I think I know why I don't blog.

So, I was really trying to figure out why I am so terrible at getting a blog out more than every once in a while.  I like writing.  I like putting thoughts out there.  I like thinking that people are reading my thoughts and thinking, "Oh, she is just so funny & witty & smart & wouldn't she just be so fun to spend time with?"

What it comes down to is that a daily accounting of how I spend my day is sent to by best buddy via Facebook messenger.  Literally anything I could think of to blog about goes to Amy.  Example:

Those are the gems you're missing, people.

You know I've been busy.

Guys, let me tell you....  I have an excuse (like always).  This blog has been silent since just days before I found out I was pregnant with Grayson, my sweet little girl.  Now that she's 10 months old, I might start blogging it up again.  Ha.  Might.

This is what has been going on:
James just turned 3.
We are living in San Diego.
We are going to Twentynine Palms in a few months.
Molly is still my sweet perfect pup, although she has had a couple health problems. She has been doing well recently.

I think the real reason I am starting this again is because I cannot find ANYTHING online about life in Twentynine Palms.  I'd like to put it out there so that, hopefully, someone else might be able to get some information from my (soon to be) experiences.

Okay.  I'll see you when I see you.

I Like This Thursday: Episode 2

Since we moved to Texas, I have become somewhat of a nail polish-aholic.  I don’t paint my nails all that often, toes far more than fingers, but for some reason, I can’t pass the cosmetics department at the H-E-B without running in and finding a lovely color – preferably on sale.

During the last few weeks of my pregnancy, when I was exiled to the couch, I was CRAVING some sparkly red nail polish.  Nothing I had on hand would do.  It needed to be red. And sparkly.  And the sparkles needed to be red.  We’re talking give Dorothy's shoes a run for their money red sparkles.

So, I cheated the bed rest a bit and after dropping Matt off for class and before going to my doctor’s appointment, I made a quick stop to the Walgreen’s on Rt. 66 and checked out my options. Red polish with silver sparkles, red sparkles with clear polish, red with shimmer (shimmer, really?) and just plain red.  I nearly left empty handed.  Then I spotted it on the bottom level of the Sally Hansen section – and for only three bucks!  Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Red Carpet.

I have about 10 bottles of this brand and have to say, it lasts like no other.  This last week I picked up Golden-I, and it is the most perfect gold – sparkly, but not glittery, smooth and shiny.  I’d have pictures, but the only cameras I have right now are either film or my less than great phone camera.  We went to the Children's Museum today so I did not give this post the attention it deserves.

I Like This: Episode One

I was doing so well, wasn’t I?  For a few days in a row, I busted out some blog entries (I thought about using a modifier & decided against it).  I’ve been trying to come up with some sort of frame work so I have motivation or some sort of a structure for writing posts.  That’s when I came up with I Like This Thursdays.  Each Thursday (humor me, here) I will write to you about something wonderful that I like.  It could be a person or a product or a TV show – anything.  The possibilities are limitless.  So here we go.

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I flippin’ love hatch chiles.  I came to this realization about this time last year when any time you hopped out of your car at a grocery store in Flagstaff, you were greeted with the delicious aroma of roasting hatch chiles.  TO. DIE. FOR.  I have been looking forward to August since last September.  I knew the fancy grocery store in town, Central Market, did a Hatch Chile Festival, so I knew I’d be able to locate the goods, which was important when August rolled around and I didn’t smell chiles anywhere.  What the heck?

So today, I plopped my boy in the car and headed to the land of chiles.  When I parked and opened my car door, my heart dropped.  All I could smell was ashpalt.  Another San Antonio disappointment.  I needed to pick up tea leaves for my dear friend, so I went in the store, desperately searching for a chile roaster. 

Ugh, well, I found some iced roasted chiles and tried about five different Hatch chile flavored edibles, but theres a little hole in my heart that can only be filled by the warm aroma of roasting chiles.  That’s why I Like This.

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(I considered starting with Episodes Four, Five & Six, and then heading to One, Two & Three, but decided against it.  Let’s not get TOO nerdy.)

What’s with TODAY today?

Today, I shattered my teapot.  My expensive, beautiful, Valentine’s Day gift teapot.  I am sure I will someday look back at the Wii remote tossing incident with laughter, but not today.

Then, the RSS reader I chose as a replacement for my (and everyone’s) beloved Google Reader decided it was no longer going to be a public website and left me scrambling for another replacement.

Tomorrow has to get better, right?

Yes, I hosted a party.

I am not a party person.

I always have really big plans for parties with fancy food, drinks and decorations.  But my party planning eyes are always bigger than my party planning stomach, and at some point in the party I end up saying, “Eh, its in the pantry, just go ahead grab it yourself.”  That is the sound of me giving up on being a hostess.

Matt’s class is about 25 people and the few class parties we’ve attended were hosted by two very lovely ladies who welcomed us all into their apartment.  So kind, and a huge undertaking, but a little crowded.  After the last one, I told Matt we’d be hosting the next party.

Our chance came for the 4th of July.  Perfect.  Matt told me a lot of his classmates were out of town so it would only be 10 – 15 people.  No biggie.

I prepped and bought and cleaned to get ready.  It was exciting.  A party!  Yay!  When the time came, the grill was ready, the house was clean and, holy crap, probably 25 people (spouses and kiddos) showed up.  But it was great.  Everyone was so fun and brought awesome food.  And 5 bags of tortilla chips that we are still working through.  When I needed to get away, oh, look, James needs some quiet time!  It was so much fun.  I had so much fun at a party at my house.  Amazing.

I have officially run out of things to write about.  I know.  That was my interesting stuff.  But!  Wills & Kate had a baby and didn’t name it James, thank goodness.  George Alexander Louis. Maybe our next kid will have three names.  I’d like to think of it as a bonus middle name.

HRH Baby Crumpets!

I have seriously been waiting all weekend for this!  I’m SO EXCITED.

That’s all for now.