Tagged...7 random things - yikes...thanks, WM

sorry i've been so quiet. guess i could lay it on work, or being tired when i get home, or trying to stay away from blogging long enough to finish reading a book i started weeks ago...this blogging stuff can become very habitual.

so here goes...7 random things about me (you may be sorry you tagged me)

1. i absolutely hate my skin at this age. it's not my face, 'cause i kinda expected it to get craggy and stuff...but it's the rest of the body that disgusts me! the saggy arms, the 36-long boobs, the brown age spots, and worst of all...the belly. always had trouble controlling the belly after kids, but this is ridiculous! 'course, if i'd get off my ass and do some walking/running/more bike-riding, it might help.

2. i was never racist until i lived in dc for 13 years. there's an attitude here that i never saw in California. i always thought african americans were intriguing because i really didn't know many. having worked with them the last 8 years has been a real eye-opener. i doubt there are many other places in the US where their attitude is so bad. seems they truly believe they're owed something!

3. i'm a glutten when it comes to potatoes. mostly mashed, but baked are a close second. guess i could be called a 'potato woman', as opposed to a 'meat & potato man'.

4. i generally thank God on a daily basis for stuff...for feeling good, for not hitting a pedestrian that darts out in front of me (happens a lot downtown), for not hitting the asshole who pulled out in front of me (generally a cab), for beautiful weather, gorgeous sunsets, spring...the list goes on.

5. i would like to date, but men my age are too old. it's funny that women younger than me date men my age...yuk! it would be difficult to date because i wouldn't want to lose any chance of my ex not giving me my due when he dies! not that he'd give a shit that i dated, but just that he's vengeful enough to make sure i wouldn't get his retirement or SS, even if i just dated. trust me, he'd find a way to cut me out.

6. i got 5 tickets from one cop in one stop. i beat all 5 in court, representing myself. the cop was a total dick! the judge must have known that. the judge was a woman.

7. i wish i had finished college, and gone on to become a lawyer. i would have only represented women scorned by their asshole husbands. i'd have been wealthy!

Secretary/Adiminstrative Assistant week!

This, i know, is a gross picture! Much as i'm sure it's not real, it's how i feel when seven people at the same time are asking to do something for them!

yep, fell into this job 8 years ago.... it's okay, it certainly pays well, and has great benes..and who cares, really, about anything else in this world...okay, 'cept for my kids, my dog...stuff like that...without which i wouldn't care if i had money or not, right?

so to any of you women out there who FEEL like somebody's secretary/admin, here's to you, too.

new president? who gives a rat's ass, anyway??

Alright- i have absolutely had it with politics! with the country in the state it is currently in, who the hell could help us, anyway? i hate that so many companies are outsourcing to india, china, vietnam, who knows where else! why is it these giant coporations think cheaper talent is so much better elsewhere, and why the hell do they have to save so much damn money when they can still afford to pay their CEOs and ALL their executives millions?? and the immigration problems...and health care, and our school systems where if teachers were paid a decent wage there would be more teachers of quality out there! i realize this is a rant....but dag nab it, i'm sick of no one being able to do anything about any of it. is it that there are just too many people with too many issues in America anymore? we are totally out of control!

i'm not extremely religious but if 'they' (whomever 'they' are) are even thinkin' of takin' 'in God we trust' out of our history, and 'under God' out of our pledge, something is radically wrong with us as a country. shit like that just shouldn't happen. our forefathers thought it important and by golly, most of what they did was right. we didn't rise up to become the most plentiful nation in the world because our forefathers made mistakes!

can i say this? nah....shouldn't...but gonna...HOW THE HELL DID BUSH EVER GET ELECTED A SECOND TIME, AND HOW THE HELL HAS HE SURVIVED!! does that sound threatening? will i be called a terrorist? yikes.

This beautiful city!

i got this wild hair to post some pics of my current fave city. i say current because up until maybe 2003 or so i still longed for my first favorite city, San Diego. but now, having been here 13 years, if it wasn't for spring, summer, and early fall in DC, the longing would still be there. there's something about going through four months of drabness, cold air, and bad driving conditions that make the other eight months absolutely amazing!

Grandson's First Flag Football game!

whilst MOFM was off to Boston, carousing about with her friends under the guise of participating in a baby shower (although i'm sure at least 3 or 4 hours were spent having a baby shower), i took it upon myself to join Notso Matter of Fact Daddy in taking BB to his first flag football game! what excitement, eh? the other grandma had BS duty.

we arrived at the field a little early, even after stopping for football shoes, a mouth guard, and pizza. there were a million kids there! okay, maybe hundreds. in one corner of the field was a moon bounce which, of course, attracted more kids than the coaches trying to gather their teams!

first pic - BB attempting to insert mouth guard into mouth...no easy task...made him gag! in this pic, he looks EXACTLY like MOFM! hahahaha


practice began, and for a half an hour or so the coaches attempted to teach the kids how to pull the 'flags' off of the kid carrying the football, and the kid carrying the football how to avoid the kids chasing them for the flags. keep in mind these kids were 4-6 years old and the attention spans were pretty short. i think one kid on each team 'got it'. after the practice the referee arrived ready to start the game. by now however, most of the kids were really ready to head for the moon bounce.


the ref started the game, the ball was hiked to a kid, and off they went....literally, in all directions. very cute. BB didn't get a chance to carry the ball until the second half, which was with a different team than the first half. he was hiked the ball...stood there for a minute until somebody screamed at him to run with the ball...he ran 20 feet, (number 9 in the pic) a good darn run, then lost his flag. good job! high fives all around. 10 minutes later the second half was over and every single kid on every single team headed straight for the moon bounce.

after a half hour at the moon bounce, BB decided he was hungry, having not eaten but a couple bites of his pizza. NMOFD refused to let him have a hotdog at the field and told him he could eat when he got home. go figure. anyway, he screamed most of the way home, with NMOFD telling him 'i will put you out of the car in that forest over there, which doesn't look too comfortable', if he didn't quit screaming. evidently that scared him. he finally said 'i want a peanut butter & jelly when i get home'...NMOFD won that one...kinda, i guess...

BB's neck was sunburned, NMOFD's head was sunburned, i didn't even get pink! according to my ex my skin is done...finished...unable to attract even UV light! nice, eh?

State of Play

So...the big night was last night. There were at least 250-300 people working on the 'set' (we were the set). It was very exciting stuff! Ben Affleck was not, however, friendly. That was a major disappointment. Everyone else was great. By the way, Ben is only 5'9", if that. Another major disappointment!

Dog owners used their dogs as excuses to see 'what was happening'. I think every dog owner in the neighborhood was hanging around our building for their dog's evening constitutional. It was cool, though. I certainly used Mr Pimms to cruise the area!

Filming began at 6 p.m. on our 2nd floor. There were a few scenes taken in our lobby. Sometime in the middle of the night with GIANT flood lights lighting our water garden, they filmed more scenes. Had to go to sleep, so missed all of that.

Today when I got home you would never have known they'd been here. It was amazing!