Monday Mimisms ~ While I Was Away

What a way to start a new year! It had barely begun when the Killer Flu struck. It took almost as much time trying not to relapse as it did dealing with the thing. I hope you all got your flu shots in my absence.

 Homer, my trusty Palace Dog, said the entire Kingdom went to blell in a handbasket while I was gone. Is this true?!!  I noticed you visited me a lot -  even when I wasn't saying anything. Thanks for checking up on me. I gained followers when I wasn't blogging. I'm thrilled but how odd!  And when I posted on Facebook that I had the flu, people "liked" it.  I'm hoping they meant they liked my post and not my calamity. Still....Homer is not telling me something. I can tell. He has that I-know-about-the-mischief-my-Queen-but-I'm-not-telling look on his face. What? What??! What else happened? Anybody want to tell me? Hmmmmmm???

While I was away drinking IV cocktails... Egypt started on the road to democracy, Libya began the process of revolution (again) gas prices began to slowly inch up (again), Kate and William went on a stroll christening watercraft, Wisconsin made a cheese chain at the State Capitol, Justin Bieber cut his hair, the iPhone hit the market, Rahm became Governor of Chicago and Jennifer Lopez broke down and cried on American Idol. The world has gone slap crazy.

Barring anymore catastrophes of the personal kind, I'm back to my regular kooky schedule and looking forward to blogging up a storm. I have a new "friend" who has been keeping me busy and entertained (in a get-your-germy-self-away-from-me-cute-kind-of-way) but it's nice to have someone to hang out with who doesn't ask me 3x a day if I still have any fever (that would be my mother) and says I "brutally convinced" him to get a flu shot.

Now there's a sensible man.

We'll see if he still likes me without the sexy hoarse voice. Time will tell.

What 'til I tell him I'm a Queen.

Killer Flu Round One, Mimi Round Two

I haven't blogged in 12 days. I think that is a Bloggingham record. Blogging involves sitting up. Sitting up long I cannot do. So I'll make this short and sweet.

Did you know that the flu can kill ya?
After 8 days with a fever I ended up in the hospital isolation wing dehydrated with a secondary respiratory infection. (The things I tell on this blog) But I'm sure they only put me in isolation to hide me from the paparazzi because of my royal heritage.


Antibiotics and fluids work wonders.
I intend to be fine and dandy in no time.
But I'm gonna need more rest. Then I'll have some stories to tell....

 Thanks for the cards, inquiries, texts, emails and phone calls. They mean a lot.

By order of the Queen of Bloggingham:

Get your flu shots.

That is all.

Back to bed.

I Hate Organic Spinach

My frig.

Wheat germ for long life, cheese for protein, salads for pencil skirt maintenance, grapes for antioxidants, water for life, blueberry yogurt and Greek Oikos, soy...and a big jar of pickles cause they're only 5 calories. And now I have a fever.

How did I get sick???!!

I swear that is the last time I'm going on a health kick.

I'll be back when I'm better.

And somebody please close the refrigerator door. The sight of that food is making me sick.

Ballet Ball and Bowling Pins

Welcome to the Queen's Meme #71

It's a meme about sports! 

(**1919 Green Bay Packers**)

Now that the Superbowl is over, I thought it would be fun to take a little football quiz. I already declare failure but that is beside the point. There are many things about football that endear me to the game. Men in tight pants come to mind, ballet moves, food and music. What could be better?

1. In football, the "ball" is not round. Does this concern you?

Yes. It is no sport if the ball is not round. That is my theory. 

2.Can you decipher just one of the sideline hand signals?

Of course. I only see peace signs. You see them too...don't you?

3. What did you think of the halftime show?

  What was that???!!! They should have hip-hopped off the stage.

4. I do not understand why it is so important to knock people down if the object of the game is to get back up and run with the ball. Wouldn't it be simpler to just toss it back and forth and see who could catch it first? 
I so agree, Mimi. The game is so violent I can't even watch it. 

5. What is a down?

It's when they fall down. And someone is ALWAYS "down." Why don't they say 1st up, 2nd up, 3rd up, etc. It doesn't make sense to celebrate the down.

6. Besides the obvious testosterone flying around (ladies) and the cheerleaders in short skirts (gentlemen) what else about the game of football fascinates you?

The ballet moves in slow motion which I think would be wonderfully artistic with a round bowling ball in hand. 
We could rename the whole game Ballet Ball.

7.  If you could add a rule to the game, what would it be?

The next person who messes up the National Anthem should be made to stand on the 50 yard line like a bowling pin for the whole game. 

And that is my extremely intelligent take on the game of football. 

Goodnight John Boy.

Monday Mimisms ~ Back From The Brink of Disaster

One of these days some smart-faced blogger from afar is gonna call me the Queen Who Cried Wolf. Disaster? 
WHAT disaster?

Glad you asked.

 Most people wouldn't think anything in my life is of epic disastrous proportions. Oh I have the occasional nail malfunction, tiff with my mother, cooking episodes for the faint-of-heart (oh wait. That IS a disaster) but not really anything you'd call catastrophic. I would consider my house burning down, someone close to me dying a tragedy, or losing my health catastrophic but none of that happened last week.

It was a crazy week at work but no tsunamis or earthquakes.

Monday night I wrote a meme for the Queen's Meme that I have yet to finish. I didn't have time to do my own meme!!! That was embarrassing but hardly newsworthy.

Truth is, sometimes I create disasters by accident. Take for instance the realization that I had not been nominated for a Bloggie AGAIN. What is wrong with this world? Is there no room for a pretend Queen in the annals of blog history?

My kitchen sink stopped up (that was quickly fixed with the trusty plunger) I forgot to buy vitamins at the store (that was fixed with an extra orange for snack) and my camera batteries fell out of the camera and under the car Wednesday morning just as I tried to snap a sunrise shot. Climbing under the car was not fun but I would hardly call that life-threatening.

However, potentially dangerous came the news that someone named "Lucifer" is now following me on Twitter.    I hope he knows what he's in for.

People are dropping like flies at work from the flu.
I solved that by wearing a hazmat suit underneath my pencil skirt.

I learned that I wasn't invited to the upcoming Royal wedding, that

 we are being blessed by the Governor with another paycut and my dating profile expired - all in one day! 

On Tuesday I lost my keys three times and misplaced my cellphone more times than I care to think about and on Wednesday the cellular service informed me that I'd been charged $1.99 each time I dialed 411 for the last 30 days. You don't want to know how many lipstick tubes I could have bought with all that money I spent calling people searching for my keys.

I drove to get a manicure only to discover they were closed for the Vietnamese New Year.
Who knew??! I've been hiding my cuticles for days but I wouldn't say that warrants a crisis.

A guy friend told me recently that he wouldn't exactly say I'm full of drama but he'd rarely met a woman whose life was more "eventful."  I disagree. I think everyone has the same disasters I do. They just don't write them down on the Internet.

In other news, Baby Boy and I did dueling homework Tuesday night (mine was more complicated but just as boring). We rearranged spelling words into alphabetical rows. Yaaaawwwwwwnnnn.
He told me he hates school and is bored out of his gourd everyday. I'm going to have to have a talk with that teacher. His homework was sooooooo boring that we stopped to do blog poses with apples. I can't get a thing out of him about school except he did divulge in utmost secret and in a moment of hot fudge weakness that "into" is a compound word.

I told you that a smart-face would show up.
Where's Lucifer when I need him?

The Bloggies Come To Marrakesh!

My longtime far-flung friend and fellow blogger Maryam, of the incredible blog My Marrakesh is about to win a big award. Yes! I know she is!
Once again she is a finalist for Best African Weblog in the 11th annual Weblog Awards known as The Bloggies. Last year's competition landed her a finalist position as well..and the year before that and the year before that! It was soooo close but no cigar.  I've declared this year her year to win!
I waved my Queen wand and everything.

She should win for her cuteness alone!!

I often visit her blog as my reward after a long hard day. I brew a pot of coffee and sit down to drink in the sights and sounds of her beautiful Moroccan countryside. The photographs are stunning, the imagery stark and compelling, her words are personal....warm and engaging. And I think that is what sets her space apart in the Blogworld.  She has a definite place of purpose in life and she doesn't mind sharing the joys AND the bumps in the road with the rest of us. I like that about her.

I've been reading Maryam since 2006 which is a long long time in blog years. It's been lovely to watch her dream come true in the faraway land she calls home.  Peacock Pavilions, the boutique hotel that Maryam and her husband built has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, including, Her, the New York Times, and New York Magazine.
Maryam and her family’s journey as they planned and built Peacock Pavilions from the ground up was the subject of a feature on HGTV’s House Hunters International.  Her new book on Moroccan interior design will hit bookstores in 2012.  I am so there.


Do stop by and experience the richness of her website. She is always well worth the read. You might find an olive grove, incredible designs inside a house with a real tower (what Queen could resist?), words of wisdom, even a peacock or two. And then click here and vote for the lovely and tenacious Maryam and her wonderful blog My Marrakesh for Best African Blog in the 2011 Bloggies. It takes two seconds. Look around at the others nominated as well. I see some familiar faces which is always exciting.
Voting closes February 20th. I've already voted.

After I waved the wand.

This Is What Happens When You Have A Life

I'm snowed under.

Work. Life. Frolic. Work. Mostly work. Need more frolic.

I am a busy pencil skirt.

Lots of irons in the fire. A few writing deadlines on my pencil brain.

Research to do. Calls to return. Emails and texts staring blankly at me. Business to take care of. Beep! Beep! forgive me for ignoring you. Decisions!! 

And Baby Boy is out of peanut butter. 

But I thought I'd check in and say hi and all is well.

I just need a paper shredder.

See you tomorrow

Hope your Wednesday has been fantastic!

Mimi