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I’m Not Here

Necklace & Sunnies – F21
Dress – from Ruche
Shoes – Payless
Bag – Matt by Matt&Nat

This week I’m away in B.C. for my friend Emily’s wedding.  I’m taking pictures and making more CoffeeTalk vids and I’ll share all that with you when I return *I’m working on the assumption that you guys enjoy that sort of stuff. If you don’t, well…sorry I got nothing*  
The magic of pictures and falling way behind on outfit posts due to giveaways and the two linkys that I’ve ever done (please see below) is that I get to share these nuggets with you while I’m still away!  Neat huh?  Okay, maybe not that neat. 
Maybe I’m just easily amused.

True Story:
Seeing Baby Girl’s little bum wiggle as she runs for the pool and the ruffles on her bathing suit sway in time is perhaps the cutest thing I’ve seen all month.

*Re: Linkys – this will not be a common thing – so please don’t expect it – tomorrow is a linky that will run once every two months and that’s the only one I plan to do. Sorry, but linkys on ModaMama is not what I’m about.  It’s nothing personal against those who run them.  I enjoy them on other blogs.  It just doesn’t ring true to me.  Thank you for your understanding.*

Random Sundays: Bikes or Bison?

A walk in High Park Zoo was the highlight for Baby Girl.  
But the animals had to compete with this bike that also caught her attention.

Pole Dancing? Oh My!

Yup, you read that right.  I went to pole dancing class.  It was my friend Emily’s bachelorette party and this was what was planned: class followed by drinks and good food at a local bistro.  Of course, I couldn’t let the night go by without buying her a huge tiara, magic wand, and boa to wear all night.  And the ladies all sported matching tiaras too!

I’m pretty sure everyone had a good time.  I certainly did.  Especially escorting a certain happily-silly bride-to-be home!

Nerd Mecca

 Dress –   *similar*
Sunnies – F21
Shoes – H&M
Rings – F21 and Threadsence
Necklace – from Poland

I’ve been watching all the updates and fun panels, and articles that have come out of the latest Comic Con and it has made me realize that I, this huge huge nerd, have never once traveled to this Mecca of nerdom.  How can the lady who has seen every episode of Star Trek, BSG, Buffy, along with pretty much every sci-fi movie ever made have never been to Comic Con?  How can I, who cried within the first 5 second of The Next Generation theme song while pregnant, call myself a nerd having never gone?  How can I quote FireFly episodes when there’s this black void in my life?
It’s a gapping hole on my nerd resume, really.  An embarrassment.  Something akin to calling yourself a chef without knowing how to work a stove. Or being a New Yorker and never even glancing at the Empire State building once.  I must rectify that.
I even have a Star Trek original series mini-dress and vulcan ears.
Don’t ask. 

True Story:
Baby Girl was sitting on Andrew’s lap, and decided she had enough. 
To get down and go play, she grabbed what was most convenient in order to hoist herself off:
his ‘family jewels’
She has no guile. 

These Are My Peeps?

Dress – Mystic (similar)
Ring – Ruche
Earrings – F21
Shoes – Payless

Sometimes I look around my neighborhood, shake my head, and think,”I live in a psychiatric community.”  Take a walk with me: 
There’s the shaking of my house because of you know what.  And the crazy couple that has occasional loud arguments – always at 1-3 am in the morning – and he throws her out of the house each time.  We have the requisite lecherous older man who seems to think no woman is off limits.  Then the couple with the dog who decorate their house like the holiday threw up on them *I love these guys by the way*
The guys who turn their backyard into one big party place with bonfires and torches every year.  Oh, and the house where the children are always naked. There’s the small apartment building where they all seem to be related…sort of creeped out by that.  And the house with the two dogs that bark like they’re on doggie steroids.  One of whom is also dipping into a stash of helium, I’m convinced.
We also see the guy who refers to Drake *all ten pounds of him* as “Killer” and not ironically.  There’s the lady with the dog who always wants to tear your throat out.   The man who fishes in our local pond daily at 8am.   And a guy who spends his day standing on his front lawn *I have no idea why*
I’m not sure if I’m the straight man out, or if there’s something I’m just not seeing and these are really my peeps, you know?
Maybe I’m the crazy woman who takes pictures of herself. 
*sigh*

Quote of Today:
“LPs are like shoes to you.”

What I Share With You

Hat – Zellers
Shirt – ?
Shorts – Gap
Shoes – Lulus

Through a recent comment, I had a great conversation with a reader named Dawn about some issues she brought up in her post, and issues I brought up in my first post.  We were discussing the issue of privacy and our choices regarding that. Namely, posting our child’s pictures on the net and sharing intimate details of our lives. I don’t post full face shots of my girl.  It’s my choice to maintain a level of her privacy. *Please don’t assume that this in any way takes away or belittles your choice to post your child’s pictures*

Dawn also brought up the issue of whether you can have a real connection if you don’t share everything.  I responded with this:

 “I try to be as open
as I feel comfortable – which isn’t everything – while guarding her
privacy.  Also, you can still make connections.  I don’t tell the friend
I have coffee with everything about my life, but that doesn’t mean the
connection is any less genuine.  I don’t tell co-workers everything and
again, they are real connections.  So no, I don’t think you have to
share everything to have a connection as long as you’re genuine in what
you do share.“

I just wanted to bring you in on this conversation and say that while you may not know the intimate details of my life, what I do say to you and what I do share is 100% me and sincere.

That’s the best I can offer.  Hopefully, that’s enough.

Yes, I Still Wear Clothes

  

Top – thrifted
Skirt – Gentlefawn
Shoes – H&M
Earrings, Hat & Sunnies – F21 here
Necklace – c/o This Enchanted Pixie

I realized that because of excitement and things coinciding at the same time, I’ve only had two outfit posts for you last week.  Please don’t in any way assume that this will be the norm. Nor should you assume that I went naked the rest of the days.  I assure you I did not.  Decency and the laws are intact.  I did indeed get dressed, and will be playing catch up on some posts.  It also helps me to be a bit behind on outfit posts as I’m going away for a week at the end of the month.  So I’ll still have something to keep you entertained. That’s if, you know, you find me entertaining.  Which I’m in no way assuming you do.  Personally, I find myself to be a riot, but I’m grading on a curve here you know?

Random Sundays: Walk

Baby laughed and ran the entire way.  

Coffee Talk: Making A Vlog?

I got a question about how I make my vlog. Here’s my process, if you can call it that.

Summary:
1. Record everything – I record my train of thought as it occurs.
2. I import to a program.
3. Then cut to make it flow like it does in my brain.

Not much of a process, but that’s what I do.
Questions?  Have something you want to see on the next Coffee Talk?  Leave a comment, tweet, FB, or email me. *Disclaimer:  I do have makeup on in this one ’cause Andrew and I took a few pictures just before, but then I got promptly back into my PJs!*

How Do You Like Them Apples?

Hat – Zellers
Shorts & Sunnies – F21
Tank – Gap
Shoes – Payless
Necklace – bought somewhere in Europe.

First, I’d like to thank each and every one of you for your words of congratulations, support, and encouragement on my “500 Celebration Giveaway” post.  I’ve responded personally to everyone I can with words of thanks and appreciation, and will continue to do so.  But I just wanted to give you all a public shout out – you are all so wonderful!  I’m honored that you visit here.

Now onto the things I’m thinking: What if we armed whales?  How cool would that be?  

Imagine:  
A slow moving, gentle unsuspecting whale is swimming along in the ocean.  Perhaps it’s a mother with her baby beside her.  An evil, gray, and ominous poaching whaling boat spies them.  It hones in on them, slowly circling and getting ever nearer.  The greed, and delicious dollar signs looming in their eyes.  It’s draws nearer, almost close enough.  And just as the boat levels it’s large harpoon onto the back of the gentle whale.  The whale pops up with a monstrous shotgun and says, “How do you them apples?”
Am I the only one that thinks this would be awesome? 

*crickets*

Welcome to the inner workings of my mind.

p.s. Another Coffee Talk vlog coming at you tomorrow!

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