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How to get to Sesame Street

Posted on February 6, 2008

Yesterday was a bleak day in the Adirondacks – grey skies, a persistent, oppressive icy mist hung in the air, and dense slush covered the ground making it nearly impassable to pedestrians and vehicles alike. I had to dash over to Trampoline mid-morning, so I bundled up and made for the coffee shop for fortification. I was in and out in seconds, I clutched the warms cups of coffee and cautiously traversed the moat-like roundabout. I felt my shoulders slumping from the cold, the muted daylight and gripping cold beginning to manifest in a foul mood, icy water lapped at my feet, cresting and sending splinters of icy wetness into my thin trouser socks. At one point my foot began to slide from underneath…

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Small Talk, Big Ass

Posted on February 3, 2008

Last night was the big, fancy annual event I put together for the Chamber. The decorations, purchased on a shoestring budget, looked magnificent, the girls were happily ensconced in a Governor’s Suite at The Sagamore with Nana and Ciocci Jeannie and standing on Sean’s arm, he in a dashing brown suit and me in a silver party skirt and daringly low cut black top, I felt incredible. My responsibilities for the evening had settled down to moderate surveying of the room and the occasional huddle with band members and wait staff. Sean and I were strolling the room arm in arm and chatting with guests. It was a wonderful mix of business and pleasure, and remarkably, we sailed brilliantly through the different snippets of…

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You’ve been outbid (again)

Posted on February 1, 2008

A while back I posted about Macy’s carrying “Junior’s Maternity.” I had been trying to find maternity clothes and was coming up empty. Many of you suggested Old Navy and Ebay. I’ve got some swell Old Navy stuff and am currently getting a whooping on Ebay with those devilish last minute bidders. I’m not sure I’m cut out for searching, falling in love, bidding and then losing. Again and again and again. So this afternoon I popped on a few sites to check out some sure things. Ahem… “Under belly, mid-thigh” WTF? Am I a prude or is that unacceptable? And this? Call it “Tall Girl Complex” but I cannot wear pants like this unless Sean and I are walking hand in hand on…

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And with that, I jinxed us.

Posted on February 1, 2008

I knew even before the words had passed my lips that I had made a grave mistake. I should have known better than to utter aloud something that we’d never been subjected to as parents, but I just had to poke at the capricious, unknown puppeteers behind the irrepressible nature of toddler development. “She’s never actually told a lie.” Cue the malevolent laughter drifting in upon an unexpected breeze. I was talking with another mom who was recounting how she’d had to exact a grounding sentence on her daughter after telling a lie. We went back and forth about the sensation of knowing with absolute certainty what a certain look on your child’s face mean. Briar sticks her tongue in her cheek, sometimes chewing…

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