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As you may have noticed (over there.. to your right..) I'm liking Twitter these days. It's like speed blogging. And its a great outlet for all those wonderful random thoughts that pop into my head throughout the day. And unlike this place, I think people actually read me over there.. hahaha.

I know you are all still out there. Most of you friends and family and new employers, but no one ever comments anymore, which honestly makes me a little self conscious that I've become even more boring than I constantly worry that I've become.

But at least I'm not a cougar.

Went out for happy hour at Del Mar Plaza the other night with the girls and the cougars of San Diego were IN FULL EFFECT. Let me tell you. I had to stop myself from walking around the place and pulling up the backs of jeans on 50 year old woman, while simultaneously pulling up and down their shirts to cover their bejeweled BELLY RINGS and overly tanned cleavage. I really thought that rhinestones went out of style about 15 years ago - I was unaware that one could even still purchase these belts (outside of Texas, where there, I will give it to them. Cowgirl bling is something that will never die, and thats fine IF YOU ARE A COWGIRL) since 1992 when I worked at the "Guess?" store in the mall and routinely wore one with my boots and a blazer; aka the "Guess? girl look".

But then I laugh because me? I will prancing around my Roxy sundresses and sweatshirts until I die, and when I'm 60 I'm sure some 30-something year old will totally laugh at me.

Expanding on that thought...For mother's day my mom bought me (yes, my mom gets ME mother's day presents too.. isn't she the best?!) the Roxy diaper bag I had been lusting over. While totally cute, and the perfect summer beach/pool baby bag, we were slightly disturbed(?) at first that Roxy, a label aimed at 16 year old girls, is making diaper bags.

Then we just realized that they know their demographics really freaking well. And while it may appear that they are trying to diaper bag the Jaime Lynn Spears' of the world, really these were made for people like me, 30 something moms that are refusing to grow up... at what point does "hip" just become teenile? Am I just like the cougars?

Got Junk in my... eye.. sigh

The other night I was making my weekly Target rounds (really, we need TP AGAIN?!) when my right eye started to itch. GAH. Did I get something in there? Was my contact dry? I get home and peel my contact from my eye. The next morning I wake up to this:

Okay, thats not me (my eyes are more greenish)

But all the same I wake up to a throbbing red eye. Convinced that it was a corneal abrasion from my contacts, I didn't worry too much about it, but made an appt with the after hours Dr "just to make sure".. apparently just to make sure it was, indeed, my friend conjunctivitis back for a visit.

The Dr assumed I got it from Lucas and the den of diseases that we like to call "preschool". But no, the kid's eyes are fine (for now, knocking on wood.. crap! Does Ikea particle board count?!), just mommy got the junk.

The Dr, the same one who treated me for mastitis 2 weeks ago (haha, Aetna! Look who's laughing now!) prescribes an antibiotic drop and tells me to wash my hands frequently and sterilize my house and throw out my make-up and don't touch my kids. So after buying all the Lysol (yea, screw you METHOD. I try go all "green" and immediately get bacteria growing in my eyes. Back to the earth damaging, but bacteria killing chemicals over here) products that they have at Rite-Aid during the 15 minutes it took them to put a label on a bottle of eye drops, I head home to flush my eyes out. But before doing so, I read the instruction packet.. which comments something about "nursing moms may not want to nurse while using.." WTF?! So what do I do? Consult Dr. Google of course!

And Dr. Google and Kellymom.com both tell me, no, these eyedrops are just fine while nursing. Whew.

But Dr. Google also tells me that one of the best remedies for eye problems in nursing moms is, well, breastmilk. Like, in your eye. Like squirting milk in your eye.

The best part about this is that I actually bent my head over and tried to figure out how to squirt my own milk in my eye. Then, because I'm TOTALLY sick like that. thought "Crap, I should have Jason film this and become an instant YouTube sensation!"

Nothing cuter in the UNIVERSE than..

BABY BUTTS!

I know its a bit of a cop out. I come here like once a week and just post a picture of Zoe.. or a video of Lucas' skateboarding.

What? I didn't post a video of Lucas totally ripping? MY BAD!

It's not that I'm bored. It's not that I have nothing to write about. It's that I'm BUSY. SO AMAZINGLY BUSY. My teeter-totter has now shifted to the other side. Balance? Yea. Don't ask me. I went from being pretty much a stay at home mom with nothing to do, to a work at home mom - turning away business - and working like a mad woman. Seriously I have worked everyday for the last 2 weeks. But I'm excited.. really excited to be working again. But it is a challenge to find this balance. So bear with me at the moment.. and check out Lucas aka DJ Lance.