While My Boyfriend Was Sleeping

What I write after Joe and Henry go to bed

Archives for January 2012

The (low) key to my heart

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https://www.lilybridal.co.nz/collections/all-wedding-gowns

Me and the Mr. are featured on my gal pal, Meg’s blog: Mimi + Meg.

It’s just a little Valentine’s Day post, a gift-y guide kind of thing, designed with Meg’s super snazzy touch.

Upon reading what I wrote I was struck by how utterly unglamorous we are.

Really? Our “couple time” is spent watching Wipe Out and eating french fries? Where’s the ROMANCE? The RAPTURE? Rummy? RUMMY? Ah well. At least there’s champagne and face cards. On especially steamy nights, we use our Golden Girls deck. You heard right. The cards came with the show’s 25th anniversary DVD collection.

Anyway. Let’s forget our lameness for a second and return to Meg.

Damn girl was profiled in The Washington Post last week. How sweet is that?

Keep up the excellent work, my trendsetting friend. Your dogged ambition, excellent taste and clever design skills are paying off. You deserve the recognition.

Now. Any advice on how I can get the Lance featured in the St. Pete Times (ugh, name change) Tampa Bay Times?

It’s not like I don’t know anyone in the newspaper business.

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PS. Wedding photo by ubackdrop.

Crawling back to you

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BABY SHOWER BACKGROUNDS UK

Something unsettling came to my attention recently. Something that shouldn’t have surprised me. Something that was like, duh, inevitable.

I’m a mommy blogger.

I had this no-shit epiphany after receiving an email from the communications coordinator at a cookie-cutter corporate preschool chain.

“Would you be interested in publishing my guest posts on early childhood education?” He asked.

I thought about this for a second or two. I’ve always wanted to feature guest posts – namely posts by my husband who seems to have avoided this chore at all costs.

“The articles won’t be promotional pieces for blah-blah schools…”

The offer sounded suspicious.

So I Googled the guy’s name and as expected, I discovered posts all over the mommy blogosphere that were the worst kind of promotional: SEO-friendly online marketing materials disguised as articles, covertly designed to draw traffic to his company’s website.

It was so blatant. Every post I found contained a quote that was according to the president, VP or an administrator at his school.

They were useful posts I suppose, no different than the humdrum stories you read in most parenting magazines. (ie: Creative Ways to Beat the Dog Days of Summer. Get Your Toddler To Eat His Greens. Etc. Etc.)

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