Look to the bottom of the blog!

I found a thing that morphs me to and from looking like Kim Cattrall...totally funny.

Anyway, today is story time as I was reminded in the comments on my last blog of
sweet
sweet
justice.

A very long time ago now, my daughter was just a few weeks old and often did not yet want to sleep at night. We usually dozed most during the middle of the day, right after Ellen and right before daddy came home from work.

Sometimes at night when she could not sleep and I wanted at least ONE of us to get rest I would take her for a little car ride.

It was during one of these little jaunts that I was reminded it was BAR CLOSING TIME. OH SH-IIIIT! There are probably drunks on the road I better keep a watchful eye out...

ZOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A car goes WHIZZING past me north on Highway 100, the speed limit is 60 here, but he had to be going 90 at least. I did not even see him until he was on my a&& and doing the out, over, cutinfrontofyousocloseyoucannotseehisbumper move.

I was breathing fast and kind of scared and very glad we would soon be home and that BooBooLaLa was now fast asleep.

THEN, it happend.
Sweet
sweet
justice.

I come upon the crazy speed racer and a lovely lovely cop car giving him his ticket.

So far it has been a SWELL Day!

SO - the day has not been too fantastic and it is only 8:57 am

I accidentally hit the stop on the new treadmill at the Y - AGAIN! The new ones have stop is such a BAD place, they really are horrible machines.

Other stuff ticks me off that I am not yet ready to go into, but then I get to my office building and ...


I get the Mommy Wagon parked and ---

Resume your day - mine will get better.

I hope.

Survival of the Mommy!

Today my MEme is going to be about what I cannot survive without on a daily basis - I just do not feel like going to a desserted island today Supahmommy & MommyBrain ...

So, five things I cannot live without day-to-day (since I usually turn off the cell and the laptop on the weekend or vacation - electronics will not appear on this list):

1. My mommy-wagon. I work too far from home to take a bus or walk, so I need my mommy-wagon to get sweet Boo Boo La La and I to daycare and work.
2. My Olay ProX Deep Wrinkle Cream - I wrote about this on my ViewPoints account where I am MommyLisa...love this stuff.
3. Bare Minerals makeup It is like wearing nothing!
4. My Envirosax - and my Kate Spade handbag. They are ALWAYS together so they count as one!
5. Good body-hand lotion. What I use may change from day to day, but I am always seeking out the best for my superdry skin.

Of course I could not get through the day without kisses and hugs from my T-bone and BooBooLaLa, but they are not things. They are the loves of my life!

Enjoy your day - and play along if you like!

Homecoming...smell the t'ping in the air!

This is not my house. I just thought this was the best put together video of a t'ping job on YouTube.

You see, this morning I was driving Boo Boo La La to daycare and we passed by a home with a FAB tp job on it. Boo Boo said,

Mama - WHAT is THAT?

Toilet Paper.

WHAT?!?

Toilet Paper in the trees.

THAT is dis-GUST-ing. (I laughed because this is her new thing to say.)

It is homecoming at Armstrong and I am assuming the residents have a football player, cheerleader, or homecoming court nominee inside. I will have to ask Sair and J-dogg later - they do not hang out with all the kids in our 'hood.

Boo Boo La La Dictionary - Abridged

Time for an update to the Boo Boo La La Dictionary!

Coconuts - polka dots, seriously you will be corrected!

Emelade - lemonade - even if you SAY, "Do you want lemonade?" Yes Mama, I have emelade.

Sicky Cup - picked up from "who knows where" for sippy cup.

Movie - any play or movie, if you sit and watch it is a movie...

Pack-Pack - Backpack of course! Dora has one....

Backardigans - The Back Yardigans (which she will only watch if the alternative is Micky Mouse.)

Your Game - Wii, as in "Mama, can I play your game?"

HannaTanna - Hanna Montana, as in "Mama, can I watch HannaTanna on your iTouch?"

Wakkie-Time and Nappy-Time have become obsolete, but we still call LOTS of things Chicken. ;)

Enjoy your day - I hope you get a sicky cup full of emelade so you too can watch HannaTanna on your iTouch.

People are funny...

People are funny when they try to "traffic shame" you with a honk. I could CARE LESS if you "think" that I did something "wrong".

notice all the "quotes" today - it is that kind of day.

Anyway I was driving south on 35E this morning when I decided to get over in the far left lane from the middle - the truck in front of me kept slowing down....

I put on my turn signal - pause - look over my shoulder - there is plenty of room, so I pull over.

Kenny Rogers in the Toyota behind me HONKS - about 10 seconds after I pulled into the lane.

How did I know it was "Kenny"?

I saw him WAAAAY behind me, like about 10 car lengths and kind of laughed because he HAD "honked" at me - then pulled in front of the annoying truck that had been using "average speed" as his speed limit - and "Kenny" speeds up like a bat out of hell - apparently - because I suddenly "feel" that there is a car driving by my side and look over...

"Kenny" is WAGGING HIS FINGER AT ME. Like "tsk tsk little lady".

Ummm...WTF? I laughed -visibly- and waved at him. Really, just waved and laughed. He took off then and went to the place where old dudes who look like Kenny Rogers go...(f-er!)

Television - Smellevision

So the deal is I am to name FIVE television shows that I cannot be interrupted for...yeah, right? Like when do I get to watch an entire show without being interrupted at least once? Maybe that happens, but not very often...

That said - here are the shows I love:

1. Top Chef - it is the BEST show. I love how it stays nasty when the food is horrible. #1 spot last year would have been Project Runway, but something has happend to them over their at Lifetime....I just cannot put my finger on it yet.
2. Models of the Runway is the most delightful part of Project Runway this season!
3. Real Housewives of New York - they are my favorite. ATL and Jersey scare me.
4. Medium - OH.HOW.I.LOVE.IT. I have to catch up though - I miss it sometimes cuz it kept moving and now it is on a new network???
5. Rachel Zoe Project - just totally good dysfunctional fun.

I like some network shows - like How I Met your Mother, 30 Rock, Kath and Kim was funny, I used to like Grey's but they jumped the shark for me...I just don't have time to keep up & I find if I like a show - they cancel it. Examples here include Once & Again and Lipstick Jungle. I also secretly watch Gene Simmons Family Jewels - it is SO not reality! But it is fun.

Enjoy and join the fun begun by MommyBrain and SupahMommy! Just click on the button above for the details!

Oh and my Friday Video is special...

http://www.wcco.com/video/?id=67150@wcco.dayport.com

You have to link OUT to this one - but it is how my dear old friend's life was preserved.

And the picture does not even represent a ten-thousandth of the people who were happy that "The Nicest Man in The Universe." exists.

Am I too Minnesotan?

Yesterday I had an offsite meeting with a potential new client...which is exciting, but my boss was "joining" me. (that is another story) I needed something that I had not had for weeks and weeks and weeks....coffee.

I pulled into McDonald's. Yes, I did not even go for the good stuff - I felt like I was nine and sneaking coffee in the church basement.

I say into the speaker that I want a skim milk latte, medium. The cheerful sounding woman said "A vanilla lattee?" No, plain. No syrup, just a latte. "No syrup?" like that was weird?

I get to the window to pay and she again says - "You want that with NO SYRUP and NO SWEETNER?" Yes, I say - I am Lutheran...ba dum bum. No reaction from this woman who is not YOUNG by any stretch - maybe 50-ish???? Uh...that was a joke. I say... continued blank stare. Okay, Thank you.

So, am I too Minnesotan? Or was she just dropped in our fair state by aliens?

Garrison Keillor has made a career out of making fun of Scandinavian Lutheran's in our fair state - and I have meet people from FAR AND WIDE who have heard of him and know Lutheran jokes.

To be fair, I am:

Blonde
Norwegian
German
Danish
a mix of a little of 'dis and 'dat
Lutheran
I do say "Uff da" a fair amount
I say "That's different." when I do not want to offend you.

So, was it me? Or maybe it was that she was working the drive through at McDonald's?

We love Summer in September here...

After a long, cold summer we finally get a stretch of 80 degree weather...

AFTER Labor Day.

Hey, I will take every opportunity to be outdoors that I can because I know what is around the corner...

Even T-Bone and I are enjoying a few extra days of riding the Hog.

Fall comes next Tuesday - and Happy Birthday to the J-Dogg!

09-11-2001

I was calling a cab to fly to JFK that morning. I had a suitcase and was headed to meetings with my two biggest clients - and having dinner with my friend Angie and her daughter at my hotel in New Jersey later that night. We were going to have a sleep-over...

I did not have a cell phone at the time - yes, seriously - and my girlfriend was watching the planes in horror and desperately calling my home every 30 minutes to be sure I was not on either of the planes. And frantically calling her husband of Middle Eastern descent who was stuck now in Germany for about two months...luckily his brother lives there and his parents in France.

My brother came to my house and like zombies we watched CNN for hours and hours. He slept on my couch as we waited to hear what happened. And I for news about a friend who's law firm was located in the towers. He was in court - thankfully.

For a time I worked for American Express and it is scary even today to be up in their tower on Vesey Street and look out at where ground zero is...many people who I got to know well had stories about what it was like to be in NYC that day and the months after.

So how do you remember 9/11? Let me make a suggestion or two:

• Hug all your friends and family today and tell them how much you care.
• Be kind to a stranger.
• Enjoy the freedom you have to love or hate your government and how they run our country.
• Think about where you were then, and how you have grown now.
• Stop for a moment of silence and remember those who left us on 9/11.

Peace,

Lisa

p.s. I love you guys.

Seriously - you need Maya!

A fellow blogger gave a pretty accurate description of why I like Maya better...

SERIOUSLY...Ghandi would get annoyed.

There is this woman who totally annoys me. (she is not the only person who annoys me but, right now she will do.)

I mean, just existing on this planet with me is how she annoys me. Let me try to explain if you are not the kind of person who does not have this gene where you get instant dislike for specific people...

It just is.

I have TRIED to figure out a way to like her, but I just can't do it. No matter how much I look for common ground and a reason for her to be in my life, there is nothing.

She has NO common sense.

Right now she is in the kitchen, right outside my office door, and has been shaking something in glass with ice for TEN MINUTES. I am NOT joking.

TEN MINUTES OF tinkle tinkle tinkle.

ARGH! STOP IT! Mutha-F***! ARGH!!!

okay, she stopped now...you can resume your day...& so can I...

My Senator is cool!

Go Al Franken! This video is awesome.

Karma Monday

Do you see this happy girl?

She got a new (at least to her) handbag from this really cool website FredaLA.

I was going through old magazines over the weekend and saw this cool handbag - cutout the picture and today went in search of the website that sold it...guess what?

They have a cool giveaway right now, up to $60 in coupons to shop at their website with...they also have apparel, cool baby-toddler-kid items, bath products, and SO MUCH MORE!!! All you have to do is turn in a new or gently used handbag or two...

You can BET MONEY I will be digging out old purses tonight! I know there is a Liz and a DKNY in some lucky ladies future....

Mama's little goofball say...Wha?

Why I Top Chef...

Well it is the start of a long weekend, and it has been too long since I posted...so I am stealing an idea from My Dear Doctor of Primate-ology.

I do not watch Top Chef for men who proclaim that they are gay, but I secretly think has two kids and a wife in Omaha, NE. He just felt he was such a terrible chef he needed a "hook".

I do not watch Top Chef for old prostitutes who decided to go in the kitchen when they couldn't bring home the bacon on the streets any longer...
I DEFINITELY do not watch Top Chef for douchebags....

Or men who talk about their balls constantly...

I do watch it for jolly elves who make tasty looking dishes...

And HOT chefs who work for gods, like Erik Ripert.

Oh AND the food...the yummy food...(Jennifer cooked this one...I want to make it!)

And DUH! I mean, come ON...Tom is totally hot! And Padma is not your be-yotch, bitch!