Doodah Diva

I am a real mom at last! I made pancakes for my family on a Saturday morning. Is this some sort of critical rite of passage?

What a GOOD girl!

Our project over Memorial Day weekend was to get Miss J. going on the sippy cup and now she is doing it all by herself!

You may recall that when I was pregnant, my sis-in-law gave me a book titled, “Sippy Cups are Not for Chardonnay.”

This still remains to be seen. For Mommy, that is.

She’s in flight training right now but soon she’ll be able to do it on her own.

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
-Wayne Dyer

“I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.”
- Diane Sawyer

This is hard to do sometimes when you’re focused on something other than the task at hand or scatterbrained or have 50 million things on your mind. I think what she means here is listen to whomever is talking to you. Pay attention to your surroundings. Try to pick up on subtle clues about what’s going on around you.

Have you ever met someone who is just completely oblivious to how others react to him? And you just want to bang your knuckles on his head and say, “How can you be so clueless, dude?!”

Whatever you do, don’t be the clueless dude.

Oh, and in the completely ironic event I’m the clueless dude, YOU BETTER TELL ME!

Heads up, little fellas.

You know when you’re not quite sure how something is punctuated and just take your best stab at it, hoping you’re not going to look like an asshole in the email or whatever you’re writing?

And you kind of have this hope that if you’re wrong, someone will tell you about it so once and for all you’ll know the proper way to punctuate the item in question?

I feel that way about “heads up.”  I never knew if it was heads’ up, head’s up or heads up. I think I’ve written it all three ways. (So shame on you people who have not told me that I was writing it incorrectly! If you happened to know yourselves, that is.)

Anyhoo, courtesy of the daily tip email from my buddies over at Grammar Girl, here is the answer once and for all.

“Because the phrase means roughly ‘Everyone, lift your heads up and look out,’ it’s referring to more than one head, so the correct way to write it is ‘heads up.’ You write it that way even when you are giving a warning to just one person.

• Heads up, everyone, the boss is on our floor today.
• Aardvark gave Squiggly a heads up about the peeve parade heading toward the burrow.

In aviation, there is also something called a heads-up display (note the hyphen), in which the pilot can see the controls while keeping his or her head up (looking through the windshield).“

There you have it. Don’t say I never posted anything useful.

xo!