meme thingie

Stolen from preternatural

1. First Name:
Jennifer

2. Were you named after anyone?
Theoretically my grandfather Jesse, even though my oldest brother is Joshua named for him. My middle name is Holly, which is from the Holiday Inn that my parents went to when they couldn't get in to see Patton. That's where I was conceived. Seriously.


3. Do you wish on stars?
No

4.Which finger is your favorite?
index

5. When did you last cry?
Last week walking out of a wake I attended.

6. Do you like your handwriting?
Yes

7. What is your favorite lunch "meat"?
RARE roast beef

8. Any bad habits?
Biting and chewing my cuticles

9. What's in your CD player right now?
Beatles - in the car, I never listen to music in the house anymore unfortunately.

10. Do you believe in soul mates?
Sort of

11.Are you a daredevil?
Nope

12. Have you ever told a secret you swore not to?
Yeah, I have

13. Do looks matter?
Yes

14. Have you ever misused a word and it sounded absolutely stupid?
Not that I recall

15.Do you think there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
Nah

17. Are you trendy?
Not really, but I do shop at the Gap and Old Navy - but I rarely if ever see someone wearing the same thing I own

18. How do you release anger?
Confrontation, baby

19. Where are your second homes?
Like home away from home? Lately it's been the park here, we go all the time

20.Do you trust others easily?
It depends on the person

21. What was your favorite toy as a child?
I remember a lot of toys, remember loving Rub a Dub Dolly in particular

22. What class in school did you think was totally useless?
Pretty much all of them, I don't think I use anything I learned in school...although I'm probably wrong about that

23. Do you have a journal?
Yep

25. Have you been in a mosh pit?
Not intentionally - and old friend of mine and I sleazed our way into the back door of a Jane's Addiction show in NYC and when we got in, we were on the stage. Had to find some way to get off FAST, so we went through the pit.

26. What do you look for in a boy/girl?
Sense of humor, intelligence, honesty, loyalty

27. What are your nicknames?
Robert and I call each other "stoop"

28. Would you ever bungee jump?
Nope, but it's my dream to go hang gliding

29. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Never

30.Do you think that you are strong?
Yes

31. What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
It's my favorite food so basically anything without pieces of fruit in it, other than strawberries

32. What's your favorite color?
Lavender

33. What is your least favorite food?
Liver and kasha varnishkes

34. How many wisdom teeth do you have?
All of them

35. Are you in love with anyone?
Yes, mostly my kids and usually my husband

36. How many people have a crush on you right now?
None that I'm aware of

37. Who do you miss most right now?
My dad

39. What are you wearing?
Brown velvet pants with a black V-neck sleeveless top, leopard socks

40. What are you listening to right now?
Lily whining with a teething biscuit (her first) in her mouth, she's loving it though, just very vocal

42. What was the last thing you ate?
Delicious salad - mesclun, cranberries, candied walnuts and grilled chicken - YUM

43. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Burnt sienna - doesn't everyone say that?

44. How is the weather right now?
70-ish and sunny

45. Who is the last person you talked to on the phone?
Robert just called about dinner

How could she be so stupid?

I left Laszlo with my mom for the second consecutive Monday while I take Lily to Gymboree. Last week I asked that they stay in the house so I could call to check...it's only a 45 minute class and it's only 3 minutes from the house, so this wasn't so much to ask. Today it's gorgeous out and my mother kept asking if she could take him for a walk. I put my control freak on hold and said it was fine, put the stroller out for her and was on my way. I called after class to see if I could swing a lunch with a friend before coming home and all was well, so I did.

I got home a little over 2 hours total since I had left. The stroller was in the driveway with berries on the kid tray. You know those berries you're always warned not to eat because they're poison? Yeah, those. About 20 of them. Some were squished and looked like they had been bitten.

I ran into the house and asked my mom if she gave him those. She said they were playing "counting and squishing" them, and that she watched him carefully and knew he didn't put any in his mouth. No way she could have known this since his back is to her while she's strolling him. I panicked. I don't know why she does things like this.

Called the pediatrician, who promptly told me to call poison control. Poison control told me that they won't identify berries over the phone and that I should go to the nearest nursery with a sprig of the tree (wtf) and then call back when I knew what it was. I said, "Ok, by the time I do all that, if this is toxic, won't it be done doing its job?" So she said that from my description they sounded like dewberries (I think that's what she said) and that they are on evergreens this time of year. She said that the outside of the berry as well as the juice are non-toxic, and that the seed inside is only toxic if it's chewed open, so if he indeed swallowed it whole, it's no problem. Honestly, I don't think he ate any of it, but I didn't know how "toxic" this stuff was, and I was sure it was on his hands and his hands are always in his mouth.

I didn't go totally off on my mom because I do want to have someone to watch him but I also wanted to wring her neck for being so fucking careless and stupid.

Flash forward an hour and we're at the park, mom went home right after I got home and after I called the doc and poison control. She called me hysterically crying on my cell phone. She said she's been crying for 2 hours (impossible because she only left an hour ago) and that she was so sorry and it was so stupid. I felt bad that she was crying, but was glad that I didn't make a huge deal of it and yell at her, because then she'd feel worse and never apologize and go off and say how overprotective and hysterical I am. Oy. Way to strike a balance, Jen. Kudos to me.

I'm an emotional wreck since this happened, can't seem to get back to myself. Hopefully it will happen later on, maybe a nice bubble bath will do the trick.