PIS – I love you

I got my first, “Where are you, you haven’t written on your blog” comment a few days ago. Here I thought I was writing for my own posterity, but people actually do read this thing! I’m so excited. I started this blog as a sort of journal, so that I could remember big events, like Natalie’s first tooth, or when she started to crawl…do you remember that? Because if you are reading this you have probably read my other posts, right?

Well, any who – this whole post was going to be about my new breast pump, because yes, I have a baby that I breastfeed! Shocking that breasts aren’t just for staring at – they actually feed human beings. Well, any way, when I decided that I was going to go back to work I realized that I would need a breast pump. The thing I didn’t realize is I would need a double breast pump – lingo that you might not know about if you haven’t had the pleasure of actually “milking” yourself! So, for the past 10 months (yes, Natalie is a little over 10 months old), I’ve been suffering with pumping with a puny little single pump. Well, suffer no more! Enter EBay, oh glorious EBay! Did you know you can buy never been used, in the box, sealed, high quality pumps on EBay? Well, you can! And so I did! Oh, Medela Pump In Style Advanced (referred to as the “PIS” by those in the know) how I love you! Let me count the ways…you take half the time as my old pump, you come with many accessories including a wonderful shoulder bag that can be used as a diaper bag!, two at once, two at once, the JOY!

Now, back to the other subject for this post, the idea that other people read this blog. I’m a confirmed ‘blog stalker’. Many a day I have spent reading blogs of people I don’t know, who don’t know me and who the hell knows how I found them. Generally I click on one link that leads me to a list of other link, and so on and so on. I’ve actually caught myself, on more than one occasion, starting a sentence with, “Well, I was reading this blog and, blah, blah”. Well, my blog stalking got me thinking about this blog and then I saw that movie Julie/Julia and it is all about this woman who writes a blog and becomes famous and is probably still living off the ad space on her blog, which got me thinking even more. Could my blog actually be a blog that is stalked? I guess, yes, but who knows? I don’t know how to track that.

When I first started this blog I debated making it password protected, only because my dad hates the ideas of blogs and putting your personal information out there for everyone to know and see. You know why I didn’t? Two reasons, first was that I like to stalk blogs and hate when I find a blog that is protected, so I didn’t want to do that to others, and TWO, because I often think someone might read this, someone with power and clout, contact me and offer me money to write stories for them (like Kramer and Mr. Peterman in Seinfeld) or they will put me in a reality series, which would be totally awesome to watch…I know, a girl can dream.

Well, anyway, I guess my point is that I actually hope that people are reading my blog. I know I love reading about other people, knowing what they are going through, finding common ground, whether it is babies, work, marriage, etc we all have something in common.

Back to stalking!

A little bit of background

On many occasions I’ve thought about writing a blog. Thoughts like, “I’m so funny I should share this with the world” often float through my mind while thinking of a blog. Funny things happen and I think “this would make a great blog post”. Now that I have a blog, I hope that I am funny and my experiences make great blog posts. I guess you will all be able to judge that.

That being said, here is a little background on me and the family. Phil, my hubby, and I met at work and literally started dating after a coworker said to me “Joelle, you go out to bars and Phil goes out to bars maybe you should ask him to go to a bar with you”. Made perfect sense to me and the rest has made good sense too.







We got engaged in Cancun after I used my beer-chugging skills to win a contest and Phil was over-whelmed with joy, dropped to his knees and proposed! I accepted, we got married nine months later, and moved into our house eight months later.




After a wonderful (seriously, I was so healthy and never sick) pregnancy and one of the easiest births in history, Natalie Elizabeth was born in November and we couldn’t be happier!




Now that everyone is caught up we can get on with the new posts…I’ll update you on Natalie, Phil and everything else that is going on around us. Hope you find it as funny as I think it is.

And so it begins….

Hello everyone. I've been a blog stalker for a while and now it's time to allow people to stalk me.

I was introduced to the blog world by my friend, Frances. She has a great blog and was my daily entertainment for months. I learned that Miranda had a blog and so began my stalking… Now I’ve had a baby and in the words of my friend Liz, “you have to have a blog if you have a baby”.

So I’ve jumped on the blog-wagon and started writing. I hope to stay on track and post frequently. For now enjoy the catch up posts and hope for more!

Hello Blog World

Welcome to my blog! I've just started and plan to post more soon...so get ready world here I come.