dieting | Mommy Geekology 3.0

But no time to say it. Let’s see if this rambling post will suffice until I can sit my butt down and really write. And for the hell of it, let’s do it bullet-style with categories.

Strong Opinions

If you are living and working in the USA, you need to learn to speak English. I am not going to learn to speak your native language unless I visit your native land. The fact that our citizenship test (!!!), driver license tests (!!!), signs and even automated phone systems are available in Spanish makes me want to kick someone in the teeth. English is our national language. Fucking learn it. This should would NOT be acceptable in Germany or France, people. I love that we are a country of immigrants, melting pot the whole shebang – it makes the world interesting – but it would be nice if I didn’t have to press 1 on a phone system just to listen to it in English.
Justin Bieber sucks, and it looks like he sticks his face into a vacuum every morning to do his hair.
Glee is probably going to make waves across music departments next school year. There are over 90 songs by Glee Cast online; seriously, go take a listen. If you’re a choir teacher and you aren’t capitalizing on that, you’re probably an idiot, or boring. No, their timeline to come up with those numbers isn’t realistic, but the point is that choir can be a lot more than just standing in a white shirt and black pants and singing Handel’s Messiah. Get on the boat; music is cool.

Whining and Complaining: Short Story

I am busy and my brain is going to explode.
It’s very hot and humid out and my brain is going to explode.
If my brain explodes you know that no one else is going to clean it up, which means I will have to clean it, and that just sucks.

Whining and Complaining: Longer Story

I love the whole Rent a Geek Mom gig, but I am not doing a good job at managing the number of clients I have at one time. It’s all fine and good, then a few projects take longer than anticipated for any number of reasons and WHAMMO I have 18 clients and my brain is going to explode. Anyone out there good with the Headway Theme want to help a sista out?
It is over 90 degrees here today and the humidity is not quite at oppressive yet, but will be by the afternoon. The kids are at my mom’s house, which doesn’t have AC, and even putting in a window unit is iffy – regularly will blow a fuse if someone also plugs in a hair dryer or something – though she has partitioned off part of the house & is risking it in order to keep the kids cool today, which I really appreciate.

Family News (a.k.a. the “mommy” part of this “Mommy Geekology” thing)

Geeklet is a year and a half, and is saying maybe 20 words? She talks a lot. Most of it we cannot understand, and Cupcake tell us that she is speaking Martian, but that she can understand it. Then she narrates. It’s fucking adorable. Sometimes she narrates in falsetto, which is even more hilarious. She dances whenever she hears Jump! by the Glee Cast and she loves to collect rocks. She has a new fascination with her sister’s princess Polly Pockets and if you don’t watch her carefully, she will climb up and lay down on the kitchen table to play with her cars. She makes vroom vroom noises and she gets down on all fours and barks like a dog sometimes, just for fun.
Cupcake is 4 years old. She is sweet and beautiful and smart and loving and compassionate and gorgeous, so gorgeous. She is still using binkies at night, but we’re slowly, very slowly, working on getting her off. (She uses binkies as a lovie- there isn’t anything else she’s really truly bonded with, so it’s tricky). She’s drinking milk in a big girl cup at night and she’s going potty 60% of the time. She’s talking and making up pretend friends, she sings along to all the songs on her kid shows and she plays SuperWhy! games on Daddy’s iTouch. She doesn’t love spraying water but she loves to swim in a pool/lake/pond. Her favorite snacks are cheese and crackers, or Cheez Doodles, or anything with cheese on it. She’s growing a garden with her Nana and we have a tomato that’s ready to be eaten! She’s an amazing big sister, truly a big helper around the house. She’s 4, and she’s trying our patience at every turn but I’m learning to find joy in it, at least some of the time, because it means she’s getting bigger, she’s learning, she’s strong and independent and opinionated.
DaddyGeek has fallen off the “going to the gym boat” — and I never got on the boat in the first place. We need to start taking better care of ourselves and losing some weight; the additional bulk and unhealthy eating has started to have side effects for me, and has continued to have side effects for him. If you have diet/workout regime/healthy lifestyle suggestions, I want – need – to hear them.

Miscellaneous

A while ago, we got a new living room set (Bob’s Discount Furniture FTW!) and our apartment is starting to finally feel like a home and not a mish-mash of college apartments and whatever was on sale at Target or IKEA.
Our carpets desperately need to be cleaned but I keep forgetting to call Stanley Steamer. If I don’t do it soon, they will just be brown, and not cream, and why the HELL do apartment complexes put cream carpets in, ANYWAY!?
Thank god for central air, and 24/7 maintenance when it freezes over or your dishwasher won’t work properly.
Yesterday Amazon.com suggested that I purchase Monistat because I had been viewing a fan. I can only assume that Amazon thinks I was going to use a fan to cool the itching and burning sensation? Because I don’t know how else these are connected. Also, I don’t have any itching or burning, so perhaps Amazon.com is also psychic? Or is that a threat? I don’t know whether to be in awe or terrified.
I got a new camera on Sunday, after a year of looking and comparing and reading and asking and trying to figure out what features I wanted, what featured I would actually use and what the features even were, and finally settled on a Canon PowerShot S90. It’s pretty fucking awesome, and I may try to find time to do a review of it sometime soon. The best way to describe it is like partway between a point & shoot and a DSLR; lots of control over manual features if/when I want them, only one lens, fits in my pocket, will even shoot RAW. Obviously I’ve only just started with it, but I read a bunch of tutorials and the user manual, so I think I’m on my way to half-way decent photos. At the very least, this time in the kids lives will be well documented. Some images below – no post-production work on these. You can see the rest in my Flickr feed.