Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my first born! I love you girl.

I would usually write much more than this on a day my daughter becomes a year older. But...Nip/Tuck will be starting soon. Yes, I do have DVR now, but I don't like to get in on it too late. And one day, when I print off all these blogs and put them in a book, I want my daughter to be able to say, "While I wasn't more important than Nip/Tuck, at least I was important enough to get a blog entry about my birthday on the correct day, what a wonderful mother I have." And I am hoping this comment isn't made to her tatoo artist or therapist.

Like Father Like Son

Their love of the camera is overwhelming.

Bedtime

I am actually singing this.
I got a new matress. I got a new matress. Da Da Da Da Da Da.
Don and I all made a trip to Bruno's today and picked out a lovely, new, soft, matress. So long Don's-still-in-college-and-even-more-cheap-than-he-is-now matress.
And since my dear friend Krisitin (Bruno) begged them, and they have known me almost as long as they have known Kristin, they gave me the family discount. This made Don very happy. I prove to be more useful everyday!

My Car

Remind me again how much I love my car. No, really, please do. The mechanic tells me how much he loves it, but I need more. I think it knows I am mad at it, because it promised me it would wait at least another two months before needing another $944.72 worth of work.

9/11

I remember exactly where I was.
I was driving to work at Catholic Charities, no kids yet. Jack and Ron started saying that a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center in NYC. We watched it on TV all day, none of my appointments showed up.

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Summer

Dirty

Camille and I were pondering life's unanswered questions the other day. No, not the meaning of life, global warming, or the crisis in the Middle East. We pondered how it is that things get so dirty. We understood the obvious, like our husbands underwear, our kitchen floors, and childrens hands'. But what about the others?
Neither one of us could remember eating crackers or emptying our toasters over the silverware drawer. Yet the crumbs in the Rubbermaid holders tell a different story.
I could not remember using the top refridgerator shelf as a fondu pot, but I must have, because when I attempted to get the jelly jar out, it held on to a strong chocolate substance for dear life.
In that same refigerator I discovered that someone must be eating directly out of the vegetable drawer, because it was full of onion skins, two peices of lettuce, a baggie with the end of tomato, and the same chocolate from the top shelf.
Lastly, Camille and I both need to find a way to tell our rude and inconsiderate dogs that they need to put their hair in the trash when they groom and shake instead of leaving it in the corners and under the couch.

It's Not Like I Remember, Like, Any of This

Tiffany, thanks for reminding me I am safely in my 30's.

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE.
2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
3. You can sing the rap to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and can do the Carlton
4. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy.
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
6. You owned those lil' Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
7. You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom
8. Two words: Hammer Pants
9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock"
10. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales" (Woo ooh!)
11. It was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
12. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
13. You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen..and still know the turtles names.
14. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
15. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
16. You played the game "MASH"(Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
17. You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
18. L.A. Gear....need I say more?
19. You wanted to change your name to "JEM". (She's Truly Outrageous.)
20. You remember reading Tales of a fourth grade nothing and all The Ramona books.
21. You know the profound meaning of " WAX ON , WAX OFF"
22. You wanted to be a Goonie.
23. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. ( some of us...head-to-toe)
24. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
25. You took lunch boxes to school... and traded Garbage Pailkids in the schoolyard.
26. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.
27. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
28. You thought She-ra (Princess of Power!) and He-Man should hook up.
29. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.
30. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
31. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"
32. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
33. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.
34. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
35. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
36. Don't worry, be happy
37. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
38. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do..getting yelled at by younger hip members of the f amily)
39. You remember watching both Gremlins movies.
40. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
41 You remember watching Rainbow Bright and & My Little Pony Tales
42. You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot.
43. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
44. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool...and don't even flinch when people refer to them as "NKOTB"
45. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell," The ORIGINAL class.
46. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
47. You just sang those words to yourself.
48. Homemade Levi shorts.. (the shorter the better)
49. You remember when mullets were cool!
50. You still sing "We are the World"
51. You tight rolled your jeans.
52. You owned a banana clip.
53. You remember "Where's the Beef?"
54. You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin' 'bout Willis?"