Questions
Is a pickle with a slice of Jarlsberg cheese wrapped around it considered food?
Why is my eyelid twitching all the time?
What will help me stick to my schedules instead of writing them out and then ignoring them?
Does googling endless queries about mosquitoes and shipping containers count toward preparing for a big move?
Why do my children take great joy in pretending their basmati rice is a pile of little worms (maggots) while they eat it?
What does it say about you if you realize that the only piece of furniture you don’t want to leave behind is your mattress? (and memory foam topper?)
Speaking of sleeping, how does one rid oneself of crazy tormenting dreams about mean people?
Why does the movie Anne of Green Gables soothe me so? And why did I think the acting was perfect when I was a kid?
Where did YaYa’s other pink sock go?
Why does Leafy swing from cuddly saint to terror child?
Why does Kid A swing from melancholic tyrant to sunny delight?
Who poured my glass of juice down the drain?
Where do those tiny K-nex go?
Why is exfoliating so delightful?
Why are my dreadlocks so linty? (I’m going to write a song called lint in my dreads. It goes, Lint in my dreads, Lint in my dreads, I’ve got lint in my dreads, lint in my dreads, like that. Maybe I’ll add a verse that goes Trying to get it out, trying to get it out…)
What it is about a down comforter?
Do I like Chinua’s face better with a beard? Or shaved?
How tall will my kids be when they’re done growing?
Why is it so hard to find a decent cup of tea in a coffee shop?
How do people find time to style their hair? Maybe they choose to do it because of the lack of lint?
How many years will it take me to knit this sweater?
Am I the only one who is repulsed by sweets when I’m pregnant?
Did you know that my friend Chad is turning eight this Leap Year? Which means he’s really thirty-two? (I could actually be wrong about that. I think that’s what’s happening.)
What’s the funny sound my van is making?
And finally, whose idea was it to put cheap plastic toys that are really candy dispensers next to the cash register at Target, causing me to have to have a discussion about what is cheap vs what is quality every single time we go?
And whose idea was it to invent a toy for little girls called Bratz? Who does that help?
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I love this post. The only one I can answer is the eye twitching one. I get that when I am really, really tired or stressed, or both. It is very annoying and I have never found a way to make it go away except for sleep.
I go through a phase during the first couple months of pregnancy where chocolate doesn’t appeal to me at all. Very, very strange.
I’d say anything edible wrapped in a slice of Jarlsberg Cheese constitutes food! I LOVE that cheese…and not the “lite” either. Cheese should not be “lite”. Nor should cheese come from California. Happy cows can vacation there, but they need to remember their roots back home in the Dairy State!
Of course, that’s the Wisconsin girl in me coming out…
For a while there, I thought you were pretending to be a kid. The questions, you know? Then I remembered, “oh yea, she’s pregnant.”
You’re either tired, a little stressed, going crazy, or pregnant – I know the last one is true – what about the others?
Good questions and yes jessie is right the twitchy eye usually happens when you’re tired. Google that and it tells you the causes.
mmm, cheese. good idea.
Hey Rae thanks for the link about helping people get clean water!
Hey Mom, it\’s actually an ad. Â But you\’re welcome anyways!
yup your pregnant for sure! in no particular order:
yup definitely food, havn’t tried that cheeze sounds yum.
i think that research is definitely part of your list
(bratz are crazy, i wish my girls didn’t know what they were, we don’t have any bratz, but they still like them, I wish they’d crawl into a hole and never return.)
Target is doing you a favor in educating your kids about massive consumerism and slave wages and poor working conditions for the workers making those silly things.
it’s even tougher to find a cup of decent fair trade tea in an average coffee shop!
i have a good video you may like:
blackgold
it’s about fair trade coffee, and Burkina Faso is actually a big producer of Fair Trade things, ie shea butter, shea butter is good for belly rubs,
never stop questioning your reality, it makes life more interesting!
my eye twitches too…i think it is because i never sleep.
and i totally get the anne of green gables thing. i used to watch that series of movies all the time with my cousins. just thinking about it makes me want to curl up on the couch and turn it on.
and yes, don’t you hate check out lines in target…uugh.
Yes it’s food.
My eye twitched when I was pregnant too. I didn’t like sweets either.
And I would feel the same about my mattress, and down comforter.
I’ll take care of the comforter for you if you like.
I promise to treat it with love.
I can at least answer one question for you:
You aren’t alone in disliking sweets while pregnant. It was actually so bad for me, it tasted like something died in my mouth. Ugh!!
Check out Weirdgirl’s Lamaze List. Way funny.
http://weirdgirl.typepad.com/home/2006/01/the_things_they.html
i also love the anne of green gables movie. the girl was just a perfect anne.
My eye twitches when I’m sleepy or really frustrated or angry.
Food is food.
Bratz are really crazy. Why would you want something that is a brat? The kids can’t explain it to me and I won’t let them play with it.
Doing research on the internet does count as preparation until you start reading blogs…unless they are about moving.
Exfoliating is wonderful because you feel so new.I did a face mask tonight and I am so there with you.
Maggots are gross and gross is cool.
My children will be short when they are grown. Your children will be taller then them, so therefore not short.
I always thought that it would be neat to have your birthday on Leap day unless you had parents that wouldn’t let you have a party until it was your “real” birthday. Only 32 more years till Chad can get his drivers license but I can’t imagine waiting that long to retire.
The sock is stuck in the coach cushions.
It is sooooo not wrong to think about your mattress that way. I was like that when we made the Seattle to Tampa move about my couch but I had a 10 year old mattress and had yet to learn the joys of memory foam.
Pink Socks turn into Pink Sock Puppets in the land of “beyond the dryer.”
Pickle = vegetable (or is it fruit?)
I have this similar list of questions and I am a grandma–does it ever stop?
Ooohhh drat now my eye is twitching
I hate the ‘bratz’ dolls. I think they are creating a terrible image for the young female generation. Little MK and Ashley Olsen look alikes. I miss the good ol days of chubby cabbage patch kids, or my little ponys.
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