Operation Tubetop

Hello hello! I am sick again but hopefully on the mend. It's frustrating but at least this is just a cold and nothing worse. It started last week on Friday and I am so glad it held off for the craziest week of the year and now I can kind of take it easy for the next little while. You probably heard on Facebook (because I wouldn't stop posting about it) that I gave a talk for the American Women's Association on Tuesday night. I talked about it on the podcast which you can listen to  here . But if you didn't hear about it, let's just say it was a pretty amazing moment. I was absolutely terrified and I still am not sure what I actually said but I know that I talked for about 20 minutes and nobody rolled their eyes so all is good in the hood. I also think that I would totally do it again and if are looking for a speaker, I'm available. My rate (until it changes) is a glass or two of bubbly and praise... always praise. Before the talk I did a half day at work and

Well, hello there! Wow! Do I feel absolutely reborn! I am not sure but I think it has a little to do with the fact that I took it very very easy this morning. I was up at 5:40 as usual to make the Kid's lunch and have a good 10 minutes of silent coffee drinking time and then woke the Kid up. The routine is to get him out of bed, get him on the sofa with some milk and breakfast, then I place a blanket on the ground and drag him to his room so I can get him dressed for school. Usually by 6:30 he is completely awake and then we just put his shoes and coat on and he heads downstairs with the Husband to wait for the bus. Usually after this, I go for a run but since I had the terrifying incident on Monday morning, I have decided to take a couple of days off and it is kind of driving me batty. So instead of going for a run, I crawled back into bed and slept for another hour and a half and it was complete and utter bliss. I got out of bed after my early morning nap, took a long showe