Tall Girl Problems

I could write an entire blog called “Tall Girl Problems.”  I bet there’s already a blog out there about it, but I’m too lazy to check.

That goes under the blog “Lazy Girl Problems.”

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That’s Morgan in one of the thousands of bathrooms at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville.  She’s not paying attention to me because a) she’s known me for 3 years & expects weird behavior or b) she’s also a blogger & understands weird behavior.

Huge bathroom, right?  Plenty o’ stalls but I still had beef with them.  See, Morgan is a short gal by tall girl standards & her head hits the top of the stall door.  This was my view:

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Nope, I’m not standing on my toes.

It created an awkward moment or five after I used the facilities & had to scoot my shapewear back up over my rear.  & by “scoot,” I mean wiggled back & forth in a chicken dance until I was out of breath & my underwear was shoved up my ass, but my shapewear was on & up under my boobs so I just called it a success.  A panting, sweaty success.

That everyone got to witness as the top of my head bobbed around over the door & I looked like a drunk fish on the line.

Trout, anyone?

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Good morning, friends.

The house is still.

It’s 9am & blackout curtains in a toddler’s room may be my new favorite thing.  The house is clean, but not tidy, & I’m halfway through my first cup of coffee & making decisions about the day.  Do I only book a few hours while he watches a movie & naps on this dreary day, or do I enlist the nanny forces & an 8-hour day?

I’m leaning towards a quiet day at home.

They said there might be flurries this morning, despite it being the mildest winter I can remember.  Nothing falling from the sky yet & this picture from several weeks ago capture the only snow we’ve seen all season.

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The beauty of third-day hair.

photo1 300x224 The beauty of third day hair.I was perusing Babble’s Facebook page (because that’s what I do in my spare time for chuckles) & came across several commentors on my Dirty Mom vs Primped Mom piece wondering what the H-E-double hockey sticks was “third day hair.”

Oh, mommas. I envy you for not knowing what “third day hair” is when quite simply, it is hair that has gone unwashed for three days. The hair that is perfection for an updo with thanks to the grease that would hold it in place, if only your darned prom wasn’t over a decade ago.

Third day hair usually happens when I wash my hair on Friday morning. Then I rock the second-day hair on Saturday, thanks to dry shampoo & a sock bun after a rinse-off in the shower. Looking cute & lemon-fresh scented, I head to a barbeque with friends & the playground with my tot & on Saturday night, I fall into bed exhausted, promising to shower on Sunday morning. But then Sunday morning rolls around & it’s lazy with cinnamon buns & coffee & at 10am, I realize the housecleaning needs to happen. So I pull out the Oreck & go to town, promising I will shower after chores are finished. But they take a little longer than anticipated & at 2pm, I realize I’m late for play date. So it’s off to the Subaru we march, tossing a baseball cap over my (still unwashed) tresses.

By Sunday night, the hair could hold a French twist without bobby pins & when I wash them out, I’m sure baby seals are crying for the amount of oil I’m dumping into the water reserve via my shower drain.

I am having a serious love affair with Pinterest & houses.

Since the house is on the market, I cannot stop dreaming about our next home.

(You know how I like to jump the gun.)

I spend my free time perusing the houses available in the neighborhoods we love, calculating mortgages & downpayments, wishing that our house would sell RIGHT THIS INSTANT BECAUSE DOUG! COME LOOK AT THIS HOUSE!  & then I hop on Pinterest & decorate the entire thing in my head.

Of course, my head doesn’t have a budget in mind which is a very lovely thing when I’m pinning Anthropologie & Amy Butler fabrics.

I’m in this awful stage right now of having so many ideas & dreams for decorating, but not wanting to “waste” them on the house we are selling.  Especially since the goal is to keep our current house as sparkling clean & sparse as possible. 

Sell, house.  Sell!

 
 
 
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The writer’s block: It’s not you.

It’s me.

Well, me & Mr. Darcy because I started reading the smut sequal to Pride & Prejudice, “Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife” & I’ve been pouring over pages & lovingly attacking my husband.

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BLAME MR. DARCY.

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(also, these are the books I currently have my nose in.)

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isn’t my new rug mug mandie sent me just darling?  even the name “rug mug” totally kills me with the cute.

Stealing is for losers. Copyright 2008-2012 Beth Anne Ballance