Skinny kate, blog Stalking, friend finding and fertility

1. This is why I am back on the workout wagon.  An old co-worker emailed me a link to this pic from a conference I was attending in San Antonio right after I met my husband.  Not quite the svelte chick I was then.  My boobs actually look like a normal persons!  I have 20lbs and several cups sizes on that girl.   

2. I actually got an email back for the cool aussie mormon artist chick.  I wish I had the balls to wear dreads, I mean how cool is that?   I went to the blog from which I found her and saw that there were links to other blogs and may I just say, I think the OC must put something in the water to make it rain chicks I wish I could hang out with.  

3. I was complaining about my lack of buds the other day and ran into Kary who is somewhat of a hero to me.  She is cool, nice, funny and laid back, but never boring.  I then stroller Elle past one of the cooler houses in our neighborhood and some women were sitting on the porch drinking beer and chatting while about 8 kids played in the yard.  One of the women asked how old Eloise was and we started talking.  They invited me to a historic district play group.  This sounds like a blast.  The question to ponder then is, when they offer me a beer for the 4th time do I tell them I am a mormon or a recovering alcoholic?  Both seems like overkill right?  Which one is less likely to alienate me?  And do I give a hoot?

4. Weird things are happening in my families private regions.  The littlest sister has remnants of maleness, fibroids, and poly cystic ovarian syndrome on one of her fallopian tubes.  She has a 3 year old and has been trying to get pregnant again for awhile now.  The middle sister is on her latest round of hormone injections and sonograms in hopes of conceiving soon as well.  IVF is the next option.  My mother joked for a year that we would all get pregnant at the same time and have 3 boys.  If LS needs a laproscopy and MS needs IVF, mom could be right about the 3 pregnant drake girls, God help the men during the holidays if that is the case.

The Cooter Diaries

I went to see the midwife that delivered Eloise today.  She was amazed at how big Elle has gotten.  Interesting encounter:

Me: soooo, are things dropping or....

Aliza: everything looks fine...

Me: ok, uh..

Aliza: are you doing your kegels?

Me: not so much

Aliza: squeeze my fingers, ok

           that's good, just do more kegels

All I could think was "Pull my finger"  The visual was astounding.  

Awkward turtle

Things with which I am currently enamoured:

1. These 2 LDS chick bloggers.  2nd sister sauviloquy and embers , respectively.  Seriously, where are the women like this in Texas?  

2. Mothering Magazine, even my mother looks at me cross-eyed about the co-sleeping thing, and the woman marched against nuclear armament with me in utero!

3. Chess With Friends on the IPhone, I know, I know, shameless plug, but since my husband is the only person who reads this sad excuse for a blog, I had to mention the game he created.

4. The trailer for Funny People.  I may have watched it 15 times.  The stage that Adam Sandler is doing stand up on in the beginning is at the improv on Melrose where I spent a considerable amount of time while drifting in LA for a couple of years. 

5.  Eloise, could she be any cuter?  

6. Carol Lynn Pearson.  Consider the Butterfly is still one of the best books available in Mormland.

7. MGMT's Electric Eel, the song keeps getting stuck in my head.  It seems to require of me a jog.  

The last time I taught RS, I left early and got drunk

Ok, that was 10 years ago, but still.  I am amazed at the distance between then and now.  

Then: I was 20 and teetering on the edge of becoming inactive.  I had just moved to SLC and was called to teach RS having only been to RS in that ward once.  I taught my lesson, and knowing NO ONE in the ward I left with the resolve to just get as far away from that building as possible.  I had yet to become a full fledged alcoholic, but I was on my way.

Today: I was able to be real and vulnerable, teach a fantastic lesson, starting with, "So, Joseph Smith was a peacenik!"  I was able to express my disagreement with Prop 8 and my respect for the leaders of our church and their council at the same time.  There are some of the coolest chicks in this ward.  

I have only one complaint, several of the women I would love to hang out with, that are my age, are in a totally different life situation than I am.  I am 30 with a 10 month old.  They are 30-36 with like 4 or 5 kids!!!  No way they have time for any friends whose kids don't entertain their kids.  It's a damn good thing I have my sister.  

We went to Sushi Sake last night for date night. I miss Japan. I also miss coffee, and occasionally cigarettes, but it has been 3 1/2 years and my mother assures me that soon I will not even think of them.  

I told you

See, I told you, I really suck at this.  Usually upon making a new goal, I follow it for at least a day or two before abandoning the idea altogether.  I couldn't even make it a day.  It is cloudy in Tx today.  While my porch is all but finished, I am in the process of paint my porch swing(valentines day present) a shiny black before begging P to take a wee bit of time off to hang it up.  

In other news, I was called to teach RS.  I am sure this is a good thing, for I have been known to skip SS in favor of a lil sabbath breaking 7-11 run and sashay into 3rd hour at a quarter past.  This should nip THAT in the bud, at least every third sunday.  

OOOOO, my sister just arrived from  trip to Seattle.