cats, birds and groceries

Mr Bumps official portrait 

 Mr Bumps outtake

 our teenage daughter:  Friday is fourteen

  

there goes another almost decent picture...

 finding curious new things like this make me squeal like a little pig!

 Mrs Brady old lady

 

 pretty

 

 

 

 

 Mr Bumps loves the fire :|

 golden hour and screen bokeh

 some kind of pertiful little birds ;)

three course dessert :)

 

OK, four maybe ;)  i had banana, he chose vanilla cotton candy

 still staring at the neighbor dog with seething jealousy ;)

a boy and his manatee

 his new favorite spot :|

 shining evening light in Massachusetts

 

 

 today's had-to-haves in Target - those chips taste nothing like garlic bread :|

 and this in Old Navy.  but i'm going to return it... of course

 

 

first world things

avoiding
everyone until the fallout of using far far FAR too much of the glycolic acid peel passes.  omg, i look like a leper with bleeding sores and HUGE volcanic cystic bumps... i really really really should have heeded the warnings on the bottle :|  

waiting
for my shiny new Chanel rouge noir iPhone case.  etsy + my credit card = happiness :)

also waiting
for my newest obsession Chanel Coco Mademoiselle to arrive already.  get here already!!!!!!!  and please make the bottle be super duper pretty and kissable!!!!   

loving
amazon prime.  Danny is suddenly besotted with manatees (?) and the inevitable question arose: can we pleeeeeeease drive to every store within a 50 mile radius looking for a perfect, not-too-big, not-too-small, not-too-expensive, soft but realistic manatee???  i consulted my trusty friend amazon, found one and it arrived a mere 14 hours later :|  seriously... they flew it overnight from Kentucky.  and it was seven bucks - shipped!!!!  gasp!  and he LOVES it!!

hating
people who walk in front of me when i'm shopping.  because that right there is grounds for murder

also hating
the way women drive here, like frightened, befuddled little bunnies.  move bitch (get out the way) has become something of a theme song...

wondering
if having takeout food in the car causes some kind of reverse polarity that makes everyone around move reaaaaaaaaallly slowly.  or if i really shouldn't wait till i'm that hungry that i want to kill everyone before i go out for food ;)

wishing
to go somewhere brand new this weekend.  we have been in MA for 5 whole months and haven't made it to New Hampshire, Vermont or Maine yet... and they are all RIGHT THERE for the taking!!!!  i am dying to go somewhere... anywhere!!!!  (except Rhode Island... no offense but been there, done that already ;)

loving
the clouds here - i'd post pictures but i have like a thousand (for real :)

back later with pictures of birds and cats and other such shit ;)

saturdays

listening
to Tom Jones.  because sometimes it just helps to sing "what's new pussycat" at full volume ;)  and Tom Petty too - who i really don't like but he's right after Tom Jones.   and Tori Amos, i still don't get the cornflake girl song - cornflakes are only edible coated in chocolate.

eating
Maltesers for lunch.  for medicinal purposes

wearing
the new boots i bought that are impossible to walk in.  they're great for just sitting and standing and they make me feel SO tall!  but walking is not so easy.......

slightly missing
Big Sur (but i don't miss the rest of California... i wonder if i ever will, like everyone swears i will...?  i don't miss endless pointless days of the same exact weather with no excuse to stay in or go out)

craving
olive oil.  sometimes i wash my hands in it just so i can smell it...

loving
that show where Gordon Ramsay goes into prisons and teaches criminals (with horrific teeth - omg, hello England:free dental?????!) to cook.  which is not fair because i want to learn to cook and for him to stand behind me, and call me "my darling", and teach me how to cut veggies ;)  i wonder if there are like 10 Gordon Ramsay clones... because he has sooooo many shows - he can't possibly just be ONE person.  hmmm 

neeeeeeeeeding
to go to the kate spade outlet.  i've looked at the wallets three or four (hundred) times and i definitely think i know which one i want.  darned indecisiveness.... and white girl problems too

sweetest snugglebug, Friday

(disclaimer: only sweet when things are going her way ;)

 

at the grocery store - Maltesers just sitting there! 

we're not in California anymore (thank you!!!!)

saturday morning

 

nuh-uh: dollar tree branched out (oh yes i'm funny :)

this gorgeous lake is on the way to Sam's school and i always take a second to hang out there. 

it's like Switzerland!  and you can buy a (crappy) house right on the water for $300k! 
seriously... heavenly and peaceful and only like 5 minutes from complete retail mayhem!

thursday things

drinking

diet coke with 15,000 chunks of ice 

 

listening

to Coldplay.  and Radiohead.  and the Smiths.  and PJ Harvey.  a little bit homesick maybe...... i'm so much closer to home but still an entire vast unswimmable ocean away :(

 

wanting

to watch Les Miserables.  must stock up on lotion infused tissues first.......

 

hating

people who think the rules don't apply to them.  because the rules were invented specifically for complete and utter assholes.  case in point: the crazy bitch moms in the brigade of white SUVs at the school drive-thru who think the way out is their short cut in because their child is far more precious than everyone else in line's....   i just can't be nice to assholes ever - it's against my religion

 

wishing

there was a Cath Kidston store here.  no matter how much wonderful stuff i'm surrounded by, i still want more :|

 

trying

to stop thinking about Maltesers.  i wonder what is up with that?  clearly i have some nutritional deficiency that only Maltesers can satiate ;)  because i think about them night and day

 

on Cape today

 

 i'm kinda sorta going to miss the Cape house

(but not really because there's no good pizza there..)

 

 but there is pretty pretty light

 

and cotton candy skies 

 

 

 but it's pretty much that way off Cape too so it's OK

 

they love Lofthouse cookies too (grr)

 

 i love the sunny window

 

 a note from Danny's true friend (bless) 

 

 watch out, he has a bat :|

this is why i have grey hair :|

 

 

 obsessing over Bo as per usual - Bo has a dog walker, Blackjack is insanely jealous 

the way to Walmart (off Cape/on Cape... it's all heavenly)

caffeine, clouds and the Cape..........

drinking
iced tea and hot coffee.  at the same time.  (... and i wonder why i can't sleep ;)

listening
to Sad Beautiful Tragic (and totally relating to that girl's pretty, fucked up, fragile, poetic mind tonight ;)

loving
the pretty pretty skies here

going
to escape to the Cape tomorrow.  because it's been, like, 5 days.  so it's loooong overdue ;)

getting
slightly tired of Jodi Arias.  i think we can all agree she's totally guilty, but will be found not guilty by reason of insanity and it will just be a huge waste of taxpayers dollars and Dr Drew's time....

wishing
to pick wild blueberries in Maine this Summer.  just like every Summer.  but this Summer it might actually happen.....

 

 

 

 

 it's Spring (at least on the windowsill in the kitchen :)

 i shopped hungry today ;)