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Wednesday
Jul072010

Random and Possibly Incoherent.

After spending three hours out in the yard working, I may have looked like I had just stepped out of a swimming pool fully clothed. I would like to apologize to anyone who happened to be downwind and had to smell me, but I have gotten it into my head that I absolutely positively must finish the pond before we hit the one year anniversary of moving into this house. If that means I have to haul around concrete blocks and dig through coal and clay and mud in 90 degree heat, so be it. I WILL CONQUER THE HOLE IN THE GROUND. I have a week and a half to do it.

In the spirit of I Have a Zillion Blisters and Can Barely Move My Fingers and I Must Dedicate My Time to the Hole in the Ground, you get a random list of stuff. Consider yourself lucky because if there's not a liner in that hole in the ground in the next 48 hours, you'll be looking at a whole lot of photos posts.

Dedicated. That's me.

  • Dear, sweet Virginia continues to hold on to a very tiny shred of insanity. I've offered her a lighter and maybe even a grenade so she can blow up the Pirates Bandwagon and be done with it before that bandwagon splashes into the Mononghela and she ends up trapped between rickity boards and rusty nails and dies a fiery (Have you seen all the margaritas the believers have on that bandwagon? That spectacle is going up in flames at the first sign of a spark), water-logged death, but she's not ready to give up just yet.

I know. It's amazing.

All of that is to say you still have time to come on over to my side. Toss in just $5 and you have a very good chance of winning one of many fab-u-lous prizes. Even if you're not in Pittsburgh, it's worth entering into the mayhem. You may win something and you will definitely do some good for kids. If you have already thrown in your $5, THANK YOU! and how about you throw in another $5? It's for the kids!

  • Speaking of kids, I posted over on my Review page about the shenanigans that will be happening next week. Epic shenanigans. Have I ever mentioned that I just plain love the word shenanigans? I do. Shenanigans.
  • Did you know I've been posting to the Review page? Well, I have. Sporadically. Soon I will share the magical contraption that has converted our master bedroom into being hotter than hell, rather than hotter than hell plus 400 degrees. Seriously, I found something for $40 that is reducing the temperature in that room a tiny bit. Given how bad it is up there, a tiny bit is FANTASTIC.
  • Did you know that I added a blogroll except that it's not really a blogroll so much as it is posts about blogs I love? Well, I did. I might even update it sometime soon. Also, no worries if you haven't been mentioned there yet. Your time will come. Although, I will say that I am thinking of playing favorites based on people who regularly comment or who have been known to comment around these parts for a long time. I'm just sayin'.
  • Shenanigans.
  • If you go to leave a comment and get a message saying that I banned your adorable but rude and insulting self, no worries! I finally took the time to figure out that you've been commenting under multiple names and, really, I just don't have time to deal with you being rude to meh peeps. Sorry. Buh-bye.

(P.S. I pink puffy heart Squarespace's comment controls SO MUCH. I should start paying attention to them more often.)

  • I caught Alexis teaching a friend how to smile and pose for the camera today. It was kind of like Ursula from The Little Mermaid teaching Scar from The Lion King how to be nice. Even after ten minutes of back and forth, they still both sucked at posing and smiling, but it was cute watching them be all awkward and dorky as they tried to understand a concept that is clearly way beyond their abilities.

It's a good thing candid shots suit the child just fine.

 

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Reader Comments (21)

Good luck on the whole in the ground/pond! Mine will soon be done, thank heavens!

Your guess of these twins staying in another week is coming true! Not to worry I am not throwing anything at you...I saved the pregnancy rage yesterday for everyone else!

Good luck with the pond!
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMel
I admire your dedication to the pond project. I walk outside in this kind of heat and humidity and immediately melt into a puddle. Physical labor of that variety makes me want to pass out in this heat.

I'm sorry you had someone being rude in your comments.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered Commentermattieflap
Good luck with the pond & sweat-drenching heat!

I love the creepy visual of watching Ursula teaching Scar to be nice. Good one! And totally understood. Good thing you have a good camera that can shoot fast to capture those candids!

Shenanigans.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterDave (Scrumpy Daddy)
FYI -- the latest copy of Sports Illustrated has a whole huge article on the suckitude of the Pirates. Sorry about that, but it just might help your cause if people go read it.

I think Alexis does just fine with the candids. We probably couldn't stand the cuteness if she were to master a pose!
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMadame Queen
I can't believe you are working in this heat! I went out yesterday, just to water the new trees we planted and I felt like I was going to pass out. I know the "ohmygod, we've been here almost a year, and we were supposed to do X,Y, and Z by now" feeling. We are going on 2 years, and we still have the ugly wall paper up in the dining room!
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJen
Ooooh, there's so much to love about this post. I'm just grinning like the Cheshire Cat over things.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterKaren
Happy pond building. We have one that came with the house. It is sooooo disgusting but has such potential. However, I am doing the (hands over ears) I can't hear you dance when I come near it - so I've let the hostas and other random plants take over so I cannot see it - until Spring. This year was the pool's resurrection next year will be the pond.

PS: I love this shot of your daughter. Very very cute.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMia
Ursula and Scar made me laugh out loud. That's fabulous.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterFireMom
how on earth is that a candid shot? woman, you are good. and i mean really, really good.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterhello haha narf
How about that? I can finally post a comment from work - probably have been able to for a while, but I was inspired by your shenanigans up there with a promise to be added to blogrolls, and the like. So now my next step will be to actually start blogging again - sheesh, the pressure! Anyway, good luck with the pond shenanigans, I hope I used it properly there. It is such a lovely word. :)
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterRoger
Good luck with the pond.
I do not envy you at all.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMamaPhan
Dude, you were OUTSIDE working? In the current weather? Hero. You deserve some sort of medal.

And that picture of Alexis is perfect, given what you were talking about - she looks like total trouble!
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterbessie.viola
Rude = hinting about some awesome bedroom cooling device and then leaving us hanging. It was over 100 degrees yesterday, and my bedroom felt like 90, with the AC. Anxiously awaiting that review....
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSusan
Ugh, yard work: DO NOT MISS.

Thanks for the write-up, it was sweet!
I can't believe you're building a pond these days. 90+ degrees? I can't even go outside to water my tomato plant (yes, that's singular) without taking a water break...

At least when Alexis does candid her eyes are OPEN. At LEAST one of my kids (usually Youngest Boy) closes eyes for photos. Every time! {SIGH}
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterThe Mommy
Random posts are the bom-diggity!! I lurve them. I need to do one soon...of course, that requires regular posting and I'm just now getting back into the groove....starting today where I ticked off just about every person that has ever met my kids....but, hey...I'm awesome like that.

P.S. I still can't get over how grown up she's looking these days!!
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSarah
Firstly, How do these multi-personality people have that much time to make up multiple annoying comments?? I mean, really!

Secondly, I would help with the pond if I could if only to take my mind off my REALLY MEAN CAR! (Just kidding, Car, you are very pretty and please, please run Iloveyou!)

Thirdly, how cute is that story about Alexis?! Have you tried giving her a camera and letting her direct you in some portraits? I tried that with Bee and OHMYGAWD is she bossy! I have been more kind in my requests since them. Ahem.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterKatie in MA
Years ago, I built a rock wall next to my driveway--during the last month of my pregnancy with my third child. My deadline was for it to be completed and planted with trailing petunias before I left for the hospital. I made it. I have no pictures to share, as this was 35 years ago, but I DID go by to visit "my wall" at the house I used to own the last time I was in Georgia.

Alexis is still one of the cutest little girls I have never met. But, my brand new granddaughter, Amelia, who was born on my birthday, now takes the number one spot in cuteness for me. Sorry, Alexis.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterKaren
Awwww...I'm all warm and fuzzy now to see myself on your blogroll. And it is a crime that we haven't managed to at least have a cup of coffee when I'm passing through the 'Burgh. Hoping to make our Christmas trip home less frenzied this year and possibly throw in a Thanksgiving trip...maybe one of those will make it work.
July 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMichelle Smiles
The hole + the heat = you are crazy
July 9, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterGina
I cannot wait to see pictures of the pond! Seriously!

And I don't think I knew that you had a blogroll, so imagine my surprise when I clicked over and saw little ol' me listed. It seriously brought tears to my eyes. To read such kind words and praise from someone whom I truly admire means so much to me. You have been such a huge source of support and encouragement, and I cannot thank you enough. I will be back - even if it is just to put Quinn's story up . . . I can't NOT let that post exist for the rest of the world to read.
July 17, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterNicole
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