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May 19, 2011

Girls’ Night

Am I the only one who gets Hanna Montana stuck in her head when I see that phrase? “It’s a girls’ night, I’m alright, without you…” Sing it with me now.

*ahem*

Tonight (or last night, by the time you’re reading this), I did something I hadn’t done in a long, long time. I went to dinner with my girlfriends. Seriously I can’t remember the last time I did that! It was nothing fancy – just Max & Erma’s and half of us (including me) had a kid tagging along, but still. It was so nice to just sit around and talking, laughing, gossiping and of course eating with women I enjoy so much.

I felt so refreshed afterwards that I made a pact with myself to do it more often – and what do you know, I’m going to have the chance to do it again this coming Monday! And you’re all invited!

Jenny & I are hosting a One2One member meet up at the Dayton Mall Barnes & Noble this Monday, May 23. The fun starts at 6:15 in the cafe, where we’ll hang out with each other and have a private meet-and-greet with Kaira Rouda, author of Here, Home, Hope. After the meet-and-greet, we’ll listen to Kaira talk about her life and her novel, and then she’ll be doing a book signing.

Written with a bouncy sense of humor, this lighthearted novel delights the reader while delving into serious issues such as eating disorders and addictions, typical problems of middle-class America. Rouda will touch readers who can relate to the frustration of being sidelined on the field of life, never allowed to play and always needed behind the bleachers, until finally experiencing the joy of participation.

I can’t wait to read it!

And I also can’t wait to hang out (and drink coffee and eat cake pops – courtesy of the One2One Network) with Jenny, our friends, and Dayton-area Mommin’ It Up readers!

If you need a girls’ night, please join us at the Dayton Mall Barnes & Noble at 6:15 p.m. on Monday, May 23!

May 18, 2011

Death by Hangnail.

Since I’ve had baby Jonah five months ago (how can he be five months old already?) I’ve had a variety of dumb maladies. My body tends to attack me after I have a baby. So, I had the c-section incision open up, the DeQuervain’s syndrome in my thumb/arm, and some painful “nerve problems” (I don’t know how to explain them, I had them after previous pregnancies also) on top of my left foot, the back of my left knee, an even my right butt cheek.

Yeah.

And now, a new malady, which has nothing to do with having been pregnant but is just one of those DUMB things that happens – I guess.

An infected hangnail. A freaking hangnail! Two weeks or so ago, I picked a hangnail on my right thumb. I’ve picked or clipped about 4 million hangnails in my life and never had one get infected. And I wash my hands about eleventy billion times a day, BUT it should have been eleventy billion and one that day, apparently.

As you may remember, my husband had a little right thumb trouble of his own once upon a time. Which is why I jokingly posted this as my facebook status a few days ago:

Turns out that wasn’t so funny! The infection got so bad the pain was keeping me up at night. THEN my thumbnail started to come off!

So Monday I headed to the doctor in a panic. You know it’s good and infected when the nurse says “Ewww. That looks painful.”

The doc gave me a “high dose” of antibiotics and a pain medicine which turns out to be Vic*din. Who knew you could get Vic*din for a hangnail?

Anyhoo. I’m supposed to soak it in epsom salts and take my antibiotic and keep it wrapped and if that works, then he won’t have to do surgery on it.

Surgery.

It was a HANGNAIL!!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion in this medical melodrama. I just *can’t wait* to see what’s gonna happen.

At least I got some Vic*din.

I guess every infected hangnail has a silver lining.

May 17, 2011

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Want to Read

I have totally gotten out of the swing of reading, and it’s time for me to get back to it! I’ve got a running list of books I want to read (I started the list on evernote but now I’m thinking pinterest might be the best way to keep track. Or maybe, you know, with a pen and paper.)

Here are a few that are on my list – but I want to add more so please leave recommendations in the comments! (and in case you were wondering, no these are not affiliate links, because I am too lazy to do all that on the off chance I might earn 11 cents that I would then have to split with Jenny.)

Also, if these books are crap, don’t blame me – I haven’t read them yet but they look good.

Without further ado…

1. If You Were Here by Jen Lancaster. I love all of Jen Lancaster’s books (as you might remember, Jenny ~~humiliated me~~ and I met her a couple years ago). This one is a novel, though, which confuses me because all the others are memoirs. But I’m sure it will still be hilarious!

2. Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Reg Keeland. I actually started listening to this a year or so ago, but I found that I couldn’t pay enough attention to it while I was out running to understand the plot. I need to give it another shot, though, with a real actual book, because I hear it’s a fantastic trilogy.

3. Bossypants by Tina Fey. Because it’s a book by Tina Fey.

4. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen.

5. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I actually own a couple of the books in this series, but I haven’t gotten around to reading them yet. Everyone I know raves about them, though, so I need to get started on them!

6. Transition by Chaz Bono. Because this stuff fascinates me (and Emilie).

7. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman. Actually it sounds like that book was made for Jenny – it contains her favorite subject!

8. The Love Goddess’ Cooking School.

9. The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes. I love Marian Keyes but I haven’t read this one (at least I don’t think I have!).

10. Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane. Even the title is funny.

So what else ya got for me? What’s on your summer reading list?

(BTW if Sweet Valley Confidential isn’t on your list, it SHOULD BE.)

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