Girl, you make my speakers go boom boom.

Thursday, 7 March 2013

You better believe I took a special photo just for today's post.

Or maybe it's because I went out on a school work night again last night and that meant I actually had my hair and makeup done. Maybe, just maybe.

Ok, so, when I was in grade school I always had crushes. One of the things I'm actually most excited about now that I'm back in the land of singals (single + gals = singals) is that I get to experience the thrill of having crushes again. Call me crazy but I really love that sparkly feeling that shoots through your core when you've got a crush and you come to find out that they are crushing on you too. Maybe I'm just supposed to be single my whole life because I get way too much adrenaline running through me just thinking about the excitement of having a crush. 

Moving on, today I get to talk about my blog crushes and I am really excited about it because I really do crush on some of you bloggers. Hard.

Creeped out yet? Yeah, me too. Blame the girl who had the brilliant idea for this link up, Erin from Living in Yellow.

Erin also happens to be one of my blog crushes.
There's something about a girl who loves to day drink, take bubble baths and, of course, blogging that just sets my crush radar off. Plus, she's married and she doesn't use the word "hubby" or make me really pukey with mushy gooshy marriage posts. I really love that about her. (says the single girl)



Next I need to talk about my newest crush which, if you've been out of the game for a while you may not remember, means that it is a pretty intense kind of crush. Ironically enough, her name is Erin, too, and she blogs over at Two Thirds Hazel.

Guys, I am mildly in love with this girl. I've recently spent countless hours just roaming her old posts, about me pages, and anything else I could get in to on her blog. She's fun, she makes me laugh, she lives in the greatest city in the world, she's gorgeous. She's going to be my in real life BFF soon, she just doesn't know it yet. Or maybe she does. Either way, this girl has it all.

This next girl shares my name which already means she's got a few extra awesome points tallied up in my book. I've really gotten to know Whitney from Katy Goes Boom over the past few months and I could not say one bad thing about this girl.

She gives me the giggles just about daily, she keeps it real, she has a heart of gold, and she has a little girl that I might try and steal one day. Whitney is one of those blog crushes who I just know I would get along with perfectly if we knew each other in real life. Maybe even have a little too much fun...

And last... but certainly never least... I couldn't do a post about my blog crushes without mentioning this girl. She's pretty much the Jonathan Taylor Thomas of my blogging life and also someone I'm lucky enough to call one of my best friends, the one, the only, Tyler Lucy Sparkle Pony from Arkansassy.  

This girl is the Big Black to my Rob, the Tina Fey to my Amy Poehler, the pajamas on my cat. Ty was one of my first blog friends I ever made here, back when I had about 200 followers and she makes me so thankful for this blog every single day because without it I never would have met her. There's no doubt in my mind we will meet in the real world one of these days and no beats will be skipped. I have a universe of love for this chick.

There's probably a billion more ladies I am forgetting but when Erin announced this link up these were the first ones that popped in my head.

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Use Another Word

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Today is the annual Spread the Word to End the Word campaign ... where advocates everywhere are asking people to take the pledge to eliminate the derogatory use of the words retarded/retard from every day speech and promote the inclusion and acceptance of people with intellectual disabilities.

The word is used so carelessly and in just about every example of when it's used; it isn't even the right word for that situation. It doesn't make any sense to use the word as a catch-all for every possible negative scenario.

It makes the person sound uneducated; because really? Something was retarded? You don't think there were a number of other words that fit better in your sentence? Isn't your vocabulary a little more expansive than throwing the word retarded/retard around in your conversations?

I'm re-sharing the post I did last year: An Open Letter. There isn't anything more I could say about the subject.

It's time to find another word to use.

 

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Whitney's What the? Wednesday

Well, I think I've finally recovered from my Monday night escapades and I'm ready to wash, rinse, drink and repeat again tonight. Just kidding, kind of. Maybe not quite to the extent I took it Monday but maybe a couple blocks over.

It's Wednesday and if you've been here for at least a week you know what time it is.

I've got to start with the king of celebrity gossip himself, Perez Hilton, who has recently brought home a new baby boy. Like, a real life baby. As in, he is now a father. To say I didn't see that coming would be a vast understatement and I'm just not really sure if I'll understand this one. Ever. Maybe because he never, ever mentioned becoming a father. Either way, I hope he leaves the crying up to the kid these days and takes a break from sobbing vlogs.

I think it's safe to say this kid will never be a fan of Will.i.am.

One of my favorite Teen Mom wrecks, Jenelle Evans, appears to be back in rehab. Again. After she just get out a whomping 3 days ago. She says it's for her son and blah blah blah, but I think we all know her mom Babz probably caught her hanging out with KEIFAH and forced this upon her. Regardless of the reason, she's in a first class seat to Amber Portwood status and I'm, personally, enjoying watching the train wreck.

I wonder if KEIFAH went with her this time? Lovers who drug together rehab together.

If you've been living under a rock then there's a pretty good chance that even you have heard that Kim Kardashian is knocked up with the spawn of Mr. Immaletyoufinishbut Kayne West. Kimmy, who was once known for her sex tape fabulous style, seems to have forgotten how to dress herself now that her eggo is prego and I feel embarrassed for her with every new photo that surfaces. This one, in particular, has been pared next to photos of Shamu and, while I wont go that far, this is pretty rough.

Kimmy, if you're reading (duh, why wouldn't you be), it might be time to visit a maternity store or three. Surely they have those in California, right?

My favorite trouble maker from Laguna Beach, I refuse to graduate to The Hills, is planning her wedding. Again. Kristen Cavallari and Jay Cutler have been through more relationship up and downs than T.Swifty, but it seems now that they are back on and on the way to the altar. After calling off their wedding the first time, they ended up pregnant and now they're back together and registered at Williams Sonoma for all of the over priced waffle makers and appliances their hearts can desire. 

If I were Jay Cutler I'd be meeting with my attorney immediately to write up the prenup. Not that a prenup would be much help at this point. You know what Kanye says, "She got one of yo kids, she got you for 18 years". Good luck to ya.

And lastly, but never least, my favorite little serial dater, Tay Tay Swizzle, recently did a very uncensored interview with Vanity Fair magazine that created quite the shitstorm. Not only did she say that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have a spot reserved for them in hell, she also decided to make it publicly known that she has, in fact, only dated two guys since 2010. I really wish there was video of this interview because I can only imagine the interviewer letting out the loudest roaring laugh of Vanity Fair history. I mean, who is Swifty trying to kid here?

Love you girl, but you might just want to own up to your scandalous ways because I think it's safe to say that no one is going to believe this story whether you stick to it or not. 

PS. The song "Dear John" came out in 2010... and John Mayer was not one of the two she's "dated" since 2010. So... there's that.

Honesty might be the only policy in this case.

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His Own Bike Milestone

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

I've been neglectful.

I excitedly posted a video and blogged about Kayla finally riding a bike; it was a milestone that felt like a long time coming.

But Lucas had a bike milestone back in October that I haven't yet mentioned.  And his was just as exciting.

He started riding a bike without training wheels.

He had been trying off and on a few times in the months before that, but he didn't seem to feel sure of himself without the training wheels. Then in Oct we were at a birthday party at a park. Someone brought a few kid's bikes ... none of which had training wheels. Lucas saw a couple of his friends up on those bikes riding around and decided to give it another go - and that was it. He was off and riding without any training wheels. The training wheels came off his own bike as soon as we got home.

While I was very excited for him ... and we let him know how excited and proud we were of him ... there was also a tinge of sadness.

Sadness because he was 4.5 and the training wheels felt like the last symbol of that young toddler/preschool age. It just felt like he was growing up too fast.

There was also sadness because he was 4.5 and riding without training wheels and Kayla was 9 and not even riding a bike with training wheels. I didn't want him to pass her up so easily, or so soon. Things already come so much easier and naturally to him. Reading is another area where he is doing this, too.

So while I wasted no time in blogging about, and posting on FB, Kayla's riding accomplishment...I hadn't yet gotten around to Lucas's big bike riding milestone. With Kayla I felt like everyone would understand what there was to celebrate, but with Lucas I felt like it was just natural and expected of a typically-developing child to meet those milestones.

Yet even though it is natural, and did come easy to him, it's still a milestone to be celebrated. I have two children who will be, and are, reaching milestones at their own pace and in their own way. One may struggle and take a longer time to achieve those accomplishments, and the other may not have as much trouble with the natural progression of milestones.

But they both deserve to be celebrated.

Lucas got a new bike for his birthday since he was getting too big for his first bike. So, finally, a video of Lucas riding a bike without training wheels. This kid, growing up too fast.

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I'm not going to go shave my head bald.

Well, my friends, this is how I felt last night...

and so I did just that. I hung out with my favorite friends, Jack, Smirny, Mich, and probably a few others that I've since forgotten, and I'm pretty sure they're still trying to hang out with me. And by that I mean that I was an hour late for work today and the taste of my coffee sent a strong gag reflex through my core.

If you're one of the people who hates people who talk about their drunk night's on their blog, I should probably apologize, but that is precisely what I did last night and so you're stuck reading about it. And looking at it... for those of you who think I'm catfishing you when I talk about my nights out on Twitter.

I have a purpose for posting today that doesn't involved the horrid hangover I will inevitably feel in a few short hours, once this leftover drunk feeling vanishes, but I don't really know how one goes about posting something like this. This may be in a first in the history of my bloglife but I'm actually at a loss for words.

I guess there's no real easy way to say it other than to just do it, like Nike says, or rip it off real fast, like a bandaid. So, here it is. I am now, currently, 110% a single twenty-something. Single as in no more man friend. Single as in it's acceptable for me to go out until 2am on a school work night and make questionable decisions like mixing every type of alcohol under the sun. Single as in I no longer have to make anyone happy but myself. And maybe a little bit the dogs too.

Don't worry though, I'm really okay with it. I'm not going to go shave my head bald or take down a paparazzi with my bare hands. I think we all know I've been through way worse by now and so, really, I'm just excited to start a new chapter in my life which hopefully involves some pretty big changes I'm trying to make. This post isn't for sympathy or anything like that so please don't tell me you're sorry or that you hope I'm okay, because I promise you that I am very okay and there's nothing to be sorry about. 

Unless you're ex manfriend. 

Really, I just didn't want to dodge the elephant in the blog room before some of you started to catch on and ask questions. So, there it is. You may all now return to your regularly scheduled programs. I'm going to go try to find a really greasy cheeseburger and some Motrin. Maybe even go watch a few goat music videos. Bye.

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