clap your hands and say yeah.

{via glo}


It is time to vote friends!

If you want to see teamBoo's basement "epically made over" head over here to vote for us! We are number 34 (look for our family pic) and you can vote once per IP address. Go now because voting ends tuesday and if your anything like me the second you leave here that sneaky internet will wave something else shiny in your face and you'll forget. 

Why should you vote for us?? Besides the basement party that you will all be invited to? and our serious lack of fundage? Because otherwise i will start the project and then get seriously sidetracked by something really dumb and impulsive like cleaning out all my window wells with a steam cleaner and then Adam will make fun of me for the janky half finished playroom. Like last week, i started taking out the cabinets in the bar area. But i'm such a spaz cause i never want to prep stuff before i start. So instead of taking all the stuff out or moving the millions of giant tripping hazard toys out of my way, i just got the drill and started taking out screws. Then once i realized the shelf weighed like 600 pounds and i didn't have the right drill bits, i lost steam and waited until someone more focused (adam) could help me a couple days later :) 

I'm like that "if you give a mouse a cookie" book personified (only i'm more like the "pig a pancake" one?)

So if we don't win, it will be still be made over...but not EPICALLY. And "epically" is the operative word for this transition to not drag out for the next 2 1/2 years*. GO now! and thank you kindly.

team Boo ♥'s you

famewhores unite (again!)

Things got extra hot and heavy here last post, but i am SO glad and i'll tell you why: It seems there were more than one of you who were pickin' up what i was puttin' down.  So thank you for allowing me to spill my guts to you. They are hopeful guts...guts that truly want you to be happy, guts that are glad you're here.

wait...what's that? you couldn't stop my guts even if you wanted to? 

Well then I guess we're all clear who's the boss around these parts (hint: it isn't Tony Danza).

Speaking of "pickin' up what i'm puttin' down"...don't i look a little like a street walker here??

 (a "private dancer" in neon lights if you will. Which is incidentally also a song by the unmatched Tina Turner, not to be confused with Sir Eltons John's "Tiny Dancer"...that i can't help but sing the substitute lyrics "hold me closer Tony Dan-zaaaa." Count 'em, that's two tony Danza references in one blog post, totally unplanned...weird.)

And speaking of "whoring oneself out" (for lack of a better term)...

I wanted to let you know that I have a new little brown button in my left sidebar. It's a blog that showcases baby and mommy blogs from all around the web (who am i kidding, it's a site where mommy bloggers exploit themselves to get their name in flashing lights). If you feel so inclined, click on it each day you're here...and then click again in the link to vote and show your team Boo support :)

Also, here's proof that I wasn't "hooking" on my free time...

...just a harmless date at the movies with team Boo :)

team Boo ♥'s you
*and can somebody please come confiscate all my belts for a little while!? 
can we say "DE-NI-AL"? sheesh.

so check it.

Today I am being featured right here .

K but here's the deal

it turns out my competition is rather fierce.

like hundreds and in a few cases thousands of followers fierce

and basically it would be a miracle for me to be a blip on the radar

so if you could head over to Project Mommyhood and VOTE for me starting today

vote, and vote and then vote some more

( i actually don't know how the voting works...once a day maybe??)

and then tell your friends about this super rad mom you "know" and that they should vote for her too :)

if by chance you don't think i should win for Mommy blogger of the year award 

then you can suck it

then swallow your judgements and vote for me anyway ;)

(i'll close my eyes)

and then when you come to your senses

you can go back and vote for me again

and again :)

...my stretch marks thank you.

{also...in terms of legitimately awesome moms, don't you wish you could go hike with NIE today? she is SO amazing...}

Project Boo FINALISTS!

{via ponygraph}

This was a tricky list to narrow down

{cause this wasn't an easy leave-me-a-comment kind of contest}

 making a movie is time consuming.

and you all did an amazing job!

but alas I picked my top 5 based on the following criteria:

song choice

editing efforts

creativity

unique subject matter

and 

my inclination to watch it more than once :)

So without wasting any more of your time with the boring crap

here is this years Project Boo's top 5 in no particular order.....

{just click the movie link to refresh your memory}

- "carol" by Megan {polished pickle} 

- "to my lover oh so far away" by Kera {running mommy} 

- "hot july" by Laura B 

- "hoedown throwdown" by Lindsay 

- "basking in the sun" by Brittany A. 

Voting begins right now and and ends next Thursday Aug 20th.

{that gives you a week to get your admirers to cast their votes too}

but you can only vote once (i think??) so review the choices first and make it count:

...and while you're in the voting mood...go here to vote for Team boo (thats me ;) for a "mommy blogger" award!

Thanks to everyone who played

now you have a video memory to keep foreverrrr!

famewhores unite.

  

I was nominated for a blogluxe award.

Which in itself makes my palms all clammy with discomfort.  Pitted against blogs with hundreds of readers, some over a thousand. Basically it is too late in the game for me to even come close to winning {seeing as how i have 7 votes and voting ends on the 6th.}  Believe me, I have gone back and forth on posting this button...cause to me {kinda like ginormous t-shirts with bikini bodies printed on the front} these contests exist to torture us all...with judgement. Which is something i welcome about as much as I want a sweaty indecent Antonio Sabato Jr. to demand a piggy back ride.

But as to not overlook the sweet gesture that was the nomination, i am swallowing my pride and posting it anyway. BUT...then i read over some old posts of mine.....

Now i think in general the blogging community is very kind. But I couldn't help but feel that, rather than being "funny" most of my posts read like I was storytelling half way through a mild seizure. Did I sell my soul to the devil in exchange for some awkward poop stories??...most posts are either mom style crazy and/or confusing ridiculousness, which I suppose {at this point in my life} is all i can really ask for.  So even at the risk of inviting drastic comparisons, at least check out some of the other great blogs that were nominated. And regardless if i feel my posts are funny, feel free to vote....for someone {especially NIE!}. I'll just be here...making sure i don't choke on my tongue.

*And, to pay it forward....here are some of my favorite funny ladies. check it...

    

sum sum summa summa....

So here we are...knock knock knocking on Satan's door {well what feels like Hell's door anyway} and i find myself for like the 10th year in a row, since i've lived in the Valley of the Sun, dreaming of busting a move out of this insufferable state. Its seasonal depression inducing, only instead of clouds, its blaring-oven-like sunshine. I have friends who LOOove it {and we all forget just how hot it gets} but basically, come June, you can't go outside without your face melting off, and sweating profusely out of every pore. Allow me to be frank when i say, its no fun when your crotch starts to publicly draw attention to itself.

I dream of Portland!...or the surrounding areas anyway. The trees, the hydrangeas, the farmer's markets. My Grandma lived in way Northern Cali....I remember being little and wondering why she'd apologize if the "weather was dreadful" when we came. I loved it! still do.  I hear it all the time "you think you like rain, but it is SO.  MUCH.  RAIN." Which leads me to wonder if i'm only hemorrhaging from the grass is {quite literally} greener syndrome.  But the way i see it, I have paid my AZ dues, if nothing else, i'm ready for a change...and a new thing to complain about ;)

Have you lived in the NorthWest? do you just like sharing your two cents? tell me what you think...

poll by twiigs.com

*my saving grace...

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I am notorious for having this 52 oz. ice cold "baby" attached to my side (6 months of the year). It is quite honestly like a baby in that i even find myself inadvertently swaying side to side or gently bouncing my knees while i'm holding it.  Old habits :)

big kids.

this is me voting...eh eghm...for the first time.