Still Alive
August 24, 2007
Child is wandering around in a droopy diaper and oh look, a box of playing cards, how fun will that be to clean up, but yes. We are still alive.
Jason may or may not come back tonight, thanks to the crazy weather in Chicago.
*sticks fingers in ears, lalalalalalalaaaaaa*
We're actually supposed to go to New York tomorrow and see a show. A very expensive show that we can't really afford, but that's what happens when you stumble across Rent on HBO right during Seasons of Love and decide that your life will not be complete until you see the show on Broadway, possibly forgetting THAT YOU ALREADY SAW IT ON BROADWAY. Your life will not be complete until you see it AGAIN, is my point, and anyway, it was very late and seemed like a good idea at the time. Right now it's not looking good, unless I go by myself. Which we all know is probably a bad idea, what with the trains and the likelihood of me getting on the wrong train and ending up in say, CHICAGO.
But again, we are still alive. I actually do kind of enjoy having the place to myself sometimes. I can dance around the living room with my iPod and a hairbrush, I can eat gigantic bowls of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese for dinner and I can watch all the girly movies I want.
Oh! The irony!
So yeah, we're keeping ourselves pretty entertained over here.
Happy!
Boo-hoo!
Surprise! (We're still working on this one. He's got the Macaulay Culkin face-slap down pretty well, though.)
Pffft!
Roar! Outside voice! Show Mama your tonsils!
I'm FIRST I'm FIRST!!!!!!! I LOVE BEING FIRST!!! (said in my best Dora and Boots voice).
The adorable is palpable. :)
Yeah, I know what you mean about the good/bad of being "home alone" without Papa. You can do whatever you want but you still miss hima nd regular life.
Adorable pictures.
Oh my holy hell! So cute!
So, now for my comment...
I say GO TO THE SHOW and TAKE THE TRAINS... maybe you'll end up here (KC), and you can finally move to my town and be my best friend, like you keep promising. You know you wanna. "I'M IN YUR TOWN, BEST FRENDING YOU." I swear, I'm only as weird and wacky as you are. Well, somedays are wackier than others... but I LOVE Pinot Grigio, chick flicks, taking the tops off champagne bottles with a sword, and Noah and B can get married, and our hubbies can hang out and do all that male bondage -- er, bonding stuff. Just sayin'.
Oh, and Noah's curls make me want to swoon! SWOOOOON!
Ok. So your child is georgeous and if you need a babysitter in the NYC area while you watch Mimi and Roger, I'm totally available. In a strictly non-creepy, I swear I really DO have a life kind of way. Really. Cross my heart. I swear.
Uh, where are you going?
What a lovely kick start to the day! Simply adorable and definitely got a laugh out of me =)
Just wanted to say that Noah is the cutest thing out there with his curls and I saw Rent last week and it was fabulous!! You've got Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp from the Original show and the movie back in it and they're amazing....
oh my gah, the curls. The adorable, adorable curls.
I just got a Canon EOS 30D but all of my pictures have come out blurry. Are you doing anything special to the settings?
HOLY CUTENESS BATMAN!
Glad you guys are still alive.
I love the pictures!
OMG...love Noah. He is too cute.
Chicago is where I call home. Traffic sucks, weather sucks, storms suck...no power, can't drive in some places because of flooding or trees down, streetlights out during rush hour last night tripling everyone's commute times...hope Jason makes it home safely and on time!
I always love seeing Noah, but seeing you both together is excellent. And the faces? You guys are too cute!
You don't have to go alone, I'll go see Rent with you. I'm in New Jersey. I'll meet you in Newark!
I've found the best cure for the stir-crazies that set in after being cooped up in the house all day is, drum roll, please, a walk. Outside. Stroller is good, baby backpack is better, if my back can handle it.
Oh, the cuteness! the expressiveness! and the stripey turtleness!
Love the cute baby. Love the cute mommy.
Last time my husband was out of town for a few days, I spent every night watching Gilmore Girls clips on YouTube and eating ice cream for dinner. It is very fortunate that he doesn't leave very often because I would seriously be so fat and would also live in hovel. And have little money because he makes twice as much as I do.
I love Noah's hair. Love it love it love it.
He's ready for Hollywood!!
We need pictures of The Tire making faces.
ack! the cuteness! you two are adorable!
Oh my god, those pictures are adorable!!!
Yay for Steel Magnolias!
BUT! It is Rent on Broadway with ADAM PASCAL & ANTHONY RAPP! You can't miss that! CAN'T! I am so jealous!
I mean if you really want someone to go with you, then you only have to ask once.
Then again, we couldn't sing out loud because that would be weird, but I'd go.
(BRING ME!)
you will NOT regret seeing Rent for a second time! I just saw it this weekend (a very expensive weekend it was) and it was friggin awesome, o.m.g. The original broadway cast (and movie cast!) roger and mark are back for a limited run.... and tamyra gray from american idol is mimi. they kick some musical theater ass!
Hey look! Noah's learned how to play "52-Pickup"! Aren't you lucky....
Enjoy the show, get a sitter, and get a buzz on. I think you've earned it!
LOVE that hairband/scarf!!! I need to fancy mah-self up more staying home. maybe it would improve the shit-ass mood I am in today.
yay! I'm so happy to hear that the original cast is actually doing a good job (that's totally why we're going, of course, to see Adam and Anthony). Jason is at the airport and so far his flight is on time. He got there really, REALLY early to make sure he got his seat. Fingers crossed.
hello insomnia - I use a lens with an image stabilizer. Is the only way I can get non-flash photos to come out non-blurry. (Unless I'm using our fancy fancy flash, but I'm not really great at angling it correctly.)
Oh how I love baby photos! Oh, and I'm now wondering how I am going to survive this next deployment with two children. Under the age of 21 months. Ouch.
I wish Jason luck getting out of the city! The storms of DOOOOM did a number on the city last night (I walked passed FIVE cars crushed under trees in my 1/2 mile walk to the train this morning...FIVE!). Hopefully he'll get out in front of the second round of storms that are coming in this afternoon.
Yay, Chicago! I love that movie, but the boytoy doesn't watch it with me. =( I hope Jason can get home tonight. And I say you should go! And if you end up in Chicago, you can get some awesome pizza! And end up with jason! Whoo!
Noah is adorable. Can I gobble him up yet?
Yay, Chicago! I love that movie, but the boytoy doesn't watch it with me. =( I hope Jason can get home tonight. And I say you should go! And if you end up in Chicago, you can get some awesome pizza! And end up with jason! Whoo!
Noah is adorable. Can I gobble him up yet?
Ugh, sorry for the double post. My computer hates me. =(
Oh dear. I had never watched Steel Magnolias until a couple years ago when my husband was out of town for a boys' weekend. I thought, "What better time for a girly movie?" I told my sister-in-law what I was planning, and she was a little taken aback. "Umm, are you sure that's the best movie to watch while you're all by yourself?" "Pshaw," I scoffed. "What's a little girly movie going to do to me?"
Two hours later, I was a blubbering mess on the couch, so sad that I was all alone just like poor daughterless Sally Field and did my mama love me that much and would I ever have kids of my own? I didn't recover till the husband came home Sunday.
Also, yikes. The weather here has let up temporarily, but is scheduled to resume shittiness soon. Has Jason been able to explore the culinary landscape during his trip?
I think I'm going to wear some fabric in my hair today - that was cute!
And please don't ever cut his hair. If you do, don't tell me.
Oh, he is such a little mini-you! Hee!
Kathryn:
BUT MY DAUGHTER CAAAAAAAAAAAAN'T!!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite part of Steel Magnolias is Tom Skerritts crazy gun-toting bird-shooting foil to Sally Field's character. He is hilarious.
LOVE those photos! Both of you are SO cute :)
"(that's totally why we're going, of course, to see Adam and Anthony)"
ummm.... i would love to say that had no impact at all on our trip... but yeah. i'd be lying. it's the whole reason we went. and i'd seen rent 4 times already before this trip. they were just as good as they were way back when. and adam is still as hot. :) tamyra was just the cherry on top!
oh... Rent. I saw it 2 times on Broadway. But... if you need a partner I'd see it again!!!
I don't know how you stand being in the same room with such an adorable baby. The cuteness factor is just too much. I've always sworn that I would never have children, but if I could guarantee that it comes out like yours, then I might reconsider.
Steel Magnolias is probably the best movie ever. Chicago sucks donkey balls to fly to/from. Noah is gorgeous and so smart. You're a lucky woman. And pretty.
Oh my jesus, someone pass me the tissues now. Thanks, Amalah!
Chicago needs to give back Jason!
LOVE the Noah pics though-- made my work day much more bearable.
I'm with you on RENT-- Seasons of Love makes me get out my double CD and belt it out, much to Mr. Squirrel's dismay. When I saw the trailer for the movie a couple years ago, I screamed with joy and sang along, embarrassing my friend who said she'd no longer go to movies with me. But I can't help it! It's RENT, people!
I'd threaten to hurt you for planting fivehundredtwentyfivethousandsixhundredmiiiinutes in my brain but ohmygod the curls, the curls, the curls they're so cute!
Oh, and for the record, Steel Magnolias was filmed 'rightchere', and I promise you guys we don't really talk like that! Great movie though!
I love you guys. No, I really, really, really love you guys. I mean it.
You two are looking good! Keep up the "alive" status - I think that's a plus. My husband will be heading to Arizona for a week in September, but I'm not as brave as you - I'm bringing in the back up (aka, my mother).
Holy mother of gorgous chandaliers! where did you get that thing? I've been scouring the interenets for well nigh on 3 weeks now and every single one I have seen is atrocious and makes me want to claw out my eyes. And now I see the perfect one! It's a vision! I may need to come over and snatch that our of your dining room.