Remember the blog project I did last year with three other women? Well, Froggie decided to resurrect it with me and we each got to invite another friend to join us. She invited a mutual friend (someone I met through her) and I invited a friend whose blog I really enjoy reading. So now it's Froggie, Mom of Many, Moma Rock and Merrylandgirl. Hope you enjoy the topics that we'll be exploring!
This week, Froggie picked the topic: Procrastination
Before reading ahead, first see what everyone else had to say on this topic:
Froggie
Mom of Many
Moma Rock
This topic is pretty much the definition that you would find if you looked me up in the dictionary. My motto is "we'll figure it out." If I can find a way to put something off, I totally will! Lately, I've been putting off making appointments for myself and the kids. The worst of these delays is for dentist appointments. It took me long enough to pick up the phone and call my regular dentist, only to find out that they no longer take our insurance. I know where I want to go for future dental appointments, thanks to a move on my favorite hygienist's part. However, I have yet to call that dentist's office to make an appointment and it's been weeks since I found out who I should be calling in the first place. There are other appointments I'm taking my dear sweet time to schedule. The next is the pediatrician. I like our pediatric practice, but I feel bad seeing the kids get shots.
I've even been putting off planning a birthday party for two of my kids with upcoming birthdays. I finally took the steps to secure a location. Now I have to send invitations. Let's see how long that takes me to do. And I have a feeling I'll wait till the very last minute before making Shalach Manot for Purim. I was proactive two years ago and this year I keep thinking I have time to get it all done. I know two weeks will just fly by! And when Pesach comes around, guess who is going to avoid grocery shopping and cleaning until it can't possibly be avoided anymore? And don't forget about cooking either!
At work, I keep a reminder in my Outlook calendar to do certain things I have been putting off. I keep hitting a calendar snooze button on that reminder. I've been pressing that snooze button for weeks! Possibly months....
Housework is another thing I procrastinate on all the time. I hate putting away laundry unless the cleaning service is coming and it needs to be off the floor. I also hate doing dishes, especially by hand! I've been teased about how long I let dishes sit before cleaning them.
There are non-deadline items at work that I tend to push aside more often than I like to admit. I have a pile of papers on my desk that I have yet to go through, as well. Again, no deadlines involved, but it still looks messy.
And then there's the daunting task of choosing photos to print, getting them printed and putting them in photo albums. Maybe that's more out of laziness, but it's still something I'd like to do...one of these days!
Don't laugh, but I even procrastinate on watching movies. I'll want to see a certain movie but then other things will interest me even more. I think it drives my husband crazy. He's watched some movies without me, even when he knew I wanted to see them. However, he did save "Country Strong" for me, which we finally watched a few weeks ago. I've put off watching some TV shows, as well. We still have a whole season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" to watch. Plus, I'm slow going on catching up with "The Big Bang Theory." As far as books go, there are a lot I've put aside in the interest of reading for my blog. Even so, I'll accumulate more and more books and take forever to get around to reading them.
So, there you have it. I waited until the last minute to put this post together in order to have it ready at my usual Thursday time. I do procrastinate on blogging though. I know I have to write more posts for Empowering Parents. I also don't write in this blog half as much as I used to. And I take forever to reply to e-mails, as well. All in the name of procrastination.....
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
My Funny Valentine's Day
Remember the blog project I did last year with three other women? Well, Froggie decided to resurrect it with me and we each got to invite another friend to join us. She invited a mutual friend (someone I met through her) and I invited a friend whose blog I really enjoy reading. So now it's Froggie, Mom of Many, Moma Rock and Merrylandgirl. Hope you enjoy the topics that we'll be exploring!
This week, Mom of Many picked the topic: What is your funniest Valentine's Day memory?
Before reading ahead, first see what everyone else had to say on this topic:
Froggie
Mom of Many
Moma Rock
Ironically enough, this topic is almost forcing me to bring up a memory from a past relationship...one I rarely ever blog about. It all has to do with an episode of "The Simpsons" in which Lisa gives Ralphie Wiggum a Valentine's Day card that says "I Choo-Choo-Choose You." See this very quick clip for more information. The best line is when Ralphie says "It's funny because it says 'I choo-choo-choose you' and there's a picture of a train!" In any case, I was in that honeymoon stage with the guy I was dating in college. When we decided to exchange Valentine's Day cards, it turned out that we both made each other a variation on the card from this episode of "The Simpsons." We had a good laugh and enjoyed our psychic moment.
Now that I've shared that, I would like to reflect on a funny Valentine's "prank" that my husband and I came up with when we were out for our last Valentine's dinner prior to having kids. We went to Wildfire (prior to not eating non-Kosher meat), which is a very nice and romantic restaurant. We thought that it would be funny to clap anytime someone were to accidentally get on one knee because it would look like they were proposing. It would be even better to get other patrons in the restaurant to clap, as well. We never got the opportunity to do so, but we entertained ourselves with that notion all evening. Ironically enough, when we were out for our anniversary at the Signature Room (at the Hancock building) a month later, we did witness a proposal. It was such a random Monday night in March that we never saw it coming. Anyhow, if you ever decide to try this "prank," let me know what happens!
This week, Mom of Many picked the topic: What is your funniest Valentine's Day memory?
Before reading ahead, first see what everyone else had to say on this topic:
Froggie
Mom of Many
Moma Rock
Now that I've shared that, I would like to reflect on a funny Valentine's "prank" that my husband and I came up with when we were out for our last Valentine's dinner prior to having kids. We went to Wildfire (prior to not eating non-Kosher meat), which is a very nice and romantic restaurant. We thought that it would be funny to clap anytime someone were to accidentally get on one knee because it would look like they were proposing. It would be even better to get other patrons in the restaurant to clap, as well. We never got the opportunity to do so, but we entertained ourselves with that notion all evening. Ironically enough, when we were out for our anniversary at the Signature Room (at the Hancock building) a month later, we did witness a proposal. It was such a random Monday night in March that we never saw it coming. Anyhow, if you ever decide to try this "prank," let me know what happens!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Stay "Gold"
Remember the blog project I did last year with three other women? Well, Froggie decided to resurrect it with me and we each got to invite another friend to join us. She invited a mutual friend (someone I met through her) and I invited a friend whose blog I really enjoy reading. So now it's Froggie, Mom of Many, Moma Rock and Merrylandgirl. Hope you enjoy the topics that we'll be exploring!
This week, I picked the topic: Create something based on a fairy tale: TV series, movie, novel, musical...your choice! Talk about how you'd do it and if it's performance based, who you'd cast.
Before reading ahead, first see what everyone else had to say on this topic:
Froggie
Mom of Many
Moma Rock
I have this thing about "Goldilocks." It's a pretty basic story and about as unbelievable as they get. Talking bears who know how to cook?!? There's a lot of repetition between what Goldilocks does and what the bears come home to in the aftermath. Back when I was in high school, I was helping my sister's friend write a fractured fairy tale and we decided to do "Goldie-Lox and the Three Bubbes." I think I ended up doing most of the writing and peppered it with some Yiddish words. This time, my take on Goldilocks is of a chick lit stance. What other way would I do it, right?!?
Goldie was working at an investment firm in NYC, until they went down due to a Ponzi scheme. She ends up losing her job in a tough economy, along with her Upper West Side apartment, and is now a squatter for abandoned apartments in Manhattan. In the meantime, she has been keeping a food themed blog called "Just Right," where she does food and restaurant reviews. Giving it a "just right" rating means everything is of the best quality. She even rates the comfortableness of restaurant furniture with "just right" also meaning best quality. A major newspaper stumbles upon her blog and offers her a freelance job as a restaurant critic. Soon, she's the critic everyone wants to have at their restaurant. She's asked to be on TV shows and is given a full-time job at the newspaper. At one point, she ends up going to the restaurant of the hottest chef in the city. (Both in quality and looks.) However, she doesn't like his cooking style. In the meantime, she's squatting at one of the most posh apartments in the city. When the hot chef finds out her secret by accident, they may be able to strike a deal that will benefit both of them...Will she give him a bad review and risk his wrath along with her secret or give a good, but dishonest review and risk losing her job and good restaurant critic reputation?
Since I love asking authors who they'd cast if their book were optioned for film, I'll do the same for myself. I'd cast someone like Kristen Bell as Goldie and since everyone seems to love Ryan Gosling these days, he could be the hot chef.
This week, I picked the topic: Create something based on a fairy tale: TV series, movie, novel, musical...your choice! Talk about how you'd do it and if it's performance based, who you'd cast.
Before reading ahead, first see what everyone else had to say on this topic:
Froggie
Mom of Many
Moma Rock
I have this thing about "Goldilocks." It's a pretty basic story and about as unbelievable as they get. Talking bears who know how to cook?!? There's a lot of repetition between what Goldilocks does and what the bears come home to in the aftermath. Back when I was in high school, I was helping my sister's friend write a fractured fairy tale and we decided to do "Goldie-Lox and the Three Bubbes." I think I ended up doing most of the writing and peppered it with some Yiddish words. This time, my take on Goldilocks is of a chick lit stance. What other way would I do it, right?!?
"Just Right"
Goldie was working at an investment firm in NYC, until they went down due to a Ponzi scheme. She ends up losing her job in a tough economy, along with her Upper West Side apartment, and is now a squatter for abandoned apartments in Manhattan. In the meantime, she has been keeping a food themed blog called "Just Right," where she does food and restaurant reviews. Giving it a "just right" rating means everything is of the best quality. She even rates the comfortableness of restaurant furniture with "just right" also meaning best quality. A major newspaper stumbles upon her blog and offers her a freelance job as a restaurant critic. Soon, she's the critic everyone wants to have at their restaurant. She's asked to be on TV shows and is given a full-time job at the newspaper. At one point, she ends up going to the restaurant of the hottest chef in the city. (Both in quality and looks.) However, she doesn't like his cooking style. In the meantime, she's squatting at one of the most posh apartments in the city. When the hot chef finds out her secret by accident, they may be able to strike a deal that will benefit both of them...Will she give him a bad review and risk his wrath along with her secret or give a good, but dishonest review and risk losing her job and good restaurant critic reputation?
Since I love asking authors who they'd cast if their book were optioned for film, I'll do the same for myself. I'd cast someone like Kristen Bell as Goldie and since everyone seems to love Ryan Gosling these days, he could be the hot chef.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Top 10 list to celebrate a big 10!
While watching an episode of "How I Met Your Mother" a while back, it talked about all the catalysts that allow for a certain circumstance to occur. I was thinking of that in the case of how I met my husband. Therefore, in honor of 10 years, I'm going to share 10 catalysts that led up to our meeting. I may find a way to share this all as a story someday, but for now, this will have to do.
1. Dating a guy almost two years earlier, who got me involved in a bowling league.
2. My husband going to Miami University, which allowed him to meet our matchmaker.
3. "Jack's" Super Bowl party, which was the reason I had to bowl for my league earlier in the day. (Even though my husband teases me about blowing off a potential bowling date with him for this party.)
4. A mutual friend in town from NJ for a job interview, who also happened to be friends with our matchmaker.
5. My BFF, who is a catalyst in a huge way, and not just because of the events leading up to my life-changing proclamation.
6. A friend who shared a last name with me at the time, who introduced me to the friend from NJ on Thanksgiving 2001.
7. My husband finding a job in Chicago and then realizing he didn't want to live in the city after one year.
8. My husband deciding not to join everyone for drinks that evening. (If he had come along, he might not have had the same impression of me.)
9. The Birthright trip I took to Israel, which made me want to go to temple (and find a guy who also liked going to temple).
10. The concept of besherte.
If any of these items had been missing, I'm not sure that my husband and I would have met. I feel so fortunate that we have met and I love him more than anything (aside from our kids).
*Picture was taken in May 2002, when we were attending a friend's wedding.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
If I could turn back time....
Remember the blog project I did last year with three other women? Well, Froggie decided to resurrect it with me and we each got to invite another friend to join us. She invited a mutual friend (someone I met through her) and I invited a friend whose blog I really enjoy reading. So now it's Froggie, Mom of Many, Moma Rock and Merrylandgirl. Hope you enjoy the topics that we'll be exploring!
This week, Moma Rock picked the topic: If you could go back in time and change one historical event, which one would it be? Why would you, and what changes do you think would come from it?
Before reading ahead, first see what everyone else had to say on this topic:
Froggie
Mom of Many
Moma Rock
How ironic that this is being posted on Groundhog Day, as I always think of the Bill Murray film where he lives the same day over and over until he gets it right. It would have been interesting if he had changed history in the process....
Seeing that this is all hypothetical and time travel is only fictional, I would change not only one, but two historical events.
I know Mark Wahlberg boasted about how he would have stopped 9/11 from happening in some superhero way and got in trouble for it. Even so, I wish I had a way to stop 9/11 from happening. I know I wouldn't have the power or clout to get people in a position of authority to listen to or even believe me until it was too late. It would have been a more discreet thing, like putting out an announcement that no one should go to the World Trade Center or board any planes on that day. I know this is all wishful thinking, but 9/11 was such a horrible day in America's recent history. I would do anything to see the twin towers standing proudly in NYC and all to be right in the world. Maybe families would still be intact and all those people who perished would be alive today to see their children growing up. I read in People magazine a while back about kids who were born after 9/11 but their fathers had perished in the towers or on a plane. It's so sad that these kids never got to meet their fathers as a result of this horrible tragedy. It's been over 10 years since 9/11 happened and I think the US is still hurting emotionally as a result.
The other event I would change would be the Holocaust. It was a horrible period in time for Jews. It's scary and appalling to even think about what happened back then. I could live without "Life is Beautiful" and "Sarah's Key" if I knew that there wasn't a real story to base them upon. The only thing I would want to stay intact is the relationships that came out of the Holocaust. My husband has survivors in his family, although they are no longer alive to talk about it. (I hear the stories from my mother-in-law and they're so heartbreaking.) Even so, my mother-in-law might not have been born without this event taking place, as her parents met as a result. That would start a chain reaction I don't even want to think about. So I would hope they could meet another way. (Kind of like in "Back to the Future" where Marty screws up his parents' original way of meeting but still gets them together anyway.) I'm not sure how I personally would prevent it from happening, aside from warning all the Jews to get out of Europe prior to the 1940's, as I don't want to resort to violence to get the job done. I think the US would have protected Jews from a Holocaust. I would only hope that I could have helped as many people as possible, considering we didn't speak the same language. I'd probably have to explain it in pictures. Even then, would they believe me?
Again, this has all happened and there's no way to go back and prevent it. I only hope that education and tolerance will be increased so that events like 9/11 and the Holocaust never happen again.
This week, Moma Rock picked the topic: If you could go back in time and change one historical event, which one would it be? Why would you, and what changes do you think would come from it?
Before reading ahead, first see what everyone else had to say on this topic:
Froggie
Mom of Many
Moma Rock
How ironic that this is being posted on Groundhog Day, as I always think of the Bill Murray film where he lives the same day over and over until he gets it right. It would have been interesting if he had changed history in the process....
Seeing that this is all hypothetical and time travel is only fictional, I would change not only one, but two historical events.
I know Mark Wahlberg boasted about how he would have stopped 9/11 from happening in some superhero way and got in trouble for it. Even so, I wish I had a way to stop 9/11 from happening. I know I wouldn't have the power or clout to get people in a position of authority to listen to or even believe me until it was too late. It would have been a more discreet thing, like putting out an announcement that no one should go to the World Trade Center or board any planes on that day. I know this is all wishful thinking, but 9/11 was such a horrible day in America's recent history. I would do anything to see the twin towers standing proudly in NYC and all to be right in the world. Maybe families would still be intact and all those people who perished would be alive today to see their children growing up. I read in People magazine a while back about kids who were born after 9/11 but their fathers had perished in the towers or on a plane. It's so sad that these kids never got to meet their fathers as a result of this horrible tragedy. It's been over 10 years since 9/11 happened and I think the US is still hurting emotionally as a result.
The other event I would change would be the Holocaust. It was a horrible period in time for Jews. It's scary and appalling to even think about what happened back then. I could live without "Life is Beautiful" and "Sarah's Key" if I knew that there wasn't a real story to base them upon. The only thing I would want to stay intact is the relationships that came out of the Holocaust. My husband has survivors in his family, although they are no longer alive to talk about it. (I hear the stories from my mother-in-law and they're so heartbreaking.) Even so, my mother-in-law might not have been born without this event taking place, as her parents met as a result. That would start a chain reaction I don't even want to think about. So I would hope they could meet another way. (Kind of like in "Back to the Future" where Marty screws up his parents' original way of meeting but still gets them together anyway.) I'm not sure how I personally would prevent it from happening, aside from warning all the Jews to get out of Europe prior to the 1940's, as I don't want to resort to violence to get the job done. I think the US would have protected Jews from a Holocaust. I would only hope that I could have helped as many people as possible, considering we didn't speak the same language. I'd probably have to explain it in pictures. Even then, would they believe me?
Again, this has all happened and there's no way to go back and prevent it. I only hope that education and tolerance will be increased so that events like 9/11 and the Holocaust never happen again.
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