It’s Been Awhile
by Heather
Much to your disbelief… I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. I’ve just been busy earning the award for “slacker blogger.”
Did I win? Maybe. Or perhaps you didn’t even notice that I’ve been absent.
It’s been one month since my little fingers tap, tap, tapped on the keyboard and pounded out a post. I’m sorry y’all. As the lamest excuse goes… Life just got in the way.
To be completely honest I was overwhelmed with school (4 A’s and a B+), family, the renovation and the rental. I had plenty of stories in mind to write. I just didn’t have the time or energy to get ‘em done.
So please forgive me. But just for grins let me throw out some of the titles. They are as follows: “Lipo Might be Cheaper”, “The Battle of the Dog” and “Christmas Crud.”The Lipo story is based on my belief that lipsuction might be cheaper than buying shape wear, a gym membership and using a personal trainer. I’m still working on the math, but I think I may have a point here.
The Battle of the Dog is about my standoff with our dog, “Bella” AKA “Blanco Diablo.” She has “marked her territory” on my dining room rug TWICE. I naturally had a fit and had the rug shipped off to be scoured and scrubbed TWICE. I’ve set up road blocks and even hot wired the thing to keep her off of it. Much to my chagrin… my electrical get-up isn’t working. So I’ve rigged the house with baby gates and have trained the children to shoo her away from the rug if there’s been a breach in security. Did I mention she’s the white devil?
Case in point. Here are the kids with Santa’s cookies…
Now here’s Bella eating one of those cookies…
Caught the damn dog in the act and snapped a picture with my Iphone. Yeah she knows she’s in trouble!
Christmas Crud revolved around the whole family getting sick over Christmas and canceling our ski vacation. Thankfully were able to reschedule. Now we’re laid up on the couch, coughing on each other, slurping NyQuil and Mucinex and watching Christmas movies.
Minus the snot and aches and pains it’s been kinda nice. We’re spending quality time together. Today we even managed to scrape ourselves off the sofa and play a little Wii. My 5 year old schooled me in bowling. He got 5 strikes.
I will try to not be such a slacker in the new year or just schedule my time a little better. I suppose I could make it a new year’s resolution… but I must confess I really don’t believe in those things. Let’s just say I’ll try to be a better Recession Mama. And get control of that dog.
-Heather
Tags: bad dog, blogger, Christmas, dog, lame excuses, liposuction, New Year's resolution, slacker, white devil
December 30th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
How in the world do you do it all, mama!? Holy cow, you’re making the rest of us look bad. Seriously! : ) I’m so proud of you for those killer grades. Keeping up with everything is tough …and then throw in the holidays and something’s gotta give. Miss ya!
December 31st, 2009 at 1:59 am
Awesome post, Heather! Lipo might be cheaper is hilarious. And I’ve had my share of pesky pet problems. I wish there was a way to solve it! Also, congrats on getting through the holidays, getting good grades, and still posting this month!
January 1st, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Great post. So proud of you for keeping all those balls in the air so successfully. Guess the Christmas crud was just your body’s way of saying SLOW DOWN! If you figure out how to keep Bella off the rug let me know, seems like I am always battle with some furry little critter at my place…… they think that they should have free roam.
January 8th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Bella’s story reminds me of a dachsund (sp?) we had when I was a kid. My brothers and I had proudly gone together and gotten Dad a Cheese and Summer Sausage gift from the mall. We wrapped it and put it under the tree. A couple of days later, Hilda ate most of it…… ha! Hope everyone is over the crud now!