mutterings and tidbits

Tidbits: Took Ambien to the vet this morning and they took 350 mL's of fluid out of her abdomen. A surprisingly easy procedure. The vet let me go back with her and assist, which I think kept Ambien calm. They did a quick ultrasound on her abdomen and there is a large mass on her spleen that was not there a week ago. What ever has taken over her is growing fast.

She is still happy though and following me around the house. She wants to be cuddled now more than ever. She doesn't have the strength to jump up on the couch or bed herself anymore, but she will meow at me until I lift her up. Right now she is laying on the arm of the couch with her right front paw on my knee, and purring. I think she feels better without all that fluid in her abdomen. She's not eating at all anymore though, so I know we are just on a slow march to the end.

Thank you to everyone here and on Twitter for all the support and love you have given me and Ambien!

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Muttering: I just put my hand in the couch and found a wad of bubble gum. Son readily confessed that it was his from last night and he was trying to hide it from Daddy. Am using all the patience I have to control myself. Not worth yelling about MNT, you yell enough as it is.

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Tidbit: So I mentioned in an email to my ex boyfriend that I had a blog and I was up for a local award, and that I occasionally wrote about vibrators. He must have googled me and found my blog. Hi Fred! Guess if you didn't know I was a bit crazy before you do now!

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Muttering: Why does Noah make a big mess and then assume I'm going to help him clean it up? How do I get him to understand if he throws a deck of cards all over the floor he's quite capable of picking them all up too? Six year olds can be such butt heads! But, truly six is so much better than four.

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Muttering: The odor that comes from my son's butt is unbelievably obnoxious. Stop farting when you sit next to me! And this damn encopresis is going to be the end of me. If I have to clean poop out of his underwear any more, well, I'm really not sure what I'm going to do. I truly don't understand if he can control it or not. Which makes it hard to know whether or not to punish him.

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Muttering: Does he ever stop talking? I swear I hear him talking in his sleep!

Reminder: It is not OK to use duct tape on your child.

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Reminder: You can vote for me every day for Best Local Blog in Nickelodeon's Parents' Picks Awards! It would be nice to at least stay in third place. It would be even better if I could get more than 10% of the vote! I'm not to proud to beg! Please, Vote here!

The Miracle of Coffee Filters

I've been pretty lame on here lately. I have all the same excuses....tired, sick, nothing exciting going, blah blah blah.

So for right now, I'm going to share with you something that was emailed to me recently. It may be a sign of how exciting my life is that I was all "wow, this is so cool" when I read it.

COFFEE FILTERS

Coffee filters ...who knew!

And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing.


1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.



2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave windows sparkling.


3. Protect China ... Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter between each dish.


4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.


5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.


6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.


7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.


8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.


9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.


10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent The soil from going through the drainage holes.


11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.


12. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters.


13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. Soaks out all the grease.


14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers."

OH YEAH!! THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS

P.S. You may have noticed a new button on my right sidebar. If not, LOOK, there's a new button on my right sidebar! I'm up for a Nickelodeon Parent's Choice Award for best local blog in Philadelphia. If you click it, then click on the button for my blog, then click on vote you'd just make my day. I've been consistently at 10% of the vote since it opened. Wouldn't it be awesome if I got up to like 15%? You can vote every day too! Please! Vote every day!

It's an honor to be nominated! But hell yeah, I'd like to win!

This has been quite a week for me in my blogging life. One thing I'm not sure I can talk about yet, but two I can tell you about.

First, I'm going to review another product soon from Eden Fantasys. Whoohooo! You can see my first review here.

And second, and equally, if not more, exciting, I've been nominated for a Nickelodeon's Parents' Picks awards in the Best Local Blog category. Me! Little ol' me, the mommy that needs therapy and writes about adult toys and whines a lot drinks wine a lot.

I have to be honest and say that I'm really not sure how this works. I do know that I received an email a few weeks ago about my blog being part of GoCityKids/ParentsConnect Local. They described themselves to me as a Webby Award-winning website that's now a part of Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect group, a website that offers extensive information for families about what's happening in cities and towns across the US. I read the email, thought "cool," and promptly forgot about it until last week when I googled myself and found it was looking back through my email.

So here I am!

I'm listed as an "attraction" which I'm finding quite amusing. Heh And the "cost" is "free" and I'm suitable for "all ages." *snicker*

I think I need people to follow the link (here it is in case you missed the first one) and review it or rate it. Right now I have one (1), yes ONE, review/rating. Mary, I love you!! Who ever you are!

So if you feel at all inclined to boost my blogging confidence, which impacts my real life confidence far more than I should ever admit, I'd be thrilled.

Just in case you missed the first two links to it, HERE IT IS AGAIN.

please

Two bodies love me!

Wow, what a wonderful surprise to receive a comment from Kelly at A Rainbow after the Rain and from Katia at Crazy for Trying telling me they had both awarded me this:

Wow, I'm so honored! Thank you so much ladies! This is my first award! Whoohooo

And now, I get to pass it on. Here are the rules:


Upon winning this award you are tasked with the following rules…

You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.

Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.


So here are my five recipients...

Deb at Postcards from the Edge because she's like my crazy "older" sister. hehehehe And she's about to get a new blog design which is going to rawk!

Pam at Pantsfreesia because she makes me laugh with every post. And she loves her cats as much as I love mine.

Aunt Becky at Mommy wants Vodka because she gets having a kid like Noah. And I love her blog header. And she makes me laugh. And, well, she has this tiny little baby growing inside her that is kicking her ASS. So give her some love!

And finally...Bejewell at The Bean because she too makes me laugh, and think. I just found her blog a couple weeks ago, and she doesn't know me at all. But heh, how else does a stalker get her start?

And really finally, finally, because clearly I can't fucking count, Mell at Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters because she is just plain awesome and both Mell and her blog have had a huge impact on me.