Modern Day Packing

Skirt is baaaack! Some older gents were watching me un-lock my bike and I was like "oh, boy, here we go"and one of them actually said "That's a great print" talkin' bout this skirt.

Shockingly refreshing commentary from a strange gentleman on the street!

I bought some things after work and I should post them here but I was too busy packing- Or fixing up my entertainment for the travel and making a bomb-ass playlist for me and my girl to jam out to because she has a car and we are going to a place where people drive cars everywhere. It's strange for me to be with people who have their very own car. It's also a little strange for me the first time I ride in the front seat of a car when I've not been out of New York City in some time. I went to Chicago but we rode the subway 100%. March was the last time I rode in a private citizen's vehicle and I sat in the back.


Modern-day packing really means charging and syncing all gadgets & making playlists. 



That awesome tiger shirt is actually baby clothes for a baby I'm going to meet and hang out with this weekend. I can't wait to visit Target in the mid-west. It's heaven. I also look forward to enjoying Sonic.

The crown jewels of this trip to the heartland are seeing my pen-pal and my very first friend ever and seeing the People's Princess exhibit where we will see Princess Diana's wedding dress!

I've got one day of cute commuting and one big night of NYC entertainment as Matt's sister & husband are on their way here. We have plans to jog to Central Park early Friday to try to sneak a peek at the Gaga concert and we will get schooled at MAC make-up and then I will rush myself and my tiny entertaining gadgets to the airport. 

A Tough Transition

My transition back to working woman is going a little rough. Working full-time means putting "My Housewife Life" behind me doesn't it? No! The shitty parts of housewife-life are stealing my free time and making me angry!

I definitely haven't been this irritable and mean to Matt since I was being tortured at PF. Today I was irritable and mean because I had to slave my fucking Easter day away cleaning and doing laundry, meal planning, puke. Being Betty & Don Draper at the same time is making me be a huge bitch.

Anyway- I rode the bus to Baltimore on Saturday to see my cousin and his wife. They have a really hard, stressful life as they take care of her dad, who is definitely an invalid. He can't be left alone, he's immobile. Wow. I admire them for not putting him in a home or putting him on a raft and sending him down the river. Their life is hard. Harder than me having to use my Sunday to be a hobbyist housewife-slave.

They got their neighbor to "Bobby-sit" as they call it, because his name is Bob. They took me to a Mexican Flea Market. It was fantastic! I have to be more organized next time. If I knew where my camera was (I cleaned SO WELL today that I don't know where I put it) I would post photos.

It's so good to spend time with my cousin because he is older and knows the history of my parents before me - he actually knows what my mother was really like. We also really mesh well and we both realized we have to re-assemble a new line-up for our close family roster since our original close families have had so many members die.

I just watched "An Education" and LOVED IT! It hit very close to home in that my father/parents expected me to go to college to "get married off" and that's what I did. My dad was very relieved to be rid of the ultimate responsibility of me when I got married. He was looking for an engagement ring long before I.

This has been a very Domestic-themed post.