Heather Poo

Sleep?!

2007-03-19T12:38:00.000-04:00

Oh my! Seems it's been awhile since my last blog entry. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who suddenly discovers a year or two has passed since they wrote something banal on their blog.
But looking back a couple of entries I mention the sleeping difficulties of my ten month old. And that makes me laugh out loud since I'm having the same problems now with my eleven month old - the former 'ten month old's' younger brother!
And that's it. Apparently, nothing new really, same old story, only the names have changed!

Me in headlights

2005-12-08T14:29:00.000-05:00

Music I want to have in my clutches (this includes Michael's requests)

2005-12-08T14:17:00.000-05:00

Doves
Wrens
New Eminem compilation (and congratulations on your remarriage to the woman who doesn't know how to apply lipliner/lipstick. I mean, I don't do a good job with that stuff either, but that's why I don't use it!)
Postal Service, Death Cab, etc.
Elbow
Heather Duby
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
Badly Drawn Boy-hour of bewilderbeast
Blur-best of, or whatever has all their best stuff on it
Nirvana-pretty much everything
Nick Cave's new one from about a year ago
I'll just keep adding to this as I hear new music

Baby, you need some sleep!

2005-02-17T12:18:00.000-05:00

Last night my wonderful 10 month old son decided he was going to cut back on his sleep. Hey, think of all the fun things you could be doing from 3am-6am if you were a baby and you knew how to crawl from room to room at the speed of light and you had several rooms of toys, books and a partner in crime - Monte the cat!?

But to accomplish this, someone must pull you out of your crib so you can access all of your acquired goodies.

Enter: Mum, or rather, Me.

What else ya gonna do when you have renters upstairs who could potentially wake up when your baby starts wailing to be released? Renters who could also potentially move out and leave you with a hole in your mortgage payments. You get your ass out of bed and yank the complaining child from his walled-in nest and you let him play until he's so exhausted he can't hold his head up anymore.

So baby and mum watched the sun rise together today.

Usually if I'm awake for a sunrise it's because I've chosen to get up early to do yoga (not too often these days) and I look to the east and I am amazed at how the world keeps spinning and has given us yet another day to make our own. This morning I saw the sunrise out of blurry, puffy eyes and hoped I could find my way back to my cozy bed without tripping over the ABC books and wooden puzzle pieces strewn across the living room floor as I carried the now asleep baby back to his crib.

Mission accomplished (did not twist any ankles and baby went back in his crib like a quiet, hibernating creature of a magical forest) and I got an additional 1 1/2 hours of sleep before husband kissed me on the forehead to remind me that I should be leaving for work soon. If I had to be woken up by anything today, THAT was the way to do it.

Email from Jesus

2004-11-24T10:53:00.000-05:00

I kid you not, Jesus just emailed me. I'd open it, but it was automatically sent to my always wary 'Bulk' folder. Apparently 'yahoo' is not a believer.

But you know, if there were to be a 'second coming' of the lord, do you think he'd use a medium like the internet to get the Word out? How else would you Access the masses and Excel to create a favorable Outlook for believers and non-believers alike? Perhaps Microsoft would align with Him like they did that old Rolling Stones song when they had a new operating system.

Come to think of it, Mick Jagger is about as old as Jesus would be - you know, if he hadn't been killed and all. Maybe Mel Gibson could direct the Microsoft/Jesus/Mick Jagger video that they could start ciculating on the net. I'll bet it would be more popular than Jon Stewart's plea on Crossfire! Cause when you put Jesus and Mel Gibson together, you KNOW you've got a hit on your hands.

Still, I'm not going to open the email; I think it might just be a hoax.

A Starburst High!

2004-11-16T13:49:00.000-05:00

I don't really think it was the three fruity chunks of Starburst that have me flying like a kite through my workday - it may have actually been the blackbottom cupcake, coffee and hot chocolate that REALLY did the job and have this day zipping past me at lightspeed.

It certainly couldn't have been the crystal meth I did this morning...

Kidding. I think it was the cupcake breakfast. After all, I did put extra chocolate chips in the cream cheese goop that goes on top.

I really need to get some work done today. The sugar rush should bottom out at any minute so I can fall head first onto my keyboard and type the same letter across the poster I'm trying to proofread, drool making it's way 'twixt my bloated lips and along the wrist pad that eliminates carpal tunnel syndrome.

I'd best have a drink of water now.

Orthodontia for Condeleeza

2004-11-16T13:06:00.000-05:00

Can someone PLEASE start a fund for Condeleeza Rice to get some braces? That toothy gap has GOT to go! I simply cannot stand another four years of staring at that empty space in her head.

What's next for Ashcroft?

2004-11-10T10:33:00.000-05:00

Hmmm, what's next for Johnny? Will he add himself to the listing of infamous people who will charge exorbitant amounts of money to speak at college campuses and Fortune 500 conventions? Perhaps he'll disappear into the mist like a mythical beast that has served his purpose here on earth and then returned to its mysterious religious origin... Other ideas? Anyone care?

And so it begins

2004-11-08T12:48:00.000-05:00

Am I now a part of the official blogging community that exists in the ephemeral time of technology? Can I say this without reprisal from our current, and now extended, administration?

Bush and his posse suck rocks and now that he'll be going for broke on his God-like agenda - with no reprisal since he can't go up for reelection and since Dick Cheney will probably die or be Walt-Disney-like-embalmed before he could ever run for president - I think someone should get pictures of George W. in a three-way orgy with a drag queen and Karl Rove to post on-line to see if that affects (or is it 'effects') opinion polls and makes him more liked around Europe and gets him a thumbs down in the Middle East. Just an idea.

I'm sure someone out there would claim Photoshop was involved.

But since cocaine and being a 'c' average Yaler who cheated his way out of any kind of armed services didn't do anything but make him more popular, I feel that we need to try a whole new tact on getting him thrown out before too much more damage is done and before our children have even more of a national debt to dig their generation out of.

Personally, I think the everyday person likes Bush, because he's a part of the American dream that says - You don't have to work hard to become whatever you want to. You are entitled to whatever you want, even those things you didn't know you wanted. Fuck taking responsibility. God will fix it all and make it right as long as you don't let gays get married and cut down as many of god's creatures and trees as possible in the name of profit.

If you hear no more from me, it's because men in black coats and an unmarked car have come for me. Husband, children, cat and rabbit - I love you and will always love you. No matter what kind of letter the government sends you. No matter what kind of library books the Patriot Act says I checked out. Always remember you are in my heart, even if they've stored it in fermaldihyde (sp?) on the shelf of a scientific lab somewhere deep, deep inside the pentagon.

May the anarchists show you no mercy current administration! :Poo