November 2009

Community Annoucement

by UnknownMami on November 30, 2009

I started blogging in April of this year. My daughter was about 8 months old. I felt lost. I didn’t know my place. I couldn’t hang out with friends at night like I used to. I couldn’t even talk on the phone for more than a few minutes. I turned to blogging because I needed a way of expressing myself and what I found was a community. Without even knowing what I was looking for I found it. I found you and it has been my pleasure getting to know you.

Every time I come across a wonderfully written new to me blog, I get excited and I want to share that excitement with others. I belong to a bunch of blogging communities that help me find bloggers, but still I long for something else. I want something content driven that showcases bloggers without having to dig through the site. I can’t find exactly what I’m looking for, but I did find Nancy from if evolution really works and it turns out that she has been looking for the same thing.

Since we couldn’t find it, we decided to create it. Today we are very proud to announce the birth of our baby!

Life 2 Us is a website where you can submit posts, find new blogs, new readers, speak your mind, and interact. We hope you will join and help us grow this community! Please stop by and give us your input…it takes a village.

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I Comment Therefore I Am

by UnknownMami on November 30, 2009

It’s Monday and what does that mean? It means I get to regale you with comments, comments galore. Witness my journey through the blogosphere the last few days as documented by the comments I’ve left. If I find myself questioning my essence, I remind myself that I comment therefore I am. It’s as simple as that! You can do it too! (Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow! I’m looking forward to telling you about a project I’ve been working on.)

And away we go:

Melissa from Mommy is in the Bathroom heated up an apple pie only to be disgusted by the flavor of it because it was too reminiscent of her Glade Plug-Ins scent, which prompted me to share:

My husband always wants to get orange scented air freshener for the bathroom and I refuse because it will ruin oranges for the rest of my life. I do not need to associate the toilet with oranges or vice versa. (Really, I don’t understand why I would want to fragrance the bathroom with anything that smells like food that I might want to eat some day. It always just ends up smelling like poo and vanilla or poo and orange. Yuck!)

Nancy mentioned that she has always wanted to break a beer bottle on a bar like a bad-ass. My comment:

I would pay to see you break the beer bottle. You know what would happen though. You’d go to break it and it wouldn’t break the first time, then you’d get all flustered and try again, but it still wouldn’t break, then you’d look up and say, “Never mind” and give the bartender a ridiculously large tip and try to leave, but you’d have to go pee first and you and your bad ass would slink into the restroom and try to disappear.

Monkey Man was given an award that although aesthetically not to his liking he was still pleased to receive. My reaction to his acceptance:

“While the award has an insipidly ridiculous illustration that drips with cuteness…”(his words)is just such a gracious way to accept any award. I hope one day when I am watching the Oscars someone starts their acceptance speech with something similar. Perhaps, “While the award depicts an insipid anatomically incorrect square-jawed gold drenched man that I loathe to display in my home…”

Green-Eyed Momster wished everyone a happy Thanksgiving free of a$$hole relatives. I replied:

The only A-hole I have to spend Thanksgiving with is me. I hope I don’t piss myself off. I can be such a bitch.

Have you ever had a soul-sucker in your life, a crazy-maker? You know one of those people that just suck the living force out of you? Well Aunt of 14 has and she has decided that enough is enough and she no longer wants this person in her life, but she just can’t stop wondering what is going through the soul-suckers  mind. Here’s what I think:

It doesn’t matter what she’s thinking. All that matters is that you no longer want her in your life. She is toxic to you and just like you gave up drugs, you have to give up this bad habit too. She’s still in your system that’s why you keep thinking about her. Letting her go does not mean you are now enemies; it just means you are done. It’s over. Let her go.

Josiah’s Mommy from Confessions of a First Time Mom has been experiencing difficulty with panic attacks. Instead of suffering through it she did the right thing and got some much needed help. Help is out there people! If you need it please seek it. Having a my own issues with panic attacks and post traumatic stress disorder I wrote:

You’ve really been in my thoughts lately. I’m glad to hear from you and I am so unbelievably proud of you for getting the help you need.


During my most difficult times I felt ashamed for needing so much help until my doctor who was teaching a student introduced me and said, “She has been very proactive about getting the help she needs.” She said it with a smile on her face and all of a sudden I understood that there is nothing wrong in being an advocate for your mental health.


Be well, my friend. 

So there you have the bits and pieces of myself that I left splattered throughout the blogosphere. I would like to end with a comment that I did not leave, nor was it left on my blog. The author led me to it, but has chosen not to take credit. I find the wisdom in this comment to be very useful.

 I have a tip for (name withheld) . . . From what I’ve been told . . . Pussy isn’t supposed to smell like fish. If it does, there’s a tad more going on down there than needs to be. Therefore, you perform the ‘Scratch & Sniff’ test. You start off foreplay by fingering the vagina, getting her nice and wet and the juices flowing. At some point you work your way down there so you have your face as close to it as possible. In a moment when she’s not looking you perform the ‘Scratch & Sniff’. Very stealthily you bring your fingers to your nose and take a whiff. If it smells fishy, you do the gentlemanly thing and finish her off with your fingers. If it smells ok, then you can go to town, so to speak. This can all be summed up with one rule of thumb (no pun intended, LOL!): If it smells like chicken, keep on lickin’. If it smells like trout, get the fuck out! Anywho, sorry for the long ass comment, but I felt I needed to impart this bit of wisdom I learned from my favorite lesbian friend. :)

Wanna play along? Go forth, spread the comment love, and turn it into a post. Then link up! Recycle, reuse, and reduce my friends; it’s the wave of the future.
Oh and feel free to comment on my comments.

If you play along please link back and/or post the button below. Spread the love, spread the love!You can link up even if you don’t post on Monday.

Unknown Mami


If you aren’t totally sick of me, could you pretty please stop by parenting By dummies and say hello. Casa de Dummies was nice enough to invite me over.



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Sundays In My City

by UnknownMami on November 28, 2009

11-19-2009
11-19-20091
San Francisco, CA

I showed you mine, now you show me yours.

Share your city/town/suburb/you name it! If you link up, please link back or post the Sundays In My City button either in your post or sidebar to let people know that other bloggers are sharing their communities too. Happy trails!

Let’s travel the world together!
Unknown Mami

Find out more about Sundays In My City here.


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Fragmented Fridays on the Fly Edition

by UnknownMami on November 27, 2009

What the…? I haven’t posted since Monday! That is so not like me. You may not have noticed, but I like creating little routines for myself and following. This week I decided to blog-lite and see what would happen. Well, I guess nothing much happened other than I got a lot of work done.

I was not going to post today either, but then I got a message form Sarah at Little Baby Feet:

Mami mami mami….fragmented fridays are my best friend. Where are you?

Well, it’s nice to be missed so I had to do a quick post. If you don’t know Sarah go check her out. I like her. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Remember that even in the worst of times there is always something good.

I want to give an official thank you to AC’s Scrapbook. You see this beautiful image?

She sent me a print as a thank you for mentioning a giveaway that I would have mentioned regardless. How’s that for thoughtful? I love it!
I also won a giveaway from It’s Serious This Time! I got 4 movie passes and a coupon for a box of General Mills cereal.
I’m feeling the bloggy love.
One of the advantages of blogging with a paper bag over my head is that I can be pretty open, but I have a confession to make. I’ve been keeping a secret from you. I have to keep it for a little while longer, but on December 1st I get to share some exciting news with you. I’m not pregnant. I can’t wait until December 1st! Wish me luck!!
Have a great weekend my friends. I’ll see you on Sunday for SIMC.
Friday Fragments?
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I Comment Therefore I Am

November 23, 2009

Welcome to another edition of I Comment Therefore I Am where I take the bits and pieces of myself that I’ve left as comments on other people’s blogs and turn them  into a post. Witness my commenting journey: Apparently there is a  Bulletproof backpack on the marker for kids and Kristen from Hands, House, and [...]

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Sundays In My City

November 21, 2009

  San Francisco, CA I showed you mine, now you show me yours. Share your city/town/suburb/you name it! If you link up, please link back or post the Sundays In My City button either in your post or sidebar to let people know that other bloggers are sharing their communities too. Happy trails! Let’s travel [...]

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10 Things, 5 Things, and Two Blogs I Love

November 20, 2009

I’m having one of those days where being me just isn’t so much fun. I’m grouchy and feel put upon. I’m sure it will pass, but in the meantime I thought I would list 10 things that make me happy. The idea came because My Life in Purple gave me an award and it asks [...]

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The Gaze

November 18, 2009

Growing up, I was cursed blessed with a gorgeous single mother. My mother is not shy and she has always enjoyed an admiring male gaze.  The admiring gazes abounded and for the most part I tried to ignore the attention she garnered. In my teen years, I had an attitude and if my mother wanted [...]

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I Comment Therefore I Am

November 16, 2009

Welcome, to the first official installment of I Comment Therefore I Am, where I create a post out of comments I’ve left on other blogs  and comments you’ve left on mine. Let’s start off with examples of my commentary genius! In response to It’s Serious This Time writing, “Thanks pilgrims for feeding the Indians before [...]

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Sundays In My City

November 14, 2009

San Francisco, CA I showed you mine, now you show me yours. Share your city/town/suburb/you name it! If you link up, please link back or post the Sundays In My City button either in your post or sidebar to let people know that other bloggers are sharing their communities too. Happy trails! Let’s travel the [...]

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