Questions and Sports

Casey of moosh in indy gave me a list of ques­tions.  In honor of the NE Patri­ots win over the Indi­anapo­lis Colts I thought I would answer some of them today. 

moosh in indy. Nov 2nd, 2007 at 1:15 am

Con­cep­tion story please.
What does Wally do?
What did you to before head­ing over there?
Do peo­ple over there think you have an accent?
What was the hard­est change when you became a mom?
Will Squidge have an Eng­lish accent or an Amer­i­can one?
(Sorry, accents fas­ci­nate me, any­thing on the sub­ject would be appre­ci­ated)
GOOD LUCK!

I’m sav­ing the con­cep­tion story for another time– sorry folks!

Wal’s offi­cial title is Euro­pean sales man­ager.  In real­ity he is the ONLY Euro­pean sales­per­son so I don’t really under­stand the man­ager part.  His ter­ri­tory is sooo much more than Europe, it includes every­thing that is NOT N., Cen­tral and S. Amer­ica and Asia.  When I met him he was the mar­ket­ing man­ager in SC and the only way he could get back to the UK was to take a sales posi­tion.  He enjoys mar­ket­ing much much much more but hey it’s a job. 

I have a Psy­chol­ogy degree.  I worked damn hard for it– work­ing full time and going to school. My very last job in the US was ‘site coor­di­na­tor’  of a group home for men­tally ill adults.  I loved that job and I believe I was pretty darn good at it.  I’m now in the process of get­ting new and improved qual­i­fi­ca­tions.  I want to work 9–5, week­ends off and make some decent (when I say decent I really mean inde­cent because I want bags and bags of MONEY!!) money.  I’ll keep you all posted on how that goes.  This is a long term plan as I won’t be going back to work until Squidge starts school. 

Yes, they do think I have an accent but oddly enough on the phone some peo­ple think I am Irish– odd innit?!?!  Most peo­ple think I’m from NY and only one per­son has ever cor­rectly iden­ti­fied my accent as a Boston/Massachusetts accent.  I think it was just a lucky guess as I have a pretty f&cked up accent.  8 years of liv­ing in SC has left its mark and then add the 2+ years I’ve been here and you have one con­fused person. 

The hard­est thing about being a Mom is being ON all.the.time!  The con­stant vig­i­lance.  The try­ing to bal­ance let­ting her be inde­pen­dent with keep­ing her safe.  I try to let Squidge fall on her ass w/out rush­ing over and cod­dling her.  I try to let her deal w/ the bul­lies in the play group w/out get­ting too involved.  Some­times I was to get all north­ern and aggres­sive on the mums and just rip into them but I just roll my eyes and mut­ter under my breath in my best pas­sive aggres­sive behavior. 

I think Squidge is going to be con­fused.  Poor thing won’t know if she should say alu-min-um or al-um-in-ium.  Should she say to-may-to or to-mah-to?  In my world HERB is a guy and (h) ERB is some­thing we use in cook­ing.  So I think she’s going to mainly have an Eng­lish accent with some Amer­i­can­isms thrown in.  I say good job they say well done.  I say fall they say autumn. 

Never fear, you all KNOW that as soon as she says her first proper every­one can under­stand me sen­tence I’ll be blog­ging about it!!  Now if that sen­tence hap­pens to be sooo very very Eng­lish sound­ing I will laugh my ass off AND blog about it too!

I don’t know if I blogged about my stuffie mak­ing obses­sion.  I’m work­ing on some stuffed bun­nies and here is the first one I made. 

I’ve tweaked the design a bit.  I’m hop­ing to  make a few of these and put them up for sale in my etsy shop.  At the moment my lit­tle shop is a lit­tle bit sad and I haven’t had any sales but hope­fully these lit­tle bun­nies will change all that!!