Queen of Rambles

First, can I just say I hate my new neighbors? There’s music blaring and giggly girls galore. When can we move? We have no moving plans, but if these bastards are going to live next to us that might change. Maybe I need to take Erik to them and leave him for awhile. That would [...]

Just a teeny-tiny little post tonight since I stayed up way past my bed time watching Veronica finally solve the big mystery. Ten isn’t “way past” my bedtime, but I paused TV in middle of Gilmore so I could do Erik’s night routine (it is so, so sad when the Baby Einstein credits roll and [...]

My mouth is having a problem. Or maybe my brain is having a problem. This house is completely devoid of sugar. There is nary a chalky, dried up chocolate chip to be found. There’s not a single granule of regular sugar. There’s nothing! I have been going nuts all day because I NEED something, but [...]

Snow! Whoa! Didn’t see that coming. I guess when my grandma calls to give us our weather report we should listen. She told us we’d be getting snow, but then she also mentioned Chicago, so we blew her off as a geographically-challenged old woman. Now we have three inches and counting. I even skipped latin [...]

It’s that time again–time for the Carrie is an Angsty Mess Time of the Month. Don’t you love it? I don’t. I hate it. Hates it hates it hates it. It started this morning. I got to the gym and quickly realized I was early. I try to avoid the 9-9:30 time slot because there’s [...]

The wind is blowing so hard it woke Erik up. Stupid wind! Don’t you know you’re not supposed to wake my kid up? Don’t you know I stab ice picks through the brains of people who wake up my kid? Come ‘ere, you evil wind. I have some stabbing to do. I decided to not [...]

I just deleted over 9,000 e-mails. I feel kind of panicky. The jitters are dancing in my belly. What if I just deleted something super important? What if I lost the one piece of e-mail that would have changed my life? What if what if what if? I kept getting an error message that I [...]

I have nothing to say tonight. I’m sure I’ll sit here and manage to crank out something, but at the moment I don’t have a single plan in mind. I never did find my time sheet, but for some reason it doesn’t seem so insurmountable tonight. I was a mess yesterday. Maybe it was the [...]

Why is it the most important things that I must have and simply can’t lose are always the things that disappear? I can hang on to receipts for Panera for three years, yet the piece of paper that has all my work hours written on it just disappears into the ether. What am I supposed [...]

We made it home! We finally walked in the door at 3:05 in the morning, thanks to a four inch crust of ice covering our car. Poor Mike. I sent Erik and the car seat with him to long term parking because it is hard to control the little fellow, but we weren’t thinking about [...]