The Fam…. October 11, 2006
Posted by Topsy Turvy Mama in Family, Life, Me, My Life.1 comment so far
I realized that I have not done a post about “us”, so some of you are may be wondering who the heck I am. My name is Erin, and I have two boys; J who is 7, and T who is 2. I have an almost hubby, whom I will call Jas (wow, I bet you guys can’t figure that one out!!). The most important thing to know about me is this: I love being a mommy. I will try not to let that be all that this blog is about, but I really love my kids. Most of what I do involves them and is centered around them. I work a full time job for a govt contractor, and Jas is a computer geek. We have two dogs and a lizard. We are always busy. Our kids constantly amuse us. Life is good for the most part.
The second thing that you should know is that I am totally in the blogging closet. Jas, my best friends, no one knows that I have started this. I want this to be a place where I can say anything I want and not have to listen to their crap you know. :) I would love to meet some other bloggers in my community, but I am too much of a chicken shit to say where I am…. we will see, maybe with time.
If I am being boring please tell me. If my writing sucks please tell me. I havent done it in a long time, so there is a chance that it will. Like I said in my first post, I am totally intimidated!
Want to know anything else? Just ask. Maybe I will tell 
Results of a rainy weekend… October 10, 2006
Posted by Topsy Turvy Mama in Family, Holidays, Life.2 comments
This was a pretty uneventful weekend, due to the heavy, heavy rain and winds in our neck of the woods. All of our plans (which included baseball, and more baseball) were pretty much ruined. So instead I made sure that the house was adequately decorated for Halloween. Yes, I am a holiday decorating a-holic. My attic is a nice, semi-organized, haven of all things holiday. My almost mother in law has donated tons of decorations to the cause, and I love her even more for it. We have scarecrows that talk, light up fiber-optic witches, big stuffed pumpkins and witches… I could go on and on. The kids love it, but our big mastiff hates it! She barks at the 3 foot tall scarecrow like it has come to eat her alive! And my cute stuffed witch has already lost a arm in a dog fight. It is repairable though, so it was not a complete tragedy.
Yesterday was a day off of work for me (thank you federal govt holidays!), and I was at home for an entire day- ALONE! J was at school, and T was at preschool. I got schoolwork done, I got cleaning done. I went to Target, again, ALONE, and got to look at grown up things. I was totally disappointed though, because one of those assemble your meals here, with our ingredients and take it home to freeze places had sent me a coupon in the mail for 2 free meals. I had never gone before, so I took my little coupon and thought that I would try it out. When I got there I was informed that yes, I got my 2 free meals, but I had to purchase 4 more, at the whopping price of $24 each, I almost fell over! Is it just me or is that an insane amount of money for one main dish? Yes! That’s right, it does not even include the sides! Maybe I am poor, or maybe just thrifty, but who in their right mind would pay for that? I guess I understand that we live in sort of an uppity area, where we just happen to live because we got a great deal on a house that needed to be sold fast, but GOOD GRIEF! I am crazy here ladies? Would you pay that??
The joys of a window… October 6, 2006
Posted by Topsy Turvy Mama in Random Thoughts, Work.2 comments
I really dont want to be here today….. at work I mean. Of course I want to be on my shiny new blog! 
I always know that it is a bad sign when I wake up in the morning and it is pitch black out. I dont get up at the crack of dawn or anything, so when the alarm clock goes off and I roll out of bed and trip over everything because there is not a shred of light peeking out from behind the blinds, I know that it is going to be a dark dreary day. Which makes me sleepy. Which makes me totally unproductive at the office. See, I have a window that my desk directly faces. Sometimes having a window in my office is a glorious thing. I can see the sunshine and the birds, and all of those happy kinds of things. Then, there are two kinds of days when I wish the my window would just disappear. The first is a day like today, when I look out and see dark, scary clouds. And then rain. Lots of rain. Sometimes it can be fun watching people act insane because it has started to rain. Ladies take their shoes off and run into the building or to their cars. Men put folders, newspapers, or whatever else they may be holding over their heads as if that little square will save them. But mostly the rain makes me want to curl up with a good book and go to sleep. Too bad I cant accomoplish that at my desk! The other days that are bad for having a window are the days that the city workers fire up the shit plant. That’s right, directly through the trees, about a quarter mile away from my nice govt building, there is a shit plant. At least that is what we call it. When they fire it up and there is a nice breeze, you can totally walk into the office and feel like you are working in a toilet. What a perk! We had a summer intern one time who didn’t know about the shit plant and the entire summer she thought that I had some terrible bowel problem. I only learned this at the end of the summer when she had been her for 2 months and finally said something because the smell was SO bad. I could not believe it. How embarassing! At least she found out the real story. I would not want her to be scared to come back.
So like I said, today is one of those dreary days. It is still early and I am already itching to get out of here. Hey, maybe the shit plant will fire up and give me a jolt of energy. Enough to just say, that’s enough. I am out of here.
Would you label me a procrastinator? October 5, 2006
Posted by Topsy Turvy Mama in Random Thoughts.1 comment so far
My name is E. I read blogs everyday. Lordie, that sounds like and AA meeting introduction, huh? Oh well, it’s like announcing to the world that I love reading blogs, and now I am going to try my hand at my own. I know that sounds really confident, but really I am scared! Scared that no one will read, scared that people will tell me that my writing sucks…. I am super intimidated by all the witty, hilarious blogs that I read daily. I just need some inspiration. I know that it will come soon.
Hopefully.
Please!
