Submit a Story!

Fussy Latest Blog Posts

Add as Favorite Claim Blog Help

http://www.fussy.org/ - we're not happy until you're not happy

Click on the "vote it up" button to submit a story below to our homepage.

If you're the owner of Fussy, claim your blog to unlock additional tools and reports.

19: Death, Apparently
NPR's compiled an argument for "The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings" and they've set it up so you can listen to one song from each of their album choices, and then embed your choice of their choices in your website. So here's one: This song always sort of chokes me up. So that's fun! For ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

18: Elsewhere!
Here's a song I just love. Listen to it! Learn it! Love it! Mamie has one album on iTunes, I'll let you know how it is after I drive to Oxnard and back. That should take about 45 minutes, right? THEN your mission is to go over to Jennsylvania and see how she one-upped anything I've ever ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

17: Better Ideas
What sort of monster would I be if I didn't pause to make fun of my own tragedies? NaBloPoMo = National Blog Posting Month NoBloPoMo = No, I won't be participating NaBlowPoMo = In fact, I'll be devoting the month to oral sex AmmoPoMo = And stockpiling weapons BlammoPoMo = While watching Warner ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

16: More Bad Ideas
You know the Momversation videos, where bloggers talk about different parenting issues? How much trouble do you think I'd get in if I started a parody site? Fawnversation = interviews with woodland creatures Johnversation = let's meet some people named John (this could spawn a brother site in ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

15: Sunday
Oh, shit, I almost forgot to post today. I've had to relax my intentions somewhat, I'll admit, this month: I broke my yoga streak from sheer exhaustion and stiffness (you're supposed to become more flexible with practice, not less?). And I intended to bust out the Flip today, but instead I ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

14: Saturday
MommyBlips: vote it up!

13: BUNNIES!
Jackson's class had a field trip today, everyone went to a place where a woman does clicker training with rabbits and miniature horses. Why someone would want to teach bunnies to hop through hoops and play basketball, I do not know. Although I suppose the question isn't really "why" but "why ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

12: Up Close and Personal with Peanut
Me: So, Peanut! What's the word? Peanut: Meh. Me: No, seriously. What are you doing walking around the kitchen? You're supposed to be hibernating. Peanut: Are you trying to get rid of me? Me: No, I'm just trying to figure out what's going on. Normally, you hibernate every winter; you crawl ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

11: The Silence After the Word Is Part of the Word
The hard thing about NaBlo is knowing that there are days when you really should just shut up. Peewee says, LAY OFF THE PIPE .
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Day 10: Commitment, part 2
Another commitment I've made this month is that I'm practicing yoga every day. EVERY DAY. I'm 10 for 10 so far. The Yankees should draft me. I used to be a horrible yoga commitmentphobe. Ashtanga yoga being what it is, practitioners at the white-hot pearl of the oyster will practice six days a ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Day 9: Commitment
I've reached that point in the evolution of my face where I see how, for some women, it's a real fork in the road. Your crow's feet have become permanent and the skin under your cheekbones is kind of crepe-y and oh, lord, what happened to your neck, is that a wattle ? There's no going back, only ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Day 8: Post!
Post! Post post post. POST. (Yeaaah, I had something else up but I had to delete it.)
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Day 8, Somewhat Phoning It In
I spent a good hour on Flickr this morning searching for fan photos. It turns out that they're sort of hard to search for; let's improve our tag work, people! Also, for some reason a lot easier to find male celebrities. John Hodgman Jeff Goldblum Greg Proops The caption for this was, ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

NaBloPoMo Day 7
Somehow I ran across a wonderful tutorial on how to make landscape photos look like model train sets, so I tried it on a couple of old photos I had. The one above is the Riviera Market on Micheltorena Street in Santa Barbara; the one below is a building on Haley Street. Originals:
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Day 6: Your Moment of Zen
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Day the Fifth
Last week I mentioned that I was not buying any clothes for a year . (On October 1, 2010, I plan to walk out my door shedding the tattered remains of my dignity, drive straight to Nordstrom Rack, and buy whatever clump of garments I find closest to the door. If you see me standing at the ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

#4, A Post About Bagels
Three times a year Jack's mom sends us a big Zabar's box containing a dozen bagels, two things of lox, a bag of cinnamon rugelach, a pound of coffee, and two containers of the best, most fattiest, heart-attackenest cream cheese in all the world (one regular, one chive). But we always sort of ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Day 3
I was on Flickr awhile back, wondering whether I ought to renew my "pro" account so that the world could have continuous access to pictures of the second time I tried and failed to grow out my hair (there you go! you're welcome!), when I stumbled over a photo I'd favorited in Sarah Brown 's ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

NaBloPoMo Day 2
MommyBlips: vote it up!

National Blog Posting Month, Day 1
things i do not like (inspired by Amanda ) refrigerated fruit gassy and/or bitey domestic animals burnt meat unheated swimming pools martinis NASCAR things I do like doing the dishes by hand when Peewee snores with his eyes open coconut popsicles dying hydrangeas:
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Page 1 of 2