Kona Gallagher

First off, a disclaimer: Yes, I know there are terrible things going on in the world; you don’t need to remind me. With that said, I was listening to this week’s episode of the Podclack, and they were talking about before-and-after shots of Lindsay Lohan. They’re kind of the most depressing thing in the world. You look at her now and you go, “now that’s a hot mess,” but it’s just so much more intense when you look at her circa 2004, around the time of the Mean Girls premiere. To wit:

The first photo is from the Mean Girls premiere in 2004, the second is from Cannes earlier this month. It really makes you want to eat your veggies and drink water, doesn’t it? Oh, and not inhale giant piles of blow all the time. Also, if you stare at the picture on the right long enough, you can almost see her septum deviating in real time.

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Our household has been wracked by illness pretty much for a month straight. It got so bad that last week, Cooper was only able to go to school one day. He’s been losing weight, sleeping all the time, and producing some amazing colors of snot. Finally, I had enough and I said, “hey sickness. You’re a jerk, and you’re not going to beat us.”

We just moved into a place with a fenced in backyard, so I’ve been determined to take advantage of this as much as humanly possible. One of the first things I did, was buy my water-loving baby a pool, which he is obsessed with. The second is to garden. Luke is container-gardening some tomatos, we’ve topsy-turvied some peppers, and I’ve planted seeds for an herb garden. This works out for Cooper in many ways– the best of which is the use of the hose, aka his new best friend.

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I really have no idea why I’m so confrontational in the title of this post; I’m sure most of you are lovely. Okay, some of you. Anyway, Sunday night my friend Elizabeth came over and I saved her life, yet again. How? I totally finished migrating her WordPress.com site to a WordPress.org site! Whoo… hoo? Okay, that’s not really interesting at all. What is, interesting, however, is the fact that it looks awesome.

The site is called Baking, Books, Booze, and it is about the three things implied by the title. Come on guys, use your heads. Right now there’s a recipe up there for White Russian cupcakes, and I’m not sure how I feel about it, because White Russians are gross. But Elizabeth and Lauren dressed up a pineapple and took a picture!

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It’s been a crazy couple of months, but I’m just starting to catch up and get my life in some sort of order. We had yet another move, bringing the total number of homes Cooper has had to 3, which is a pretty big number for a 19-month-old. During all of this turmoil, Easter happened. Cooper’s first Easter of course, was last year, but this is the first one that he was really aware of.

Last year, we went to the zoo, and Cooper stared at the animals with a confused look on his face.

This year, we went over to my mom’s house and had a potluck. The weather was beautiful and we spent the whole day on her back porch. At some point, we broke out the bubbles, and it Blew. Coopers. Mind.

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Looking a little dazed and confused on his first day of school

In addition to all of the b5media drama, there have been a lot of other changes going on around here the past few weeks. Luke started a new job two weeks ago, I started a new day job one week ago, and Cooper started daycare. So basically, everyone’s schedules have drastically changed, and none of us has any idea which way is up at any given time.

The whole job thing happened really quickly, so it was very fortunate that I was able to find a daycare for Cooper that didn’t creep me out. I had toured a few places over the summer, and although they were nice (and in one case, very expensive), there was something that depressed me about each of them. Neither was a place I wanted to send my child all day.

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