Mama Blah Blah

Photo:  Eye Test, by John LeMasney , Creative Commons My darling husband is in a bit of a funk. This is hard for me, because he is gene...

I won’t bore you with the details, but on Friday, September 9, the Blah Blah Family finally moved. It took weeks of preparation, as we wer...

My Viva is 8 years old. She is bigger than she has ever been, but she is still, in the scheme of things, a little girl. She often shows suc...

Recently Viva was riding her bike around the neighborhood with her dad and she was coming down a hill and got nervous as she was going too f...

Sweet Dub is going out of town for a few days to do some filming. I miss him already. I really do! I have a lump in my throat and it’s been ...

If you were a fly on the wall, yesterday evening you would have seen Sweet Dub embrace me in the kitchen, after which the following exchange...

There was this commercial several years ago in which a bunch of people are sitting around in a conference room and one guy is all gung-ho an...

Yesterday Sweet Dub and I met for lunch and inadvertently celebrated an anniversary: it’s been a month already since he got laid off. I know...

Well! I just dropped a bomb on you and then skedaddled away, even though so many of you so kindly took the time to comment and commiserate. ...

Sweet Dub just called me. He got laid off today. Holy freakin' crap.

Wow, so here I am, off to a raging start with this blogging thing in 2010. It’s February already and I’ve posted only 3 times this year. Thr...

Okay. So in reading here and there about my work life you may have surmised that I work in the nonprofit sector, and I do my best to raise m...

Today I am sick. Darling Sweet Dub is sick. Precious Cily is sick. Viva: healthy as all get-out and raring to go. What adventure awaits her ...

It’s October. Work and home life insanely busy. I barely remember September. Recent news: Cily: top two front teeth have come through. Stoma...

Backstory: last week Sweet Dub and I caught part of the latest George Lopez comedy special on…HBO, or one of those premium channels we pay t...

Appreciating, on this thirteenth day of appreciating what I should appreciate: 1. I finally, after MONTHS of not, got my hair cut and colore...

Lately Sweet Dub has been complaining about his clothes and how he hates them all and needs new stuff, but he never seems to find time to sh...

1. Relieved to read “Renting still beats buying.” Sweet Dub and I have an ongoing conversation about this since we’re not convinced that a ...

So many things to blog about, so little time: Cily is much better, just about at 95% I'd say. We have battled the Croup and won! Viva is...

I don’t have anything deep to say today, just a bunch of random observations. Let’s dive in, shall we? Seriously? One of the Best. Headlines...