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31 Oct 2013 2 Comments
in I need to tell you about this right now Tags: candy, Costume, dress-up, Fall, Fruit, Halloween, Harvest, Hippie, humor, Kids, October, parenting, Party, Photo, the 60's, trick or treat
No – That isn’t some tricky baiting title to get you to read this blog….it really is a hippie and a banana.
(the banana wanted to be a trash can, but then the hippie found the banana right next to her dreads in the costume store – where else would you be if you were a banana costume – and the rest is history. Or science. Or psychology.)
Happy Halloween!
17 Jun 2013 2 Comments
in Brave New World Tags: Beach, Bus, End of the School Year, Family, fish, Gift, Halloween, humor, Summer, Teacher, Vacation, Yankees
The last few days of school are here. No more lunches I didn’t make. No more papers I forgot to sign. No more reading logs I forgot to send in. Phew. It’s been a long year.
I can’t wait to go into summer mom mode. Summer mom is so much nicer and calmer than, say, holiday-crunch mom – or worse yet, new-school-shopping-at-the-last-minute mom.
I asked my boy what we should get for his teacher as a thank you gift – lord knows she deserves it. He had just finished telling me about “John the bus driver”. He’s a Yankees fan with 3 grandkids. He likes to fish and go to the beach. He loves candy and once he let all the kids eat leftover Halloween candy on the way home. Thanks John. Ok – so I’m set with what to get for John.
Me: “But what about Mrs. S?” I say. “What does she like?”.
The boy: “ummm. She wears sweatshirts everyday.”
Me: “ok, like team sweatshirts? Does she love the Eagles or Phillies or something?”
The boy: “No. Not really. They’re like jean sweatshirts. All different colors.”
Me: “uh huh. ok.”
This exchange made me think of another exchange, one even less helpful than this one, about 12 years ago.
I had just joined a very tight-knit group of event planners who seemed to have a million inside jokes, were constantly making fun of each other, worked insanely hard, and had a great time to boot. The leader of this pack was a woman who would go on to become one of my closest friends, but who at that point, wanted very little to do with me. To gain some brownie points, I wanted to buy the perfect gift when her birthday came around. I asked one of the other gals that had known her the longest what she liked. Here’s the list she emailed me:
This is not a joke. This was the list. WTF. What was I supposed to do with this list? Pugs? The Spanish Language? Come on!
Once I got over the outrageousness of it – I laughed my ass off.
To this day, when someone asks me what to get for someone else, I have to hold myself back from saying,”the Spanish language or pugs”.
11 Oct 2012 1 Comment
in I need to tell you about this right now Tags: Beach, Beauty, bright red lipstick, California, Halloween, La Jolla, lip color, Lipstick, make-up, Photography, product experience, style, surfer dude, travel
October has always been a busy month. Busy and fun and my absolute favorite. The weather changes, there’s plenty of birthdays and reasons to get together. And it’s the opening act for November – my next absolute favorite time of year.
I say all this as a massive excuse to why my last post was so long ago. What happened to daily posts you ask? Same thing that happened to my diet – it went off a cliff. Actually, I may have pushed it off a cliff. I’m tired!
Let me catch you up. Here’s what I’ve been up to:
This should be everyone’s view from work…
Or this…
When not staring at the ocean, I was staring at all the goodies our make-up artist brought. Her name was Kathy. She set me straight.
For the majority of my life I’ve been searching for the perfect lip color. In high school I wore a bright red lipstick every day – cause I was cool like that. Then I moved to a more bronzy brown for most of my 20’s. My 30’s were obsessed with finding the perfect nude lipstick (damn you Jennifer Lopez). In my 40’s I’ve given up and gone with chapstick. And then Kathy walked into my life. Or I ran into her make-up bag – whatever.
In one quick minute she told me,”you can’t wear a nude shade on your lips. It doesn’t look good. You need a plum. Let me help you.” What followed is tears, joy, and triumph. Too much?
Here’s my perfect color. I would never ever have guessed it.
Although these pictures are blurry – I told you I was excited – it was important to show you. This lip liner went on like butter and stayed on all day. I’ve already bought some. Thank you Sephora and Lisa Watier.
Here’s some other random stuff in her bag that was genius. Yes, I went through her bag.
To the left, antiperspirant for your face. Even in full on humidity and heat – your face stays completely matte and dry. To the right, the reason everyone on TV looks like they have perfect hair. Sigh.
So that’s it. That’s what I’ve been up to, in to, at. That and you know, work, motherhood, wifedom, etc.
And here’s a look at our front door. Christmas sweaters here I come!
04 Sep 2012 2 Comments
in I need to tell you about this right now Tags: Christmas, Halloween, humor, Life, Photograph, Thanksgiving
I’m feeling…rushed.
I ran out today to get a birthday card. I gave myself a full hour to do this because:
A) My priorities are messed up
B) The card store is next to the bagel store which is next to the liquor store. I’m efficient that way
C) I need to read at least 250 cards to pick the right one
D) all of the above
Then I turned and saw this
Then I began panicking about pumpkins and apple picking and costumes…oh god… the costumes
Then I got angry because it’s only September 4th damn it. It’s still 101 degrees. I’m still wearing flip flops.
Stop the madness, I thought!
And then I saw this
Happy F’ing New Year
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