so it's been about 7 months...

and it turns out, I missed the blog.

So, without much fanfare

(or a little fanfare, if you like fanfare...but not train fare)

I am back.



yep. still super glam.



Hannah is back.



Still a monkey enthusiast. note the socks. also a mother of 3...Baby Alives.



Hub (& Puagr/Tucker) is back.



Still awesome. Still evil.



And we've got some stories

to distract you with.



the hanny cam is back. oh its back. and it's grown more discerning & bossy yet artistic.



xo,

Sum

Reassurance

splash mountain. aug 2011.

A couple of days ago, I was sitting on the couch reading a quick column in a magazine about parental worries. Specifically, the editors surveyed a group of parents and asked them,

"What have you stopped worrying about as a parent?"

The answers were all across the board and pretty cool.

Then on the next page, they asked kids,

"What should your mom stop worrying about?"

The answers were hilarious and insightful.

For the heck of it, I asked Hannah, who had been coloring at the coffee table right next to me, 

"Hanny, what should mommy stop worrying about?"

Without looking up or missing a beat she said, "Work."

She sounded almost irritated about it.

Something to think about...but not worry about, I guess?

xo,
Sum

Hannah, I mean Amber, I mean Hannah...

So much of Hannah reminds me of my sister, Amber.

Both my mother and I use their names interchangeably.

I'm not consciously sure why this is,

but it doesn't really matter.

They are both pretty wicked.

xo,
Sum

brewski

How cool did you feel as a kid when you popped off the top of a root beer and then drank it right out of the brown bottle?

Grandpa John teaches Hanny how to get it done. Yep, those are her ballet clothes.



Guess what?

It's still awesome.

xo,

Sum;)

hello kitty

Guess who went to the Macy's sale

and wore her new duds out of the store?

4 1/2 never looked so cool. 2011.

She did have to keep taking off her hat

because it was making her head sweaty.

That's what sequins in August will do to a gal. Am I right?

xo,

Sum;)

take that tv guide

Tell me you've seen the Friends episode when the Guys challenge (and eventually defeat) the Girls in a trivia battle over who knows who better. It includes the following bit
(roughly recreated from my memory):

Ross asks, "The Guys get TV Guide delivered every week. What name appears on the address label?"

Rachel, "Chandler gets it! It's Chandler Bing!"

Monica, "No!"
Ross, "I'm afraid the TV Guide goes to, 'Chanandaler Bong.'"

Chandler, "That's Miss Chanandaler Bong."

So rad. Even showed that episode in my class at UCSD. Yes, it was a rad class if I do say so myself. ;)

(click here to see the YouTube clip of this bit. magic happens around 2:25. clip includes "the lighting round". i majored in lightning round.)

Transition to real life...

once my sister ("Amber Neilson") received mail--not sure what piece of mail exactly--addressed to "Aubrey Priesen". 

Awesome. Sometimes we still call her that...ok, lots of times we still call her that. What up Aubrey!

Today, I got this:

not sure he'll answer to this...do you think the "A" is silent?

Yep. That's two vaccine notifications for our two cats: "Belle" (on the left) and "Tucker"(on the right).

How's that? "Belle" and "TUCKER".

TUCKER. T-U-C-K-E-R.  or in this case, "P-U-A-G-R".

I mean come on.

(pause, because i seriously just choked from a coughing attack triggered by laughing so hard at "PUAGR".)

We are pronouncing it "Poo-uh-ger".

The "PUA" makes me feel like it's Hawaiian...but the "GR" makes me think, perhaps Russian.

Then again, when I say it, "Poo-uh-ger" it sounds oddly Indian.

Here's my question, when I take Belle and "the other cat" in for the aforementioned vaccinations, do I sign him in as "Tucker" and then risk having a complete laughing conniption after I have to point out the error on the reminder card...because, seriously, I think I will laugh so hard again that it'll be an issue. OR do I sign him in as "Puagr" and just play it off like, "Yeah, we like exotic names for our animals"?

ahahahahack hack hack hack,

Sum;)

ps What is Chandler Bing's job?

thanks hub

my very own sunday.

Sometimes a girl just needs to be left alone with her thoughts and guilty pleasures.



my flowers.



But, sometimes a girl doesn't know how to ask for that...luckily for this girl, i married a man who knew better. He brought home flowers for Hanny & me on Friday afternoon.

hanny's flowers on her nightstand. i love her.

Then he took my little love up to visit some of his family members for the weekend.

and

left me

           all

                                 by

                                                my                          

                                                                                                     self.

And let me assure you. It was glorious.

I read. I wrote. I watched chick DVDs.

Painted my fingers & toes.

I even went to an old school

Latin Catholic Mass.

There I am.

I missed me.

Take a break from your life 

                    and find yourself.

xo,

Sum;)