Walking around Z Gallery during huge sale…
Salesperson: Anything I can help you find?
Me: Honestly, I’m torn between what I’d like to have and what our six children won’t destroy.
Salesperson: Well, there’s your first mistake.
QOTD
November 15, 2011 | Bad Mood Dude, Two Parents, Six kids, and Big Pharma
Boot Camp… Still Day 2. Crap!
October 26, 2011 | Bad Mood Dude, Boot Camp, Juice Fast, Me, Me, Me
I posted already today, didn’t I? Well, shit, since I opened the tab already, you’re getting another one (Hey, that’s not a bad pickup line. Yes it is. Don’t try it. Have some respect.)
Feedback form popped up again after today’s workout. I gotta be totally honest with you here: I didn’t follow EXACTLY along for EVERY exercise. Whenever I wanted to throw my chair at the screen (but didn’t because it’s an Aeron and together with the screen they’re worth more than I sold my last car for) I did something else. When Josh dropped for pushups, I dropped. And did something else. Once, I tightened the underside of my chair. And I ran downstairs with last night’s wine glasses and put them in the sink, and RAN BACK UP. Also? When I see those jump squats, I do Thumbs. I’ll do Thumbs all day long, along with crunches, toe touches, and side to sides. All. Day. Long. But I can’t hang in there for all them jump squats. Four pregnancies have made those… avoidable. So to speak.
Left a daily comment:
Did you experience any pain during this workout? YES
Where did you feel pain? EVERYWHERE
Just the second day grumpies. OMG. Pushups kill me and I have to do this when my smartass son isn’t here telling me how many HE has to do in conditioning. Or my mom, either, for that matter. Yes, she can do more. By the way, I fall over each time you say “this is for the core… think about something else… whatever you do, don’t think about the core.”
Too tired to screen capture today’s log, so I’ll just say it: One fruit and yogurt smoothie and two Fresh Express Strawberry Fields Kits. That shit’s addictive.
Dear Stalker: you have been warned
September 26, 2011 | Bad Mood Dude, Family
I just said goodbye to the police officer who came to interview me about a certain person who has been stalking me. This is a public forum, I am a public figure, and therefore anyone, anywhere has the right to contact me through public channels. I have no legal basis for complaining about that and I can ignore it.
But when it comes down my phone line, via text messages at all hours, and when I find someone subscribing to and linking to everything I’ve ever done and representing us in home-made videos as lovers and business partners, well, folks, that’s when I sound the klaxons.
So, Mr. Stalker, you are hereby requested to cease and desist, and to NEVER contact me in any way ever again. I’ve said it directly over the phone, have taken it to the police, had a trap put on my numbers, and have legal counsel on standby.
The recent spike in online activity has been documented and we are tracing through WHOIS and other channels. In short: you are pissing me off.
That’s all I have to say about that. Well, that, and I apologize to my readers for my sporadic absences and the vague nature of my posts. I’m not giving anything up, and I will protect myself and my family with a fierceness you do not want to test.
Hang in there, I am not going anywhere.
Mindy
Hockey season got moved up five months
September 16, 2011 | Bad Mood Dude, Family
Woke up to this email:
Well, life just isn’t crazy enough, so rather than the Roller Hockey season starting in January, the Sportsplex decided there was enough demand to move it up. THE SEASON WILL NOW BEGIN NEXT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd!! The duration is 15 weeks.
Practice every Monday night, Games on Friday nights. I have to drive around a mountain range to get there.
Checking in
September 14, 2011 | Bad Mood Dude, Family, Me, Me, Me, Two Parents, Six kids, and Big Pharma
You still here? Amazing.
Let’s see…
- Kids at school
- Guy in Seattle
- Guy’s parents arriving any minute
- No groceries in house but plenty of wine
- Still in sweats, haven’t had a shower
- Huge corporate client sending last-minute changes and going to be “out of pocket” til Friday, when he hope we can launch the site
- Site ready to go live after seven straight weeks building it BY MYSELF but won’t get a single minute alone with it after the switch is pulled. No down time. None. And several things won’t work until it’s live. Because our “expert” put it in a test environment where the URLs have special characters that aren’t recognized by the code in the template. So no pics show up and links have strikethroughs. But I’m sure it will all shake out when we go live. O_O
So, no pressure. Holy monkey fuck and I’m out of bananas. At least I’ve transformed Daphne’s room into a passable bed-n-breakfast suite. Also, the wine.
Oh, this is great: My client just emailed me:
What works best for you with kids, etc. in terms of making sure you have 1-2 days for testing and final tweaks once the site goes live? Let me know and I will block off the time.
I responded:
Ha. Guy’s parents and kids are here tonight and tomorrow night. One birthday yesterday to be celebrated with the other birthday today. We have four kids Friday night, and two of mine over the weekend because Gil is taking Logan to a baseball tournament in Manteca. Guy is going to Budapest Sunday morning. So, really, we are all probably wishing we launched at least a week ago. I will be alone, with kids, after entertaining. What about overnight on one of the nights?
Fucking baseball tournament. Fucking Budapest. Fucking not getting time to work three weekends in a row. Fucking fuck fuck.
