Archive for September, 2008

Dead cat bounce…

By amanda September 30th, 2008

Sher­man just told me that the rally in the stock mar­ket today was being referred to as a “dead cat bounce”. 
I am so glad I wasn’t drink­ing my water at the time…it would have ruined my Mac.
I keep imag­in­ing car­toon cats bounc­ing up and down Wall Street…
Damn…that’s funny stuff.

Debate number two…

By amanda September 30th, 2008

Priceless…

By amanda September 29th, 2008

Mon­key shaped play mat with bar that toys hang from — $19.95
“Sha-boom” by the Crew Cuts on iTunes– $.99
Happy baby even with a cold.
Happy Mom able to just lie here and watch.

Meshugass…

By amanda September 29th, 2008

Last night was find­ing out car got towed,trying not to flip out, hav­ing a crappy din­ner, and being crazy not sleep­ing lady till 2 am.
This morn­ing was cry­ing hun­gry baby while on hold for the doc­tor as the cats tried to knock over the tv.  Hurry to clean baby barf off myself before rush­ing to the […]

Rescue…

By amanda September 27th, 2008

Sher­man almost walked into this guy yesterday.…you’re wel­come sweetheart.

Oh…it’s on.….

By amanda September 26th, 2008

Thanks.…but no.….

By amanda September 25th, 2008

83 per­cent of all estab­lish­ments that label them­selves “Ice Cream Empo­ri­ums” have a menu item called “The Kitchen Sink”.”       –Gullibleinfo.com
This lit­tle blurb reminded me of my absolute lack of desire to visit any sort of “Ice Cream Empo­rium”.  Or any other fun based empo­ri­ums for that mat­ter.
I real­ize that I have a child […]

Who writes this bull@#$%…

By amanda September 25th, 2008

I was read­ing one of the par­ent­ing mag­a­zines I get the other day when I came across an arti­cle that was basi­cally what the Den­tist, Teacher, Babysit­ter etc. want you to know but won’t tell you.  Some sound advice from the den­tist, don’t pass your fears onto your kid, let the Dr. explain things they […]

Learning to nap…

By amanda September 23rd, 2008

I know the post­ing has been slim lately, things in my head are stay­ing there due to a lazy streak.  Since Eli­jah has begun tak­ing naps and I have been join­ing him on occa­sion.  So the “sleep when he sleeps” thing may just work.  Two days in a row I have napped now, and certainly […]

Who knew…

By amanda September 21st, 2008

That the art major who hated coun­try music and ran away from Ken­tucky would end up with a blue­grass band in her liv­ing room and a hus­band who’s super stoked about the banjo…
That the girl who didn’t want a plant two and a half years ago because she didn’t want to keep any­thing alive would now […]