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Quick Fix: Don’t Lose Those Drumsticks

April 23, 2013

My son loves drums.

This is great; encouraging musicality, general adorableness, et cetera et cetera. It'll probably be less great when he's sixteen, but for the time being it's extremely cute.

What is not great is the fact that drums - and drum-related things like xylophones - come with components called "drumsticks", which we might as well just toss out the car window on the way home from the toy store, that's how easy they are to lose. Don't even get me started on my dogs and these things. You please try explaining to Lucy and Virgil that my son's toys are not made of beef jerky and ambrosia; I don't want to deal with it.

Anyway, I came up with a solution, so I thought I'd share.

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Love

Weekend Snapshots: Big Days And Bouncy Castles Edition

April 15, 2013

You know how they say that mothers get all nostalgic and weepy and fall into little my-baby's-growing-up-too-fast emotional pieces during the first haircut?

Nah.

I mean, trust me: I have plenty of weepy my-baby's-growing-up-too-fast moments. Plenty.

This just wasn't one of them; I was more or less thrilled that we made it through the entire experience without tears or, you know...stab wounds caused by contact between a flailing baby head and an errant pair of scissors.

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SNAPSHOTS

Boulder, Day 2

April 11, 2013

This is where I spent most of yesterday: in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, Chatauqua Park. You know, in college I had a roommate who had grown up right in this part of Boulder, and was always going on and on about how it was the best place in the world, and everyone should live there, and I didn't really get it...

But now I do. It's that beautiful. And the people are friendly, and everyone's outdoorsy, and the streets are clean, and the restaurants (from what I've seen) are great, and the vintage shopping appears fairly spectacular (I'll do more research on this point later on today), and et cetera et cetera. A+ city.

This photograph is much less weird than it appears: that's me posing with my makeup artist, Cindy, while our sound guy adjusts my mic. I can't explain why I'm holding that stick.

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Off To Colorado: In My Carry-On

April 8, 2013

I'm headed to Colorado for the week with Better TV, filming a bunch of segments on fall/holiday fashion (yes, already). This trip has presented a bit of a packing conundrum, because it's apparently going to fluctuate between sixty degrees and a blizzard during the five days that I'll be there. Oh yes, and I'm bringing wardrobe for five different segments, plus a couple of additional segments that we may or may not film...but at this point aren't exactly certain what said segments might entail.

Which makes them difficult to pack for.

Basically, I'm bringing All The Things.

But here's what I'm bringing in my carry-on (that's an Isabella Fiore satchel).

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