Random observations on my descent down the sanity spiral: Random Tuesday Thoughts
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 3:40AM 
Snippet of conversation overheard at the coffee shop that I am truly hoping I heard out of context:
"Yeah, so, my wife is really into reading books right now. THAT could be bad."
Next she'll want to VOTE, or something. Gawd.
At the community water park the other day I saw a 8-or-9 year old girl wearing a lime green string bikini with fringes on the boobs. The fringes flounced when she ran. She ran like she was auditioning for Baywatch, and she DID have the beginnings of boobs.
I am never having a girl. Unless I can somehow convince her to become a butch lesbian. But I think that's kind of frowned upon as a parenting technique.
Let's keep things in perspective, shall we? Hello Kitty luxury water, at $100 a bottle.
I've gotten it all up in my head that I'm going to start sewing eco-friendly clothing & diapers for kids. I have some organic cotton & bamboo fabric coming from Wazoodle.com. I considered hand-dyeing it, and found myself saving the little pollen-y things from my lilies in anticipation of using it to make a dye...and that's when I realized that I've gone completely off the rails. Even Elle, my frugalista eco-guru friend, backed away slowly when I told her that.
(You'll still love me, though, right?)
I'm purposely trying to keep this post relatively BlogHer-free because I remember how irritating it was last year when everybody kept yapping about it and I wasn't going. But...two more sleeps til BlogHer.
There is something sticky on my laptop. Ew.
Does your breakfast need a little life? Here's a toast defibrilator.
Every time I think I'm getting ahead financially, I realize that it's because I forgot to pay the bills.
Hubby just came home with bags of hotdogs and Kraft Dinner. He could have at least waited until I was GONE to NY to set the menu for him and my son.
Reader Comments (40)
8 years old and a string bikini? I know like what are they thinking?
You sounded like Martha Stewart there for awhile...she would dye organic cotton with lily pollen for sure. (after she had woven the organic material into cloth). All you need is three or four mis-matched dogs!! Oh! And your own TV show.
I have done that too...it was my house payment I was forgetting...DUH!
Hugging you
And have fun at Blogher
SueAnn
Have a wonderful time at BlogHer. Maybe someday I'll get to go. My financial situation sounds an awful lot like yours.
I just got a letter from the student loan people that I have been dodging for the last 8 months. Turns out they still don't want money. WooHoo!
I went all Martha Stewart back in the 90s. Want to know how to roast your own coffee? Raise your own poultry? Preserve all your own organically grown vegetable? I'm your gal.
Hot dogs and box mac & cheese? Run! Run like the wind!
Have fun at BlogHer.
Yeah, I went through a phase when I was convinced I was going to have a business making handknit baby hats out of yarn that I was going to card by hand and then dye. I finally calculated how much I could charge vs. how many hours it would take me, and realized that I would be paying myself something like 15 cents an hour. Hmmm.
Good heavens! His wife READS????? The horror!
Reading?! Oh, the humanity! Next thing you know, she'll want to get a JOB, and then we're all in trouble. That pot roast isn't going to cook itself, you know.
Your hubby and kids menu sounds a lot like when I go out of town!
Menu for out of town? You just described my dinner plans for TONIGHT!
Have a blast and you better post some pictures!
Yuck on the bill front, you are so right.
Would have loved to go to blogger, but don't think I would fit on the plane; way too pregnant.
My daughter is into Hello Kitty, but that is just plain silly.
Thanks for the RTT you ROCK!!!
Wow, and to think I've been putting those $100 bills towards my bills. I should have been buying water.
Maybe I'm horrible, but I think it's funny that while you're going all organic/eco friendly your husband is buying the kid hot dogs and mac and cheese.
What, women voting? Hush up, woman. :)
$100 for Hello Kitty water? WTF, over!
Never underestimate a woman's ability to screw up her marriage by reading.
I almost did it.
Finally, hubby came around.
Haha I did the same thing with the bills just yesterday!
I hope to see you at Blogher!
I'm so hoping you heard that conversation out of context, but will also admit it wouldn't surprise me if you heard it completely fine!
It's fun to think you're getting ahead with the finances even if it only lasts until you realize otherwise. :)
Enjoy BlogHer!
I have a good friend who has NEVER read a book for pleasure. EVER. And I think her daughter is going to end up a Butch Lesbian. Not that there is a connection there. Well, my son READS constantly, and likes to wear dresses. Do with it what you will.
Good Morning. Have fun at Blogher.... it is crazy the bathing suits that some young (developing) girls wear.. I sometimes wonder what the parent who approved that selection is thinking.
Yeah the first of the month it's always fun to see the money hit the account and then I pay bills. We get to be rich for about two days.
Kids want to grow older faster nowadays, or is it the parents' doing? I have an 8 year old daughter and I am trying to preserve her innocence until she's like 16. Wish me luck!
I can't sew, so yay you.. :D
I wish we had BlogHer in my country.. Have fun Keely! :)
Happy Tuesday! :)
I think I might have to crash the BlogHer. :)
Back away from the stamens - those little things sticking up in the lilies!
Love the randomness of your random and I totally agree with you on the whole girl/bikini/boob thing - that's why I only had boys. ;)
Happy Tuesday!
That next to last paragraph. That's me. All the time.
And it totally reminds me that I need to pay bills.
a toaster defibrillator? I can't imagine that being a good idea, in a house where someone may need a real defibrillator?
enjoy your "trip" :)
What is it with husbands and hot dogs? I swear that's all mine eats when I go away!!!
Women shouldn't read books, huh! LOL Have fun at blogher!!
I read constantly, and my ex husband apparently thought I wasn't very good wife material. Go figure.
Have a blast at BlogHer!