I Once Heard that 'Bullet Points' was Too Violent a Term.

I am working insane hours. Like, basically, ALL THE HOURS. I’ve working like crazy to launch a new website that will rebrand my business, and have lots of wonderful clients that I’m working with, as well. I go to bed too late, ignore my husband and baby too much, and am generally parked in front of my computer all hours of the day. Seriously. I told Mike today that I understood why the teacher from The Freedom Writers got divorced. Not that I’m saving the world or anything. Just working 20/7.

- I’ve had to make a wallpaper for my desktop to remind myself to just STOP IT ALREADY. I’ve had a few requests to share, so here it is!

To use: click on it so it opens in another window. Then right click (or ctrl+click and ‘set as desktop background.’)

I just launched an internationally best-selling author’s blog today. She lives in London and just got back from a trip to Italy to meet with historians. Have I mentioned how awesome and interesting my clients are?

Have I ever told you that I am stupidly obsessed with The View? I’m not sure if it’s the fact that it’s on Hulu or if I actually like it…but I pretty much watch an episode every day while cleaning and cooking dinner. I tell Mike that I watch it to hear current events discussed…like Octomom bringing her 23 children on an airplane. Yeah.

I am contemplating switching to WordPress. I still think Blogger is AMAZING in terms of what it has to offer, especially for newbies (free > $100 a year). But the plug-ins? I might be in love.

I like Harry Potter, but I’m not obsessed. Is there a middle ground? It seems as though everyone is either FANS!!11 HARRY POTTER FOREVERRRR or…hasn’t read the books. I loved the books, but I honestly cannot handle Daniel Ratcliff as Harry. I’ll see the movie on DVD. Or at the dollar theater. Are you going to take away my wand now?

I’m sort of tired of being a mom. I mean, not being Gabe’s mom, but being a mom amongst other moms; existing in this weird world where everyone has opinions about Really Important Things like parenting and how to feed your child and take care of your child…and talking about it is tiring. Don’t get me wrong, it’s also reassuring and helpful to know that other people have so been there. But the part that exhausts me is the partisanship (where you belong to a parenting philosophy instead of a political party). People get defensive when they do things differently than someone else. (I mean, there is clearly Right and Wrong about some things; child abuse = NO), but I feel like I can’t ever talk about what my experiences and choices as a mother without a few people popping up to say, “That didn’t work for me/That’s not how we do it/Let me tell you why you’re wrong.” See? Tiring.

I got two novels from the library today Mockingjay (!!!! – the final in The Hunger Games series; I almost don’t want to start it!) and Matched by Ally Condie. They are both ‘teen’ novels. Mike may have made fun of me. (His books right now? Political philosophy and freaking Ghandi.)

I am also reading Tina Fey’s Bossypants and I am even MORE in love with her. I told Mike I wished she had a blog, but he said she’s too important for that. Psh. And last night as we were laying in bed reading, I kept making him read funny bits from Bossypants (so, basically, ALL OF IT). He said, “Ha! Let me read something to you that Ghandi wrote that is hilarious.”

I Once Heard that ‘Bullet Points’ was Too Violent a Term.