Mostly-Mommy

Spring is finally here. I know technically it has been for a while now but not to me. Lately I have been painfully, debilitatingly depressed. I have not been exercising or eating well, I’ve been crying and crying every night until I finally fall asleep from sheer exhaustion, and I’ve been unloving and impatient with those around me that I love, with Mike bearing the brunt of all this. But that is not what this post is about. This post is about changing all that and embracing a new season and all the possibility it holds if I am open to it.

The city is lush and green right now and the spring rains have been blessing us daily (and the spring tornados have thankfully not). The flowering trees and early bulbs have already bloomed and gone and we are in the greener than green time before the roses and wildflowers begin to bloom. I love this time of the year when it is cool and humid and bug-free and so, so beautiful.

Nick’s first molar has finally finished breaking through! Oh Glory! Last night he only woke up once, so I got to sleep from 10pm to 6:30am with only one 30 minute interruption. I got to dream! I slept well! It was wonderful! And I was actually able to go to sleep peacefully last night being only mildly drugged with Sleepytime Plus tea (the Plus is the Valerian…) so I woke up with a better attitude this morning. I ate a bowl of cereal, went to the gym and had a great workout. Later my mom is coming over and we are going to plant flowers in the bed by the driveway and zucchini in the back yard. The sun is starting to shine through the clouds and it is going to be a beautiful day.

I got the idea for this list from Dooce, who got it from Powazek, who got it from Storey, and the list goes on. As far as I can tell this meme is a sort of blog staple.

Four jobs I’ve had:

1. Bagging groceries at the Jewel supermarket in Urbana, IL (my first job)

2. Art Mart in Urbana, IL (my longest job)

3. Lead Veterinary Technician/Clinic Manager at Plateauland Movile Veterinary Clinic in Flagstaff, AZ (my most frustrating job)

4. Histotechnician in the Dyer Lab at Northern AZ University in Flagstaff, AZ (my job that I learned the most at)
Four movies I can watch over and over:

1. Harold and Maude

2. Wallace and Gromit — any and all, especially “A Close Shave”

3. Rushmore

4. The Princess Bride
Four places I have lived:

1. Urbana, IL

2. Las Cruces, NM

3. Flagstaff, AZ

4. Kansas City, KS
Four TV shows I love:

1. LOST, LOST, LOST, LOST. And I’m done. OK, I’ll come up with 3 more.

2. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (sadly, I don’t have cable)

3. Good Eats with Alton Brown (again with the no cable thing)

4. The Amazing Race
Four places I’ve vacationed:

1. The Big Island of Hawaii with Mike for our honeymoon!

2. Disney World, FL with my Dad, Liane, Erin, and Chris when I was 12

3. San Diego, CA with Mike and Erin when she visited us in Flag

4. Phoenix, AZ at the Sunterra Resort with Erin to visit my Mom who was at a conference there
Four of my favorite dishes:

1. Pad Thai

2. Massaman Curry with Chicken

3. Fresh mango slices with sticky rice and coconut ice cream from the Little Thai Kitchen in Flag (are we seeing the Thai trend here?)

4. Sushi, vegetarian or with fake crab
Four sites I visit daily*:

1. Mike’s blog

2. Ask Moxie

3. Dooce

4. Parent Hacks
*Stinky Mike has done this to me — there was a time when I would have had sites listed here that weren’t all blogs.

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Almost any beach, anywhere

2. Eating lunch somewhere tasty with Mike while someone else watches the munchkin

3. Hiking in Sedona, AZ

4. Sitting at a wheel, filthy with clay and making a bowl that can actually be used to eat out of

Four people I am tagging:

I wish I could answer this question but I have absolutely no idea what “tagging” is.

3 poopy diapers by 9:15am? What the hell?

Yesterday Mike, Nick and I walked to my gym and joined Mike up for the next six months. About time, huh Internet? So we decided to set some goals, make a schedule and clean up our diets. This included getting rid of the 10 pound bag of Easter candy we’ve been snacking on this week. Mike took it to work with him this morning to distribute to some ravenous medical students. Don’t worry though, he will be hanging onto his stash of good dark chocolate in his drawer at work, lets not get crazy here.