October 2007
Monthly Archive
Duking it out with the Home Ogres Association
Posted by aunt mommy on 29 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: insane in the mundane
I toyed with the idea, when we closed on our house, three years ago this week, running for President of our Home Ogres Association. I never followed through with it, being busy and working way too far from my new home, and like many of my ideas, I let it slide away and didn’t bother myself aside from the monthly fee, occasional meeting, and rare letter dinging me for one thing or another.
Letter number three arrived sometime earlier this month, and I hope to take the time tomorrow to grab a thick black marker and fax their letter back, telling to take their violation and shove it up their … association. Continue Reading »
Toast: Desserts by Chef You
Posted by aunt mommy on 25 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: TOAST
My eldest doesn’t quite have the full grasp of holidays; I’m not sure I did at his age, either, but it’s fun listening to him work it out.
Today he was wandering through our evening muttering about holidays to himself (we’d just stopped and loaded up on candy for Hallo’ween at Super Target). “Some people celebrate Hanukkah, some people celebrate Christmas.” Trying to figure out what he remembered and was sorting with the information he’s getting at school, I asked him, “What do we celebrate?”
“Birthdays!” he cried. Continue Reading »
Toast: Packing it in on the road again
Posted by aunt mommy on 18 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: TOAST
I’ve got the traveling bug. I’ve had it for years, for decades. According to my parents, my first word was related to traveling, I first left home before two years of age, employing rudimentary tools that have me worried about what kind of ideas my kids are going to come up with and use against me.
Packing list for my first plane trip: Crayons, coloring book (Holly Hobby) , snacks. Clothes packed by: Magic Fairy (mom). Plane amenities: playing cards, wings, three choices of meal and two snacks. Huge seats and plenty of wiggle room.
Packing list for my more recent plane trips: Crayons coloring books, flexible toys, books, snacks, stroller, sling, toddler, baby, baby food, juice boxes, milk boxes, cell phone, carseats … And my job is also to be the magic packing Fairy. Oh, and four people in seats designed for three. And doffing shoes at security x4 …
I think they simply fail to realize they’ve been paying for it all along.
Posted by aunt mommy on 14 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: insane in the mundane, politics
As you can see by the attached photo, I spent my Saturday afternoon at a local house of commercial worship - IKEA of South Florida. The billboards have popped up along the highways like jarring dandelions in our usual garden of glittery billboards with bizarre sayings such as “IKEA is to South Florida as sunburn is to tourists” (and that one almost makes sense). The media frenzy is building - people can line up starting tomorrow, but … they can’t camp out until the store opens … two days later.
If I hadn’t gotten an early preview shopping pass, though, I considered taking a personal day and swarming in with the rest of them. It’s not just a mob, it’s an adventure. It’s been years since I’ve set foot in an IKEA, and I’ve certainly never been to an opening. I even had my shopping list in mind - a little something to decorate my office, an easel for the kid, and to take loads of pictures.
I got the easel. Pictures … not so much. Even with a plan I was busy experiencing it and ignoring my complaining back and feet for much of three hours. But that was at the end, thinking it all through as I scarfed down a pizza pocket in the cafe beyond the finish like (cash wrap, register line, whatever). Continue Reading »
Toast: I dream of Genie with(out) the light blue bag …
Posted by aunt mommy on 11 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: TOAST
Trying out the “replacement” camera with it’s grinding lens noise and fuzzy pictures … Continue Reading »
Step away from the corn and put the knife down.
Posted by aunt mommy on 10 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Baby’s teething. And keeps losing the teething rings; so we’re eating a lot of corn on the cob this week. Only has four teeth so far, but she sure tries hard. And succeeds.
I popped into a grocery store to pick up corn at lunch, and the greens guy was there, shucking the corn - it didn’t look pretty enough to sell. Argh. But I talked him into giving me a few intact, and I could really tell the difference between the unshucked and the shucked and shrinkwrapped stuff they sell for twice the price. And score - they were cheaper than the marked price (which was still scandalous, but what are you going to do at the trailing tail of the country). Continue Reading »
Toast break
Posted by aunt mommy on 04 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: TOAST
Going on a mini-hiatus this week, sorry. My pocket camera is on its last legs, and I can’t get any decent shots of any of my ideas.
Hope to return next week in better focus, as it were.