Monthly Archives: September 2012

I was tired. It’s not an excuse, but it happened. Ari was in the living room watching The Smurfs, his new obsession. I had been transcribing and taking care of Samara all day while he was at school. I told myself Self, you’re tired. Wil is not going to home until midnight. Just rest your eyes for a few minutes. 

Well a few minutes totally turned into 30 minutes.

Ari came barreling into the bedroom and woke me up saying:
“Mommy! I made a mess!”

Of course the one time in my parenting life that I fall asleep on the job this happens to me.

I walk into the living room to find that he has taken the Ajax from the bathroom and sprinkled it all over the floor like freshly fallen snow. He has also decorated a shoebox with shampoo, conditioner, Bacitracin and lotion. Also in the shoebox are all of his toy smurfs.

I was speechless. I was also groggy from my impromptu nap. It was especially upsetting, because that very day a lovely cleaning lady had deep cleaned my house.

“You’re going to help me clean all of this up and you’re not watching TV tomorrow.”
“Okay.” He said
“What were you trying to do anyway?”
“I was trying to make ingredients!” He exclaimed.

Ari diligently assisted me in cleaning up the “ingredients.”

But this brings to light a potential hobby that he might have. Perhaps Ari needs to take a cooking class.
Does anybody know of any cooking classes in NYC for kids that you would recommend?

I’m giving away a year supply of Geodeo, a natural deodorant. But you may be wondering what does it smell like? I’m here to answer your questions about that.

When you post things on the internet, sometimes people look at them! That’s what happened to me. I posted a silly video about how natural deodorant has not worked for me and has (in fact) made me smell like sewage. You can watch that video here.

Fortunately, Kristi from the Geodeo natural deodorant company was watching. Kristi came to save the day! She offered to send me a year supply of Geodeo, and another year supply for a lucky reader.

Thanks Kristi! Sorry, I totally called you Kristen in the video, but you get the point. 

Check it out:

Do you know how to enter?

Now you do! Look at this cool thing!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Remember, to enter you need to post a comment. The other entries are extras and increase the probability of winning.

**Disclosure - I received free Geo Deo! Aren’t I lucky? The best part about it was I actually liked it! Also, I wanted I wasn’t paid for this post. It doesn’t matter though, because (once again) I really like this deodorant. Yay!

Everyone has pet peeves about their house, these are two of mine:

Ever since I learned about the dangers of aluminum, I’ve tried to start using deodorants that do not contain it. However, the result is that I smell like garbage.

Let me break it down for y’all:

Jessica Bern is one of the funniest people on the internet.

Here’s one of my favorite vlogs from her about tupperware:

This video makes me laugh every single time.

Jessica is currently producing a web series called “Blog That.” She sat down with me via Skype to tell me all about her upcoming series, which chronicles a divorced woman whose husband leaves her for his mother.

To learn more about Blog That and to help support the project on kickstarter, click here 

To learn more about Jessica and her hilarity, visit her blog here.

“What I have to reveal to you is not of a humorous nature.” I said calmly. “There are several reasons why I must disclose what I am about to disclose. But enough of the previews, on to the feature presentation.” I paused and then I said very slowly “You are not real.”

I just want someone to make me dinner, is that too much to ask?