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On this day, thirty-eight years ago, my parents were married.  They didn't have a big fancy wedding, but I hear it was one hell of an after party. 

Thanks to them for being a great example of how to make a marriage work. 

I love you guys. 

why i heart kettle korn

• Prevents me from working on more important tasks I should be completing, e.g. laundry, packing for everyone in the house but me, cleaning, reading, working.
• Random, hard as a rock, break your tooth un-popped kernels allow me to practice my filtering while eating skills.
• Eating half a bag while hiding in my bedroom after a long day of sitting in silence brings a stone in my stomach comfort that wasn't there before.
• Love trying to dig corn husks out the space between my gums and teeth with any razor sharp object handy. Woo hoo!
• Salty-sweet flavor satisfies like nothing else can.

the life

Sometimes I want to lay around in a adult-sized boppy pillow, while others carry me around feeding me and clothing me and changing me at will. Discerning the subtle differences between my hungry and my tired cries.

9 days

I am mesmerized.

welcome

Hayden Elizabeth arrived on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 3:33 in the afternoon.

She weighed 6 lbs and 12.9 oz and is 19.25 inches long.

She entered the world wide-eyed and contemplative.

I can already tell she is wise beyond her years.

dylan gets pinned

I can recall wanting to be a Brownie. I know I was never allowed...Something about them being some kind of facist something or other. Anywho. On Thursday, our very own Miss D joined their notorious ranks.

Official Brownie *Please note gold pin

Her true reason for joining up -- PATCHES!

why i love thanksgiving

• refrigerator lemon pie sans meringue
• dark meat
• "placenta" jello a la Aunt Karen
• Dad's cornbread stuffing (even though it has giblets in it) -- DEE-licious
• Annual Thanksgiving Poop Conversation
• hanging out with the family
• making gravy
• not eating vegetables

i love these guys

I have been wearing these guys non stop for the last month. Granted they are a little bit hideous, but they are super comfy and I'm pregnant so I don't care how ridiculous I look. I'm thinking of buying them in a rainbow of colors....

why i heart the doodlebug

• Answers to "DooDoo" without batting an eye


• Junior wordsmith: crafting gems like "my privacy" and "the hot pee pee"


• Enjoys a constant state of ashiness


• Routinely concocts brilliant ensembles such as jeans with mini-skirts and short-shorts with tank tops and knee high boots


• Fav at-home outfit: underpants, the rattier the better


• Consumes iceberg lettuce as if it were ambrosia


• Crazy big chiclet teeth


• Ability to go from calm to foaming at the mouth lunatic in about 4 seconds for no reason other than she can


• Will pick her nose in public if necessary (and, trust me, it frequently is)


• Transforms into a small, space heater while sleeping


• Won't hug or kiss you if she doesn't feel like it and doesn't care if it hurts your feelings


• Quick to tell you about yourself

why i heart bad words

I have always enjoyed using foul language. I come from a long line of profaners. Adult language was frequently present in our household. So it's no wonder I L-O-V-E belting out a few choice words periodically...Okay. Daily. For whatever reason. Whatever the occasion. I could be happy, irritated, content, amused, mad, indifferent. Whatever. I am a firm believer that there are certain feelings and/or moments that call for bad language. I just seem to experience a lot of these feeling and/or moments in my daily life. I know. It's shocking. Appalling, really. I, a former ENGLISH teacher, should be able to communicate without the use of such language. It's base and demonstrates one's poor breeding and education. Only people who are unable to suitably express themselves linguistically utilize profanity. It boils down to I don't care. Peppering my phrases with a random "fuck" or "shithouse" doesn't make me a bad person. I simply enjoy colorful phrases. And maybe I also enjoy the reaction some have to said bad language, but we all have our crosses to bear, right?

celebrity circus

Have you heard of this? It's allegedly part of NBC's All-American Summer. Nice catch phrase, right? Unless you're some crazy fascist, you'll be tuned in....

The one preview I've seen opens with some massive weight lifter dude going round and round in this man sized steel hamster wheel. Cut away to Christopher Knight attempting to mimic said weight lifter dude and then eating linoleum... HARD. Must I tell you I laugh aloud whenever this promo airs? There's nothing better than D List celebs shamelessly pimping themselves out for a paycheck.

Ahh... Summer's almost here.

weird thing I like

I love TV. I really love reality TV. For those of you who don't know, VH1 has some really great, super disgusting reality television going on. It is ah-mazing.


One particularly delectable TV morsel was Rock of Love II. Have you seen this? It's spectacular. Bret Michaels flips me out. Have you seen this guy lately? Completely fabulous. I particularly enjoyed the old rocker dude eyeliner and stoner headband. Sweet.


And while every episode was filled with some ridiculously plastic, voluptuous 20 something wildly making out with oldie but goodie B.M., I was mesmerized.

I cannot help it. I am a TV whore. I will watch anything. Even if it's filled with alien-like women prostituting themselves for the 5 minutes of fame being the girlfriend of an 80's heavy metal front man gives them. Congrats to the happy couple.

As Bret would say, "Me likie."

random thing I like

One of my favorite movies ever has been playing on STARZ this month, and I've watched it about 11 times. Aliens, circa. 1986, was a movie that freaked me out pretty dang good. Yes I did see it in the theater even though I was 13 at the time. My mother didn't believe in censorship. My brother and I were privy to a lot of cinema that was by all accounts much too gory and/or adult for us at a young age because of this (Thanks, MJ). There are many reasons why I love this movie, but Bill Paxton's Private Hudson is primary. He is hilarious in this. My favorite part of the whole movie is when Hudson freaks after the plane has crashed, generating some AMAZING spit strings.