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I haven’t been on a work trip in YEARS - two, to be exact - because of pregnancy and baby. So it is with great excitement that I find myself in San Diego at a work event! However, this particular work event entails A LOT of work and multiple 16 hour days. Kill. Me. Now.

This is also my first trip away from Brady in his whole life and it breaks my little heart. I knew it would happen sooner or later, and I guess the time is now. We FaceTimed this morning and he kept peering around the phone looking for me. CUTEST. TRICK. EVER.

On Friday, single dad Travis brings Brady to San Diego for the weekend. I’m looking forward to it, even if it means that our bedtime will be 5:30 at night as we are all sharing one hotel room.

May 9th, 2012 | Category: random | Comments (1)

Have you ever wanted to just curl up in the sunny spot and sleep for a good hour or two?

Yeah, me neither. Especially not today.

Have a good weekend, y’all!

April 27th, 2012 | Category: random | Comments (1)

Brady got sick this week and this whole house was turned upside down. I know that this will happen a bazillion times over the course of his life, but the first REAL one is always so shocking.

The poor guy had a fever of 103 and was vomiting everything - couldn’t keep anything down. After the doctor diagnosed an ear infection, I brought him home where he promptly… got worse.

I freaked out because the puke was EVERYWHERE, even when he hadn’t eaten, and when he wasn’t puking he was retching on his own stomach acid. AWESOME. Plus, his fever went even higher. So I took him to the ER and got to spend most of my Monday evening feeding him 1/4 teaspoon of Pedialyte every 5 minutes until we were sure his stomach was settled. (PS, I’ve heard, but cannot verify, that Pedialyte is a great hangover cure. And luckily for us (?), we now have a huge container of it at home in the fridge. Time to get waaaaaasted!)

It was a real party, let me assure you. He seems to be on the road to recovery but is reminding us with the occasional whimpers and vomits that he’s not quite there yet.

March 28th, 2012 | Category: random | Comments (2)

then multiply it by a bazijillion, and you have me.

You see, for the past three months that I’ve been back at work, I’ve been pumping 2 or 3 times a day to keep up with the child that has an insatiable appetite. And because my office has no adequate place for pumping, I’ve been using a less than ideal place - a room, with a sign taped to the door asking people to not enter. It’s either that or a locker room where all the women hang out with nipples getting sucked at and talk about their kid’s latest milestones. No thanks.

So in this room, everything’s been groovy. There’s a comfy chair, a desk, everything I need to do the deed. However, there is NOT a lock on the door. So I’ve always hoped that my DO NOT ENTER sign would work. And it has.

Until today.

Until today, when the VICE PRESIDENT walked in on me accidentally.

And of course, I heard someone coming and turned towards the door, giving a full frontal shot.

LIFE IS AWESOME RIGHT NOW.

February 27th, 2012 | Tags: t | Category: random | Comments (1)

As I went out to Facebook for the bazillionth time today, I realized - hey, I was just here five minutes ago. Do I really need that desperately to know what is Patty had for lunch? I think not.

Part of my job includes managing my company’s Facebook page, which means- hello! I’m paid to be on Facebook. Brilliant! It does not, unfortunately, mean I’m paid to be on Facebook for 40 hours a week. Damn semantics.

I’ve been so busy lately between work and being a mom and making enough milk to sustain a child’s life (and here I thought just BAKING him was hard work!) that I feel like I’m dropping things left and right. Like sleep. And blogging.

And in the next few weeks, little Brady man will be turning SIX MONTHS OLD and I haven’t really even shared with you all of the ups and downs, the sickness and health, the giggles and poop explosions. And now (nearly) six months of those stories are gone forever and I will never, ever, ever have those poop explosions back. (I make it sound like that is a bad thing…?)

Anyway, I don’t know where I’m going with this - I’m totally out of practice - so just enjoy this picture of the CUTEST child in the world.

February 20th, 2012 | Category: bundle of joy | Comments (2)

You know those moments you have when you kick yourself and say “COULD I SERIOUSLY BE ANY STUPIDER?” Yeah, that’s me.

We were at a rockin’ party over the weekend (yeah, it was for a two-year old, so?) and started talking to some not-so-close friends about siblings for little Brady. You see, Travis has decided that Brady needs a sibling and his mama is not so sold.  And as we’re sharing our take on this (basically: I hated being pregnant and I hated L&D and even though I adore my sweet, sweet son, I NEVER WANT TO DO THAT SHIT AGAIN) I realized what total dickwads we were for complaining.

See, these friends, many years ago (five, actually) - the woman had been pregnant with their second child when she found out she had stage 4 lymphoma. The day she felt the baby kick for the first time just also happened to be the same day they had to terminate her pregnancy and start her on chemo. She recovered and survived, but will never be able to get pregnant again.

HI, my name is ASSHOLE. I’m complaining about the difficulties of being pregnant and that is the one thing she wanted more than anything else in the world.

Class act, I am.

In other news, if you’d ever like to be brought down and made to feel like total shit, I am available for speaking engagements.

January 30th, 2012 | Category: Life of I | Comments (2)

Here we are, a Friday night, watching Extreme Home Makeover and trying to stay awake until 9:00. What a rock and roll lifestyle! I can’t quite even remember what we did before this masterpiece known as Brady came along, but I had a feeling it involved a lot more booze…

January 7th, 2012 | Category: random | Comments (1)

Once upon a time, I had a blog that I updated faithfully. Then, I moved to Germany and started a second blog, but continued to maintain this one as well. Then, I moved back from Germany and decided I didn’t have anything to write about, so I slacked off.

But then, just to liven things up a bit, I got knocked up specifically so I could have something to write about. But did I? NO.

So, after nine months of having great material and not getting it down, what do I do? I go and hatch the child. Talk about a cornicopia of blog material!

But still, I fail.

We have Santa sightings and spit up stories and “check out my badass son who can already roll over, thankyouverymuch” stories. Basically, mama is drying up over here. I never wanted to be a mommy blogger, but now that’s about all there is to me. I’m a new, redefined person, and I’m still trying to figure her out.

Hopefully soon I can get back in the habit of witty, sarcastic blog posts that don’t bore all the single ladies (dare you to read that and not sing Beyonce). Please hang with me until then.

January 4th, 2012 | Category: random | Comments (2)

I haven’t logged in to the blog lately, so I was surprised to see three comments waiting in moderation. One was from Miss Mile High, who I adore. The other two were nothing but spam, but at least the spammers are getting more entertaining!

The first one was from AKO Webmail. Nice name! Do I call you AKO, or Mr. Webmail? How about I just go by your initials of AKOW? Ok, then, this is what AKOW had to say:
keep up the good work on the blog. I kinda like it! Could use some more frequent updates, but im sure you got more or better stuff to do , hehe.

Completely true! I almost didn’t believe it was spam. But again. that whole AKO Webmail thing. Oh, and also their URL looked like a virus. Whatever.

The second spam was a little more exciting. This one came from Demarcus:

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First off, I’m not sure what the 51 refers to, but how can I be picky? This guy NAILS it. How am I not more well liked? Because I AM intelligent, dammit. Although I’m not intelligent enough to understand what “thus considerably relating to this subject” means, but I’m glad I’m helping him see it from new angles. And dammit all, that Lady Gaga just signals the end of the world, doesn’t she?

Thanks, spammers, for the giggle this morning. I shall MAINTAIN IT UP, bitches!

December 9th, 2011 | Category: random | Comments (1)