New gardening post up at AlphaMom!

Go give me some love!
At least the new cedar deck is being used for something for the two more weeks we are in this house.
xo

If you are interested in some ramblings on my current mental state go here. For a baby bunny, go here.
I am trying to remember

From little moves from university residence back home and back and then into an apartment where I lived for about 8 years and then into this house in 1999, I don’t have experience with the big ass move that we are about to embark on.

New post growing things with your little ones on Alphamom.

GO! comment. Love meeeeeee

My friend Aimee from greeblemonkey is involved in a great cause:
TIME TO BID ON SOME GREAT ART!
Lots of kids all over the country have created artwork, with their own little hands, and given them to the KID ART AUCTION FOR EARTH DAY 2008. That’s where you come in! Today (April 22, 2008 – EARTH DAY!) is the last day for bidding on their masterpieces! All proceeds support the We Can Solve It project.
Here’s how you do it:
1. Make sure you have a Flickr account. (It’s free!) Sign up or login at www.flickr.com.
2. Go to the KID ART AUCTION FOR EARTH DAY 2008 pool at http://www.flickr.com/groups/683778@N24/
3. Look through all the awesome art submitted by the kids there.
4. Place bids for anything you like in the comments for the individual piece of art you like. Starting bid is $5.00.
5. Bidding ends 9pm Mountain Time April 22, 2008!!!
6. Full details on how to pay for your winning bid and the whole project are here:
http://www.greeblemonkey.com/2008/04/kid-art-auction-for-earth-day-2008.html

Go bid on this piece of art and more like them!
Created by Keira, age 10
Acrylic paint on stretched canvas
11 x14
p.s. I heart Aimee, you should go read her and check out her great photos.

This is totally us.
bigger here
courtesy of marriedtothesea

Here are the super secret details.

Also:

Minutes ago!
blah. like everyone else, i am sick of winter. My poor tulips are up and chilly.

Awesome!: your dad is handy and can unclog your sink!
Funny!: your dad asks you casually if you have a plumber’s snake. You tell him you have a hammer, if that is helpful?
Gross!: you have to clean the bucket of clog and the snake that smells of poo.
Best!: It only costs you a bag of pistachios.
Thanks Dad.
xo

CHAAAANGE!
I have been watching too much coverage of the American election.
I have also been awash in my own little world of change. Right now I am currently awaiting my first of two estimates from a moving company. We are going to get them to pack as much as possible – books, kitchen, CDs, clothes. Yes, it will cost a little more, but what is the price of my sanity? And Mark’s? Yes, Mastercard, it is fucking priceless. When we moved from our teeny apartment into this house we swore then with about 20% of the stuff we have now that we would never do it ourselves again. We are delicate flowers and I just don’t want to do the heavy lifting or the pain in the ass packing of my plates and shit.
Oh here he is. More afterwards….
I need to get out more and talk to actual people, i talked the ear off of the mover consultant guy.
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OK, I started this entry at 10AM and it is not 9:38PM. I was calling cleaning people, carpet people, painting people, people people, then i went for a workout with my trainer (down to once a week w/ trainer), and picked up Charlotte and had dinner and went out with my friend Klara for some window shopping and a coffee. Decaf w. Splenda of course. I am so glad I no longer have to use aspartame, that shit tastes like ass.
Tomorrow I have another moving guy coming to check out our crap and let us now how much it will cost to hermetically seal Mark’s stamp collection and have it escorted from one house to the other by a Brinks security guy. I mock because I love.
This is the biggest thing on my mind right now, the move. Followed by Mark going to the World Series of Poker again in July (anyone wanna hang?), then BlogHer the next week, then China (did I mention I won a trip to the Olympics?) in August and then I need to reschedule my knee surgery which was to be on our move in date. I know these are all good things, ‘cept the knee business, but my head is being kept on my neck by a safety pin and duct tape. It is all a lot for me to process in such a short time. I am also trying to keep focus on the proper eating and exercise after the weight loss surgery, which I occasionally fall short in my attempts. I could make eating right and exercise my full-time job right now. I didn’t get the surgery done, not to follow through. I can’t recall the last time I weighed myself – February? My only baseline is what size of jeans I wear at the Gap.
Here is a photo of the new digs. More photos on flickr if ya’ wanna.

My host, Christopher Walken was awesome. I was really hope he was going to read me Good Night Moon though….



Isabel Kallman of AlphaMom was my REAL host, and NYC was great.
p.s. HILARIOUS link, courtesy of mihow.