Tonight, while finishing up a deliverable, I turned on the TV for "background noise." Only those with mild ADD (check!) or an inability to focus when in complete silence (check, check!) have this sound issue, I know...which, as an aside, is why I think I talk and laugh loud...to fill the void. But I digress. I turned on the TV and didn't pay any attention to the channel it was on, then got to work. Turns out, I'd had the TV on A&E, b/c I left the TV on for the dogs while we were at work, and The Sopranos was on earlier this morning when I left. The dogs really enjoy that kind of gritty drama. That, and anything on the apocalypse on the History Channel...they're very into that sort of thing.
So....A&E is on, and I'm working, and then I realize that the Real Housewives of DC is on! I had not seen this little gem as yet, but had heard some feedback, namely that it's boring and the women are "SNOOOORE" and there is no real drama. Well, it's true. Except for that horrendous couple who crashed the White House dinner (which I now think was probably all planned....everything is orchestrated these days!); The Salehis they're called. UGH.
First of all...I have met this couple. It was YEARS ago, and not at all glamorous. I'd planned my first ever wine tour for about 40 friends - I've planned four more in subsequent years...it's a day with friends out at VA wineries. This "glamour" couple (cough, chock!) supposedly "owned" one of the wineries we went to at the first ever "wine tour" I planned...and they basically stole $300 from me by charging my card fraudulently. Their refusal to reimburse me and/or explain the charge led me to file a claim against their crappo winery with the Better Business Bureau, to which American Express followed suit and also filed a complaint against them - if that tells you how "professional" they are. Not to mention the wine SUCKED. And double not to mention that the winery is now out of business...and yet, on the show, they flash around that they "own" a winery, and that the husband is a "winemaker." If Ke$ha is a talented singer, than that dude is a winemaker. Do not even get me started!
Anyways, this show errked me! It shows DC in such a bad light. With the exception of a few of the women, this show makes DC look just as stuffy as all the stereotypes say it is, when in reality, DC is such a warm, fun, diverse city! It just BLOWS that the city is depicted in such a skewed light on the show, when this is a chance to show our TRUE, bright colors. Three cheers to showing the fun, unmaterialistic side of DC at some point to those who don't know better.
In other news - we registered for baby products. And no, registering for a breast pump is neither exciting, nor intuitive. I think I'd have an easier time registering for a carborator for my SUV than registering for those types of products. But register, we must! ALSO, Tiger Woods is officially divorced. So I guess he's free to date now. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - get it!?! Because he wasn't treating his marriage like a free ride (pardon the pun) to date whoever he wanted anyway!?! Right. ;)
Happy Weekending!!
26 August 2010
17 August 2010
What this blog ISN'T
I feel like there is a lot of pressure to give this blog a topic. For example, some people blog exclusively about travel - where they have been, where they're going next, what there is to do and see at "x" location, what restaurants to avoid, what airlines have the most pleasant attendants, and so on. Other folks blog about gardening, cooking, pregnancy, politics, children...whatever. I want to start off by saying, this blog is not about one thing. Please intercept my ball if I start posting about some particular thing EVERY day. Please don't let me tell you TOO much about lactation, or stretch marks, or my pee cycles, or any of that; I don't even want to know that stuff, and I'm living it. I just want to write about stuff that happens to me, or that occurs in my every day life, or the lives of the people and places around me. It would be great if some of this writing turned out to be entertaining on some level, but, let's not butter our bread before it's toasted.
I actually feel like a pretty wide open and entertaining topic, if I had to choose one (I'm not! I meant what I said, and I said what I meant, I'm not picking a topic, buuttttt, if I HAD to...), is commercials. TV commercials are getting insane. Or were they always ridiculous and I was just out to pasture? Since when is Nutella nutritious!?! Just becaues there are trace amounts of hazelnuts in the chocolate butter paste doesn't mean that it's nutritious. But damned if that commercial doesn't insinuate that it is. Lies! Also ridiculous are minivans. Not just the commercials FOR minivans (no, a minivan is NOT cool, even if you throw the word "swagger" in front of it, FYI!), but minivans themselves: really, your kids need not ONE, but dual view DVD screens in the back of your boat!? Give me a break! What happened to kids looking at the scenery around them!? What happened to playing "I spy" while driving to Grandma's!?! What happened to THE GLORY DAYS!?!?! Craziness. There are other commercials that I can't turn away from; yes, I'm talking about you ASPCA commericials featuring Sarah McLachlan, and Hallmark commercials featuring the elderly widow who goes to her empty mailbox for weeks at a time before a lovely card is placed in there by her adoring neighbor. TEARS! And then the nutella commercial comes on, and I am fuming again.
Point being - and I do have one - this blog will take twists and turns, and rights and lefts, and spins and kicks, and won't be one thing or another. It will be many things, one of which is hopefully entertaining.
I actually feel like a pretty wide open and entertaining topic, if I had to choose one (I'm not! I meant what I said, and I said what I meant, I'm not picking a topic, buuttttt, if I HAD to...), is commercials. TV commercials are getting insane. Or were they always ridiculous and I was just out to pasture? Since when is Nutella nutritious!?! Just becaues there are trace amounts of hazelnuts in the chocolate butter paste doesn't mean that it's nutritious. But damned if that commercial doesn't insinuate that it is. Lies! Also ridiculous are minivans. Not just the commercials FOR minivans (no, a minivan is NOT cool, even if you throw the word "swagger" in front of it, FYI!), but minivans themselves: really, your kids need not ONE, but dual view DVD screens in the back of your boat!? Give me a break! What happened to kids looking at the scenery around them!? What happened to playing "I spy" while driving to Grandma's!?! What happened to THE GLORY DAYS!?!?! Craziness. There are other commercials that I can't turn away from; yes, I'm talking about you ASPCA commericials featuring Sarah McLachlan, and Hallmark commercials featuring the elderly widow who goes to her empty mailbox for weeks at a time before a lovely card is placed in there by her adoring neighbor. TEARS! And then the nutella commercial comes on, and I am fuming again.
Point being - and I do have one - this blog will take twists and turns, and rights and lefts, and spins and kicks, and won't be one thing or another. It will be many things, one of which is hopefully entertaining.
back from the great wide beyond...
So, it could not possibly have been longer since I wrote ANYTHING, or did ANYTHING with this here "blog." That makes me pretty WEAK as a blogger, eh? Considering I only have one follower - my husband - I'm sure there aren't many folks who can't sleep at night, waiting for my next entry.
However, I recently had a conversation with a friend from college - with whom I was reconnected via the Online Messiah (aka Facebook), about starting blogs. I was slightly embarrassed to admit that I, in fact, had previously started a blog, but had subsequently deserted it, like a rusted Ford Pinto in an unkempt corn field in rural Iowa. Take comfort though, that I am back. I DID start this blog b/c I really love to write, and b/c I feel like I have some wacko, and occassionally entertaining, insights to share, so - I at this for real. Let's see where this goes.
Let's also see what's new since March, when I last blogged... Well, I'm pregnant. Yes. Turns out, I'm fertile. Who knew!?! Remember in high school and college, you perceived that you, and every girlfriend you had, were somehow magically able to get pregnant by simply going into the ocean with your boyfriend for a swim? Of course, that's what "they" wanted you to think, but, it turns out, getting pregnant is a little more complicated, and while there are the WRONG girls getting pregnant all over the country (insert the popular "Teen Mom" series here - ah!!! Nightmare!!), the right women - and some of my closest friends - struggled mightily to get pregnant. I expected to struggle too, not wanting to assume that I would somehow be exempt from those difficulties, or be the lucky one who just up and gets pregnant. But...that was our experience. We were ready, and not trying, but not "not trying," as they ALL say...and TADA!!! We are now 5 1/2+ months pregnant. We chose not to find out the sex because I pretty much ruin every surprise there could possibly be, all unintentially of course, and this was one I really wanted. We would rather participate in a worm-eating-contest than paint a room pink or lavender, so - why do we need to know!?! We don't. And we can't wait to find out. We are due Dec 4...just in time for the kid's birthday to be overshadowed by Christmas. ;-)
What else? Well, we've had our house on the market since April. And that's all there is to say about that. The real estate market, even in typically-resilient DC, is really in the sh*tter. We love our agent and we know our house is fantastic - brick, four bedrooms, quiet cul-de-sac, overlooking a park, great paint colors...blah, blah...but we have stairs from the cul-de-sac that are daunting to folks. Apparently, stairs are not as in demand as granite countertops and Koi ponds. So, it's still on the market. Ho hum. We'll likely pull it off fairly soon so we can get the baby's nursery kicked into action, and focus on the birth of our kid :)
We have had an intense summer. We just got back from our 7th weekend out of town...phew! We spent 11 days in the Caribbean, on top of 2+ weeks in Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Sweden, Latvia, and Finland), as well as weekends away in NYC, Philly, Gettysburg, PA (wedding), Pittsburgh (wedding), and on and on. I am SO ready to be home for a change, and to be able to wake up in my own bed on a Sunday morning! It's the little things.
However, I recently had a conversation with a friend from college - with whom I was reconnected via the Online Messiah (aka Facebook), about starting blogs. I was slightly embarrassed to admit that I, in fact, had previously started a blog, but had subsequently deserted it, like a rusted Ford Pinto in an unkempt corn field in rural Iowa. Take comfort though, that I am back. I DID start this blog b/c I really love to write, and b/c I feel like I have some wacko, and occassionally entertaining, insights to share, so - I at this for real. Let's see where this goes.
Let's also see what's new since March, when I last blogged... Well, I'm pregnant. Yes. Turns out, I'm fertile. Who knew!?! Remember in high school and college, you perceived that you, and every girlfriend you had, were somehow magically able to get pregnant by simply going into the ocean with your boyfriend for a swim? Of course, that's what "they" wanted you to think, but, it turns out, getting pregnant is a little more complicated, and while there are the WRONG girls getting pregnant all over the country (insert the popular "Teen Mom" series here - ah!!! Nightmare!!), the right women - and some of my closest friends - struggled mightily to get pregnant. I expected to struggle too, not wanting to assume that I would somehow be exempt from those difficulties, or be the lucky one who just up and gets pregnant. But...that was our experience. We were ready, and not trying, but not "not trying," as they ALL say...and TADA!!! We are now 5 1/2+ months pregnant. We chose not to find out the sex because I pretty much ruin every surprise there could possibly be, all unintentially of course, and this was one I really wanted. We would rather participate in a worm-eating-contest than paint a room pink or lavender, so - why do we need to know!?! We don't. And we can't wait to find out. We are due Dec 4...just in time for the kid's birthday to be overshadowed by Christmas. ;-)
What else? Well, we've had our house on the market since April. And that's all there is to say about that. The real estate market, even in typically-resilient DC, is really in the sh*tter. We love our agent and we know our house is fantastic - brick, four bedrooms, quiet cul-de-sac, overlooking a park, great paint colors...blah, blah...but we have stairs from the cul-de-sac that are daunting to folks. Apparently, stairs are not as in demand as granite countertops and Koi ponds. So, it's still on the market. Ho hum. We'll likely pull it off fairly soon so we can get the baby's nursery kicked into action, and focus on the birth of our kid :)
We have had an intense summer. We just got back from our 7th weekend out of town...phew! We spent 11 days in the Caribbean, on top of 2+ weeks in Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Sweden, Latvia, and Finland), as well as weekends away in NYC, Philly, Gettysburg, PA (wedding), Pittsburgh (wedding), and on and on. I am SO ready to be home for a change, and to be able to wake up in my own bed on a Sunday morning! It's the little things.
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