May 11, 2008
Superheroes
I like Batman’s last line best:
May 11, 2008
Give it away now
29-Day Giving Challenge
HOW: You can sign up and start your own personal challenge any time. Just click on “Sign Up” over in the top right corner of the screen.
WHAT: Your 29 gifts can be anything — material objects, money, your time, smiles or kind thoughts. Sign up now and start giving!
SHARE: Discuss your daily experiences with the challenge on the forum or in your Personal Giving Blog. You can even post video clips, photos or audio files.
STORIES: To complete the challenge, submit a story on day 30 about the impact it made on your life to focus on giving for 29 days. Your story can be told with written word, short film, recorded spoken word, song or visual art.
I heard about this on Unclutterer. Think about it. Giving stuff away plus de-cluttering your digs at the same time. Win-win.
May 10, 2008
Working for the weekend
Holden has a slight head cold, enough to make him want some medicine to sleep. This means that when the medicine wears off around 3-4 a.m., someone gets up with him to give him said medicine and cuddle-rock him back to sleep. That foot is me.
Plus I’m anxious about him getting up so last night, for example, I was still awake at 2:30 when he started to stir & fuss. And I’d had about 45 minutes of sleep when he started up again.
So when I saw this at NPR this morning, I had to give it a listen while I drank a bottled Frapucchino to kick-start my day:
If stay-at-home moms made a salary, one study estimates that it would be $117,000 — and most of the paycheck would come from overtime. A mom works nearly 100 hours a week. Even without the salary, there are benefits — like a heartfelt “thank you” this Mother’s Day.
Overtime. You know that commercial where Brooke Shields says her day starts at dawn and ends at dawn? Yeah, it’s about like that. This morning I was trying to get a decent amount of sleep and by 9, Zoe was in our room sitting in the bed, pulling the covers off me & saying, “Come on Mommy. The sun is shining and it’s wakey time.”
The sun is in fact not shining. Plus Hawk is working, as he will be tomorrow morning. So I had no choice but to haul my sorry, ample ass out of bed and start the day. BTW: I’m currently trying a Pirates of the Caribbean temporary tattoo back there. I found it in the kitchen so I applied it. It does not bother me.
So anyway…
Mothers Day has applied to me since 2003 (when I was pregnant w/ Zoe) and I never felt much need or desire to do anything about it. Last year, for example, I cooked. I think this year Hawk is inviting Bets over. I have no idea. But you know what I’d like more than a Cone or a Scooba? I’d like a break. A real break. Not an hour to sleep in only to have kids dumped on the bed b/c Daddy needs a potty break. Not a clock-ticking writing session where I’m constantly interrupted by “I want a snack” or “Maa-maa. Eat?” I would like to watch an TV show without an orange “Nick Jr” paint splatter in the corner. I would like to listen to my iPod with the volume up loud enough so I don’t hear “Look Mommy” every four minutes. I would like to completely involve myself in some editing work or my crochet project (which is something I’m making for myself). I’d like to get my eyebrows waxed without organizing a mass effort of coordination of childcare. I’d like to go to a movie in a theater.
I truly love motherhood. I love spending time with my kids more than anyone else on this planet. They’re funny, interesting people. But just for half a day, I’d like a respite from the dawn-to-dawn schedule.
But I wouldn’t turn down a Scooba.
May 9, 2008
Track a doodle doo
I use two stat trackers and neither one of them is giving me search term info (both used to so I’m wondering if the WordPress changes have affected them). I want to know what people are searching who end up here. It’s making me a bit crazy.
I mean, why am I the go-to authority in the world for “Five Clicks to Jesus?” I mean, I just shared a link that Busta had shared. I get why these are always up there:
… b/c post titles are everything.
I also like knowing when other bloggers link to me so I can return the favor.
So can anyone recommend a good free tracker (that’s compatible w/ WordPress)?
