Things!
April 10, 2007
1) Hey! Localites! Next year you MUST attend the Share Our Strength/Taste of the Nation event. Was a great party. Great! So great that now, many many hours later, the only word I can think of to describe it is...great. Well, that and...fuzzy. Wine-soaked. Creamy polenta served with braised shortribs and some kind of mystery fried foodstuff on a stick that I kept seeing people with but was never able to locate, which pissed me off because one of my guiding culinary principles is FOOD + FRIED + STICKS = AWESOME.
2) Also awesome was the fact that Jason and I were invited as (bwah ha haaaa) press, which meant we were tagged with the Yellow Wristbands Of I'm So Blogging This. Didn't stop one cute little old guy from scolding me about my hair ("You have gorgeous blonde hair and look what you did to it! Why? Whyyy?"). But after I explained the whole Pink for the Cure thing, he graciously asked for my site address so he could donate. Which is when I realized I had no business cards or even a damn pen. MOST. AWESOMEST. NETWORKER. EVER.
3) Also most awesome: mah shoes.
Yeah, I was totally bleeding into the ankle strap by the end of the night, but they were worth it.
4) Hey! Look!
This was a total shock, actually, and I actually froze the first time I saw the logo projected on the massive screens around the event and just stood there pointing, all "eh eh eh hey!" Jason donates all his ad proceeds to different hunger-related charities every month -- and apparently his small check was enough to get him classified as a local sponsor.
That makes me kind of...sad, actually. It's really humbling to think about how much money we spend on food every month and how far the cost of just one meal out could go towards helping hungry children in our very own city.
*hangs head in shame, mumbles something about the getting the shoes on sale at least*
5) SPEAKING OF CHILDREN, here's a lesson for everyone: if you are going to have a conversation about how your child has never even attempted to climb out of his crib yet, about how it has never even occurred to him that it's an option, don't be all shocked when THE VERY NEXT MORNING you wake up to hear a terrific thumping sound, followed immediately by the wails of your baby who just fell ass-over-teakettle over the crib rail.
(Edited to add Thing #6: Mamapop. Argh. ARGH! Our server went boom. Or almost went boom, and then our host went GAR! SMASH! and yanked the site down and won't put it back up, or something like that. I couldn't really follow the whole story because my head exploded HOURS AGO. Basically: we're too sexy for our hosting provider. Also too popular. And way too obsessed with liveblogging Anna Nicole Smith babydaddy news. So the site will be moving to a shiny new server this week, and I could not love my safe little world of Typepad more at this point, because they never make me deal with scary things like server load times and CPU storage and blah blah talkyspeak blah.)
Hi there! Long-time reader, first time poster here. I really dread the crib thing...our baby boy is 4.5 months, and isn't even IN a crib yet (he sleeps in his swing in our room, or in our bed). Amy, I am local as well (NW) and was thinking about the Taste of the Nation thing, but we are both vegetarian. Did they have enough veggie stuff so that we could count that as dinner? If so, we will def. go next time. Oh, and we both wanted a girl, too, but I couldn't imagine having a girl now. Our little Liam is the best. :)
Great shoes!! Please tell me what brand they are and where I can find them!!
Thanks!
Would insert cute or clever comment here but cannot as I am drooling over shoes instead...
I so miss the crib... waaaah!
Taste of the Nation sounds delightful! I didn't realize both of you guys had an online presence... you need business cards!! Yes! Someone out there will print them for you, for free... just wait and see.
Ok, please, please share where you got those awesome shoes!
Living in this area, you probably already realize this, but if you really love Food on Sticks, get to the Maryland Renaissance Festival in the fall. Cheesecake - on a stick! Stake - on a stick! Fried mac and cheese - on a stick! The insanity never stops!
Oooh, I love you shoes! They're so cute!
So, I am forced to cut back on blogging for a week because of some mysterious heart trouble and then I go to catch up on MamaPop and IT'S NOT THERE and I almost have heart failure again.
NOT GOOD PEOPLE. NOT GOOD.
But am happy that it's just system failure and not that, like, you and Tracy were kidnapped by aliens or evangelicals or anything like that.
Phew.
Fabulous Shoes!!!
and in a good friend, not at all stalker-ish way... great legs babe!
Please tell us where the shoes are from and also poor Noah. ;0)
Good God I thought I was banned from MamaPop yesterday. I started thinking about comments I had made and figured I had o-ffended someone somewhere along the line. Thank God it just blew up instead. Well, okay ... I'm not happy it blew up, I'm just happy it wasn't me.
Groovy shoes. Where might I buy a pair?
Shoes are Nicole Miller -- I got them (along with...uh...a shitload more) at the DSW in Bethesda.
Thanks for all your kind words re: MamaPop. It really sucks, but we're working to get it back online really, really soon. I miss talking with all my slave-to-the-TiVo betches.
I love SOS/Taste of the Nation and have promo'ed them heavily before because ALL the monies go to their cause, none of this "...after we kept 100k for 'costs'..." etc.
Poor big guy Noah. It is pretty cute, though, when they learn how to climb out without *falling* out and trot into the next room to find you.
Those? Are fantastic shoes, and worth every drop of blood and blistery goodness!
FOOD + FRIED + STICKS = AWESOME
YES! Especially if it's fried cheese on a stick. Just like a corn dog, only HOLD THE WEINER, PLEASE.
hey guys! I just wanted to let everyone know about the Trader Joe's recall...the pear sauce. A local girl (cape cod, ma) was found with a chard of glass in her mouth...she's okay but got it from the pear sauce that she was eating.
And I forgot to say that I seriously love corndogs. And all other things that come fried on sticks.
Those shoes = fucking HAWT. Where do I sign me up for some bleeding ankles?
To the folks who've left comments along the lines of 'It'll only happen once, don't move him to a bed' - do you even have kids? Can you even fathom the guilt that a mother would have when her toddler fell out of the crib a second time? What if the kid breaks his neck on that second fall - paralyzed for life?
Sure, the transition to a toddler bed is stressful initially, especially when the child isn't even a year and a half old yet, but it's do-able and a much safer alternative to 'hoping he learned his lesson on the first fall'.
Yeah...but the thing is Noah is not ready for a toddler bed. He's just not. Our pede doesn't think so either. (He thinks kids shouldn't be out of cribs until three years old or so.)
We moved his crib aquarium thing to a higher rail (I think he climbed on top of it to get out) and are going to get a tent thingie this weekend. So far, Noah has shown zero interest in trying to climb out again. I dunno, I could be wrong (it's happened before, haaa), but this just doesn't strike me as something that's worth getting super worked up over. He fell onto carpet and didn't even get a bruise. He cried for a couple minutes and then demanded his breakfast.
After the basement steps debacle? A four-foot fall out of the crib is like...pfft. Nothing.
ALSO! The reason I meant to comment! Was! That! Mamapop is back! American Idol open thread! Come on dowwwwn!
He'll get the hang of scrambling down from that crib in no time at all. The child is a genius, have we not established that?
We put both our kids on futons and called it a day. They were the only 2 & 4 year olds I knew with queen-size beds. Now they're the only 5 & 7 year olds I know with queen-size beds.
Signed,
Tall Girl Who Slept in Her Tiny Twin-Size Bed Til She Was 16
Those are awesome shoes. I want them, bleedy ankles or no.
One of my dear blog friends, who will remain nameless, was at the same event and saw you, but was too star struck to go over and say hi to you. I could have slapped her.
Your shoes and the sponsor credit are both teh awesome. Lucky girl!
Those shoes are AWESOME! And you are pretty tall, so I am impressed you wear those.
Or, maybe you were wearing something similar when I met you last year, so that made you tall?
But Jason is tall so all is right in the world. They are awesome!
Well, I'm definitely not going to tell you how to raise your child, but I chose to move my son to a toddler bed at 16 months after he showed me he could climb out - twice. I totally toddler-proofed his room and now when he wakes up in the mornings, he plays with his toys instead of screaming to be let out of his crib of confinement. I get to sleep until 8am - sometimes later. We totally love the toddler bed!
My God I love those shoes.
Oh. My. God.
Must go to DSW THIS WEEKEND!!
Have to have those SHOES !