Diary of a Metal Mommy

Kim came over yesterday afternoon–not for a cup of coffee, mind you, but a cup of her own Chai Tea complete with Chai flavored Coffee Mate that she herself brought over. (have Cream Crap, will travel…!) I have to say, it was a lovely way to spend a quiet, dreary afternoon.

Here she is sporting Ms. Coach. As soon as she whipped it over her shoulder she proceeded to strut around my living room with it on. I made her stop mid-strut for this photo. I’m glad she’s not jealous about my new best friend. But we ladies have to all stick together, right?!

I have absolutely no New Year’s plans, and you know, that’s just fine. Just hanging out here with my family and Ms. Coach works for me. That’s where the ‘Metal’ part of Metal Mommy definitely loses out to the ‘Mommy’ part–I can barely stay up until midnight any more. Pathetic! I mean, a cozy evening with friends is definitely a great thing, but being out at a crazy party with people drinking, acting stupid and puking just to say, “hooray!” when the clock strikes midnight is not my idea of a good time. Does anything special ever happen at midnight?! No. It’s just another day. I will reflect on the old year in my own quiet way…by waking up on January 1st 2007 with no hangover, just a cup of coffee and high hopes that this new year will be just as great to me as 2006 has been.

Sweet Santa brought me Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Dead Man’s Chest in my stocking–I was quite thrilled. I never got around to seeing it in the theater, and I loved the first one. As you readers well know, I love Orlando…and Johnny Depp ain’t bad, either. (did I ever mention that he winked at me once?!) I have to say, I was disappointed in this one. It was fun, but it’s like it tried too hard to be fun. It didn’t have the light-heartedness that the first one did. But of course a movie in which Orlando and Johnny don pirate gear and run around acting manly is never a bad thing, no matter how poor the script. All I can say is that Keira Knightley is one lucky chick–she actually gets paid to kiss BOTH of those manly men. Whew!

I dropped the kids off at Vicky’s today and Ms. Coach and I hit a couple of malls for some pure unadulterated after-Christmas shopping. What a thrill! I have to say I felt damn spunky showing my purse off. Not that anyone probably noticed, and of course it’s oh so vulgar, but hey. A Metal Mommy has to get her jollies somehow.

I was In Search Of once more…looking for some funky yet sophisticated clothes to bring to Washington, D.C. Yes, you read right, I will be visiting the one and only state capitol in about a month with the fam. All thanks to Vivian, who quite unexpectantly landed a commercial job that will bring us all there. That’s about all I can say about it right now–everything about it is very hush-hush at this point, and it’s killing me. A mother wants to brag about her children, but I have to reel it all in. In the meantime, I can shop. I just needed (or, wanted?!) a couple of ‘bottom’ pieces that weren’t jeans to dress things up just a bit. Ann Taylor Loft turned out to be a good place to go, as I ended up with a skirt and some cool dress-shorts there! Believe it or not, this Metal Mommy loves Ann Taylor. When I want to pretend to be sophisticated, that’s where I go. Their clothes fit me so well and they have many nice alternatives to skull t-shirts when I want to look a bit more like a grown-up.

I also shimmied myself into the Guess store to look at wallets….I love the whole Guess purse thing, in fact, the purse I was using all the time before Ms. Coach took over was a Guess. I got a great deal on a wallet that actually matches that old girl. Now maybe she won’t feel too left out, and know that I still love her. I’ll pull her out again eventually, of course, but for now I’m too infactuated with my blue patent leather. It still gives me butterflies when I catch sight of it from across the way…! Oh dear, maybe my purse and I need to get a room?! Ha!

Speaking of shopping/fashion/fads, I’ll leave you with this photo of me with an upside-down Christmas tree, which I guess was the new decorating thing this holiday season. Personally, I don’t get it. But hey, I guess they have to keep thinking of ways to shake it up!

“You know,” started my revelation to my husband a few weeks ago,” I can honestly say that at this moment, I don’t want a new purse.” This was a huge statement for me, considering I LOVE bags. I don’t have a million of them, mind you, but I am a true believer that a woman can never have enough purses. There is one for every mood, every purpose. I dream about bags like Carrie Bradshaw dreams of shoes.

About half an hour after this statement was made, my friend Vicky came in for a visit. The statement I had made not so long before went completely out the window as I caught sight of her amazing tote. My eyes widened, my mouth salivated–it was the most incredible white patent leather purse I had ever seen. And of course it wasn’t from Target or anything, Oh No. It was a Coach bag. Well, forget about it. I became obsessed. I knew it was beyond me, but as I gazed lovingly at the photo of it on the Coach site I discovered that the thing even came in BLUE. Not just any blue, but a cornflower-type blue patent leather. Can you stand it?? I know I can’t. And poor Coreman. It became the constant joke. Anything he would bring up I would be like, “but does it come in blue patent leather?” Everything was about the One Purse–but quite honestly, I figured it was only a dream.

Last night we get home from church to open presents. At some point Cory hands me a note written by Sullivan with a clue on it, a scavenger hunt type game we often play around here. (it’s very Scooby Doo, of course.) I think you can guess what was on the bed in my room. The most beautiful brown box tied in magenta ribbon, just waiting to be opened. And inside….THE ONE PURSE TO RULE THEM ALL! I just stood there, with my hand over my mouth. I couldn’t even open that box for the longest time–I just had to stand there and take it all in.

So, there it is. Is my husband not the best ever?! But like The One Ring, the purse is all-together evil, I’m afraid. Because a Coach wallet would sure look nice inside…ha! But a woman can not be greedy, oh no. (well she could, but she shouldn’t be.) Maybe Target has some nice cheap faux patent leather? Nothing could top this Christmas present. Except maybe the husband that got it for me…:-)

I know it’s been a while, and I apologize to my 2 big fans out there who have been waiting for a post. Cousin Ann has been visiting from Mississippi, and quite frankly we are just too busy to be bloggin’. As Cuz would say, we’ve been ‘goin’ and blowin’. (and as it is, this is a couple of days late now….I had good intentions to get this posted and then my computer was giving me grief. Grief!)

She arrived Sunday afternoon. To tell you the truth I can’t even remember when we did what at this point, but we’ve been to Target, Byerlys, (but of course!), Ann’s been to the Mall of America (I dropped her off and she shopped all day!) both kids’ school for their holiday parties, to the Macy’s 8th floor display of “Mary Poppins”…but the two main highlights were having Ann on our podcast last night and then going out to eat with her and the peeps to Salut. What fun! Tomorrow we’ll be shopping at the mall with Vivian–yeah!–and celebrating Ann’s birthday!!! Personally I feel like we’ve been celebrating all week.

Another highlight has been deflowing Cousin Ann with a Lord of the Rings experience–she had never seen any of the movies and believe you me, I had to fix that. Every night after the kids are in bed we sneak downstairs for another installment. I swear even after seeing them at least 10 times watching them with her has been like watching them again for the first time! She loves them just like I do. Sigh! And the fact that it was always Christmas-time that the new movie would always come out in the theater makes it that much more fun. Weeeee!

So this blog entry will be short and sweet–as it is I hear Cousin Ann playing Scooby-Doo with Sullivan in the other room and I probably need to go rescue her…more later!