Wonderful as Monday was, I find myself now balancing mememe time by mad vacuuming and packing up lunch for a visit to the zoo after I collect the ladies from their H1N1 ridden school at noon. Does crossing your fingers, then washing them–lots–help fight off the horrible scourge of the pandemic? Here’s to hoping it [...]
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100% everybody else-serving
Posted in Maryland Zoo, pandemic, preschool on October 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
2:30 a.m.
Posted in Maryland Zoo, National Aquarium in Baltimore, art, arts grants, gainful employment, headache, leashes for children, painting, parenting, preschool, scotch whiskey, the gym, watercolors on July 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
That’s right. Two thirty. Dark outside. Family sleeping. Cats sleeping. Normal people sleeping.
It has been a strange ten days since I last wrote, here. After eight months of me applying to many, many jobs, suddenly within a 24 hour period of time, three people think I may be employable. I don’t want to go into [...]
Let go, let nap!
Posted in Maryland Zoo, camera morte on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve given in to the fact that every day will not have a nap. The days I like have naps. Today there are naps. One passed out on the purple chair in the living room, the other passed out under the fuzzy purple tent in their bedroom. The morning involved running around the zoo, in [...]
Cruel shoes
Posted in 4horseshoes studio, Maryland Zoo, art, high heels, inexpensive toys, tagged cruel shoes on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having strange days. Wondering if the summer solstice has something to do with it. The skies have been especially tempestuous and the nighttime light especially odd. Despite my usual hate for the summer, there is something special about the beginning of the end of the long days. A desperation of the sun. Blasting during the [...]
Forty minutes
Posted in Maryland Zoo, Michelle Obama, National Aquarium in Baltimore, baltimore aquarium on March 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yup. Today it is forty minutes I have until wake-up time. The last hour was spent…hmmmm…. having to pee (which I have yet to do), checking a million emails, looking at….er… ended up having to pee after all. Okay, so I peed, just put a load of laundry in the washing machine, grabbed my bass [...]
The animals, the animals…Let’s talk dirty to the animals…
Posted in Battlestar Galactica, Maryland Zoo, cylon on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m thinking of a song Gilda Radner had on a comedy record I won on the radio when I was in middle school back in the early 80’s. “Fuck you, mister hippo, eat shit, mister bear…” or something along those lines. Really funny stuff. I only write about animals because we saw a bunch of [...]
Hello Kitty, Goodbye Goldfish
Posted in Maryland Zoo, snacks on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since when did Goldfish go out of style? I remember the first time Beenie had a Goldfish… we were on the tram at the Maryland Zoo one late summer evening in 2007. The girls were almost one year old at that point. My husband and I bumped into an old colleague of mine from the [...]
Dear Mimi
Posted in Maryland Zoo, naps, parenting, photography, playdates, raising twins, tagged eating chalk on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why, my darling daughter, do you cry? Is it the horrible containment of your diaper underneath a swimming diaper that makes you weep? I’m sorry, but you must wear something on your bottom when you take (or don’t) a nap — if you don’t, you may pee all over your crib just like you did [...]
Socialites
Posted in Maryland Zoo, art, maryland, playdates, tagged full moon on May 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Have taken the girls out a bunch of times this week for different social events. Monday was a power mom & young’uns extravaganza at the zoo — Lynn & Elana, Gayle & Alexander, Cyndi & Sylvie, me and Beenie and Mimi. The sky kept threatening to explode on us. There were huge dark gray clouds [...]
Monkey Addendum
Posted in Maryland Zoo, tagged baby leashes on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s another picture of the monkey “backpack” leash. Hopefully it will illustrate the functionality of the leash monkey. We went to the zoo again yesterday, this time with a good friend, P.Q. and his twin son and daughter. They are exactly six months younger than my girls. Four children, two adults. We were definitely outnumbered, [...]
