the iPod Shuffle....shuffle

So, all I have to I do is mention what I would like as a gift for any mommy-related holiday, and somehow my kids come up with it....sometimes it's tempting to say, 'okay, this year for ...... day, i'd like a trip to Tahiti'. I know, dream on...

This year, with mother’s day approaching, my eldest child asked me what I would like. In passing, I said I was going to attempt to quit smoking by training for a 1/2 marathon. Certainly if I'm running I won't want to smoke! In theory! So, in order for me to ENJOY running, eldest daughter decides an iPod would be the ticket to shoving me out the door. I totally rock out to music! It's quite ridiculous. Of course, it has to be the right music, and what better way to get the 'right' music in my head, than an iPod filled with my favorite tunes!

Now, I'm not totally technology savvy, but I'm not an idiot about it, either. As soon as I rec'd my iPod Shuffle I set out to 'tune it up', so to speak. OMG! Evidently Apple doesn't do things the same way a PC does....in other words, it's not user friendly if you're used to a PC. I finally figured out how to buy some tunes...3…and then I couldn't figure out how I had done it to do it again! Don't know what's up with that. I then decided to try to download some CDs. Okay then! I stuck the CD in the drive and the tunes came up on the screen. I could figure out how to ‘play’ them so I would know which songs to choose. Figured out how to choose the songs, but now how do I get them over to my iPod! No direction for this! So, I decided to (this is not like me at all) read HELP. (I know, what a concept, eh?) HELP told me to ‘drag the songs to my ‘device’ and they would be moved the iPod. EUREKA!! Okay, so sometimes the ‘device’ doesn’t show up in the left-hand column. I have no idea why it doesn’t. It just doesn’t!

On my iPod I now have a few of my favorite tunes that I totally rock out to. Has the ½ marathon training/running began? Nah….I have no idea whether it’s because I’m lazy, like to smoke and am afraid I’d have to quit to run, or maybe the right tune just isn’t on there yet. I am, however, getting some fairly decent exercise just rocking out around my apartment while vacuuming, dusting, or sitting on my balcony soaking up the sun!

ya like Obama? check out this video.....

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3651&id=12647-5806061-R1TbCk&t=7

Happy Mother's Day, blogland!

y'all who come to my blog are awesome mothers. i know that because generally you come to my blog from MOFM's blog. y'all share the same symptoms of getting through motherhood at what seems like a snail's pace. no matter how many times you hear 'oh, enjoy these years, they fly by so quickly' you won't believe it until it happens. admittedly, however, once they're gone? WOOHOO!!

love and hugs to all you Mommy bloggers.

i've said it before....

i've discovered that when you really like the person you work for you can, when necessary, pull stuff out of your ass! currently in my job, we're in the middle of spending hours determining what vendors to use for what processes....my fabulous boss called me from his office today during a meeting with some clients and asked me for 'the name of the guy that was here with what's her name'....it flew out of of somewhere, i can only imagine it came from the depths...'oh, you mean Don ......?' 'yes, that's him'. he hung up the phone after thanking me profusely...and going on to tell the clients how wonderful i am....i could hear him through the door....

there are days when working really feels good.

Cinco de Mayo

The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be! And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be. Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico.

So, why Cinco de Mayo? And why should Americans savor this day as well? Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.

When the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away. The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen. This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War.

No wonder we have so many Mexican immigrants...we owe them...don't we?

tagged again....

this time by MOFM...via WDIAMA's request to her....

WHAT WAS I DOING 10 YEARS AGO? acting as though i was 30 instead of 50, having gone through a very recent, very devastating flight from what i'd known for the previous 50 years of my life. dating younger guys, some with kids....having an absolute blast hangin' out with my daughter doing whatever....which still happens, only under entirely different circumstances.

5 things on my "to do" list today: since it's Sunday, the 5 things are/were - laundry, shopping, bike ride, dog walk, dinner with great gay guy friend. all of which have been accomplished except dinner.

Snacks I enjoy: chocolate, chocolate, and chocolate...it can be ice cream (Dove, Unconditional Chocolate); chocolate chip cookies (homemade); truffles; dark chocolate anything; chips and salsa or guac.

Things I would do if I were a billionaire: pay off all my kid's mortgages, if they didn't like where they were living, buy them their dream homes; find out from the government (?) where the poorest places in the US are, and make sure they had food and shelter year-round; buy an airplane; put my ex up in a great townhouse near his grandkids; buy a house in La Jolla, a house in Potomac; and a house in Tahiti.

5 places I have lived: Vista, CA; San Diego, CA; Rockville, MD; DC....that's it.

5 bad habits: smoking, drinking, eating Unconditional Chocolate ice cream, not wearing a helmet when i bike, saying fuck when i shouldn't....hahahaha

5 jobs: car hop at A&W in college; co-owner of construction company, medical records release; mens shoes sales at Macy's; Exec Assistant.


so...there ya go. underlying all that is a very exciting person! trust me!