The natural next post....

I'll get Kiran's pics up next, I don't have any yet! She's a bee, but I want to bee-witch her. Punk it out a litte ya know? Combat boots, black ribon in the hair, a black long-sleeve thermal shirt underneath with thumb holes ripped out, teased hair, black paint on her nails...maybe she'll chew on it a little? hahahah.
i'll stop. stop living my 11 year old life again! :=)

grrr, check out me earrrrring!




Here's what mine will eventually get to. I've got it all but the shoes. I love the old school nurse dresses! I can't believe I still fit into mine. I was about 105-110 lbs when I wore it last because it was super duper baggy! Anyways, if you've seen Kill Bill Volume 1, you know who California Mountain Snake is. It's the awesome movie with Uma Thurman, give it an hour if you haven't yet. Or....give me an hour Saturday night at Fitz. I go on at 11 downstairs and it's free in the spirit of Halloween. Upstairs AND downstairs in fact. And both have great line-ups! DRESS UP!

Update

Wanna know why it sounded like 10 maids in my room at the W Hotel? Because it wasn't a guest room next door to me it was a made closet...well, closet is hardly it...it was just as big as my room, about 400 square feet. They were in and out of that place beginning at 4am and the door slams as loud as any other door on the hallway. prop it open ladies, prop it open!

I think I might have to actually send a polite note to hotel management. And I might as well tell them that i didn't like that when you called the front desk they answered really fast saying something about "Whatever and Whenever, how can I help you?"....I get the "w" thing, but chill out.

ha ha hee haw hah!

i'm in san francisco on a business trip, and have sadly yet to try out a restaurant or market that is recommended by "Heidi" on her vegetarian website (www.101cookbooks.com). I did have a nice dinner on the water overlooking the golden gate bridge last night with my boss, which was vegan with a fully organic wine list! The restaurant was called "Greens".
Okay, I can talk more about all of that in a later post, i'm just still cracking up at how i woke up this morning. My alarm went off probably around 5:30 and i hit snooze. First of all, mistake. If i think back to my Philly week-long meeting then i should have just known better. It would be "off with her head" had I actually been late. It's only 7:30 am here now.
So, I am sleeping great at the W Hotel. They have the "Heavenly" bed and I get like 80 down pillows to myself. (thank you poor dead ducks). Sure it's comfy, but I do wake up a few times at night for some reason and feel wide awake. It's odd. This morning I heard what sounded like 10 people in my own damn room cleaning, walking around in the bathroom, closing doors every 60 seconds. No dialogue, just rushing about. I finally snapped to just thinking wtf is going on?! I started to actually get angry. I thought it had to be 1:40 still (the last time I awoke in bed and looked at my clock). I'm coming to more and more, "What on earth could anyone have to do right now? Why are they awake? Why are they awake? Why are they awake?....HOLY CRUD, WHY AM I NOT AWAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I had peeked over to see my phone wasn't on the bedside which means one thing. It's lost in the sheets and rather than snooze i turned it off. i am SOOOO lucky it was only 5:30.

I just thought it was funny. I can write more about the trip...or trips...later. I head to philly tomorrow for another meeting and then finally back to my big love and little loves! I've said it before and will say it again. They pull off sounding both Younger than ever AND Older than ever over the phone. I guess you here the innocence in their voices and in your heart you just know you have these little dependents. That part means YOUNG. They are young and totally dependent on you. Their voices are small, they are small. But they are also smart. They are well spoken telling me all about their days and plans for the evening, side stories, the whole package. It's just adorable.
Daddy mentioned a REALLY twisted pun indeed last night that Kiran has made since i left the house. I don't have the back story on this and i'm not sure i want it, but Kiran says, "I'll cut off your two lips and throw them on your grave". I can only assume since he spelled out TWO LIPS and not tuplips, she really was making some sort of morbid reference.She's 6 man! This honestly does not surprise me one bit.
Funny kids.

okay time for my egg white scrambler, walnut toast,and get this - vegetarian sausage. They serve that downstairs at the xyz cafe. Isn't that nuts. As many nice hotels I've stayed at with crazy healthy options, I've NEVER seen veggie sausage. They're veggie burger with gruyere cheese actually blew me away Sunday as well.

i'm truly done guys, i need to get to work.

Daddy if you read this I love you!

Dallas, be good to them!

We (Hiss & Hum) thoroughly enjoyed playing with The Vaselines last night. Their record label hooked the entire crowd up! Hundreds got in free. Well, depending on your age! I believe I was a bit star struck but nevertheless i got over that and talked to them a bit (oddly about vegan food). Such a great group of Scotts! She even came and pottied in our dressing room! you should have seen the look on my face!

You missed out if you didn't see them play last night. I don't know if you missed out on us, but I sure loved playing last night. The sound guy was awesome. Thanks Joe! And the accomadations were probably the best I've had in a LONG time. I hope to play there again in the near future...with another band that pretty much made me get into music and start playing guitar when I was 13. I mean, come on, who gets to do that? I feel lucky. I've done it a few times now, and that one was just surreal! And it was all the better since daddy got to be there with me! Hiss & Hum photo creds go to daddy & and the Vaselines pics are mine.

I'm sure you'll especially love the picture of MY tour bus parked behind THEIR tour bus. By the way, we got a parking ticket for there. Will Sub Pop Records be willing to help out with that you think?!

Eugene Kelly, Frances, I love you!
















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What am I doing?

I am detoxing. Not dieting. Not fasting. Not starving (depending on the hour), just detoxing! This is such a satisfying experience, I have to say! I’m only on day 2 but I actually do feel a transformation.
This morning I woke up incredibly early, about 5am, but didn’t eat breakfast until nearly 9…and this is after about 34 hours of not putting much in my system calorie-wise. I had a small Fiber one yogurt with almonds added to it. I was full which is another shocker to me! I didn’t eat again until 11:30.
But lets take it from the start here. The what’s and the why’s have to be answered. I’ve been looking into several juice detoxes and while I don’t feel they’re too severe or anything it just felt odd jumping right into something like that. The whole purpose of a detox is to get rid of the toxins we carry around. I’m not the only one walking around poisoned, you are too my friend! But we really do have this addiction to unhealthy foods, sugars, salts, and other unnatural products. I don’t have a real problem with that, but I might to some degree. And a detox is a bit like rehab for drug addicts in my mind. Their purpose for going is to spend time off of drugs so that the body can stop craving them and can begin to heal itself. Then they can get a new start on life and hopefully clean themselves up and do what is right. I want that for my diet. I want to spend as many days as I can completely away from the foods I know I am addicted to and shouldn’t be eating as frequently. After a few days, my body will naturally lose that addiction as I fill it with the foods that are whole, raw, and nutritious. Those are the foods my body will then begin to crave (I HOPE!). And during this process my body can heal itself on the inside.
Now for the foods. I chose super foods only. If you don’t know what a super food is, you can google it to find out more but I am allowing myself to eat raw, uncooked foods that do not contain sugar (minus 1 or 2 that you’ll read about) and they are:

Broccoli
Oranges
Blueberries
Pumpkin / Carrots
Sweet Potato (haven’t bought any yet)
Beans
Spinach raw
Tomatoes
Walnuts
Almonds
Quinoa (a cooked grain)
Kiwi
Low Fat Yogurt (the cultures / live bacteria are perfect for a detox)
Black and Green Teas

I actually added in cauliflower, radish, and an itsy bitsy pinch of olive oil and lemon juice to spice up my quinoa.

The reason I am going into such detail about all of this is in case any of you feel like trying it. That way you have the list of foods that you can mix and match and hopefully will find a way to enjoy it like I have. I HONESTLY went into this thinking I would last maybe a whole day. I know that sounds ridiculous..with all those foods, just a day? I didn’t hold out much hope for some reason. My coworker is doing this with me and it helps to sort of hold each other up (even though this is actually pretty easy) and I asked her how long she thought she could do it. We said last week that we “would” do it for the first 3 days of this week. She very confidently said she’d do it for all 3 days, and I was shocked. Jealous. Then secretly confident as she. So, here I am at 1pm feeling totally full but have plenty of snacks near by just in case! It feels awesome! Do it!

Child Speak

This isn’t so much a word but it’s a quote I guess. As we drove to school this morning we thought it was any other Monday. Who’s Columbus anyways. Okay, that’s not a fair statement, but it’s enough to close his school. And we, in a complete hurry as usual, noise in the background, non-compliant kids, just totally forgot about this. Needless to say Oliver is here at work with me. He wants to know why we have purse racks in the room, he only asked this on our 5th potty break in an hour! He wants to show me the “t” he drew every 3 seconds. He wants to practice being quiet when the phone rings and darn it, why won’t that phone ring! I’ve to provide snacks: Mint Hot Chocolate, Nilla Wafer Mini’s, Carrots, Tomatoes, and a cutie. He offered me some cookies and I politely declined and just skimmed the topic of the detox I began this morning. (I’ll maybe find some time to talk about that in a new post this morning). I told him a big part of the unhealthy foods were the sugars and things like that. And of course the tells me he likes sugar. Well duh kid! So we keep talking about it and eventually he blurts out, “well mom, sugar can pretend to be good!... It CAN!”

I wish I had audio with it man!

Back to work. I can’t have a kid talking full speed behind me PLUS not be working. My boss just got in!

Cheers everyone! By the way, here’s a late welcome to October, my favorite month of the year.

zombies

I love the blank espression on olivers face, and the zombie like look he and isaac have! I wish i would have taken another but I didn't! They were cruising for sure, though!

"Arbeetum"

I think every time we've visited the Dallas Arboretum it's been perfect outside, but this past weekend my have outshined them all! Perfection. Well, we did lack a few smiles in some pictures. I'll never know why Kiran loves to hate posing. (we don't say hate).

Party @ School

Not sure why Kingston never really ate his cupcake. Did he watch them make it or something?!

The Rice Krispie FEAT!

This one just deserves a post all to itself doesn't it?!