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Spam of the Day
2008-05-23 00:38:00
I think this may be porn spam, not sure (from spam comment left here): "As i began to enema with him, it became obedient that aaron wanted to skeletal his shaven prairie and he had a otherworldly sizzle in graphic design, which wedged his recession pattern." Doesn't that make you all hot and bothered?
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The brink of summer
2008-05-20 06:00:00
Busy Girl is 8th grade banqueted and graduated, and I contained myself at all events. Though I do admit to having to listen to that damn (has sound, it's a song, and well, songs have sound...) Graduation (Friends Forever) song by Vitamin C a few times before both events to desensitize myself to it. Anyway, both events were very nice, and all the kids looked so grown up. Her diploma was misspelled (wouldn't that be funny if I misspelled "misspell"?), though. Oddly enough, it wasn't even our last name that was the problem. I'm assuming the diploma was good and she didn't botch her exams, but we're getting a new one, anyway. The girls had a gathering graduation night, and the whole class had a party last night where you may have been able to hear the sound of new relationships being formed all the way from your house. The litany of "who's going out" increased forty-fold or something during those 3 hours. Now, it's just weird that she doesn't have to go to school. I...
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Ch-ch-ch changes
2008-05-15 19:54:00
Why yes, you must continue to put up with me pondering Busy Girl's 8th grade graduation for another week or so. In the midst of handing out money right and left during this graduation season and driving her from place, to place, to place, to place, the significance of the whole thing is dawning on me. This past Tuesday, she walked out of her last exam and was done with grade school forever. To put it in perspective, she started this school in 1999 and it's the only place she's known (save for a few random preschool memories). She has been with the same kids for nine years, and just like that, it's over. Part of my retrospection is that the school has had a very, very difficult year and it's overshadowed what was supposed to be the 8th graders' big moment. They are an exceptional class and there's very few people around who even care, and that kind of sucks. The other part of my retrospection is that she's my first born, and how did this happen? Seriously, (Warnin...
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Watch Me! Service Request System
2008-05-10 15:31:00
MEMORANDUM To: Employees under 5 feet tall From: Management Date: May 10. 2008 Re: Watch Service Request System Due to the excessive volume of requests to "watch": a. "me" b. "this" It is necessary that we implement a Watch Service Request System (WSRS) in order to serve you better. This new, online system, accessible from the Club Penguin home page for your utmost convenience, will streamline your "watch me and/or this" requests and allow us to fulfill them in a more efficient manner and track them to determine trends. It's easy to use: 1. From the link on the Club Penguin home page, just click "Watch!" 2. Next, you will be asked to prioritize your request: a. If your request involves blood, fire or traffic, select "1" b. If your request needs to be fulfilled "before time runs out" or "before he falls", select "2" c. Select "3" for all other requests. Please allow adequate lead time if management presence is requested upstairs or outside. After hours,...
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Kid in the Meatloaf Go-Phone commercial
2008-05-10 06:20:00
Whoa, you guys are busy little Googlers. The kid in the Meatloaf Go-Phone commercial isn't his son, he's an actor named Adam Cagley. From the "Why Does She Know This?" Department, Meatloaf has two daughters, one of whom is musician, Pearl Aday. Pearl used to tour with him and now she's married to a guy from Anthrax (Scott Ian?) has her own band, Mother Pearl.
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Kathie Lee Gifford gave me pinkeye
2008-05-08 17:43:00
Hi, I'm a [airquotes] Mommy Blogger[/airquotes]. I thought my face was going to pop off when I watched the big Today Show interview with Kathie Lee Gifford and the lovely bloggers, Mir, Jill, Kristen and Heather. But, then I realized that it was actually a sinus infection and pink eye. Oh, yes, I'm really a five year old. However, now that I think about it, I'm not sure which came first, my illness or that segment.
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The era keeps ending
2008-05-06 22:22:00
Busy. Blah, blah, blah-biddy blah. Am boring even myself with the litany of things that could be the answer to, "What have I been doing?" Those of you without kids would be pondering how you'd get these few minutes of your life back if I wrote about it. Those of you with young kids would be thinking, "Wow, I'm glad I'm not that old", and, "I just can't relate", with a side of, "My kids won't ever have that much to do because I don't believe in organized activities." To the above: Think what you will, but, insane scheduling happens anyway as they get older, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Those of you with grown kids would be all, "Buck up, it's only grade school", or, "HA! Better you than me." With that, we are still buried in end of the year school activities and sports interspersed with the handing out of $20 bills here and there for "thank you gifts" for teachers, coaches, janitors, crossing guards, baristas, dog-walkers, cashiers, ice-cream scoopers, the l...
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Kentucky Derby heartbreak
2008-05-04 04:58:00
I didn't see the Kentucky Derby today, but I just saw the news about them having to put down second place winner Fifty Eight Belles, and it's just completely heart-breaking.
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Time keeps on slippin'
2008-05-01 07:45:00
If I had something witty to say, it'd go here. The end of the school year is kicking mah ass. But, (butt?) at least I have my fancy new camera to record my ass-kicking. Busy Girl's team advanced in the volleyball tournament tonight, she's got 2 basketball tournaments coming up, both boys play soccer, there's field trips, projects, exams, house guests coming. You know what all that means, don't you? I'm poorer and it's getting in the way of me wasting time on the Internet. Two weeks from Saturday, my oldest baby will graduate from the only school she's ever known. Then? She'll be in high school. Nine years goes fast, my friends. It really, really does.
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Out of Context Monday
2008-04-28 18:32:00
I don't care if they are six. You signed up? You show up. ------ You're right, he is the least blonde in the family. ------ Do not wear that again. ------ No, I think not. I don't even have one and I'm not getting you one. ------ Did you catch it? ------ Hold on there mister, I meant to give you a twenty. Give me that back. ----- It was a bad day in Whoville. ------ This one is loaded. ------ How did you get in here? ------ You promise you told your parents you're with me? Then why is there someone yelling at you on the other end of your phone? ------ I'm not a poor sport. You are a poor loser. ------ Hold your balls, ladies. ------ Argh. You are like the Rainman. ------ Tomorrow?! ------ We can do it with three, that's fine with me.
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Best Commercial Ever
2008-04-25 18:12:00
OK., I may be a little behind the times since I hadn't seen this before, but my love for Meatloaf is well documented. And a ATT Go Phone commercial with Meatloaf AND Tiffany? Bonus.
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Sponge Bob brings sexy back
2008-04-24 04:30:00
I was talking to Busy Girl and her friend about the Miley Cyrus green bra MySpace pictures (though I don't think some of the are her). We were reviewing the fact that you shouldn't do anything that would be bad if it ended up on the Internet because the Internet is forever. You know the drill. I also pointed out that Miley Cyrus has a bigger obligation than other people to make sure things like that don't happen because she is a public figure. Busy Girl: "Yeah, little kids look up to her." Me: "I know. Can you imagine if Busy D.'s favorite character was Hannah Montana and we had to explain that to him?" Busy Girl: "It'd be like Sponge Bob pole dancing and dropping his squares."
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Busy Mom Barometer
2008-04-23 19:02:00
Coffee of the Day: Hansen's Natural Cane Soda in Pomegranate Listening to: Radio Margaritaville Today's Mental Jukebox Selection: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Cursing: My Internet connection. Giving away: SanDisk Gator Cruzer Flash drives at both Career and Kids and GenBetween. E-mail spam subject line of the day: Get a bigger copulation organ today. That'd have to be a heck of an organ to have room for two (or more?) people to get on it and do that. Reading: My to-do list. Wanting: (Besides a 300mm lens) A Chumby. In Latte. Writing: a new post at Around the Watercooler on Mommytrackd. Wondering: Why don't people ever RSVP to anything anymore? Busy D. is having his first birthday party ever (shut up) and I have no idea who's coming and it matters for this particular party. People. "RSVP" means "Répondez s'il vous plaît" or, "Please Respond". That means, tell the host "yes" or "no". I even gave them an e-mail option, too so they don't even have to pick up the pho...
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Bustin' butt
2008-04-21 18:00:00
Wow, I haven't been here in a few days. I never do that. I would say that I have "nothing to say", but then I'd be setting myself up for all you smart-asses out there with you variations of, "And? What else is new?" So, I won't say that I've had nothing to say. With that, I will proceed to rock the Mommyblogger stereotype and tell you that it's been a busy weekend with kids' sports and overnight guests. Busy Girl has had a lot of volleyball lately. They're doing OK and have learnved lots of stuff from an excellent coach. However, as usual, I remind myself why I don't coach kids' sports because sometimes they make my head asplode. Any team that I coached would probably deserve a coach with a head, so I mostly stay out of it. Except for the line judge thing. Apparently, I am the only volleyball line judge this side of the Mississippi River. It's a volunteer thing, you don't have to be anyone special to do it, yet I am the only one who will do it. I did 10 games, ...
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More Ode to April
2008-04-16 18:38:00
From the "That is Just Too Weird" department: Busy Dad (not my husband) has a young man who turned 6 yesterday, too! Oh, and Jay has no idea how dangerous it is to be around me in April . Today is the 10th Anniversary of the tornadoes that hit downtown (has sound) in the middle of the day. It's hard to describe, but that was a day like no other for me, and I'm sure for many others as well.
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Happy Birthday, Busy D.!
2008-04-15 16:46:00
April 15th. Not only is it Tax Day for America, it's also a special day at our house. You see, six years ago today, I met someone new. How was I to know he'd end up being a blogger since I didn't even know what blogging was then? Yes, your favorite former blogger, Busy D. is six years old! Six years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with the weirdest feeling I've ever had. It seemed the human that was supposed to be surgically removed from my body the next morning was ready to come out. I have c-sections for a reason, this was so not in the plan. So, off to the hospital we went. We called my parents on the way, but of all times, their phone had somehow gotten knocked off the hook and they were unreachable. Many of you know that my dad at least, has enough cell phone issues, so that wasn't an option. The admitting office of the hospital was confused as to why I was reporting in so early for my scheduled procedure, but it was made crystal clear to the young lad...
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She moves her body like a cyclone
2008-04-12 15:53:00
Hey, you know how some talented bloggers carefully craft each blog entry as if it were a column and each piece is a feature that can stand alone and be enjoyed time and again? I'm not one of them. I thought you should know that. We didn't get blown off the face of the earth yesterday, sorry to leave you hanging. I work in a lair, and I can't always tell what's going on outside, so when I went up for daylight and heard the tornado sirens blaring and my pager telling me to "seek shelter" and it wasn't Rolling Stones lyrics, it got my attention. Since my lair is the most secure place on the planet, seems that when the place is locked town in disaster mode, the "safe place" is right outside my office. So, imagine my surprise when I returned to said office to seek shelter, there were 100 or so people right outside my door. I kinda felt bad that they were all sitting in the hallway on the floor and I was returning to my office of luxury. I have 6 guest chairs, so I briefly ...
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Land's End Free Shipping Code
2008-04-10 22:16:00
Even though some of you have snow this fine April and others of us are about to be blown off the face of the earth by tornadoes (again), it's getting to be time to think about getting a bathing suit before all the good ones are gone. Land's End is always a great place to get bathing suits, and those good folks at have blessed Busymom.net readers with a Land's End Free Shipping code: Just enter the following at checkout and receive free shipping (on any order, not just swimwear) at landsend.com: Code : SWIM PIN: 530530530 Expiration: April 17, 2008 So, check out all the cool stuff and be sure to get my Mother's Day gift while you're there, OK?

We keep the checkbook in the fridge
2008-04-08 15:58:00
With Confirmation, Busy D.'s birthday, graduation (Mah, baby! Goin' to high school in a few short months!), camp registration, etc. coming up, we're generating a lot more important papers than usual, lately. Sometimes? We're not so good with the 'portant papers. Over the years, we've tried many systems to organize them and keep them where we can find them, but we always end up defaulting to The Pile on the Kitchen Counter&trade filing system. Occasionally, I get a wild hair and I buy pretty containers and baskets for the Pile on the Kitchen Counter&trade, but someone usually comes along and dumps the contents and absconds with the basket. We've tried folders and such, but it turns out that the "out of sight, out of mind" thing is not so good for the paying of the bills and the signing of the permission slips. It doesn't help that Busy Dad and I have competing notions about how to work The Pile on the Kitchen Counter&trade system. He's all about spreading everything ou...
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The Saturday Bulletin
2008-04-08 07:34:00
For some reason, this this Saturday Bulletin made me laugh until I had tears streaming down my face.
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Bloggers everywhere
2008-04-08 07:15:00
The lovely and talented Fussypants organized a local blogger dinner, and I had the honor of dining with her and Michelle Smiles, Jordana, and, Meredith of Like Merchant Ships. We had a delightful time talking about you. Yeah, you. They all had important things in common, I felt kind of left out as I was the only one not getting ready to move or who had recently moved. Oh, and they had other big things in common, but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to say it. I'll survive, though. I made sure to tell them that if I um, "move" I'll hold them responsible. And today I had lunch with Jamie from Blonde Mom and Amy from Milkbreath and Margaritas. That's more social activity than I had in four years of college.
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I need to be more specific
2008-04-07 19:15:00
Busy Girl was talking about something that had potential to take a turn toward the catty. Me: "Be nice." Busy Girl: "I am nice." Friend in back seat of car: "Be nice to people, Busy Girl. To people. Busy Girl: "Oh."
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Busymom.net: Now with minerals
2008-04-06 23:51:00
I was trying to buy some makeup and noticed that everyone and their brother's product now has Natural! Minerals ! I know it's due to the wild success of the Bare Esencetuals line, but isn't a mineral "natural" by definition? Why should I be excited about "minerals" on my face all of a sudden? Talc is a mineral and it's typically in powders, that's not new. Graphite is a mineral, perhaps I'll just cut to the chase and do my eyes with a Number 2 pencil. Double the fun, office supplies and makeup in one.
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They sprung me
2008-04-05 07:07:00
Good news. I did less hard time in the slammer than Nicole Richie thanks to you guys. My special thanks to: Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous A very special Anonymous (You know who you are) Michael Silence Solonor CeeElCee SocalMom Amy Brown Amy at Finding My New Normal You contributed enough to send a child to camp through MDA. I have no idea how they will get home, though. Seriously, I've heard from several of you who've been affected by MD, thank you. It's a worthy cause, but hearing from you made it more personal and I didn't grouse so much about fundraising. I work on the same campus where I went to college. Since I learned I was able to turn myself in to "jail" rather than have someone come get me, I walked over to the fraternity house where it was being held. As I walked past the Greek houses, it was hard to believe it had been 20*mumble* years since I had walked these sidewalks. I had specific memories of where I had gone, things that happened, who I talked ...
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Serving it up
2008-04-03 16:06:00
Busy Girl is currently playing volleyball. It's sort of a big deal because she is going to try out for the team in high school this fall (Mah, baby! High school!). She's a good player, but you never know what will happen because she's just not very big, and high school athletes in all sports these days, are, well, bigger than she is. OK, sixth graders are bigger than she is, but whatever. I am raising a family of medium to small people. Just thought you'd like to know They had a tournament a couple of weeks ago from which my butt is just now recovering. Bleacher ass. It's a real affliction. Won't you help? Anyway... She's got a great serve, but for some reason it left her the second day of the tournament. I'm mean, packed up, forwarded the mail and caught a plane to Rio. It got to where the coach would have to take her out of the game every time it was her turn to serve and then put her back in when it was over. Her serve made a visit home during practice ove...
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A fine line
2008-04-01 16:30:00
I have a lot to learn about this teen parenting thing. My first lesson is that it suddenly got really hard to figure out what is going on in her world. I began monitoring her computer use, with her knowledge to make sure there were no hugely inappropriate things going on in her world. I rehearsed the next level of the drinking/drugs/smoking/sex talks and filed them away, ready to bring them out should anything I read anywhere raise my suspicions. But, not to my great surprise, I'm not finding any of these scenarios. I fully realize that most anything can be deleted, or moved to the phone via text messages, I'm fairly confident that things in these areas are OK for now. What I really didn't think about though, was reading about things that are obviously important to her that she doesn't talk to me about much. I'm still learning about what things are manufactured drama for the sake of drama and which things are truly upsetting. I've been pondering a quote I read last ...
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Win one of 3 copies of Turbo Tax Deluxe
2008-04-01 03:35:00
I've got a contest going on for you tax procrastinators. Win one of 3 copies of Turbo Tax Deluxe over at Career and Kids. File your taxes from the comfort of home, it's a $49.95 value. Just leave a comment to enter.
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Huggers not Huggies
2008-03-31 22:58:00
Folks on Twitter knew I had a an undesirable official visitor at work for all of last week. (Twitter people: "Um, yeah. She wouldn't shut up about it.") She had a job to do, but to make matters worse, she's just not a very likable person and it was a long week. When she left, she hugged me goodbye. I was a little taken aback, but even though I don't like her, I suppose she's nice enough and this wasn't her first visit with us. Still... I mentioned this to Busy Chatty Employee and she immediately got all skeeved out because she (BCE) "isn't a hugger". Work hugginess aside, I realized that I'm neither a hugger nor a non-hugger really. I don't think a lot about it unless you're an awkward side-hugger. Then, I think about it. BCE is younger than I am, and she offered that her friends are big huggers. They hug when they see you and then again when they leave, even if you see each other every day. I hug my friends on occasion, but mostly it's when I haven't seen som...
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Everything will be alright when we go shopping
2008-03-30 23:52:00
Here are some miscellaneous shopping links clogging up my inbox. These are affiliate links, but from time to time I do post other discounts and stuff that aren't that people send me. (Big hint to the Land's End people: the free shipping thing a while back was a big hit) Anyway, for whatever it's worth, maybe you're shopping for graduation gifts (Mah baby! Graduating grade school in a few short weeks!) or getting ahead on a Mother's Day gift, here's some links that might be helpful. Or not. I dunno. Bonus points to anyone who can identify the song in the title. Don't Google it, that's no fun. If anyone enjoys these, I might post stuff like this regularly or make a new page just for discounts. Or, that might be too much work and you may never see them again. Who knows, really? So here ya go:$150 to $200 off select laptops at BestBuy.com. Valid 3/30-4/5. All iPod nano MP3 players on sale at BestBuy.com. Valid 3/30-4/5. Get free ground shipping on all orders over...
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Don't let me go up the river
2008-03-28 17:56:00
Seriously, y'all. I'm going to jail next week if you don't help me. I hate stuff like this. Don't get me wrong, the Muscular Dystrophy Association is a great cause, and I'm happy to help, but I really don't relish the idea of the "police" dragging me out of my office in the middle of the day. Here's my donation page. I have no delusions of getting $1500 (their goal, not mine), but I'd at least like to get to $100. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? A huge, HUGE thanks to you who have donated so far!! non-sequitur non-sequitur non-sequitur non-sequitur Also, don't any of you people need wedding invitations? June is right around the corner, ya know. The good people at Wedding Paper Divas are offering you a 10% discount on your order if you use the Wedding Paper Divas discount code BUSYMOM. What about baby announcements and baby shower invitations? Use the Tiny Prints coupon code BUSYMOMREADER and save 10%. Tiny Prints also has birthday party invitations. Both sit...
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