Midwestern Mommy

Happy New Year! Also, hope your 2007 turns out to be a happy, prosperous, healthy and SAFE one!

Thank you fellow bloggers for inviting me (and many of your other readers) into your lives. You’ve inspired, educated, and entertained with your stories and insights. When you’ve posted good news, I do a happy dance for you. (Really! As in get out of a chair and do a little dance!) When you post about the crappy stuff, my heart breaks for you. And I think about you all day. Either way, I want to hug you all! And thanks for taking a few minutes to read my tripe.

I got a comment recently on this story from an anon poster who called him/her self “Highland”. Highland? I have a few things to say to you… You ROCK! I’m dying to know who you are. And THANK YOU! It is comforting — even after all of these years — to know that someone else, who didn’t know what was going on behind the scenes at the time, could still see what arrogant jerks these two were. It was a difficult job to leave. I LOVED being a reporter. I LOVED working with the wonderful residents of the city as well as the people who worked at that newspaper. I miss them and wish them all the best.

I would love to know what “Dick” and “Adam” are doing now. (I would like to think they have matured personally and professionally but I highly doubt it.) So if you know, please drop me a line at motherofbun@yahoo.com. If you don’t, that’s ok too.

December has been a rough month for this Midwestern Mama thus far. There have been a multitude of migraines, nasty colds and now some stomach thing. Methinks its food poisoning cause it feels alot like the “souvenier” I brought home from Mexico. Only worse.

There were several points over a certain night where I was curled up in a ball on the bathroom floor (later on, in the hallway floor and still later, my bedroom floor) motionless, feeling big drops of sweat fall off the tip of my nose. Good times people! (No, not really.) But I did lose two pounds. Course it could have been because my body decided to (violently) oust everything that was in it and I didn’t eat for almost 2 days. (Almost. Try 46 hours.)

This unholy experience took place Thursday night-Saturday. And I STILL feel kinda crappy, tired and crampy.

The whole point of that is: sorry for lack of updates and lack of posted comments on your sites.

There was a point where I had been reading your posts but Blogger hates me as violently as my digestive system has. And won’t let me post comments on beta blogs. So I did some anon posting. (I don’t leave trollish comments. Ever. So if you got some of those, that ain’t me.)

Anyway…

I gots some questions for ya’ll. (Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section.) I’d love to hear your opinions on this:

1.)What were the best and worst shows of 2006?

2.) What public figure was the biggest trainwreck of 2006 and why? (Public figures are anyone in the public eye — celebs, politicians, evangelists, reporters, athletes, etc.)

3.) Who is the most improved public figure? Why?

4.) Who is the most overrated public figure?

5.) What (in your opinion) was the biggest scandal of 2006?

With all of the not feeling good lately, I’m very far behind on a number of things. So I probably won’t post again until after Christmas. But I hope you all have a happy, healthy, safe holiday!

May your drinks be strong.
May your hangovers be weak.
May your family get along.
May you find the peace (or piece, heehee) you seek.
May the food be great
And the nap too.
May next year be kind to you
the whole way through…

Slackermommy is one of my new bloggity-blog buds. If you don’t know about her, you should check her out. She found the BEST link…

Have you ever needed a way to answer that pesky question, “Where do babies come from?” Here’s a little something some Germans created to, uh, explain. It is hysterical! Click on the cartoon images to “turn the pages.”

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/babies/2.htm

Oh and also, reading about the good deeds and generous endeavors many of you do was alot of fun. Ya’ll are pretty wonderful. So consider this your virtual “attaboy.” Your mammas would be so very very proud!

Awhile back Rude Cactus hit on a fabulous idea. If I remember correctly, he got a note from someone who called him a “role model”. He realized the power a positive word has over a person’s spirits. And when you combine actions with the words, he said, you have “a truly mighty duo.”

He’s right. He challenged his readers to do good, then report back. And being that you all are sexy, sophisticated, talented, intelligent, charming, compassionate people, I KNOW ya’ll do many a good deed on a daily basis. So what I’d love to hear from you is this: what is the nicest thing you’ve ever done for someone? Or, what good deeds have you done lately that have given you a special “rush”?

Hope your weekend is a happy, healthy and safe one!

Remember how our son has, in the past, used his “superpowers” for ill? If you have no idea what I’m talkin’ about you can read about it here and here. Or I’ll just give you the condensed version….

This past summer the boy got into a rather inconvenient (for his parents) habit where he’d awake from his peaceful slumber JUST as the hubby and I were “gettin’ busy.” After this happened a few times, we were a mite freaked — and not in that “oh la la”, fun way. More so in the “that child MUST have some sort of only-child sonar system” way. (Department of Family Services… If you are reading this? He had NO CLUE he was interrupting “something”. He’d shuffle to our bedroom all bleary-eyed and out of it. In the morn, he’d no recollection of coming into our room.)

A logical course of action would be to lock the bedroom door, yes? But lo, there were two problems — the lock was broken and the door didn’t properly close. If the dog wanted to lounge on our bed all day, all she had to do was nudge the door with her nose. Viola! Instant access to a queen-sized doggie bed. And while we’d complain about all of the dog hair in the bed and having to wash the sheets ALOT, we didn’t really have much motivation to up and fix the door. That is until “the unwelcomed visits.” But I knew the hubs was busy with work stuff, so I backed off on the nagging.

So imagine my surprise today when I witnessed the dog sitting outside the master bedroom, longingly staring at the door. That’s when I realized that MY HUBBY FIXED THE DOOR! Not only does it completely close now but IT LOCKS TOO! So after admiring his handiwork (apparently it is jerry-rigged), I did a little happy dance then lavished words of praise upon him. He then informed me the door and lock have been fixed for quite some time. Um. Oops.

But now that I do know? He’s gonna get some freaky lovin’ once he gets back from his business trip. And yes, in that “oh la la” fun way.