Mrs. CPA

Traveling (Wo)man

I've been in Atlanta all week for a tax conference.  I'm sure some of you would rather have your toes gnawed off by a rabid possum, but it hasn't been too bad.  The Georgia Tech Conference Center and Hotel has been pretty good, and I should know since I've only left the building three times since I got here on Sunday.  Once to eat dinner with my brother and his wife on Sunday, once to walk to Publix yesterday and once this afternoon to get my toenails painted 20 feet away at the nail place.  We had a casino night, where I won a million dollars and got 10 raffle tickets for my trouble, which netted my exactly NOTHING.  There was a vendor fair, but I didn't stick around too long for that since its main attraction was margaritas and Mexican beer, of which I can not partake.  I got the Hudsonator a sombrero though.  That should be hilarious to get home on the plane. 

Tonight is our activity free night and I've signed up to go shopping.  I'm wishing I had that million dollars in real money about now.  At least I'll be out of my room for a few hours, and hopefully have something decent to eat and show off my toenails to Atlantians. 

I sat next to a guy yesterday who kept furtively flipping up his conference notepad and scribbling something.  Being the nosy person that I am, I glanced at what he was doing.  He had a wedding ring on and his cell phone screen saver was of two little girls.  He was writing a letter to his wife, who I think had cheated on him.  Or something equally bad, but I think I caught the word "affair" in there.  I really wanted to lay my hand on his arm and tell him I hoped it worked out for his family, but then I would have had to admit I was eaves-reading and I couldn't do that either.  So, Dude, if you find this, I hope your family gets repaired when you get home.  That has to suck.  Something happens to you that is so terrible you have to try and pay attention to very important state and local tax issues while your heart is at home, and facing the uncertainty of what you will find when you get there and writing on your Georgia Tech three-hole punched notepad what you want to tell your wife when you get there. 

And on that cheery note.  It's time to announce the winner of the contest from last week.  I went shopping at the Lenox mall this evening with a group of 5 nice ladies.  I completed the prize package to include with the main prize, Rockabye by Rebecca Woolf.  I used the Random number generator to pick one of the ten comments I received.  (Since I wasn't too swift about getting back to you all, I totally ignored the deadline.  Sue me.) 

It picked comment:

which is Bethany!  Who TOTALLY deserves a surprise in the mail right now.  Bethany, send me your address and I'll send you a present!

I'll be home tomorrow, so don't be gettin' any ideas about stealing my husband and kid. 

A Million Years Ago...

Five years ago today, we spent a week in Hawaii getting married.  Not only was it the best and most beautiful decision of our lives, we were skinny to boot.  I know we have to look at that candle with our wedding date on it to see how long it's actually been, I like to think it's becuase the time is flying by with all the fun we're having.

I love you more than anything in this world, Tim.  I'm so happy we met each other in that crazy little UCA dorm residence hall over 10 years ago.  I have laughed more, loved more, and cried more than I would have with any other person on earth.  And I have loved every minute of it. 

Thank you for following me and my crazy schemes.  You have to admit that while sometimes they lead to disaster, they sometimes lead to miracles like this:

And This:

I love you.  Thank you for sharing this life with me.

Well, we think

It's a girl.  Probably.  Maybe.  More likely than not.  I'll get to check and see next month to make sure, but we'll start buying pink, just not cutting the tags off yet.  Everything else looked fine.  She looks to have all her parts except her stomach, which was probably empty and unseeable.  We're going to check that out again next time too.  I obviously wasted a whole bag of sour gummy worms in hopes of wiggles but no luck. 

Lists! and a Contest!

My pal Angela and I were having an e-mail conversation about blogging this week.  I said something about wishing I could go to blogher this year and how I would have loved to attended the J&J thing last week.  I told her there were a lot of people going to those events I wanted to meet.  She, of course, asked who those people might be. 

I thought I would share them with you.  So here's my list in no particular order:

Linda from All & Sundry and Parentdish

Amy from Amalah, and various other places

Tracey, of Sweetney and MamaPop

SJ of And All the Jones Men

Samantha from Back to Me And I might get to meet her one day if I can talk my boss into some training close to wear she lives.

Rachel from Crazy Is Who really isn't that far away, only Memphis, but for some reason I never go there.

Stacey from Crazy Mama - I Love her, but I would also love some CAKE!!

Rebecca Woolf from Girl's Gone Child - pay attention, this will be important later

Isabel from Hola, Isabel

Stacey from Hollow Squirrel

Bethany from Ice Cream Mama who hasn't posted in forever becuase she's busy taking care of a baby

That Chick from Jason. For the Love of God - I think she and I would be pals, and I would give her husband a job if he needed one, and her boss a kick in the pants

Kim at Miss Zoot.  We lived in the same state for several years and I never met her

Amy at Milk Breath and Margaritas, she's a new find and I LOVE her, even though she's a size two.  *PPBBTT!*

Kristin from Motherhood Uncensored who actually lives in my state right now.

Kellie from My Little Corner of Life We could go out and arrest people for not putting up shopping carts in parking lots

Kimberly from Petroville

Cagey from Rancid Raves - Accountants Unite!

So maybe they are in some kind of order.  Alphabetical by blog order.  Lame I know.

This doesn't even count the people I have already met - Angela, Amy, Liz and Hillary (who both don't blog anymore), JoyLynn and Donna my professor.

In honor of my list, I have a contest.  Between now and next Tuesday, April 22, 5 pm CST, either post on your blog and link back or leave in the comments your list of bloggers you would like to meet.  This list does not have to include me.  Seriously, I already know you're all dying to meet me.  The winner will be drawn at random from all of the entires on Tuesday night.  The prize will include a copy of the before mentioned Rebecca Woolf's new book Rockabye which I read and LOVED.  I loved it so much I stayed up  and read it past 10 pm and was finished with it the next day after lunch.  I even wrote her a note to tell her how much I loved it.  There'll be some other things in there too.  Good things. 

(For prize testimonials, please ask Isabel or Melinda about the awesomeness of the prizes they received in December. There was homemade FUDGE involved.)

Our New Baby

Oh, you thought I meant the baby I'm gestating?  No.  Please see above for the new baby.  It was purchased with our stimulus package monies (which have not arrived yet, but are imminent) and Tim's sheer determination.  I finally got tired of hearing about it and told him to JUST BUY THE DAMN THING ALREADY.  GOD.

It has managed to already cost us an additional $200 plus $10 a month (just like a real kid!) to watch the damn thing and have it not look like "crap." I guess being able to see Battlestar Galactia and Stargate:Atlantis' hot babes with hot boobs in HD is worth $10.  I can get this hotness in HD:

So I'm not complaining much.

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Oh, on April 22 we will be traveling to the Doctor to check out the goods on our actual, human baby. I''ve got a post before then, but get ready.

 

Another Milestone Achieved

Hudson pooped in the tub last night for THE VERY FIRST TIME.

Why isn't there an entry in baby books for the one? And no, I didn't take any pictures. I was to busy running to get the bleach.

In other news, and by news I mean -crazy shit that has happened...

I was driving along to work this morning, stopped in traffic after dropping off the boys at day care, and a GIANT TOM TURKEY comes out of the woods and waddles along beside the road. That did not help speed up traffic any.