Things That Make a Poker Chick Happy

September is National Food Safety Awareness Month. Well, it's loads of other things, and Poker Chick is thinking about all the things it could be, like National hug-a-monkey month. Hug-a-monkey! That would be funny. Anyway. Poker Chick digresses.

The cool thing about the food thing is that this year's theme is "take action to prevent an allergic reaction". Seriously. For all you parents and teachers and chefs out there, you should know the best way to make this Chick happy is to be respectful and understanding of the food thing. That alone helps more than you can ever know.

Thanks, Allergic Girl, for bringing this to our attention. Check it out.

Is Parenting This Tiring For Everyone?

Poker Chick just realized that she literally did not sit down once between 1pm and 6:30pm today. And most of that time was walking errands too. Now, in NYC, "errands" or "shopping" means walking 4 miles (total, over the course of the day) while holding a 34 lb. child and pushing a stroller, often at the same time, and somehow balancing this with purchases made on said errands. Now imagine this kind of day on the Sunday after you had your special Saturday two-hour nonstop pilates marathon.

Ow. Cannot....move. Ow.

Interestingly enough, while getting a pedicure from 9:30-10:30am this morning (her only free time today), Poker Chick read that 75 minutes of pilates burns 500 calories.


So...120 minutes of pilates + 4 miles of walking, plus carrying bags + carrying a 34-lb. child and/or 11-lb. stroller = how many calories? Who knows. This chick is waaaay too sore to do math right now.

Happy "International Talk Like a Pirate Day"

Ahoy! The wee lass has declared she is once again going to be a pirate on Halloween. We ain't lyin', she did it all on her own. Out of the blue. Poker Chick is most pleased.

But now for the real story, lads and lasses. T'reporrrrrrt on her other post, Poker Chick is happy to tell ya that it would appear the booty was intended to be so free. She received several follow up emails. One, a notification of shipment ho! Another, a notification of a few back-ordered items with a sincere apology. Then two more. One, a giant coupon off future loot. And another, a jolly celebration of "International Talk Like a Pirate Day," (no, really, it's real), claiming a lucky few ordering today will have their order comped. So they really do this stuff, do they? Randomly comp orders?

Shiver me timbers!! Methinks me conscience is now clear.

Well, we'll still drop off 5 giant bags of clothes and shoes to Goodwill this weekend. You know, karma and all. That's karrrrrrma to you.

Cupcakes For Everyone

Now that school's in again, Poker Chick is getting a lot of questions of how to deal with food allergies at birthday parties. It's easy. Thanks to these guys, you can have your cake and eat it too. And p.s. the pancakes rock.

Thanking Her Peeps

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