Blood And Gore!!!

January 30, 2009

It’s like a horror movie around here. Two days ago, I got a paper cut. Yesterday, I cut open my finger when I was opening the packaging on a new toy for Maddie – that terrible plastic stuff that you need a freaking hacksaw to break through. Today, I cut my thumb wide open opening [...]

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Glamorous

January 29, 2009

For my fourteenth birthday, I received a gift certificate to go to Glamour Shots. When I was growing up, there was a Glamour Shots in every mall in the San Fernando Valley.  I was STOKED to get that present. I’d wanted Glamour Shots taken since I was nine or ten. I’d wanted to get the [...]

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Blue and Gold

January 28, 2009

The first thing strangers comment on are her eyes. They have flecks of gold like mine, but the blue is so much cleaner, truer – bluer. Her eyelashes are what they mention next. How long and thick they are. How people buy lashes like hers in stores. She’s not like other babies. She doesn’t look [...]

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Numbers

January 27, 2009

When I was at my parents’ house last week, I saw the old growth chart my dad used to keep on the pantry door. It reminded me of when I was a little kid how obsessed I was with being “the biggest.” I remember being excited when my shoe size went up or when I [...]

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A Phone Call

January 26, 2009

Madeline’s pediatrician called on Friday afternoon. I wasn’t bothered. Not at first. The mere fact she calls to check on Maddie is one of the many reason why I call her Dr. Looove. She said that was why she was calling. She asked about Maddie’s stats, and I ticked them off: slightly elevated respiratory rate, [...]

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Flick Friday

January 23, 2009

My cold is frying my brain. See, just there I wrote, “My brain is fried good from my cold.” What is that? I need to lay down before my grey matter starts leaking from my ears. Next week I’ll show you one of the most embarrassing photos of me that exists, but for now I [...]

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