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It’s almost here! Check back tonight and then tell me what you think of the new website! You can be my personal debuggers.
Until then, here are some Dalai highlights from the past week:
* Swear Jar is up to $23
* I made the most amazing raw brussel sprout and kale salad that you are going to die over – I’ll post after Spring Break!
* Dalai T asked how a baby comes out of the tummy and I told him “doctors cut them out.” I’m not proud of myself.
* Dalai Dan went shopping Sunday: Captain Crunch, Oreos, Pringles, Fruity Snacks, Trix Yogurt, and Lunchables. It’s no wonder they prefer him.
* I just bought the exact pair of white jeans with ankle zippers that I owned in 8th grade.
* I just started reading The Passion Test and I’m loving it!
* I somehow got roped into doing a karaoke dance performance for charity that requires me to memorize 87 moves, including the clock, the jerk and jazz squares.
* My legs saw their first sunlight in 6 months yesterday…until my daughter had to ask me why “marks” (aka veins) all over them.
* In 4 days we leave for Disney World! Kids are out of their minds with excitement. I am frightened to put on a bathing suit…with my marks and all…
Ok so $23 bucks… that’s nothin… Tell little A that big A and Lael asked me why my whole butt check couldnt fit into the bottom part of my swimsuit… love the questions kids ask or say. and of course the kids like Dan and Gary better they have no grocery store barometer… it’s a free for all just like when they are kids and they are always being told no. this is there secret freedom for all the no’s that have been told to them… gary comes home with chips ahoy hagen daaz and cocoa puffs… sweet mother and they wonder why my ass can’t fit into the bottom half of my suit…
Oh no she didn’t say that! Bad girl! I think your a$$ is perfect and that showing a little crack now and then is just part of life. Tell her that is what her butt will look like in 30 years…
So glad I dodged that question from T. With my recent pregnancy and while nursing I have been getting all sorts of questions from a variety of kids – go ask your father! Don’t worry about a few marks I can personally attest that your new white jeans look just as fab as your guess version circa 1986!
I just can’t believe he didn’t push me more! I was sure a 10 year old would be a little suspicious about that. Maybe telling him the truth would sound even fishier…
I cannot wait! 87 moves – are you crazy??? I am lucky if I can do all the moves in an hour cardio class at the gym and at least some of it is repetition. I love the shopping items – ha! Enjoy Disney World – find your inner child and act like a kid again:) I will have to check out the Passion Test – looks like a good one. Have a Great Day!
I am a Disney FREAK. May end up with a tattoo of Mickey one of these days. Oh, and I’ll tell you more about The Passion Test when I’m done!!! xo
Your Dalai T question reminds me of the scene from About Last Night:
Child: What’s a virgin?
Teacher (Elizabeth Perkins): A virgin is someone who’s never had sex
Child: What’s sex?
Teacher: Sex is how you make babies
Child: Are you a virgin?
Teacher (pause with smirk): No…
Child: So you have a baby?
Teacher: No…people without babies can still have sex
Child: What for?
Teacher: For about 15 minutes
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Excited for your Disney adventure and all the rest iof it.
Karaoke Dance Show sounds delicious! If you need help – just know – I can’t remember to pick up my dry cleaning, but ask me anything about movies and I’ll not only quote lines, but will sing the soundtracks with anabashed flair. It’s a gift, and a curse to anyone in ear shot.
Why don’t you live in Kansas City? I would make you take my place. My idea of a dance move is the grapevine from my 90s step classes. I think they coerced me into this purely for their entertainment. Who the hell does a jazz square anymore?
Between my fab ankle zipper pants and your hilarious About Last Night reference, I feel like a kid again 🙂 Thanks for making me laugh!
Russell will be in Disney World as well! I’ll tell him to keep an eye out for the lil’ D. I’m taking myself to SF. Can’t wait!
Is the new site going to be this or do we go somewhere else ?
I am reading the Passion Test too! Did I get the idea from you, subliminally or otherwise? (poet, know it, etc.) I’m trying hard to buy into it.
Also, the kale and Brussels sprout salad: From epicurious, right? My mom sent me a link to it last week. FREAKY. We are harmonizing.
I did the “cut out of the tummy thing” for much longer than I should have. Get the book It’s So Amazing. Perfect for someone (i.e. me) who is terrified of the sex talk. Wish I would have used it with my 10 year old about 4 years ago.
Can’t wait for the new blog design. Go Lina!
I don’t think you got it from me…weird. And the kale/brussel sprout salad recipe is TOTALLY the same one. We are cosmically linked, girl.
I’m ON that book suggestion. Can I just make them read it and tell them to talk to their dad???
Oh, and this comment may never make it to the blog. Noticed things aren’t going over from old one anymore 😦 Hope you get this from me, though!!! xo Lina