Mrs. FlingerMrs. FlingerKnocked up mother of an active toddler wishing for a glass of wine ...or ten 
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Probably the best working-at-home advice ever
2008-01-08 19:57:00 The Best Workin g At Home advice on the ‘Net More About: Advice
2008 Bloggies
2008-01-08 18:49:00 I’m finally able to nominate some people for awards this year. If you don’t already read these women, please start doing so now. ‘k? The 2008 Bloggies are open. Nominated thus far: Anne (photography) Alphababy (best photography) OMSH (photography) Leah (best writing) Heather (best writing) Elaine (best writing) Seattle Mom Blogs (best group blog) Mama Drama (best group blog) The Soccer Mom Vote (best group blog) Supermama (best kept secret) Jennifer (Best Kept Secret) Jamie (best kept secret) Oh The Joys (most humorous) Karen (most humorous) Y (most humorous) Fussy (best new blog) Rmarama (best new blog) Kerflop (best design) Sam (best web design). (I would’ve done more but I really have to pee!) And now I blame all of you for not getting back to my clients during nap. I’ll be sending them your direction. Go, run forth and do likewise.
The day she seemed thirteen
2008-01-08 01:15:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. Today I heard something I thought I longed to hear. “Go away, Mommy. I wanna play alone.” It wasn’t as great as I’d hoped. More About: Thirteen
Excuses or reasons. I say both.
2008-01-07 17:24:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. Well, I guess it’s time to let you in on a few things going on around here. First, I’ve been hired over at swank web style. I’ve been working with Karen, doing coding, and will begin taking full design jobs again soon. It’s been fantastic thinking about something aside from teething, bottles, and entertaining my three year old (read: I type one handed while entertaining a three year old, feeding an infant and calling the pediatrician because why is my child getting fangs and where are his two top teeth? but this is nothing unusual to a working at home mom...) You know those nerds that always say the obvious? Humor is, in my opinion, best when unexpected so stating the obvious is never a party-knee-slapper. So why did I feel the need to start a website based on the obvious? Why did I need to start a web site dedication to not being on the Internet? I. Don’t. Know. Because I wanted pretty colors? Much to the M... More About: Reasons , Excuses
Welcome 2008
2008-01-03 03:56:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. I hope your Holiday was wonderful. There are so many stories I have for you and announcements about the New Year. Changes. Plans. News. But today I’ll just tell you how we brought in 2008 : The year destined to be ours. We’ve planned some wonderful goals for the year, goals that everyone else makes like getting fit and finding ourselves again. But this resolution was made on the eve of 2006, one year ago, when we sat on our couch in our new condo in our new city. We talked, a year ago, about how 2008 would be the first year we won’t be moving, pregnant, having a child, changing jobs, or moving again since our marriage. This year is destined to be ours. We planned on retiring early, even going so far as turning off the lights and crawling in bed. We talked a bit, read our books and heard the baby at a quarter to the New Year. I took the shift, feeding and snuggling our youngest born until I heard the pop*pop of firecrackers. Mr. Fli...
Merry Christmas, Everyone
2007-12-25 00:59:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. I’ll be back after the first of the year. Much love to you all! I hope Santa is good to you, but I hope your family is better. Muwha! XOXOXO More About: Christmas , Merry Christmas , Merry
Wordless Wednesday
2007-12-20 15:44:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. Because one day I might find time to write words, today, you get this. And also because I, apparently, don’t know what day it is… (It’s not Wednesday ?!) More People Who Don’t Know What Day It Is here.
Call me, baby
2007-12-18 23:48:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. We have a new feature on Mamaspod. We’re trying out some software that allows people to call in with feedback/ideas/reviews/rants, whatever. If you’d like to promote your blog, give a holiday shout-out to someone, make hot-sexy breathing noises in to the phone or just call to let your kids sing jingle-bells, we’d like to hear it. I’m working on the last podcast for the year on Mamaspod. It’s been fun working with these gals and a wonderful treat to share with The Internet. Please give us some fun clips to include as our last hurrah, wouldya? (When you click the call me button, your phone rings and you can leave a message. It’s not long distance. It’s free. And look! You’ll be famous heard by thousands some people! You know you wanna. Next up on Mrs. Flinger: How to annoy your readers by talking about the same thing overandoverandover. Then! The post you’ve all been waiting for: Traffic fo... More About: Baby , Call
Married …. With Children
2007-12-17 15:49:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. I remember my dad laughing out loud, heartily, at the show “Married With Children .” I remember thinking it wasn’t that funny. It was OK funny. It was “eh”. But laughing out loud? Not so much. I think I get it more now. The two kids. The money. The sleep deprivation. The lack of a sex life. The “you better praise your lucky stars I shaved my legs today.” The job. The mortgage. Did I already mention the kids? The kids. ... Again ... We had a long talk last night about our life. It’s hard. It’s not what we thought. It’s more all-consuming having these children. And that’s just from his perspective. I know you know (but hey! Just in case you’re new here) I was the one who struggled with Postpartum last time around. I’m doing much better this time. In fact, I am almost embracing the whole mom gig. It’s not easy, sure. It’s not always fun, right. It’s ann...
boobie mail
2007-12-13 02:39:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. Internet? I just sent my first boobie mail. I’m giggling like a naughty school girl. I’m peering around the corner like I’m going to get caught. I’m glancing over my shoulder to see if anyone noticed. Then? I log on and tell the Internet about it. Because that’s what I do. See, I’m giddy because both kids? Right now? Are asleep in one room. THEIR room. The KID ROOM. Do you know what this means to me? Do you know how many months I’ve been waiting for this? Except for the one exception: It’s a little like my preemie going off to college. Sleeping alone. In his own room. Across the hall. My god. He’s growing up so fast. On the other hand, when I described our sleeping situation to some friends last night I realized, about two minutes in to the conversation, it’s shitty. Just. Plain. Shitty. Mr. Flinger and I have been trading who gets the love seat each night while the other blissfully rests ... More About: Mail
There’s a first time for everything
2007-12-12 23:03:00 (This post belongs to the new, and currently being upgraded, links blog!) For the first time in my life, I’m totally hip. WOOOOT! (Thanks to Michelle for the link.) More About: Time , First Time
Jesus Claus
2007-12-10 23:53:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. I once asked Mr. Flinger what the difference between Jesus and Santa was. He answered, almost immediately, “Weight.” That’s it. Later we got to talking about the similarities. Real person? Check! Alive only in people’s hearts? Check! Hotly debated? Check! Giver of gifts? Check! I mean, sure, the fantasy surrounding Santa Claus goes a wee bit further than the stories around Jesus. I mean, it’s crazy, right? Bearded man living in the North Pole who has reindeer fly him around to drop of presents to every kid’s house? And as grown ups, we’re pretty willing to keep that story going. But then? I wonder. If we’re perfectly willing to lie to our children about this one tiny thing, this one tiny thing plus the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy and the Binki Fairy and the Eat-Your-Peas-Or-The-Monster-Will-Get-You (no? Just us then?) what’s to keep them from growing up and questioning the whole Jesus gi...
Flood Washington With Relief
2007-12-10 08:05:00 Amazing. Truly. We can help. More About: Washington , Relief , Flood
A new series on Mrs. Flinger: Boosting your Reader’s Traffic
2007-12-10 02:28:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. You know how I’ve been all I dunno if I want to keep blogging and all The Internet seems like a horrifically selfish place now and I just don’t have TIME, people? You know how it’s kind of like your friend in Jr. High who always says she’s fat and you always say, “No, no you’re not” and you know how annoying that is? Like shutthefuckupalreadyaboutthenotblogging. Because? I’m blogging about not blogging? I even annoy myself sometimes. Trust me. So I thought it might help to let you in on part of why I came to a head with my blog crisis: A) Apparently I am a blog failure. According to several articles, I break at least ten very important blog rules. Namely, I don’t always answer comments (I’m so so sorry, Internet. I love y’all. I love your feedback. But damn if I don’t have some sort of shit to clean up ... I mean this literally… every time I want to reply. It’s not... More About: Traffic , Series
Because I can trust you with a secret, Internet
2007-12-09 02:58:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. I am wearing a girdle for the first time since child #2. It is not pretty. The mass that used to constitute my ab muscles is now squished to the top of a size-that-fit-prior-to-growing-the-larges t-belly-known-to-pregnancy “slimming” girdle. This means one of two things is bound to occur at the office party we are attending tonight for Mr. Flinger’s work: a) someone will ask when I’m due and b) I will get very crampy gas about the time his boss makes his way over to our table and let a teeny tiny SBD slip out. And blame his boss for it. Remember what happened on our last date? I’m sure this will top it. Let’s take bets, shall we? Who’s in? More About: Internet , Secret , Trust
Weighing In
2007-10-22 05:38:00 This is the final countdown (crams pretzel and icing in face).... More About: Weigh
We Interupt this fun PPD discussion to talk about my vajayjay
2007-10-20 01:10:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. After an impromptu doctor’s appointment wherein I got “the speculum action” (the most action I’ve seen, by the way, in some time) I was on my way home when I called my husband and found out some interesting bits of information. And by interesting, I mean annoying as all hellfire. It prompted the following promotion for mamaspod and the first podcast wherein I discuss my hayhay. Something tells me it won’t be the last. Not that I’m bitter. Or in need of an IUD. Or IB profin. Or vodka. No, why do you ask? More About: Talk , Discussion
Part 2: Combating/Preventing PPD
2007-10-19 06:13:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. The second, and to me the most helpful, tip my shrink (yes, yes, I have one, get over it already) is to exercise. Uh. WHAT? Exer-hu? I know. You’re not sleeping. You’re tired. You’re fat. (You feel fat, lemme rephrase this, you ARE NOT FAT. You just had a baby and your body is yelling at you to be nice, damnit!) And now you’re expected to go workout. Right? Right. The thing is, working out is more than just a thing to get in the way of washing bottles/nursing/laundry/being asleep. It’s an energizer. It actually changes your brain chemistry. It helps you get your body back and it develops your muscles to handle the schlepping around of that baby of yours. It strengthens your back to carry your new, heavier, bobs. And it can can give you a high you’d need a drug to get otherwise. So why not join our weighloss wars fitness challenge? You can start Monday, October 22nd, in a pool of women willing to pay ten b... More About: Part , Comb , Eventing
Pumpkins without all the bleeding: Pumking Painting!
2007-10-17 23:07:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. Remember when we had lead painted cribs? Remember when we all went to school breathing Asbestos? Remember back when your parents gave you a carving knife to hack up your pumpkin when you were four year old? Those were the days… Now, though, we prefer to keep our children’s fingers in tact and prevent the ER trip. So why not give your child a brush instead of a knife and paint instead of a file? We had a pumpkin painting party here and LB and her friends worked quietly, very intently for about thirty minutes. And if you have a preschooler, you know, thirty minutes is a very very long time. If you try it out, give us some links to your photos! I’d love to post some other pictures of people participating and link to you! More About: Painting , Pumpkins , Pump
Start Emailing in your Daily Needs
2007-10-17 07:24:00 Come on over! You know the deal. Not a secret, blahblahblah, just making a members area for fitness posts. Join if you wanna! The more the merrier. The fitness contest starts on Monday, October 22. Come early MONEY. Like. MONEY. More About: Daily , Start , Needs
Part 1: Combating/Preventing PPD
2007-10-15 05:00:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. For some time now I wanted to do a series about preventing/combating Postpartum Depression. I have a shrink, (gasp, what? You DON’T?! Don’t you know everyone has a shrink? How uncool of you..) that I saw before I even had Baby O. After my last experience, I thought I better have someone in my pocket in case I decided to lock myself in the bathroom and cry for a few hours a day. If you know me, that’s not anything near my normal self and not someplace I needed to visit again. My (tres hip) shrink had some good things to say. In fact, she gave me five things to work on to help me through the first year of postpartum shifts, otherwise known as hell. These five things have helped immensly and even helped me not need to speak to her. I think she may re-think giving out such good advice since I no longer require her services. In the course of the next five(ish) posts, I’d like to share with you the five key areas to focus on when ad... More About: Part , Comb , Eventing
Sign up so we can get skinny, plizzle
2007-10-14 04:43:00 Login. Challenge is starting this week. Please sign up so we can get all skizzle. Plizzle. (I promise not to talk P-Daddy the entire Chizzle) More About: Skinny , Sign
We’re live, and I’m going to bed
2007-10-13 09:17:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. This is it. This is The Thing that I’ve been doing. This is why my children can resite the entire Sesame Street Theme (even Baby O pretty much has this down) and why you don’t hear from me on your websites. THIS is the thing you can either curse or love. I’ve done both. Michelle and I officially launched Mamas Pod(cast) . Com” tonight. We had the drunken privilege of letting these women know about it first in Real Life tonight. (More on this wonderful group of people later including some HUGE bloggers you already read. And also how I was called an alcoholic in front of the entire room of women within minutes and broke a glass after a couple of drinks hours. Yes. It’s true. It’s all true.) Please, won’t you, be a kitten and go visit us over here? We’re afraid we’ll be standing at our open house party with a full bag of chips and dip and nobody to share it with. So come on over, kick back, take off... More About: Live , Going , Goin
Haiku “I have a blog”?
2007-10-12 18:20:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. It’s time for HAI HAI HAIKU KU KU FRI FRI DAY DAY DAY Where the hell are you Ask all ten people who read I am here barely Two kids and a job An announcement to come soon After a long day More About: Haiku
How to make a book come to life
2007-10-10 18:07:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. Today’s activity comes to you from my daughter’s book collection. We were reading Alice the Fairy and decided it would be fun to make fairy crowns and wands. We sat down together and colored some paper (pink, for LB) and I helped her cut out a crown. We sized it for head and she put it on. Then we found a stir stick for coffee and some tape. We colored some paper and I helped her cut out a star. We taped the star to the stick and she held up her new wand. She wore the set for two days and turned everything in sight in to various animals. Materials: A book (Alice the Fairy). Construction Paper. Stick. Tape. Colors. Some variations: Green Eggs and Ham: Try adding food coloring to scrambled eggs and eat them in a cardboard box! Other suggestions are welcome! More About: Life , Book , Make
Why am I like this?
2007-10-06 23:38:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. Just now, as in just now, I came to the community center to do some work. I walked in holding my White Chocolate Americano (Grande, three pumps) and my computer bag. I have high hopes of being productive today. There is a limited number of plug-in outlets and only about five tables to accompany them. They’re all full. So I find a guy sitting at the last table with a free seat across from him and one last free plug available. “Do you mind if I sit here with you?” “No, go right ahead.” (I notice we have the same computer. He is officially cool. I tell him so.) “I have a powerbook, too, so I won’t mess up your computer mojo.” (awkward and standard apple nerd joke) “Ha. Oh, well, either way it doesn’t matter to me.” “Oh, comeon now...” I attempt to sit in the chair, you know, all sly like? Like I’ve done it a MILLION times before in my life? You know, SIT IN A CH...
This is what happens when you stop blogging about weightloss
2007-10-05 23:40:00 Come on ovah! You know the drill… Login Here. (New Members always welcome. A challenge will be starting shortly!) More About: Blogging , Stop , Weigh
Goals Are Good
More articles from this author:2007-10-05 22:53:00 © Mrs. Flinger 2007. Today’s goal: Make ToDo list. Tomorrow’s goal: Check Off ToDo list. Not on the list: Whatever-the-hell-I’m-doing-now (This extremely short post brought to you by my daughter, who does not nap, and my son, who is teething.) More About: Goals , Good 1, 2, 3 |
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