I was sent a groovy La LOOP necklace to try out. I am not saying that I misplace my glasses a lot. OK, I am saying I misplace my glasses a lot! I don’t wear contact lenses so I am constantly switching from my prescription sunglasses to my regular eye glasses. The website describes what a
La LOOP is WAY better than I can:

La LOOP are stylish necklaces that function as eye glass holder.   Not your grandmother’s eyeglass chain, La LOOP is a collection of luxurious necklaces designed to keep eye wear in place while offering an ultra-stylish, chic accessory.   

I was send a Sport Loop necklace

It is terribly handy and for me. I am in and out of the car and I don’t like wearing either pair of glasses in a head band style because they stretch them out over my big melon and then they fall of my nose.
The Sport Loop is very inexpensive at $20.00, but there are some seriously swanky styles, like this one:

Purple horn acetate, made from Italian acetate and handmade in France. This lovely purple colour has a sterling silver look and clasp. $200.00 This could certainly be worn as a necklace all by itself. I really like this one.
There are a variety of styles and price points for everyone and You don’t have to look like your Grandma, unless you are into that sort of thing.
I am giving away (number of, styles?) loops to (? number of people who comment). Tell me when or where was the most inconvenient place your lost a pair of glasses!
Celebs love La LOOP too!

Heidi Klum!
To win a Sport La LOOP, leave a comment. Perhaps amuse us with a how-i-lost-my-glasses story. I will pick a winner when I am back from Vegas! Baby!

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Listy!

craving cucumbers with ranch dip. i guess its too late for now, being 1:30AM. What do you crave just before bed? Chocolate or something would be more normal right? I am WISHING and hoping I was normal these days.

it is NEVER OKAY to talk to your adult children about your sex life (MOM), even if you “just want me to know how it changes as you get older”.
xo
jen
just before diner…

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So humanity, motherhood, person hood, it is both glorious and horrific at different time and i am sure we all want it to be more awesome at all times! Thus is not so. I feel better after my “episode” a few weeks ago. I even took the post down for a while because I was embarrassed, I felt like I was flogging myself and my readers like dead horses and jebus where ARE THE kittens and candy??
But, things are what they are. Sometimes glorious, simple glory. A good late night read, great bagel, baby head smell, flowers, oh flowers, and hugs and kisses. Even those wonderful things don’t heal and the persistence of a mental illness is annoying. Depression and anxiety and insecurity are annoying to the person suffering and their friends. OK, they are annoying to ME and my loved ones, my friends. I apologize. I want to be more, for me, for YOU, for my kid, even my cats get the brunt of four letter words for the last three weeks. Depressed people are not sad clowns, we are irritating as hell and unreliable and inconsistent and pains in the assssesses. So, there is that.
The snow is currently pretty much gone here, I have talked to a couple of landscapers, my garden dreams might just come true more than I thought possible before. Glorious. glory. I have less zits this week: awesome. I Furminated the cats last week: excellent. There were some hairballs and other disappointments that run deeper, but I am still here and trying not to swear as much. I am suddenly hyper away of my audience and advertisers and worried about my WANT to use the F word all over the place.
I am on day four of a new antidepressant. Lexapro for anyone keeping score, in addition to Lamictal and my diabetes paraphernalia. I tried to count all the different meds I have been on since I was 17, I am 39 now and I get roughly 13 different types of psychotropic drugs. So say I am fucking sick of it would be a fucking understatement and this sad clown turns bitchy and no one wants to be around and I try and pretend and I can’t and here we are. Day four! A wee nauseous and unstable but alive. After 12 different kinds of magic pills I am ALWAYS optimistic, except for that whole Anaphylactic shock one. That was a bad one. I rarely even get dry mouth which is a classic side effect from antidepressants. We will give this chemical gift some time + sunshine and see where it takes me.
Have I mentioned (yes I have) that Mark and I are going to Vegas from Monday to Friday next week? I will have the laptop because crap on a cracker, neither of us could be away from a computer for that long. My biggest goals? To sit near the pool for a little while at least for one day, buy some VANS, and smooch with my little poopy, he is so tolerant of this sad clown.

2005! In front of NY NY.

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The weather has been awesome here. Warm, sunny, perfection. Crosses fingers, knocks on wood, kisses blarney stone, blows out birthday candles.
I am making a list of things to do to get ready for Spring and gardening and SUN! The list will probably just get written before we go to Vegas on the 27th, but it is a start. This year we are actually going to rent a car and go to the Grand Canyon. Or as the French call it Le Grand Canyon. I am excited and hope to get some good pictures.
My dad is started some seeds indoors for me this year since I LOVE OUR NEW HOUSE, but it does not have a good warm and large window space to set up my previous grow operation. I may try and start a few things, but they will have to be in a teeny box and moved some sunny spot to sunny spot around the house 3 times a day in a heated tray in order to germinate. I am not sure I have that sort of dedication this year.
I was also going to post a photo of me with my teeth whitening gear on, but you cannot really see it and it does take icky. Miracle!! Yes, I am vain and want whiter teeth. Of course I am giving up coffee, diet Pepsi, blueberries, tea, and all darker coloured food in general in order to look glistenly white or at least less yellow FOR YOU PEOPLE! I do it all for you. Interestingly “glistenly”, not a word.
I do miss the slow bounty of blooms I used to get in the old house, I had tulips and crocuses, and snow drops and lots of other bulbs I had put in over the 9 years we owned the house. I used to walk around the house everyday as soon as the snow started to melt and put my nose to the dirt to see if anything was popping up. This house was landscaped very minimally with rocks and bushes and low maintenance. Which is awesome. For most people. I try and not think about the owners of our old house digging up my tulips and thinking, silly gardening lady who used to live here! What a waste of time. I dream about it and wake up yelling NOoooooooooooooo! ahem. I never realized how much I would miss it, how it might seem trivial, but after a long winter, there is something almost godly about seeing a little hyacinth peak out of the cold ground. I hope to built a raised bed (ok, hire someone to put one in) in the front yard so I can grow some things that WILL peak out in the earlier spring. Rebirth my friends.

Also, giveaway coming this week! weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Easter Mick Jagger

tie dyed eggs, thanks to a link from Secret Agent Josephine. secret-agent-josephine.com/blog/2009/04/10/tie-dyed-eggs-…


Family, Ham, egg hunt. Nice day.

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