Now We Are Two

Susie Felber — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:38:00 GMT

Yup, I'm sneaking back to share something I made for Hugo's second birthday, which is less than two weeks away, followed by an update.

Hugo is doing wonderfully. Of course, he's still not speaking, not much at all. Maybe we should've named him Harpo. Yes, he's been evaluated up and down. They said he was advanced in social, cognitive and physical skills. But his speaking at 18 months was 12 month old level. We're on our second state-sponsored speech teacher already. She's not worried. The teachers at his school are not worried. And me? I'm not worried, but how I would love it if he was talking! He makes himself known, and he gets by on charm, mime and blonde ringlets. Nice work if you can get it, eh?

Me? I'm loving my work, I'm also on TV quite a bit lately and you can check out some of my "dumb" blogging here.

Oh and my man is doing fab too. Here's a hilarious article he wrote about skiing at Alta in Utah for the FT and their "Pink Snow" section. I think it's the tops.

Romance & Radiators -- Hot Stuff!

Susie Felber — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:41:00 GMT

See that saucy cover? Thing is, my mom has a new book coming out 5.27.08. For those of you that don't know, which is most of you, my mother is an award-winning author who has published over 30 historical novels. As her new book is coming out roundabout Mother's Day, I've decided to pull out all the stops and be relentlesly gushy and promotional for her.

Why? #1 She writes a great book. #2 She is totally ridiculously, stupidly shy about being self-promotional. #3 I''ve written to "Regis & Kelly's Mom's Dream Come True Contest" for YEARS trying to get them interested in her only-spoken-to-me dream: having Kelly feature one of her novels as a great beach read. See my perky blog from 2005 about entering this contest -- somewhat hilariously, you can tell I was convinced we would win. It would cost them nothing! She so deserves it! But alas, no. Didn't happen.

So fine! As Babble is about kids and writing all that, I feel this is the perfect place to have you get to know her. She's my inspiration -- if she could have three kids and a career then impossible is nothing. OK, she did have a husband who was a doctor, but add in the fact that women of her generation didn't have careers and we're even steven. Almost, maybe?

Here's mom pre-me and pre-published novelist...

And here, way post-me and post-published 30 novels...

Lookie dat -- no surgery or botox or nothing, people! OK , stay tuned for more on her TK this month including awesome photos of her blatently subjecting me to secondhand smoke! Who misses the 70's? I do!

Speaking of HOT STUFF... Along with my job and all, I'm trying to learn how to make slammin' podcasts ( like this recent one I appear in but didn't make or write) and original vids. So I've taken on trying to make a book trailer for a friend. It's for an erotic anthology and I'm attempting to do one straight 'n sexy and one funny. We shall see!

OK so speaking of HOT -- here's a motionbox video of Hugo going wild with a radiator and a copy of the Financial Times* Arts section. If that's wrong, I don't wanna be right.

*Linked brilliant article is by the man unit/papa de Hugo. Yes, I live to promote those I love -- deal!

NOTE: Second fab photo of mom by Lisa Whiteman

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Now We Are Two

Romance & Radiators -- Hot Stuff!