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Pajamas and Coffee Book Club Week 6
"The bottle gleamed in the air between us. I took the whiskey, planning a courtesy sip. But the aroma stopped me just as my tongue touched the glass mouth. The warm silk flowered in my mouth and down my gullet, after which a little blue flame of pleasure roared back up my spine. A poof of sequins...
Apeshit for Alpha-Bits So I had this little freak-out at the grocery store.
There was a sale on cereal. For $1.49 a box, which is really cheap. My kids (ok, BOB and I) eat sugary kids cereal by the seeming truckload, so I was going to stock up. Plus, we are expecting like two feet of snow around here, so everyone in...
Happy Hump Day!
I have a lot to learn about sex.
I know, it sounds funny, since I am 40, and have managed to have four children.
But I wrote a post about a duck sex toy, and I had fun. And now? I am thrilled to announce that I will be blogging for Edenfantasys.com every other Wednesday, right here at Pajamas...
When Your Kid is Your Designated Driver
Yesterday my oldest daughter got her learner's permit.
To drive.
A car.
More specifically: my car (a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee) which she immediately began referring to as 'her car.' (which SHOULD mean I get a new one, but doesn't because having a car payment again isn't really in the budget...)
In...
Period.
Periods suck.
I don't have one anymore thank JESUS because after four kids I had this thing called a uterine ablasion where the doc kinda carves you like a Jack o' Lantern and then you can't have kids or periods anymore. More women should know about this deal, because? It rocks.
Having three...
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Asking the Bloggess
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on February 09 2010
Gotta say? I love doing interviews.
So, in an effort to do a few more around here at Pajamas and Coffee, I am pleased to present the following interview with Jenny, The Bloggess.
marymac: When you agreed to let me interview you, I Googled “Interview With the Bloggess” so I could like steal, I mean be inspired by question ideas, and there were 11,300 results.
Bloggess: You probably accidentally looked up “Interview With the Vampire”. That was a kick-ass movie. I’m surprised there...
Why I Didn’t Post Today
Posted by marymac at 5:15 pm on February 08 2010
Gosh, guys, I’m really sorry.
I normally have a Monday post up and at ‘em but I woke up this morning with a migraine aura. It’s the flickering-edged stars that mean I’m about to get slammed by a killer migraine that will last two days. I took a new medicine prescribed for me by the (ancient, yet I totally have a creepy crush on him…) neurologist I saw Friday. He ‘didn’t find anything’ on my brain scan thingy (not surprisingly) so it looks like for some reason I...
Pajamas and Coffee Book Club Week 6
Posted by marymac at 2:47 pm on February 07 2010
“The bottle gleamed in the air between us. I took the whiskey, planning a courtesy sip. But the aroma stopped me just as my tongue touched the glass mouth. The warm silk flowered in my mouth and down my gullet, after which a little blue flame of pleasure roared back up my spine. A poof of sequins went sparkling through my middle.”
As the kid of an alcoholic, I could definitely identify with this book. Plus, I’m in love with Memoir as a literary form- I feel like once you’ve...
Apeshit for Alpha-Bits
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on February 05 2010
So I had this little freak-out at the grocery store.
There was a sale on cereal. For $1.49 a box, which is really cheap. My kids (ok, BOB and I) eat sugary kids cereal by the seeming truckload, so I was going to stock up. Plus, we are expecting like two feet of snow around here, so everyone in our panicked Maryland small town was like stocking up, so it was in the air.
For some reason, I checked the little list hanging by the cereal, which told you which brands were on sale. Cocoa Pebbles? Check....
Happy Hump Day!
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on February 03 2010
I have a lot to learn about sex.
I know, it sounds funny, since I am 40, and have managed to have four children.
But I wrote a post about a duck sex toy, and I had fun. And now? I am thrilled to announce that I will be blogging for Edenfantasys.com every other Wednesday, right here at Pajamas and Coffee for “Hump Day Wednesdays.” So if you were a fan of my Fuck a Duck or Jiffy Lube posts, then stop by here on Wednesdays to continue laughing at me for being a repressed Catholic housewife.
And...
When Your Kid is Your Designated Driver
Posted by marymac at 6:06 am on February 02 2010
Yesterday my oldest daughter got her learner’s permit.
To drive.
A car.
More specifically: my car (a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee) which she immediately began referring to as ‘her car.’ (which SHOULD mean I get a new one, but doesn’t because having a car payment again isn’t really in the budget…)
In case you don’t happen to have an infant baby that you gave birth to after 11 hours of back labor actually DRIVING the car you are RIDING in yet, let me tell you...
Period.
Posted by marymac at 8:04 am on February 01 2010
Periods suck.
I don’t have one anymore thank JESUS because after four kids I had this thing called a uterine ablasion where the doc kinda carves you like a Jack o’ Lantern and then you can’t have kids or periods anymore. More women should know about this deal, because? It rocks.
Having three daughters, I can tell you that one thing that sucks worse than a period is having a daughter who has or is going to have one. Sure, the school shows “THE MOVIE” (this is how my...
Pajamas and Coffee Book Club Week 5
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on January 31 2010
This was the book this week. You know? Of the book club I started that like maybe 3 people are following? So that, essentially, I am reading all 10 of the NYT Best Books of 2009 in the first 10 weeks of 2010 for absofuckingsmurfly no reason at all?
Yeah.
Well, guess what?
I FAIL. I FAILED at finishing the book this week. This was only the 4th book out of the ten (I haven’t even GOTTEN to the Godforsaken banking book yet…) and I have already FAILED.
The good news, though, is sort of why...
WTF Happened to PJ&C?!?!
Posted by marymac at 9:09 am on January 29 2010
I know.
It’s totally different.
But change is good, right!?!??!?
I suck at change. I freaked out when this thing went live last night. Karrine at @HerMedia did an amazing job (and I am not even mad at her for redoing the header and misspelling my slogan….). She worked amazingly, amazingly hard.
There are still TONS of little things I need to fix..the blogroll isn’t pulling all my peeps- will fix that today. She’s trying to add little pictures in the ‘featured posts’-...
BlogHer ‘10 NYC…and Me!
Posted by marymac at 10:27 am on January 28 2010
Watch out, Big Apple.
I just got confirmation that I am going to be speaking at the BlogHer ‘10 national blogging conference in New York City this August 5-7.
Words can’t describe how completely nervous, kinda throwing up in my mouth a little totally ecstatic I am! Thrilled that the conference is in NYC… some of you may recall reading about my strong feelings for New York.
Here is the agenda for the conference. The description for the session in which I’m speaking (Saturday...
- Fuck a Duck (107)
Full disclosure: This is my first sex toy review. I believe I had worse...
- Use Your Powers For Good, Dooce (85)
Heather B. Armstrong (whose blog is known as ‘dooce’) is considered...
- Dear Rock Star Blogger (71)
Dear More Talented, More Popular, More Important Blogger/Author, Hi....
- Fitting In Is Totally Overrated (60)
I am the Queen of Not Fitting In. I did not fit in when I was in...
- Being a Broke Blogger Sucks (59)
I don't want to depress everyone, but dude, who else is broke besides me? I...
WARNING: There is PORN on the INTERNET
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on January 27 2010
Since I ’sold out’ and began writing shameless sex toy posts, I have learned a few things. First, that some people don’t like sex toy posts. Second, if there is an article featuring you and your blog about to come out in a statewide regional magazine, it will be pulled out because publishers are ‘concerned what people will find’ when they come to your blog.
Guess what my response is to these overly puritanical, anal retentive fuckwads is?
Well, I guess it’s once...
Dearly Departed
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on January 26 2010
Not to be morbid, but I really think it’s time to ‘nail down’ the details of my funeral.
I went for a CT scan of the brain yesterday, because I have been having slamming migraines-that-suck-donkey for about the last 16 years or so. So, although in the brain scan they probably won’t find anything (heh), I laid there on the table deciding, in my typically exaggerative style, that the worst thing that could happen would be death by inoperable brain tumor.
I mean, really, we’re...
Oh, Baby
Posted by marymac at 6:11 am on January 25 2010
Went to a baby shower yesterday for a good friend of mine from high school. A few other friends there were either expecting or had new babies. Today, my oldest starts driving* and now that all four of mine are in school, I sort of feel like I am at the opposite end of the ‘tunnel of motherhood’ into which my friends have entered. At least, it’s nice to see there’s a light at the end of it.
It was nice to be at a baby shower again, because babies are just yummy. What’s...
Pajamas and Coffee Book Club Week 4
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on January 24 2010
This week’s book was the very much nonfiction:
Pulitzer Prize winner David Finkel lives here in Maryland, so I was pleased to find out someone in our state made it to the NYT Best Books of 2009 list.
This book was a hard read for me for a personal reason.
It’s a very realistic report from the front lines in Iraq, where journalist Finkel spent a year with the Ranger Battalion 2-16 during ‘The Surge’ in 2007-2008, a seeming last-ditch effort on President Bush’s part to...
Share a Blog Saturday
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on January 23 2010
I love to share other cool blogs with my readers.
I want you to meet my pal Alison over at Creative Spayce.
Her blog is completely cool- I love her style- don’t miss her recent twitter post- it’s a riot, brilliantly written and so, so true. Follow her on twitter @pixielation.
Also, I want to thank her for all her comments and support here at Pajamas and Coffee, which I really appreciate.
Please go visit Creative Spayce!
Gal Sprout Cupcakes
Posted by marymac at 9:12 am on January 22 2010
In the past week, I did something I never thought I would do here at Pajamas and Coffee.
I deleted an entire post.
Why I never thought I’d do it: I’m my own editor and publisher which is what I love about blogging.
Why I did it: a phone call from a certain national organization for girls that shall remain nameless. But I have to call them something, so let’s just say, I got a call from the “GAL SPROUTS” (wink).
The woman on the phone indicated that ’she was sure...
Peace and Pubic Hair
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on January 21 2010
I do Yoga. Not because I am any kind of fitness type (in fact, I go out after Yoga and eat a sausage egg and cheese sandwich downtown because I am STARVING), but because it is THE. ONLY. thing that chills me out.
That’s legal.
I have been doing yoga for about 12 years. There have been times when I’ve missed sessions because of being busy with (or giving birth to) the four kids, but I always come back to it. Why?
Because there’s Happy Nappy at the end. It’s actually called...
Love/Hate GPS Relationship
Posted by marymac at 3:36 pm on January 18 2010
I am calling her ‘Bitch.’
Ok, so I was the last person on earth to get a GPS. My husband ‘got it for me for Christmas*,’ and by ‘got it for me for Christmas,’ I mean owes me a fucking weekend at the spa.
But we were getting sick of getting lost trying to find our daughter’s travel soccer games, I hate Mapquest and calling @OutnumberedisMe when I get lost upon entering New York City doesn’t seem like a good long-term navigational plan, especially...
Pajamas and Coffee Book Club Week 3
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on January 17 2010
So, how’s that whole reading the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2009 in the first 10 weeks of ‘10 thing going, you ask?
Well, I’m great at ignoring dustbunnies, so it’s going great!
This past week’s book was Both Ways is The Only Way I Want It
by Maile Meloy and it was fantastic.
You know a book is good when you read it slowly. Reading a book quickly (like I, er, did last week because there were 552 pages of goddamned footnotes) means you are trying to finish it. But...
Share a Blog Saturday
Posted by marymac at 6:00 am on January 16 2010
Let me introduce Coupledumb.com to you. The blog slogan in their header says it all: “Welcome To Our Kingdom, Don’t Pee in the Moat.”
Meet Lee and Paul. Married for over 20 years, they blog together, do a hilarious BlogTalkRadio and MomTV show together, and share daily with the public “How we screw up love, relationships, marriage, sex and family.”
Lee (who is hilarious and one of my best bloggy pals) is a psychotherapist so all of her writing (even peppered with...
