It Doesn't Get Better Than...

A house right on the beach? Temperatures in the 90s in the shade? Wild ospreys nesting? Outlet mall 2.4 miles away? The lulling sound of the tide drifting off to sleep? Hunting for the best shells at low tide? Amazon Kindle?

Nope. None of the above. It is:

Drive through Dunkin Donuts. The #1 is 2 donuts(chocolate frosted) and a medium coffee(light and sweet).

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The Most Glamorous Store In America

We have been in four states this week. Of course on the East Coast, it's alot easier: CT, RI, MA, NY. Today, we went to NYC, as Hubs wanted to meet up with his friends. I met up with one of mine, and we visited some of our favorite stores. Hubs likes the exclusively ties store, Seigo, of Tokyo, Paris and NYC. Mr Seigo always manages to send him an exclusive sale postcard before we visit the East. Papoose got to American Girl and I got to go to Bergdorf. The most glamorous department store in the US. Today I got a pair of sunglasses at Bergdorf. Big,dark and glamorous, I told the sales guy. Like myself, preferably
minus the big. I wanted Chanel. He looked at me try on my choices and then guided me to ones that "balanced" my jawline. My jawline needed balancing? Apparently, because he guided me to a less expensive, larger, darker and way more glamorous pair. Hubs noted that Bergdorf was filled with famous looking people. Including me, of course.

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Location:New Haven Express

Travel sucks

Here on Tarmac at LAX, trying to connect to a flight in 10 minutes to CT. This one hour flight has already taken 3 hours. Who is to blame? Joe Biden going to Jay Leno, closing LAX airspace. Good use of our tax dollars, eh? Damn Joe Biden. First he insults my people on the campaign trail, now this. Is he related to Dan Quayle? What's Dan up to these days. Might as well google it since I'm stuck here.

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Location:Tarmac LAX

This is a test

Just seeing if this works.

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Top 7 Reasons You Know That You've Watched Too Much Criminal Minds:

1.You start turning the alarm on when at home. In the day time.
2. You try to park near the emergency button in the parking garage.
3. You avoid parking next to any battered white vans, especially if they don't have windows.
4. You start wondering if certain people you know- like the male substitute teacher, certain bald dads, weird guys at the supermarket are unsubs. And you are extra nice to them when you can't avoid them, just in case.
5.You are disappointed you are over the age limit (37) to become an FBI Special Agent.
6. You start and your day with obscure quotes from people like Goethe.
And it's time to shut the TV off when:
7. 1-800-Pro-Flowers sounds like 1-800- Profilers.

What I've Learned So Far

This is what I wanted to write at the  end of March, but better late than never:
What I've learned:
1. I shop when I'm stressed.
2. I shop for a feeling of control.
3. Knowing that, it's still kinda fun.
4. Stopping Coke for four weeks did not help me lose weight.
5. Nothing tastes like the real thing. I had my first Mexican Coke today. Yum.

6. Not shopping has helped me reassess my overall shopping. I really am much more aware.
7. I still love Bar method.
8. I do like spending on creative habits- flea markets, making jewelry, accessories. It feels like dprivation when I don't, but using up my stash has been good.
9. I need help with the weight loss.
10. I need help with the riding fear, because I deep down, I love riding and I love Hadley.
11. I really love blogging. Thank you for reading and commenting. It keeps me from watching Law& Order all day.
12. I love my friends. Especially when Almond Roca tells me which vacuum cleaner to buy.

13. Thinking about booking a facial, massage and pedicure is almost as satisfying as getting them.
14. Good haircuts last a long time.
15. I love lip gloss.
16. Giving up cleaning ladies may not be such a good sacrifice, but maybe an actual vacuum cleaner will change my mind. But I really love them more when they are here.
17. Solo driving on road trips are tough, but the memories with Papoose are worth it.
18. Getting dressed up really makes a difference in my attitude. See #15
19. I need regular periods of rest.
20. If people on Criminal Minds just had home alarms, the FBI would have a lot fewer unsubs to catch.

Momma Ain't Happy

Today I was reading another blog, and she said,"A happy refreshed home has a happy refreshed mother." Really a nicer way of saying: If Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. 

Then I noticed I haven't written since March! It's mid April. 

As you all know, I love to place blame squarely where it belongs (rarely on me) and it belongs on (no, not you, Hubs) work. Oh yeah, there's a reason it's called work, not pleasure. Actually, I like the work itself, a lot. It challenges me, constantly, which I mostly like. I mean having a quadruple boarded boss? I take it in stride.We work at the same place after all. But yesterday, the super genius guy who manages the ventilated patients also worked in Africa and rode on the Serengeti and has done five Ironmans? Really? A jock and a genius? Bro further annoyed me by saying he found it inspiring and yeah, I'm supposed to know about ventilator settings. Never mind he's tripled boarded and does kung fu and in four months of exercising lost lots of fat and became skinny, while I have stayed the EXACT same weight and gotten Achilles tendonitis for my trouble. 

Yeah, Momma ain't happy. 

And I haven't even told you why I don't like work. I actually don't mind the commute since rediscovering audiobooks, even if I missed my exit yesterday. I like getting dressed up. I like interacting with people. I love running meetings.

I just hate chaos and disorganization. I also hate not having the cleaning lady every week. I hate not having a vacuum cleaner and I'm finding stressful buying a new one: upright or canister? One for upstairs, one for downstairs or just one to haul back and forth? Bagged or bagless? I mean I hate cleaning out the bagless ones, I hate keeping track of the bag reordering. Special pet hair one? Do I trust Mr. Dyson because he has a British accent? Or Mr. Oreck, cause he's American?

Mamma's taking a break today- she's hiring a nutritionist and scheduling a massage and maybe getting a pedicure. Yeah, that might make Mamma happy.

Coming up next: Adventures As American Girl