Milena has a little problem pronouncing some letter.s When she counts she says one two three pour, pive, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 'leben (hehe cute!)

Today she said PUCK!

Which I thought was great and cute but maybe not so cute.

Vili cried ALL morning until she had her nap. Then I went out on my own to get groceries and soap.

Today Toma was in Sofia doing paperwork stuff and I was alone with the kids and his grandma (Baba Snezhi)

We went to a park, got some ice cream, and I realized that even though it's not as HOT in the air as it is in TX, the strength from the sun is still strong, meaning that the playground equipment is too hot to play on at high noon. It IS cool in the shade, unlike TX, and there aren't mosquitos, but I am getting these weird bites from bugs I don't ever see biting me, like flying ants or something. It itches forever and leaves a giant red bump.

After I went shopping and everyone had their naps (except for me who really actually needed one)
we went to the park again and got really dirty in the sand.

Life is pretty much normal here as it is there. Lots of little things are different.

The paid parking downtown actually has a person sitting there with a bag of change and you pay the person, they don't have actual meters.

We went to a dentist this morning to check Milena's tongue again and it looked much better. The medical places are dirty just like everywhere else but when you go in the actual room, it's clean and looks like a new place entirely.

It seems that it's going to take a while for the country to shed the old ravaged self and be new and clean. I mean what they came out of communism like 20 years ago? It's changed so much in two years, there are absolutely beautiful new apartment buildings plastered bright yellows and oranges and pinks, so pretty!

Where did I leave off? I think last Thursday. See I want to remember EVERYTHING but I cant unless I write it down as it happens and that's just not gonna work.

Today was a bit of a disaster. Milena fell on a flat spot while walking and bit her tongue so bad, it bled all over the place and was cut about 5mm across in the middle. The poor kid would occasionally stick her tongue out and say "It hurts!" We got her some ice and I realized I hadn't seen ice for a week.

She was able to eat OK but I was really worried. Finally we took her to the hospital around 10pm and they told us they couldn't stitch it and she could just have some antibiotic mouth rinse. Poor kid. And Vili fell off a bench the day before and busted her lip so it's purple now. God, these kids. It is so sad to see kids bleed :(


Stuff is good except for that, but it goes to show how you can be safe as anything and still fall on your face walking on a flat spot.

Remember that storm last thursday? I don't watch news or listen to radio and had no idea it was coming. I drove to Austin thursday morning and planned to drie back to Bwd that eve. About an hour into the drive I saw the storm, DARK like hell and I got nearer and nearer thinking "wait a minute... Am I really goin in that thing!"
Then it started raining a little bit and the wind gusts came WOOSH pushed my car hard! I could see the steam rising from the hot asphalt being blown away like little clouds.Then it started raining so hard I couldn't see in front of me and I realized this was how people die on accident. I would accidently kill myself. No thanks. I had slowed to about 25 mph on the 70mph hwy, pulled a U, and zipped back out of the rain. Then I realized I had about 60 miles gas left, not enough to get back to Austin.

So I pulled into the one station town Lometa and called my fam to see if I should go back to Austin or what.
Then the storm caught up w me and the power went out at the station, shutting off the pumps before I could fill up.

So I drove back towards austin to the next town and finally filled up though this time the machine wouldn't take my card so I was frustrated with that and the storm caught up AGAIN.

Talk about weird, driving out of the rain three times in a row.

I left the kids in bwd and had friday all to myself, which was the first full night of real deep sleep I've had in a long time. It actually mad eme sick. I couldn't move when I woke up.

Give a kid a hot dog and chances she won't eat it.

You have to put it in a bun or a corn dog or a roll and she will gladly extract the dog for eating.

WHY...I do not know.

We rode the little choo choo at the park. FUN.

There's this stuff by Schwarzkopf calls OSiS and it is AMAZING. It's powder you sprinkle on your roots, then when you massage your scalp it lifts like woah. I think it's not sold in US so I get it on ebay.

They are like dogs. Go potty on the grass, eat off the floor, etc. Etc.
Baby M even went on a licking spree last weekend.

I'm really...tired.

More news about girl who died back in jan, apparently her best friend supplied her methadone which she ODed on.

See? This is why I don't bother making friends in my parent's town. Fuckin life threatening...

I shaved for the first time in a long time (usually I use an epilator) and I BLED out almost every folicle. OW.

V started walking last wednesday and is now happily able to toddle around occasionally tripping.
How cool.
M is kind of understanding how to dress herself. Tag in the back, one leg through each hole. It is very complicated for little miss.

Still working very hard on promoting my stuff, etc, etc, etc.

Watching a very creepy episode of Family Guy.

Man...

What else.

Packing!

This morning I woke up a little bit damp but smelling really nice.
Then I saw a bottle of febreeze was not in its usual high place on the dresser and was instead on the floor along with the other dresser-top items and I realized baby M had crawled up there and ahem...refreshed me in my morning sleep. How considerate!
I have this body spray I got for the kids specifically because they enjoy being spritzed with perfume.

Highlight of the weekend...taking a nap in the baby pool. There wasn't any water in it.

Earlier this week I was going to post about how I never wanted to be a day older and I had already begun the long process of deteriorating.

Just now I realized that in my 30s, I will have been doing what I'm doing for 12 years, whereas other people who start businesses in their late 20s, 30s, will have to be in their late 30s-40s to have a reputation that old.


A few days ago I was driving behind a truck that had a bumper sticker "JESUS is the answer"
and I started smirking a little until I saw the couple in the cabin have a FULL BLOWN FIST FIGHT SO BAD THE GUY STARTED SWERVING ALL OVER THE ROAD...then they calmed down, I was going to pull along side and yell DAMN IT YOU GUYS!!! JESUS! JESUS IS YOUR ANSWER!
But they they started punching again and I decided I'd rather just keep my nose out of it.
wow, what a red red redneck town.

Don't want to go pick up the kids, so exhausted. I love them but it's a monstrous load of energy to be spent.

I'm especially feeling bummed because none of the press kits I sent out ages ago got any sort of leads. I have to call them or something.

MOPE. MOPE.
MOPE. MOPE.

Oh well. I'm leaving in 6 weeks! Gah... I'm so excited.

I have one of those giant mountainous sore pimples on my face and it hurts annoyingly.
What do you do when you get one?
It's pink!

I made this for baby V. 


I am somewhat tempted to find out what 2nd life is.....whenever I search for independent designers, I find whole blogs dedicated to showing off 2nd life fashions and it's so.........creepy. What's really creepy is the eyelashes and eyebrows and other features are from "designers" wtf IS it. It is really like a whole 'nother universe people got sucked into.

Baby M is trying to take my toenail polish off with a dry piece of paper. heehee. That kid will sit still and let me paint all her fingers and toes, then sit quietlyand blow on them to dry.....lil girly girl!

So we just did that and now she wants to do mine....no thanks. She flushed the toilet about three times just now and now I hear banging...hmmm.

OK so she was playing with soap and rubbed it all over herself. Luckily she was naked and i tossed her in the tub for a rinse off....

Kids are hilarious, lemme tell you.

Last night she hopped out of bed screaming and ran down the hall screaming at the top of her lungs, stood at the top of the stairs screaming "Mamaaaa!" and I was like hey kiddo...I'm upstairs, right here, where I always am, why didn't you check first?!

I came home today, M wanted cereal and I heard this buzzing sound like white noise. I keep hearing it and realize it's coming from the microwave.

THEN I saw light flickering from the inside of the microwave around the doors (it's a tiny unit with no window) and started smelling electrical smoke.

I was afraid to reach behind it and yank the plug but damn that's all there was to do! It stopped, but I was afraid to open it and still haven't.
Mostly because of fumes, secondly because something might be in there.

Spontaneous elecrical failure? Maybe a bug in there chewing on the wires? I dunno, but it could have burned the flipping house down!!!

I have a pair of gloves in my glove box.

Today I really felt like a headless chicken. I lost my phone and looked everywhere for it, after about two hours of calling and looking I found it in my car.

Then I went to the hardware store for a battery replacement. I gave the watch to a salesperson so they could try different batteries, because the watch doesn't have american size on it (its Swatch)
Then...I got home and took the watch off to do batteries and noticed the coverplate was missing. Shit! That watch model is 6 years old and there's no way I could get a new plate...but, after a bit of searching I found it in the crack of the front car seat.

Now for the bad news: I can't seem to find my grandma's diamond engagement ring I always wear on my pinky (she didn't have small fingers, I just got it resized for my pinky)

Last I remember, I took it off to do dishes. Then I remember when I put my other rings on I remember feeling something wasn't right.

I hate it when that happens.

So we have a fish net to lay with in the tub and M dumped her cereal in the tub and is now catching the soggy bits in a net. Grossssssss

V is standing up, then dropping herself to make big splashes and I am getting slightly wet (updating on my phone while sitting on the toilet....lid is shut! It's just the only seat in the bathroom.

Man I never thought I'd be sitting here watching my kids bathe in the same tub I used to splash in.

Today was gray all day and it was groggifying.

But...I used my pretty new umbrella in the mist!

Apparently the city likes to hassle my padres about the way their house looks. They got a certified letter stating the weeds were growing too high.

I told my dad to say it's to protest against all the trash that blows over from the park.
No matter what the grass looks like it will always look like crap w a bunch of sonic cups in it.

Besides, a few blocks down there's a guy with two boats in his yard.

I ordered some neon yellow leather today. I have wanted neon yellow leather for YEARS.

Yesterday I woke up feeling very out of focus.
I ended up going home at about 330 and sleeping until 730.
The days of no sleep/bad sleep just piled up and I finally caved.

So I decided to start making normal updates that just go about with the whatever that goes on in usual life...Mostly because today is my daughter's 1 year birthday and I realized I would really like to remember this part of my life in a way that she would like to read later.

So baby girl, you are one year old today. I feel like such a jerk, I was planning to pick you up early and take cute pictures of you at the park...swallowed up in your Birthday Girl shirt that is size 3T so you can wear it for the next two years.

I kept getting distracted at work and ended up leaving at the regular time, picked up some dinner and got both kiddos. We played on the front porch and made such a mess I decided to hose it off. The hose had been sitting unused so long it was actually grown over!

After hosing off the porch, there was a big puddle on the sidewalk. Baby M got nekkid ASAP and went splish splashing away while Baby V was content to smack the puddles from the sidelines. Then Baby M started rolling like a piggie in the muddy parts :)
I took lots of pics.

She threw up a bit, I think she swallowed some muddy water, and she was getting cold and clammy, so we went up for bath.
bath bath bath lots of playing in the bath, getting upset about soapy hair and rinsing...

Then out of the bath and time to pick a movie!

V fell asleep. I guess she had a busy day being center of attention.

"Dimpa" came home (thats the word for grandpa)

M got me a beer from the fridge (good girl!)

and got herself some chocanilk. Shook it with the lid loose. Big mess.

She drank at least three glasses of chocolate milk before bed.

Then I put her in her footie jammies and everyone is asleep. except me of course.

Today I was busy. I made lots of things. A mouse shoe, a bat ring, and an umbrella pendant.
I wasn't hungry at lunch so instead went to check out this thrift store I had never seen before. I got some good stuff. My favorite are these white and navy striped leggings with gold buttons up the side on the bottom.
Not for me, for kiddos, but I want some!
I often see kids clothes and want a bigger version for myself. Especially the shirts with tiny icecream truck print.

Rules for my new method of posting:

Post only about the events of today.

Man, I went to the party supply store (the only one in town) to get a particular balloon I had seen several months ago.
I need it for wednesday and what do you know, they don't have the balloon.

So I bought a giant #1
That's all I'm gonna get.
1 year olds don't care and she likes balloons anyway.

You know that site "overheard in ny" or something like that? overheard on campus, etc.

Is there a playground edition?

Kid's say the stupidest things.

The other day some girl asked "why you got two babies?" And i was like "uhhhh....well...don't you have any brothers or sisters? and anyway, this one isn't a baby, she's a toddler"

"oh you mean like a preteen??"

"uuuuhhhhhh...not quite"

"yea...whatever, like a preteen"

teehee.


So you know how some people hate kids...I know exactly what they mean.

I hate dogs.

Not all of them...just the misbehaved, stinky, uppity, loud, annoying kind.


And today, these two boys were messing with a cell phone and i guess they got horoscope texts.

"Your met...meticky...hey lady (shoves phone in my face) what's that say?"

"Meticulous"

"your meticulous mask of efficiency is about to unfold which might not be such a bad thing as it intimidates us mere mortals...wow...I didn't understand a WORD of that"


Here's a lesson in Baby M language:

Lion - why-na
Charlie and Lola (a tv show) - Charlola
Milk - Nilk or chakanilk
Elephant - elasun
grandpa - dimpa

The other day she was reaching for something on the counter and I said I think she wants something in particular!
She started shouting "ticular!! ticular!!"

hahaha i am probably the only one who thinks this is funny.

I know how to make it rain.
Leave your car windows open.

I know how to make it stop raining.
Buy a really really really cute umbrella.

I want to spend a day hanging out with friends and no kids.

Not that I don't love my fam, but I need a change of reality.

The problem is that my friends all have different schedules, it's hard to plan time to hang out. Especially with the kiddos around. By hook or crook I am GOING to visit all of you very soon, I have stuff to give!

I miss you!

In other news, my phone is jacked up tho I can still make calls. Called the provider, still under warranty, will get a replacement which I will promptly SELL and get a different phone aka NOT A BLACKBERRY!

I wanted to post though nothing is new, persay...
Still trying to think of any and all ways to promote my business. Donating to charity auctions, a few giveaway sites, advertising in online mags and even in other people's sites. Running sales and specials. Networking...
So far I got hooked up by a friend w another store downtown and got a wholesale order. But NO increase in web orders. That's pretty much my life. Business and the kiddos who are all very beautiful and darling.
Being annoyed by anything outside my "bubble" including but not limited to: movies coming out, political news, weather, etc.

Got any guerrila marketing tactics you'd like to share? My ad budget is about $60/mo
I just spent a ton on engraved metal tags for the back of the necklaces, AND a ton on a mannequin. But that will quickly pay for itself because I won't need any models and the shots will be seamless.
I don't even think about anything else.
Well..I am going on vacation in June! But that's a long way off.