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Habanero’s Revenge

Filed under: BackBlogging, Blah Blah Blah, Elena, Food, Friends, Liam, Life In London, Mommyhood, Ugh — Heidi at 10:08 pm on Thursday, August 28, 2008

This morning we got up and got ready to go to a mom gathering at my friend Gigi’s house. Cheryl and I trucked the kids to the tube and made our way into the city.

The tube with an umbrella stroller and a walking 4-year old is no picnic…but the tube with a double stroller and two kids 2 and under? nearly impossible. That said, Cheryl was amazing. We managed to get there without losing any of the children and she went on her first escalator ride with the kids in the stroller. I was quite impressed with her.

And, of course, the garden party was lovely (even though it was wet and cold so we couldn’t actually play in the garden) because Gigi is a lovely host. We played and had a fantastic girlie lunch of tea sandwiches (which I love) and pb&j for the kids (which I also love), and then got ready to head out.

Unfortunately it was about that time when Habanero decided to wreak havoc with my intestinal system.
Elena and I spent a good 20 minutes in the bathroom as H worked its way out, in a bathroom that other people had to use.

Honestly…I have never been so happy to see the little bidet-like squirter thing to rinse off. I have no idea if that’s what it was meant for, but that’s what it got used for today.

Of course everyone wanted to know what took so long when I went to ask Gigi for matches to light the candle, so I had to share my Wahaca story publicly. But by that point I didn’t care. I felt so much better having the Evil out of my body that embarrassment wasn’t an issue at all.

Besides, everybody poops, right?

On a lighter, but still rather disgusting note…

Lately Liam has been playing trains.  But not necessarily with trains.  It’s more like he’s riding the trains and telling me where he’s going.  He has tickets that he carries around from his conductor costume.  This is how he was holding the tickets today.  I don’t know why he can’t just wear the costume.

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Anyway, I’ve since cleaned them and told him that using his underwear as a pocket is not appropriate.

I’m sure he’ll do it again tomorrow.

For some reason he likes to take his pants off when he gets home from school.

I think smoke came out my ears.

Filed under: BackBlogging, Blah Blah Blah, Elena, Food, Friends, Liam, Life In London, Mommyhood, Ugh — Heidi at 10:07 pm on Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Today was quite exciting on several fronts.

Daria came over this morning and on our way home from picking her up, we walked a different way home. As we were walking, Elena craned her neck and started yelling, “I wan to go ovah dere!” I didn’t realize it, but we were walking right past Cheryl’s house and Elena wanted to go play. So, I did what any good friend does, I called from across the street and asked if we could come say hi. And of course, Cheryl let us in. (I hope you all know you can do this to me at any time…I just might still be in my jammies and the house will inevitably be trashed.)

We played for a bit and then headed back to the house for lunch. The big kids played outside and Elena took a bit of a nap. Yoti came for Daria around 2 and stayed for a chat. I haven’t gotten to chat with her in quite a while so it was nice to sit while Elena was asleep. And we got invited to shabbat dinner! I am quite excited.

Then I got the chance to go out with Grace this evening. We went to Wahaca - a happenin’ mexican restaurant that everyone talks about around these parts. Grace beat me there and got our name on the list after waiting in a loooong line and we went to grab drinks around the corner.

My company and sparkling water were lovely and evidently the woman sitting at the bar thought that all Americans should be having water this evening as she ordered Grace the same thing I ordered. (I think she was a little drunk.)

It was so nice to be out with a friend without the kids.

When we finally got in at the restaurant, I tried to order appropriately for the no sugar land I’m currently living in, and I really did do pretty well, if I do say so myself.  It wasn’t perfect, but it was better than normal.  Unfortunately I nearly blew my head off when I ate an entire habanero pepper.

I have never felt pain like that from something I’ve eaten.

My mouth was hot and I was begging the waiter for soured cream…which he took FOREVER to bring, and I held water in my mouth to stop the pain temporarily, but it hurt in my jawbone and in my ears.  I completely lost my focus and became an awful dinner date.  It reminded me of those people on the Food Network Challenge who have to eat hot sauce.  I’m fairly certain I’d have a heart attack.  It would be great for viewership, but not so good for me.

So, anyway, they finally did bring me some sour cream and I got calmed down.  My ears finally quit buzzing when I got home, but now I can feel the fire in my stomach.  That pepper is going to haunt me tomorrow…I’m sure of it.

Learning Curve

Filed under: BackBlogging, Blah Blah Blah, By Myself, Life In London, Ugh — Heidi at 10:57 pm on Friday, August 22, 2008

The last few days I’ve been off with my eating and it’s sending me into a tailspin. Today I decided that I’d do better…and did I? No, of course not. I guess there’s always tomorrow…and I should keep in mind that I still haven’t eaten sugar…just stuff that MIGHT have a little sugar in it. The main problem is that I’m a little off on my timing for meals. It’s not like I’ve failed by any means. I don’t know why I beat myself up over it. I’ll feel better in a few days once I get it under control again.

Oh blah, blah, blah…this is boring and I don’t feel like going into it now, so I won’t.

Anyway, the best part of the day was this evening when I went to keep Cheryl’s sleeping kids so that she and Dave could go to dinner. It’s amazing to be in someone else’s quiet house where you can’t do anything other than sit in the recliner and mess on the computer.

I feel like I can breathe.

Elena’s Pea

Filed under: Aaron, BackBlogging, Elena, Food, Liam, Life In London, Mommyhood, Ugh — Heidi at 10:59 pm on Friday, August 15, 2008

Hasn’t been too interesting around here.  Yesterday we went to HomeBase and CostCo.  I forgot to bring a pound coin, so I couldn’t get a cart at HB and ended up hauling Elena around the whole time we were there because she tries to lie down on the floor ever time I attempt walking while holding her hand.  Seriously, I think this kid will be in the stroller forever.  She just doesn’t have the patience.  She’s great at passive resistance, though.  Gotta give her that.

We did get some pots to grow basil and I looked for cilantro, but they didn’t have any seeds.  AND, I still have my AeroGrow working with the original plants so I got some organic plant food for them to see if I can keep them growing until I can get my other basil well established.  I’ve had those plants since January!

Of course, CostCo was much better since they provide carts like a normal store.

The rest of the day was quiet once Liam went to sleep on the floor.

Today was a little more fun.  We went to play with Cheryl this morning and I ended up doing a lot of prep this afternoon for the BBQ with Mike (Aaron’s boss) and Hallman, his wife, tomorrow night.

The kids were clearly a little frustrated that I was so busy.  I guess Elena decided that she needed to do something to get my attention.  So…she stuck a pea in her nose.

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We didn’t realize it until she told us as much and then we debated about how to get it out.  About the same time, Aaron and I decided we should just plug her other nostril and let her blow it out.  And that sucker popped right out and flew across the floor.

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We cracked up.

On another note, we did remember to call Ethan to sing happy birthday, and I got my driving license.  Now I just have to get the info to study to take the test.  Eeek.

I am one smart idiot.

Filed under: Blah Blah Blah, Ugh — Heidi at 10:36 pm on Friday, August 15, 2008

Somehow…somehow…I have successfully managed to lock myself out of BOTH of my Flickr accounts - one of which is a FlickrPro account with unlimited uploading for a year.

Yes, very smart of me…very smart. It definitely takes a “special” person to do this sort of thing.

Fortunately I can see that everything is still there, and there seems to be a common occurrence of “dangling” accounts, as those in the biz refer to the problem, so I’m hoping that the “Flickereenos” will be able to converse with the “Magic Donkey” and I’ll get my Heidi Chronicles back AND have it merged with my heidichronicles account.

However, this did not stop me from crying into my keyboard over it because I am hormonal I spent days uploading pictures to the damn thing and now I can’t even log in, much less figure out how in the hell I am supposed to get the pics in my blog - which I USED to be able to do without any problems.

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(Consider that outburst a whole shit ton of nasty swear words far worse than “shit.” Actually some of it looks more like math…which is appropriate as it also makes me swear .)

Anyhoo, I can’t focus on this any more, and I’m sure I won’t get an answer from them until next week, so I’m going to bed.

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