You Are My Drooly Sunshine
June 27, 2007
I know this blog hasn’t changed in days. Truth be told, I found it difficult to write anything after the last post. But here goes.
Saturday night after I had posted the news about DJ (Puppy Monster), Thomas had slept from 5:30 till 8:30 (his newest habit is putting himself down for naps at highly inconvenient times). So at 8:30, knee-deep in work, I had to stop and be his playmate since Daren and Dylan had just left to hang with Daren’s parents.
Thinking we should keep things low-key in order to invoke more sleep, I decided to get in a warm bubble bath with Thomas and we had so much fun! I pretended the facecloth was a shark, and we made shark milkshakes (yum!), and ate shark nuggets. Which sounds totally gross but since they were pretend nuggets and not the real, floaty bath time nuggets, we were totally safe. And free from ecoli, dontcha know?
We built and toppled shark mountain, several times. The water grew increasingly cold and when my nearly 33 year old limbs had enough of the cross-legged-mama-in-the-tub pose, we got out and read stories. I sang Rock-a-bye baby, and You Are My Sunshine until Thomas was asleep in my arms.
I could not put him down. I wept quietly for Dave, for his wife, for their beloved son, DJ. I prayed for them. I held my baby boy tight and wished until my heart ached for Dave’s family to find peace.
Internet, you have been amazing. The money raised, the well-wishes, the word getting out…its all been beautiful. I’m just so thankful some days to be a part of the blogging world, you know?
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Changing the subject, I gotta bit of news. Seems the lovely people at Babble kinda like me a little. They offered me a really fun job whereby I get to sometimes be snarky about products that are for kids and babies. Sometimes I even get to inadvertently poke at people with more money than brains. That’s serious fun. So come check out my new gig at Drool.icio.us. Even if you’re past the baby stages, as I am, it’s still kinda fun to see the crap people are buying. Suckers.
Plus my bio is kinda cute.
(Some of it is kinda cool/cute and make my ovaries ache, but that soon goes away after a drink or five.)
Oh changing the subject again, I got a laptop!? So like, when the pervy UPS man came (ew), I totally got so excited that I offered his sweaty ass (ew) a bottle of water, even though he totally talked to my tits the whole time (ew).? Yeah.? He’s like that, but still, I cannot stop the ebaying.
So maybe, just maybe I can get a tan this summer! SO exciting for a ghastly Canadian white girl. I have been working insane hours and if you’re a customer and reading this, I love you and will get your site done asap and I am sorry it is taking so long for those of you who are amazingly patient (MW, I’m talking about you and you are my one and only tomorrow, baby). I set up wireless in my house today so I could take care of everything from anywhere in the house (I wonder if this wireless connection will go all the way to the park?). Designing sites while tanning watching Thomas outside? This is the life.
WHY didn’t I buy a laptop sooner? DUH.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Congrats on the new gig! That’s sooooo awesome. (Jealous!!)
I hear ya about Dave and DJ. I have been holding Carter extra tight lately.
I desperately want a laptop for at home!!!! And wireless. *sigh*
I’ll just vicariously through you for now.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Congrats on your new job! Awesome! You might like some of the stuff at http://www.theopinionatedparent.com so feel free to rip off any ideas you like! (or hate and want to make fun of…I’m not sensitive!)
The Dave thing…ouch. I’ve cried over it several times and had never heard of him. We’re all so vulnerable.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Don’t stress too much dear, just enjoy your kids and your shiny new toy (even if you had to endure a squicky deliveryman).
June 27th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Congratulations on the new job, and the laptop! Our UPS guy is hot…I don’t mind at all when he delivers all the crap I buy.
I got my laptop at the end of last year, and thought the same thing…Why didn’t I do that sooner?!?
June 27th, 2007 at 8:57 am
I love, love, LOVE my laptop and my wireless. Couldn’t live without them. How on earth have you managed up until now?
The Puppy Monster loss is horrible. I’m without words.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:15 am
I got a laptop off ebay, too. I love it. That is when I figure out how to use it efficiently. The mouse pad is so touchy! Ha! That was a bad pun. Hahah…but yet I can’t stop laughing.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:59 am
And OMG our UPS dude talks to my BOOBS. One of these days I’m going to grab them and talk back to him in a high pitched voice as if they are my boob puppets. Ha ha.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Something random but kind of lovely: the day after the loss of puppy monster, my good friend gave birth to a baby boy who they have, coincidentally, nicknamed DJ.
June 27th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
So much to comment on- I still find myself thinking about Dave and his family. I hope they are okay.
Drool.ici.ous is a BRILLIANT title! I’ll be checking you out
Speaking of which, can you please make a t-shirt that says “boob puppets”? Thanks, that would be great. And last thing-if I had more money in my account, I would have given Karl a LOT more, because he SO needs to be there. I’ll contribute every week if I need to, but I really don’t need to know what a “hot karl” is, unless you want to email me and tell me
June 27th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Congratulations on getting the job Karen, you are wonderful at making snarky comments about things!
As for the horrible incident with DJ, I think about it a lot. This incident has effected all of us with a shocking force. Life is uncertain and you can’t avoid it, the best you can do is live it and love the people in it. Let them know each day and follow up on your words. The worst thing one could do would be to sit back and let it pass by.
June 27th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Congratulations on the Babble gig. You’ll be great!
June 27th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
At least you get to see your UPS guy. Ours doesn’t even knock. One time I was sitting in the living room (right next to the door) with the lights on and everything and still not even a knock on the door. He just leaves the package and goes on his merry little way. We call him the package ninja. It’s annoying because we’ve actually had stuff stolen from our porch.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
YEY! PC got me a laptop for my bday this year and it has been a wonderful wonderful thing
June 27th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Congrats on Babble! You know I put up a post about it already a few days ago when you told me the news. I can’t think of ANYONE more suited for the job. I can’t wait to read (stalk you) every day.
And I heart my laptop. Had it and wireless for almost 3 years now. I couldn’t live without either. Welcome to the dark side sister.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Vodkarella says:
Actually, I got it at tigerdirect.ca for a steal. It s a refurb, but it looks brand new and it has Windows XP, unlike the motherfucker desktop I got from Dell a couple of months ago that has stupid Vista. I hate hate hate Vista!
And OMG our UPS dude talks to my BOOBS. One of these days I m going to grab them and talk back to him in a high pitched voice as if they are my boob puppets. Ha ha.
I like to catch people talking to my boobs. I ask them if they think that they might answer….You know…are they gonna talk back or something. It happens alot…I have rather large boobs. I hate it more when old, and I mean should be walking without a cane old, men rubber neck while they are DRIVING down the freaking road.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Congrats on the babble gig. The world deserves to know you.
June 28th, 2007 at 8:20 am
I love my laptop, but I can’t see the screen outside at all. That makes me sad, because I’d rather be out on the deck. Booo.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:40 am
hi vodkarella!
i clicked over from cpa mommy!
congratulations on your laptop!
i want to hear more about what kind you got + wireless connection.
i’m shopping for one too. i feel “stranded” when i take my daughter to nursery school + the park afterwards + i’m away from home + the internet for 4-8 hours. i’m considering an iphone, but i want to be able to deal with pictures for my blog, so i want a laptop.
good luck at droolicious too. i tried it + i burnt out after a couple weeks. i went overboard trying to find the best pictures + post a lot, when i should have been doing other things, including sleeping. i’m not snarky enough either. i’ll be supporting you + droolicious! have fun! nice to “meet” you
June 29th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Very cool on the new gig.
As we’re awaiting the next NewBaby, just named Parker, I can see myself sitting on that site for hours, giggling and feeling shame all at the same time.