Thinking Thoughts

A few things that have been on my mind:

• Teething babies
• Seattle
• Boston and my old job
• Family in Boston
• Poppie and Tutu
• The Starfish Project and my overall body image
• Baby Boot Camp
• The Baby Planner and wishing I had the 7K to buy it - I would totally rock and expand it and how nice it would be to be my own boss, work from home, and help out other mamas and soon-to-be mamas
• Social Media and how annoying yet vital it is for my life
• Venomous words
• Bucket lists
• Blogs about loves ones lost and how they created great foundations in their memory
• Dating
• Why married men hit on women
• The Bambino's godfather
• The Bambino's first birthday
• $$$$
• Must find good leads for friends new business venture
• Product reviews
• Teen pregnancy in Hawaii
• Families in Hawaii
• Library books
• Babysitting this weekend - ugh
• Cleaning the townhouse
• Interviews and articles for the Examiner
• How badly I wish the Bambino and I had our own place and he had his own room - fun decorating times!
• Hoping I'll get to a point where I can start a 529 Savings Plan for the Bambino
• How much I want to snuggle up with the Bambino

My mind is a little tired.

Throne Thoughts

When I was pregnant I used to just hide in any of my company's bathrooms for some peace and quiet, alone time, and to think about nothing. Funny thing is some of greatest thoughts come from sitting on the john but the other thing is I usually forget about them and thus my mediocre existence. *wink*

So perhaps I shall dedicate a weekly posting on, Thoughts from the Throne. What do you think? Perhaps I'll finally find my way back to Genius-ville, where I only resided while I was baking in the womb.

This week's thought besides coming up with this brilliant and awkward idea is:

What is your most embarassing toilet moment?

Mine is when I just started peeing with the public bathroom door open in front of a residential counselor in college. It's not so much that the door was open because he couldn't see me but that I left it open so that he could HEAR me peeing. As soon as he heard the first inkling of trickling he politely closed the door. Oops! I guess my bathroom modesty was nonexisitent even before the Bambino came into my life.

(Photo taken at a friend of a friend's house while I was living in Boston)

Questions of the universe

Q: Of the two, for who is single parenting easier?
a) Single mother who started from pregnancy?
b) Single parent from a divorce?

This question was raised while I was interviewing someone for an article this past Saturday. It's a great question and a good point. Different types of single parents exist in our world:

• Single mother from unplanned pregnancy
• Single mother from planned pregnancy [read artifical insemination]
• Single mother by choice adoption
• Single mother from a divorce
• Abandoned single mother
• Widowed single mother
• Widower(ed?) single father
• Single father from birth - the mother either abandons or simply chooses not to have custody of the child
• Single father from a divorce
• Single teen parents

So who is it easier for?

Also, I've noticed that there are more and more teen pregnancies happening in Hawai'i but does that mean that the majority of single parents in Hawai'i are teenagers? Or are they older single women with unplanned pregnancies or divorced single parents?

I'll be exploring these questions for awhile and will be following up on my Examiner.com page which sadly hasn't been updated for some time.

Project Get My Life in Order

That's right folks in an attempt to get rid of the "bad ju-ju" as my bestie the Starfish would put it I'm initiating my own little, "Project Get my Life in Order."

What's on the list?

HOME & GARDEN:

• Manage the gardens; weed, water, BEAUTIFY!
• Organize and clean the kitchen - maybe ask the lady of the house if I can paint the cabinets a brighter color because it's one dreary lookin' kitchen
• Clean and steam the carpet - I can't believe I've been letting the Bambino crawl around on it for as long as I have
• Organize my closet - Hang, fold, and iron! Maybe that way when I do accidentally sleep in, I won't have to scramble around the house trying to get ready in 15 mins....with a baby!
• Setup a recycling bin and sanitize the garbage area
• Wash my car and take it in for a tune-up

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY - IT'S A RICH MANS WORLD:

• Either find a second job, i.e. babysit on the weekends (awesome for the Bambino...weekend friends!) or get goin' on my Examiner articles...or both?
• Start my register again because money is tight and I'm not doing so hot with my finances
• Negotiate, negotiate
• Hate to say it but maybe even try to find a better paying, more stimulating job...tough in the current market but not impossible
• Start a savings account for the Bambino and hopefully within a year a 529 Savings Plan
• This isn't entirely about money but get all of the legal jazz in order, as in a will (just in case purposes) which does involve money
• Goal - Stay out of the red

BODY IMAGE:

• Do my own Baby Boot Camp, that is until we get a night class going!
• Go for a walk everynight, the Bambino loves going for walks with me so perfect mama/baby bonding time
• Go hiking or swimming every weekend or every other weekend because there tends to be a lot social functions happenin'
• Buy local and eat local - no more restaurant chains!
• Even though I already have - cut down on the coffee and chocolates

WHERE IS MY MIND?:

• Start writing in my journal again
• Take more photos
• Write more letters to friends and family instead of just e-mails
• Write more - in general
• Lose the resentment jazz because it ain't good music
• Look at my surroundings and appreciate them
• Renovate the blog and settle
• Get serious and do.

WHY THE BAMBINO ROCKS MY WORLD:

• Enjoy and cherish every moment with the Bambino
• Be more patient and gentle in those oh so crazy, baby ranting, mama hair ripping moments
• Talk and sing to him more often - it's amazing how singing to him can calm his fussiness
• Take more photos of him and post more updates - that's right more Bambino updates...I just might create a daily Bambino section with photos galore!
• Do what I can do provide the best for him - that means giving up my pride and giving in
• Love him more

Quite the list but I plan on doing each and everyone of those. Some of them will be ongoing and some I'll be able to check off within the next few weeks or so.

Photos shall be accompanied with the words of the upcoming, Project Get my Life in Order, posts.