One Stop Boy Shop

I have some news that I’m dying to tell you but I don’t think that I can yet. I don’t want to jinx myself.  I know that I can’t just leave it there so I’ll give you a little info, enough so that you’ll understand but not enough that I have to hang my head in shame if it falls through.

Someone likes my writing! I’ve been asked by a somewhat BIGGIE to write a weekly blog beginning in mid to end July. This biggie even has a printed magazine, so dare I hope that someday I’ll write something titillating enough to get into real print?!?

I hope this doesn’t fall through and I hope that it starts soon. I have so many drafts ready for when they give me the green light.   I’m so looking forward to writing about stuff that’s near and dear to me and for a potentially very large audience.

This made me think of an old post that I had sitting in drafts. Guess I can delete that one now, because here it is, in the raw, in its unfinished form. It was called:
“Who I’d like to interview”

Okay, so let’s just pretend that our blogs are so awesome that we get “discovered”. Some literary biggie with clout says “Hey Nancy, we love your writing SO much that we’d like for you to interview someone famous for us and then write an article detailing that interview”. So in this imaginary (never going to happen) world, I was wondering who I’d love to interview. The people that I think would be most interesting to me would be:

Clint Eastwood - What a career he’s had! I’d love to hear about his beginnings, what worried him, what thrilled him (because it’s hard to tell WHAT thrills him) and who inspired/inspires him.

Robin Williams - I’d love to know about his early days and his struggles over comedic genius and substance abuse. I wonder how the two played together to make him the funny, witty man that he is today.

John Cusack - only because I idolize this man and am intrigued by his lack of limelight. He really flies under the radar and I think he’d make for a very interesting conversation.  I’d love to know everything about him including his hobbies, what he likes to read and how he spends his quiet time.

Ron Howard - I’d love to ask him about his child acting days. I consider my little Ian to be my little “Opie” and I wonder if their personalities are similar at all. I’d also love to talk to him about being a father and his daughter falling very successfully into his footsteps.

Those are my top 4. There are a couple of more that I considered and would certainly jump at the chance to interview and those would be:
Steve Jobs - so we can chat about his Customer Service model
Stephenie Meyer - so I can convince her to finish Midnight Sun
The makers of the Kindle - I have so many ideas to help them improve their product.  I’ve emailed them but only received back a “thanks for the feedback, we’ll forward that one” response.  They really should talk to me.. lol

Well here I am, just a Mommy Blogger (and a techie/nerd blogger (hint as to what I’ll be writing about) if you read my other blog) so I don’t think that these aspirations will come true.. buy hey! it never hurts to dream. As they say “Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have”. So I’ll be wearing business suits while washing dishes, cooking dinner and changing diapers.  Looking towards  your dream jobs could actually get you there.  Just facing the right direction is a positive outlook and having a positive outlook can make some exciting things happen!

Who would YOU like to interview or write for?

since I’m on strike and all until Feedburner fixes me. I decided to just put up some affiliate sales that I got in my inbox this morning. Happy shopping to anyone who happens by! Besides If I don’t post something about these companies soon, I’ll lose my affiliate status, lol. Boring, boring……

I’m on blog strike. Feedburner has not only decided to snatch away over 30 of my subscribers, they’ve also stopped emailing my subscribers to let them know when a new post is up! It hasn’t notified anyone in 3 days now. That’s 2 or 3 posts that haven’t been sent out. I have no idea if the people who subscribe via RSS Reader are getting updates but I know the email subscribers aren’t and they make up the majority of my subscribers. So what’s the point? I can write all I want and no one will read it.

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Isn’t this an interesting post? I’ll start blogging again, when it actually goes somewhere! Fix me Feedburner! PLEASE!

As a mom, you unearth a “creative gene” that you never knew existed.  You discover how to make a crown, complete with jewels for your prince by using cardboard, finger paint and gluing on beads.  You learn to make things like domino trains that tumble over in precision in order to fascinate your youngsters.

We’ve turned our hearing into “Mommy Ears”. We can tune out obnoxious toys, and screaming in glee as if the decibel levels weren’t loud enough to rival Air Force Jets. But yet we can hear a panicked whisper of “mommy” from across the house. We also recognize the “sounds” associated with mischief. Or the lack of sounds that can cause your heart to stop.

My children claim that I have eyes in the back of my head and wonder how in the world I could know they’re doing something wrong when I’m in another room. Sometimes their silence is my hint. I just act like I knew they were up to no-good and I’m usually right.

Today I discovered a new creative mom gene.  As I went into the restroom and proceeded to ummm…. well pee (sorry, tmi). I looked down only to discover that there wasn’t a square to spare.  Not one tiny bit of toilet paper.  What’s a woman to do?  I looked around and discovered that one of my little princes had left his knightly sword on the floor of the bathroom.

Ah HA!  I can slay some TP!  Did you know that a sword fits perfectly into the round center of a roll of TP?  That’s right, it makes retrieving it from the pantry across the space of flooring a breeze.

Thank goodness when we become mothers, there are natural phenomenons that occur.  We unearth nocturnal genes that develop maternal love and protectiveness.  We learn patience that feels like we’ve pulled it out of thin air and we’ve learned to make do with things like maxi-pads when we’ve run out of diapers and diapers for when we’ve run out of maxipads.

We’ve cornered the market in learning how to stir dinner while rescuing an overly active toddler from immediate peril.

I seem to have lost some brain cells in the process of becoming a mom but I’ve added some new talents.  I guess that’s supposed to make up for the lack of brain power. But surely, slaying TP from across the room using nothing but a sword is a talent that I can market!

I’m afraid to give an opinion about this… (especially cuz I kind of want one) but isn’t this a bit quick to be jumping onto the money train? I was just looking on Amazon and this was on the first page as a “Hot Product”.

Sorry, no real post today, I had the migraine from hell. I’m up after sleeping since the moment my husband walked in the door and was just doing some surfing and saw that tee.

We had a fun action-packed weekend.  First off my big sis Jill just moved here from Arizona!  I’m so thrilled!  She told her friends in Arizona that she had to move to Texas because her little sister “supposedly has 3 little boys” and she wouldn’t even be able to pick them out of a lineup.   Hmmm, what’s her

prediction of a lineup of my boys supposed to mean?    She’s staying with us for awhile and I’m enjoying having her around SO much!  The boys love her too and she’s been such a huge help.  Look, she even dressed Ian for me this morning!?  Check out this ensemble. 

Notice the too short pants, and the bright yellow “Wiggles” socks?  Paired nicely with a button up “Fish” Tropical shirt.  And I’m now supposed to take him to Ikea and Walmart with me this morning!?  Aye Yie Yie!  LOL Then again, I guess it’s not much worse than when he went through the stage of always having to be dressed as Spiderman and me taking him into stores in his costumes. Well, actually I think this IS worse, at least that was obviously a costume and a “tolerant” Mom.

Then we were invited to a “Splash Day Event” at Emerson-Academy.  It’s a school that I maintain the website for in Round Rock, Texas.  They have such a wonderful facility and they offer care for ALL children and even provide special services for children with disabilities and autism and Down Syndrome in a truly unique learning environment.  We had such a fabulous time!  The staff and parents and everyone there were so welcoming and friendly.  Unfortunately, we left our camera memory card at home and didn’t get any pictures.

On Sunday we went to my parents house for dinner.  After we’d been there for a long while (longer than we usually stay), my mom asked, are you guys leaving soon?  When we said yes, she said “ok, hang on” and off she went.  We were all very curious as to what she was up to.  Then finally my Dad asked, “Are you looking for that motorcycle”?  They have a really annoying motorcycle toy for my boys that plays (very loudly) “Born to be Wild” and my kids have so much fun (and fighting) with it.  She said “Yes, and I can’t find it!”.  My dad responded, that’s because I hid it under my pillow!  LMAO!  He’d hidden the motorcycle under his pillow to keep the kids from finding it.  We all laughed SO hard!  Here’s a tiny (made from a phone) video of the motorcycle, it doesn’t do it’s annoying-ness justice but might at least give you a glimpse.

I hope you all had an equally fun weekend! Here’s to a short work week.. woo hoo!