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May 05, 2009

Dusting off the keyboard

It's late, baby's sleeping, husband's sleeping. Both of them on opposite sides of the bed, yet so alike in that they just pass out when given the chance.

I was asked the other day if twitter has ruined my blog, and to some extent it has, but not so much in that I know what I can talk about in 140 characters and what I can't. And I just simply don't have the flexibility that blogging does. I think long after twitter has cooled off and gone away, we'll always have blogs, and I'll always wind up here.

It's hard to believe she's 8 months (or will be in a week), and that today she started her scoot-crawling. It's so cute to watch, but I can't help but look in terror at how crazy our house is and how much babyproofing needs to be done. I want to invite someone over to do it for me. God knows it's going to fall to me to do it.

I have started thinking about transitioning her to day care, but the thought makes me sad. I love when she's with my parents, but I know it's hard on them too. They want to see the house and go visit their retirement space.

Now if only I can do my laundry. Going to Sac sometimes makes things hard because I don't do my laundry like I'm supposed to. I hate hate hate it when someone else does it (esp my parents), but the reality is that it doesn't get done until I make the time to do it.

May is so crazy. I have weekend events booked up the ya ya and I can't wait to take time off at the end of the month. Hopefully Husbandido will take it off too, but we'll see. Most likely it'll just be me.

Since I last wrote you, I chopped off my hair to the short length it is now. I just needed something wash and go, and well I got it. Thank GOD. Plus I am going somewhere that's cheaper than my last place. She was really nice and I loved going to her but if I was going to go short, it was going to cost me way more than I wanted to spend (I tend to go LONG between haircuts).

Which reminds me, it's time to do my oil change.

I got out of jury duty by being a breasfeeding mom. I was just going to show up to do my time and whatnot, but I called them today to find out if there was room for me to breastfeed, and they said to postpone it. In SF you can postpone if you're breastfeeding, but I didn't know that until HELLO I turned the form over. Next time read your crap, Voodoo.

Mother's day is coming up. No idea what to get my mom. She does have a HIDEOUS pair of pants that she just can't let go of. I want to steal them from her, but she wears them all the time. I wonder if that's what I'm destined to do at some point in my motherhood. I told her I'd trade her those pants for a shopping spree at Old Navy. She took me up. THANK GOD. Good bye ugly pants.

Work? Well ya. I just paid to get a poster mounted and matted that says "Keep Calm and Carry On." Yep. that's a good summary for you. Let's put it this way: the office flooded when one of the toilets just started pouring out to high heaven (plant says it's clean, but come on man). So my office is now in the process of drying out. There are HUGE dehumidifiers and loud fans blowing throughout, and I can't hear crap, even the phones. It also smells like wet dog in there. It really does suck. Really.

Someone asked me the thing I missed about my old life before Bella, and honestly I don't know much about that life, but what I do miss is travelling. I mean, I can take her where I want to go, but in due time that'll happen.

And on that note it's time for bed. Goodnight all, and I'll try to blog again before 2010.

VDC

March 07, 2009

Performance Anxiety

Lord. I love doing presentations. i hate doing presentations. This time it's for a bunch of colleagues (around 40) that I know more as friends than as colleagues, I guess you can say. So it's going to be kinda weird. I'll get over it though.

Something that I did recently that has helped TONS with my presentation is reading the book Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds, and I will never look at slide show presentations the same way again. Neither should you. (My boss wanted to do a powerpoint and I immediately cringed.) Okay. Back to work. Have a cheeky day!

Voodoo

December 10, 2008

the apostle speakth

aight suckas..homemade cards t is...but you ain't gettin' them til new years. chinese new years.

 

thank the apostle. girls neecd to hear stuff like that to keep going. holler.

 

ps:http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/audio/detail.asp?=Boss-Deeper&ID=1241 

October 22, 2008

Turbo Blog

So I don't have a lot of time to do this...babygirl is asleep and I'm trying to update my peeps. Been awhile.

First off, I feel bad because all I do is talk about Bambina. I mean, there are other things going on in my life that I could talk about, but I just don't because she's my 24-7. I don't want to become that person that just only yammers on about baby's poop and baby's this and that. But I have. I apologize. To move onto other things about my life here's some updates that will take us away from babyland.

Starbucks Tasting Squares?  Nomtastic. Seriously. I could kill a box in one sitting.

Psoriasis? Freakin bad bad bad. I don't know why. Maybe it's this infection I think I have. Need confirmation on the infection first though. It could also be the warm weather.

Sleep? Overrated, yes. But you know what's really bad? I have the technology that keeps me awake in the wee hours, and what's even worse is that by the time I'm awake, I feel like I've already heard about the news that's "breaking" because I read it at 3AM. And then again at 4AM. And maybe again at 5AM. I should just wake the hell up so I can get stuff done while Ms. Thang is passed the hell out. Like Husbandido, but that's another blog altogether.

I got asked to be on an advisory board for a religious order's fundraising. It's an honor, and I'm going to do it. I'm excited about the possibilities, but I'm more excited to have something else to do with my life.

I wish I had more books to read, and more time to read them, but my life is so focused on one thing that it's hard to do. See, I didn't mention it. But I almost did. Whee!

Last weekend, hung out with the girls and thanks to the Crystal Ball (hope you don't mind that name!), we had a private chef come and teach us some simple french cooking. I hope I remember how to do what I did. If you want the recipes, let me know. I am waiting for them from the Crystal Ball.

To all the parties, propositions, and candidates calling my house: I am a democrat. I am voting for Barack Obama. I am voting yes on 1, 2, 3, no on 4, yes on 5, no judgment on 6, 7, FUCK NO on 8, yes on 9, no judgment on 10, no on 11, and yes on 11. Don't ask me abt SF stuff now.

*crying in distance*

 

OK that lasted 3 minutes.

 

peace!

vdc

 

October 18, 2008

Outside!

I went out today...to Target (hell yah), and to make it even more awesome, I drove. I haven't driven a car since we went to the hospital for Bambina. seriously.

July 15, 2008

Word.

That's How I Roll!

April 25, 2008

Back Away From My Rice

save. our. rice.

 

For some reason, this picture made me laugh. Okay, I know there's a bit of funk about the price of rice being so expensive and that there's some shit going down around the world about the supply being so weak, but still. Is protecting it with a gun really necessary? It's in the PI, so I'd have to say yes.

Enjoy,

VDC 

March 24, 2008

Question Regarding the Skin...

The skin for the blog? It was...cute. That's it, honest! I didn't change to to reflect Babychase.

Honest!

Thanks for all the good wishes and sweetness...Dad is okay (although he's bored as hell), has a stress test tomorrow, and we'll know more then. Keep you posted. 

Voodoo