I am sure most of you have heard this one, but I can’t get over how funny it is. Here’s a little gyno humor for your Friday. Enjoy!

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“I was due later that week for an appointment with the gynecologists when early one morning I received a call from his office: I had been rescheduled for early that morning at 9:30am. I had just packed everyone off to work and school and it was around 8:45 already.

The trip to his office usually took about 35 minutes so I didn’t have any time to spare. As most women do, I’m sure, I like to take a little extra effort over hygiene when making such visits, but this time I wasn’t going to be able to make the full effort. So I rushed upstairs, threw off my dressing gown, wet the washcloth and gave myself a wash in “that area” in front of the sink, taking extra care to make sure that I was presentable. I threw the washcloth in the clothes basket, donned some clothes, hopped in the car and raced to my appointment.

I was in the waiting room only a few minutes when he called me in. Knowing the procedure, as I am sure all women do, I hopped up on the table, looked over at the other side of the room and pretended I was in Hawaii or some other place a million miles away from there.

I was a little surprised when he said: “My…we have taken a little extra effort this morning, haven’t we?”, but I didn’t respond.

The appointment over, I heaved a sigh of relief and went home. The rest of the day went normal, some shopping, cleaning and the evening meal, etc. At 8:30 that evening my 14 year old daughter was getting ready for a school dance, when she called down from the bathroom, “Mom - where’s my washcloth?”

I called back for her to get another one from the cabinet.

She called back, “No - I need the one that was here by the sink. It had all my glitter and sparkles in it.”"

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And this just in, as my mother just informed me, my step-grandfather, who was an obgyn, once had a woman come in, who had used a tissue from her purse to last-minute prep herself prior to her visit, had a green stamp stuck to her hoo-haw. Talk about a sticky situation!!!

Happy Friday!

e

For the past 9 months, we have been using reusable diapers on Hola. It’s not a 24/7 kinda thing. (We use disposables at night and again while we’re washing the others.) But for the most part, we’re dumping poop in the toilet and using our washer to make what was simply DIRTAY, new again.

I thought it would be hard to do, so I just bought 3 to start. You know, ease myself into it. I tried working them into my routine and got comfortable with the small effort they took to use. And, for the love of God, THEY WERE SO FRICKIN CUTE. After a month or so, I bought 3 more. Then, a month later, the final 3. The kind we use are the Pocket diaper variety. They have a liner that goes inside the outer diaper layers and does most of the soaking.

Since we are saving money on diaper purchases, (WOO HOO!) (or at least extending the length of time until we have to buy disposables again) I feel ok spending an extra $5-$10 on buying “earth friendly” disposables. (My only beef about these diapers is they don’t do as much for the environment after you dispose of them as I would like, like DISAPPEARING, but I do love they do not contain chlorine among other advantages.)

I think the thing that I dig most about making this effort, cause in all honesty, it is an effort, (but you get used to it and it does feel good,) is not having to buy diapers EVERY TIME I turn around. Besides traveling, when we use disposables, it’s nice to have a box last, for what seems like, MONTHS.

So far, Hola hasn’t outgrown the 9 we have purchased. I hope we can get all the way through to potty training on these alone. If not, I don’t mind adding a few extra colors to our stash.

e

(Man, I think I used parentheses more in this post than ever before. FTW!)

Hubs is taking me out tonight for my birthday dinner.

Thought I would have my hairdresser “do my face” for the special occasion.

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how much waste we produce in our house.

At this stage in our lives, we are drowning in diapers and jars of baby food. So, I am feeling really guilty about how much I put into my trash can. (And, yes, there are other alternatives like washable diapers and homemade baby food to help solve this problem. While I agree with both, I just can’t seem to put my baby into one more thing that I have to wash on a daily basis. And for the homemade baby food, I am slowly making my way there. 2 foods at a time.

Now, I am no way ditching my love for jarred food, I just want to have something in my freezer to make for Hola when the pantry is bare. I know this stage of the game is so short in the grand scheme of things, but buying 20 jars at a time just seems like SO MUCH, SO OFTEN.

I do have to say our city recycles everything we put in our trash can. (”They” meaning the prisoners.) We do not have to separate anything out ourselves. And all of it, I mean, ALL OF IT, that can be recycled, is recycled. So, I guess I shouldn’t feel too awful for all the glass jars that go into our trash. Now the diapers? Eeek. That’s a whole other story.

Another thing that bothers me is packaging. Everything has SO MUCH packaging. The wrappers of all the caramels in the Kraft bag bother me. (and don’t suggest the caramel bits/bites. Those things do NOT taste the same.) Why all the packaging?? Just put all of those luscious squares in there together. If the bits/bites can stay separated, then so can the squares. (Hey…… maybe that’s why they taste different (Bad.) The thing that keeps them from melting together is the culprit!)

Anywho.

What got me thinking about Christmas was the fact that Mervyn’s is going out of business. Since they are in liquidation, they don’t give you boxes for all the items you buy. (And believe-you-me, I am a Mervyn’s shopper when it comes to kids clothes. Or WAS..boo hoo.) Point is, I am now lacking in the box department. I really don’t want to go and BUY more boxes. It just pains me to have to buy a “container” to put my gift into. It’s not even the actual gift and I have to pay for it.

SO, I went to my closet and found all of the amazon-type boxes and went to town. No more spending, no more wasting. WIN/WIN. And when Christmas comes around in two weeks, after all of the presents have been opened, I’ll be the one snagging all of the boxes back up and hoard them till next year.

Now, if I can just figure out how to save the paper without being “that person” who doesn’t want you to rip open your gift.

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How far do you take “being green” in your home?  Any suggestions? Especially during the holidays?

Here’s my attempt to talk about something else besides my kidlings.

Since having a baby just 3 months ago, I have had a lot to think about in regards to my body. There are parts that are taking back their shape and then there are others that have a way to go.

So, here’s the question.

What part of your body do you really dig? What part of your body would you be happy to do away with?

I’ll go.

I really am happy with my upper arms. (Since I’ve given birth, my arms have returned, or actually, they are on their way to returning to my “normal.” Maybe it’s my early gymnastics training or butterfly swimming, but I really love my traps.)

I could do without my baby belly. (Yes, I admit. I have done nothing to make my new found belly go away, but I have wished it away many a time and nothing has happened. I did take this major ass body sculpting session yesterday and believe if I sign up for the 6 week course, I can get my belly back to some sort of decent shape. Now, if my linea nigra would just fade away….)

Your turn.

e

14 weeks, 2nd trimester!

best I could do by myself with little munchkin waiting in the wings.

At the request of LVGurl, I have provided the recipe for the corn I made the other night. Now, of course, we all know how much nutritional value is in a cob of corn, (little-to-none compared to all of it’s green friends), but come on, carb a little, you have to indulge once in awhile. Enjoy!

Foil-Wrapped Corn on the Cob with Lime-Chile Butter

Preheat grill. In a small bowl, whisk together melter butter, lime juice, chili powder, and salt. Brush mixture on corn and wrap each cob in foil, covered completely and sealing the ends together. Grill corn over medium heat, turning with tongs a quarter turn every 5 to 6 minutes, until kernels are juicy when punctured with a sharp knife, about 25 minutes.

*All I did was place the corn on the foil and add all of the ingredients beside it, pad of butter and all. Wrapped and grilled. Turned out just as good, if not better.

While hubs and I are making tons of whoopie while drinking wine and eating bon bons, I need you to do something for me. While you were trying to conceive (”ttc”), what were you told to do to make your odds better of getting prego? Or, if you have never gotten prego, what’s the word on the street? Enlighten me on the tricks of the trade people. The stranger and more bizarre the better. Or, if there is something quite straight forward, add it in there too. Let me see what creative little minds you have. Here, I’ll start.

By placing a piece of bread underneath your mattress while ttc, you will become pregnant. (I think this is some old German wives’ tale, but I did try it while ttc with Rt and it worked! Now ask me how long it took to remove said piece of bread from underneath my mattress. I kinda forgot about it after all the excitement.)

Now it’s your turn. Bring it. That means you too, lurker.

This could be a doozy of a day, but you know what I did to retaliate?

(funny how much I have already accomplished by 8:45am.
That’s what happens when your child wants to get up at 5am for the day.)

-took shower

-blow dried hair

-curled hair

-put earrings and necklace on

-put new make up style on

-dressed in the tightest, hottest jeans I have

-put on not so cummfy heels but the look is tight

So, whatever the day may bring, I am looking like one smoking chic.

Take that you life!

e

Update: Life won today, but I still look hot.

www.greentimes.com

Want to get rid of all that lame O extra crappy junk mail you get everyday of your life? All it takes is a measly 10 cents a day, for a total of only $36 a year, to be removed from junk mail mailing lists AND a tree will be planted once a month for an entire year just because you clicked an itty bitty button in your spare 5 minutes.

I watched my dvr’d episode of Oprah yesterday and got way inspired. It’s hard deciding what action to take to keep this planet from bursting into a big flame ball.

I thought this was the easiest FIRST step to take.

I hope you do too.

e