Posts Tagged ‘finslippy’
Regularly Taking Showers Again
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
This week’s topic: How do you talk to your kids about death?
Dana Loesch from Mamalogues and Alice Bradley from Finslippy weigh in:
I won’t lie. I was down in the dumps after my Uncle’s passing. As a result, I was kind of “loose” with my normal grooming habits. For instance, I think I wore the same sweats for 3 days in a row. In fact, I probably wore the same everything for 3 days in a row. Just so you know, by day 3 your sweats are starting to sag around the ass and knees which looks REALLY flattering. This may have worked when I was 18 and was all fresh and dewy in my youth, but when you’re 34, you end up looking like a washed out druggie looking for a fix.
I just watched the latest Momversation episode (which was filmed last week) and my hair looks all flat and shiny (but it’s all greasy and gross). Just so y’all know, I spend half the time wearing my hair flat and the other half painstakingly curling it with a 3/4 inch Vidal Sassoon ceramic curling iron that I got at Marshalls for $9.99. (It is the best curling iron that I ever owned and it recently died as well. There was a moment of grieving involved with that too.)
Because I have issues with falling asleep, you can pretty much guess how much rest I got based on whether or not my hair is curly (because it takes so much time to do). I keep telling myself that I am going to break down and get a perm just so I can sleep in and still get the same effect, but everytime that say “perm” to someone, they make a face and say something like, “DID YOU SAY PERM? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? THAT IS SOOOO 80’s.”
And don’t even try say the word “perm” in a salon. It’s like the F-word in there.
Tags: alice bradley, curling iron, dana loesch, death, finslippy, grief, mamalogues, momversation
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Poop In My Lettuce
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Broccoli is good!
But wait, don’t eat too much broccoli!
Too much broccoli causes cancer!
Anytime I think about germs or toxins or product recalls or bird flu or conflicting medical studies, I start to get a bit paranoid. This is especially so since the media tends to gravitate on stories about things that are going to kill me.
Nowadays, I try to take a moderate approach to living. I try to do things that have the least impact on the environment, but I am also human. I make bad choices.
In the great scheme of things, I secretly think that we really have little control over our destiny. Be it God, Allah, Buddha or Ganesh – it may be that we are just hanging on to this life with just a hope and a prayer.
This week on Momversations, Alice Bradley of Finslippy asks Mindy Roberts and I about the terrors of toxins and the things that we can’t see:
Tags: alice bradley, finslippy, mindy roberts, mommy blog, momversation, video
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Spare The Rod? Spoil The Child?
Monday, January 12th, 2009
This week Alice from Finslippy asks, “How do you discipline your child?” Asha from Parent Hacks and I chime in our words of wisdom. Well, her words of wisdom and my babbling nonsense.
In a nutshell, I totally won the parenting lottery with Paige. When she was in her toddler years she only had one tantrum. I distinctly remember that it was only one because I recall thinking, “Who is this kid? Is it too late to ask for a refund?” I was terrified that it might happen again.
It never did.
Thank God.
Tags: alice bradley, asha dornfest, finslippy, momversation, parenthack, video
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