Stop being like the devil.” God doesn’t twitter. God doesn’t monitor twitter. Stop using God as a way to be an asshole.
3) I saw a shining example of parenting at Chick-Fil-A yesterday. A mom threatening to take a toy back to the store if her 2.5 year old didn’t eat all her food. For one, you already bought the damn toy so totally empty threat and we both know your not taking it back. Two, the irony of telling your child to eat all their fast food, even if they don’t want it, almost made me burst out laughing.
4) Something in the Walmart parking lot today had death smell all over it. I looked everywhere because it was so bad and saw no dead animals. There was, however, a black car with black windows parked next to me and I couldn’t help but wonder if there was a body in the trunk.
5) I’m trying to figure out how the hell I am going to survive on a cruise, for 4 days, without Internet. I’m hyperventilating at the thought. I am also wondering how many things my cats will pee on for being pissed off that we are gone.
6) So far I don’t have to open up Bambina Ballerina. My income online is now competing with it just fine. I do miss the creativity though. I’m not sure how to let that part go. I need a hobby. Maybe I should get a bike. Or a boyfriend.
7) I wonder if I am pregnant. I’m not trying to get pregnant. But I’m not preventing the pregnant either. Is it against the law to name a child ‘accident’?
8 ) Our blog is changing to CMS and I have a headache just using that word. I cant decide on a template, I can’t decide when to switch, I cant’ decide how I want it to all be laid out. I hate making these decisions because they are so permanent. Will everyone leave when the layout changes? You love me for my pretty graphics, don’t you.
9) I’m ignoring email. In all my accounts. If you email me, I’m ignoring you. I hate email. I hate email like I hate the invisible blackberry I don’t own. This is why I have a crappy phone…so I don’t have to talk to anyone. The thing is if I don’t email someone back, they reemail and 40 emails turn to 140 overnight. I am in email hell. Save me……..
10) I have no less than 5 loads of laundry to do and I am playing on the Internet. I should have some sort of timer on my washing machine that locks down my computer till its running. Now wouldn’t that be a useful product…
~Trisha
Wishing I had read this post earlier (specifically #9). Just emailed you
I so need number 10… but I’d probably disable it.
I opened up my feedreader today… 310 blog posts to read. I’m wo behind. My laundry room… and every other room in the house… is the same way.
I’m drowning! Hopefully once the baby is consistently sleeping through the night I’ll get everything back under control.
I like the washing machine idea!
Congrats on the move to a CMS; before kids I was a CMS implementation specialist. It should make your site so much easier to manage, of course that depends on what CMS you chose!
“Stop using God as a way to be an asshole” What a great laugh to start the day. I have unfollowed a lot of people due to small minded views and them using Twitter as a platform to preach on. I live in the South, I have enough people here trying to save my soul without having someone trying to do it on Twitter.
Haha “accident”. We have three surprises of our own.
At least you had the cohones to say it out loud!
I don’t think you can name a kid accident, but if you want to get exotic, try making it sound more Italian: Mia Mistake-A — that should go over well…
I’ll be around! I have to say that I hate the term crunchy as well. it always reminds me of crusty underwear! Would you please invent that timer on the washer. I need one for my washer SOOOO bad! How about one for the laundry basket as well. Because my laundry baskets are starting to think they are being transformed into dressers. @@
You certainly brighten my day and say things I only think in my head!
Twitter has been turning me off lately and I’ve been doing a lot more unfollowing than following! Where do these people find me?
I just wanted to tell you that my 4 laundry baskets are full of clean clothes lined up in the living room from one wall to the otheracting as a baby gate to our fireplace. When they are empty my baby can push them out of the way with his tummy. So that’s my excuse to not “hurry” and fold the laundry. :O)
You are friggin’ hilarious. I think that’s why we’ll all still be here after the CMS change…er, whatever that is.
Thanks for the reality post. Loved it.
oops, it should read..
and THERE they are called granola chompers…
LOL, funny.
Cover your bed so you dont have to wash it when you get back from the cruise because they peed all over it.
My sister lives in Or. and they are called granola chompers…
my 9 y/o thinks the government should give everyone solar panels… now he plans on being President AFTER he’s done with his medical career and after he becomes Governor of Arkansas, so look out everyone President Velasco will give you solar panels
LOL I love this post
@ Chris:
LMAO Love it!
Yeah, that green movement (We call them Granolas over in theses parts) pisses me off, too. Why? Because in order to “go green” you have to be rich, and that sucks because it’s the peons like us who need the most help paying the bills! I would love to have a set of solar panels on my roof. Boy, would that cut my electricity bill down. Helping the planet, I’m sorry to say, is only secondary for me. My family’s bottom line is more important.
Unfortunately, solar panels, on demand water heaters (which are electric, by the way) and anything else with an energy star label is way over priced a far out of my budget. So “going green” is not exactly feasible for the little guy and it should be. Have you ever seen the prices for all natural baby items (shoes, clothes, crib sheets/blankets)? Bloody expensive!
Where is all this “one world, global community” crap we were promised? Oh, yeah, we need to pay for that privilege.
Number 2? I’m fairly new to twitter, so I haven’t seen any of that kind of stuff, but I will always say a sincere prayer for someone that asks for it. I have, however, been told by a friend of mine that she gets emails from readers of her blog telling her she isn’t giving them the posts they want to read, they don’t like her template, there aren’t enough pics of her daughter, etc. Basically, they are telling her how to run her blog and are extremely vocal and pissed off when she doesn’t live up to their expectations. How friggin crazy is that? We decided I am going to put a paypal donate button on her blog and make it a “donation driven content” blog. LOL Content will only be as good as the donations she gets…that ought to shut them up, don’t you think?
I would have called the police on that car in the Wal`Mart parking lot. What if it was a dead body? You could have solved a murder case and gotten a reward! LOL Of course you are in Alabama, so it could have been a deer…or roadkill!
You will survive the cruise. Enjoy yourself.
I don’t know what CMS is, will is make MomDot look that different?
I’m behind 10 loads of laundry (or more, really). I wish I had something like that for all my cleaning stuff…Internet no worky until washing machine is going and the vacuum has been used…that would be cool.
Congratulations if you are pregnant.
{Another one of my novel long comments. Sorry}
I spent about 2 weeks w/o a computer so i think im living proof that one can survive w/o internet!! besides why would you think about the internet when your on vacay
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I have no idea what CMS is, but i guess ill stick around after it changes
#7 i remember reading an article, some parents named their child adolf hilter and were denied ordering a birthday cake and i think( my memory sucks) child services came along- To be on the safe side dont name it ‘accident’
For having nothing to say, I sure learned a lot.
I went 2 weeks without internet in Jan and Feb. I think you will be just fine. Plus won’t you be busy practicing getting pregnant with Chris
You don’ even want to get me started on the Green movement. I don’t buy that we destroyed the earth in less than 100 years. If CO2 is the problem then every time I drink a soda I contribute to global warning. Oh, and every time we breath we are doomed. You want to solve global warming? Instead of spending billions of dollars on green technology, spend $1B on trees. They are God’s natural CO2 scrubbers and they add beauty to the earth.
If you are preggo I am glad I got to take part in it. If you are not do you want to practice?
I hate the whole “green’ movement too.
Make sure to close your bedroom doors so the cats at least don’t pee on your beds while you’re gone.
Don’t worry about naming your kid ‘accident’ if you are pregnant. We called our 2nd son ‘plan B’ until we came up with a real name, and we still refer to him as Plan B when his older brother acts like a fool.
And here you thought you had nothing to say today….. lol
I hear ya on the “green”. I’m not very green myself.
That black car/bad smell thing sounds creepy as hell!
I would so love to have a washer/dryer like that! I would get so much more done if I *had* to! lol
I won’t ignore you when you switch, I’m here no matter what!