wednesday....

things that i don't so much like:

1. grinding my teeth... ouch
2. having to go to tustin ranch costco today. may be the cause of #1....?
3. commercials that are trying to be apple commercials (may also be the cause of #1)
4. feeling sickly and pale
5. seeing $10 tickets to a hollywood bowl concert and still not really wanting to go :(
6. Blackjack pooping TWICE on our walk - only one poop allowed, thank you :|
7. Agent Gideon leaving Criminal Minds - it's just not fair
   

things that i do so much like:

1. the weather being a perfect 70 degrees today
   
2. walking to school on walk to school day
3. with the dogs and every kid wanting to pet them
   
4. then walking another 4.5 miles to the corn field/strawberry field
5. living by a corn field/strawberry field
   
6. also living walking distance from trader joes/michaels/albertsons/walgreens/sprouts/cvs/rubys/library/post office
   
7. making shrinky dink christmas ornaments
8. perfectly sweet homemade apple cider made by my boys
   
9. personal emails
10. aleve
    
11. trader joes 'next to godliness' products
    
12. Mrs Kay, the most perfectly wholesome pre-K teacher ever who has the kids dancing to chicken fat each morning
13. my canon XT... still, after all these years :)

before school

after school

kids and shelter dogs

make for the sweetest moments... and yes, shelter dog is a breed of dog, but it gives more insight about the owner's pedigree than the dog's :)

tuesday musings

why oh why oh why when we live in the land of the drive-thru dairy/starbucks/bank/cleaners/school drop-off... do people still not understand what drive thru actually means, it does NOT mean drive, STOP, talk for 5 minutes, kiss, need to retrieve something from the trunk, get back in, realize the trunk didn't close properly, do a lame sorry handwave thing (because that gives me the last 5 minutes back...) get back in, take a sip of coffe and then DRIVE THRU. it's a drive t-h-r-u, meaning the car stays in D for drive-thru. and technically, it's drive THROUGH. argh. help me i am in hell :|

and can i find scraps of black felt with which to make a seasonally festive pumpkin face teeshirt? no. if i didn't want black felt it would be spilling out of every drawer....

my master plan is coming together!!! v-e-r-y slowly... but it's all coming together!! George Michael's 'erratic/erotic' behavior has at last caused the demise of his longtime relationship with Kenny (who i always thought George was far too cute for anyway...) and Nate Berkus' longtime spouse was sadly washed away in the tsunami of 2004. sure i bet he has dated plenty but i know he and George would be THE most adorably perfect couple :) now all that's left is for them to meet, get married, the old man next door to die (left side not right) and for the happy couple to suddenly decide they want to live in suburbia and buy the house, adopt two african babies with little ringlets, that i can be the expert mommy next door to, and take pictures of, of course! we will all live happily ever after, and i will finally have the gay friends i dream of, with little babies to boot, living right next door :) it could happen :|

the dogs are driving me nuts - when i go to let one in the other one runs out and then won't come back in. so finally when i get that one in, the other one runs out.... seriously, i am losing my mind.

off to make a book of all our pets for Danny's show&tell.... here' s a sneak peak, it's a very original idea that thought up all by myself :)

mmmmmm, we are baking bread :) it smells sooooo good i want to hold it up to the flames to cook FASTER DAMNIT, 17 minutes to go. i just don't think i can wait 17 minutes.... all i had to eat today was slices of apple and a yogurt :|

i caught Danny in a moment of Michael Jackson bliss yesterday... he's such a huge fan :)



i am not paranoid but i am SURE the mailman is stalking me. earlier today i wrote about that ebay parcel not arriving, and bam two seconds later, he sheepishly delivered it. i think he has been wearing my necklace for the last two weeks :| i want to take it to a lab and see if i can get any epithelials off it and then see if any epitheials are left on my mailbox and match them.

this weekend i watched 'melrose place: where are they now?' i only really watched to see Billy Campbell and i must have blinked and missed him, so it was kind of a waste of time. but i did, however, have a wonderful idea for a tv show for pets... to track down their littermates and reunite them with their siblings and parents on tv - i would soooo watch that every single week!!! i would love to see Blackjack's family

walgreens today: i found the grater plater!!! (exercise caution, if squeamish, at 1:05 seconds:) i have dreamt of it since seeing it on pitchmen months ago. i gave Danny $10 and he secretly bought it for me for christmas!! hurray - i can hardly wait!!! Aaron is supposedly going to be Billy Mays for halloween - now that's going to be hot ;)

latest facebook hate: friends that have douchebag friends, and you have to read their douchebaggy comments right alongside your own fine comments.... you should be able to block said douchebag friends and pretend they don't exist... off to peruse options and see if it's already been invented :)

wishing
they'd remove that slice of cake from the blogger logo... it makes me feel awfully peckish everytime i see it

wondering
how on earth Blackjack knows the difference between gingham and denim. i tell him to get on his denim bed and he goes straight to it. then i say 'no i meant the gingham bed' and he goes to that one :| how does he know?? he is a DOG.

saw this woman
advertising her wares on the freeway last night. first of all, it never rains in southern california, e-v-veryone knows that... Barry Manilow even sang a song about it. and secondly, people who like pretty umbrellas don't usually also love skulls- they like polka dots and burberry and strawberry shortcake and things like that. just sayin', mrs skull umbrella :|

still wondering
whatever possessed Danny to stick a tic tac up his NOSE and get it lodged there.... why???!

loving
the pretty orchid in our bathroom. it was FIVE DOLLARS at the somewhat terrifying but awesomely cheap mexican supermarket. you could also get an entire sheep's head (with eyes looking right at you) or a big pack of chickens' feet... i got the orchid instead :|

planning
never ever ever to shop at ebay or half.com again. i bought 3 things on 18 sept and am still patiently watching for the mailman each and every day, waiting for my things to arrive. soooo not cool :|

hating
that the spellchecker always underlines soooo, like it isn't a word. it should be a word, meaning very much so :|

still lamenting
that nowhere had apples to pick yesterday... stupid California. Massachusetts has apples, i bet...

FOUND!!!

reason 1,105,035 why he's a keeper... Aaron just found my beloved MONCHHICHI MONKEY!!! last time i saw her she was living in a toybox in my house in England and somehow he just found her HERE in our attic!!!

if i wasn't suffering from a cold that is making me terribly dizzy, i would climb on the roof and yell loud enough for the man in the moon to hear "i love this man!!!"

anyway her nose is rubbed off from being kissed repeatedly, she has lost some of her beans, and she is in need of a little bath... but it is unmistakably her! made in japan in 1974, loved by me for soooo many years :)

now i can call off my fruitless amazon.com search for 'replacement girl monchhichi monkey' because she's back!

today i

cleaned the entire house from top to bottom and vacuumed under/behind every piece of furniture even going so far as to drag out the entire 20 foot long sofa and meticulously sweep behind it. by the last room, the vacuum cleaner (human operated) decided it was done being overworked and underpaid and refused to work anymore. it's like a week old :| is our house THAT dirty....?

ran to the hellish grocery store "stater bros" - hell is a kind word for that place. stood in line soooo long i had read the entire martha stewart living magazine just waiting for ONE customer to figure out how to write a check. seriously, paying by check at the grocery store should really carry the death sentence. the next woman had $40.71 worth of awful party fare like macaroni salad and unflavored potato chips. she used 4 - FOUR, COUNT EM - credit cards to pay for $40 worth of not even remotely nutritious food. in my mind, i fantasized about being part of the firing squad at her execution :) who does that??? two credit cards... maybe, occasionally if you really have no shame... but 4??? i have to admit... i wished very very very bad things for her as she left, after asking the cashier to write down how much she spent on each card (because i guess a receipt is too hard to read??!)

next i drew and cut out 24 black spiders of varying sizes to hang in the windows and spook passers-by. only to realize that it's so hot here our windows are open 24/7 and no-one will really be able to see the damn spiders :|

the good news of the days is we have ice cream and it's the really goooooood kind with thick dark ribbons of blackberry and little chunks of cheesecake throughout. it's sooo HOT here that technically having a bowl of ice cream is a financially smart choice that even Suze Orman would be proud of, since it saves on air conditioning... right? right.

going to pick apples tomorrow and spend a day in the countryside - back with pics xo

everything is so very wrong today

first i woke up with the world's worst headache. i think... i maybe just might have a cold :| those commercials on tv where they show a head throbbing with big red circles emitting from the sinus area... that's how i feel but a hundred times worse. and can i remember what the commercial was selling? nope. so i hope two aleve and 3 cups of nescafe do the trick. which reminds me, Danny uses that expression ALL THE TIME and it's adorable 'ohh yes, this book will do the trick!' he cracks me up :)

next i decided to make backup dvds of all my pics in a fit of uncharacteristic usefulness. seriously the instructions might as well be in chinese, they make no sense - there are two usb cables and it doesn't tell me which one is the right one - who on earth do they think i am, Bill Gates? i gambled and plugged one in - lights and sounds whirred to life and i clapped my hands with frenzied excitement only to be told by my computer: 'not responding'. arghh! it has been in a frozen state ever since - damn you computer!

next the toilet. the water won't stop swishing around in the tank. i was in water torture hell for like an HOUR waiting for it to stop when i suddenly realized - it was broken :| i was forced to investigate, but even lifting that big cover is very difficult for a lady such as myself. but nooo, i had to put my hands inside that tank and lift up a huge ball, at which point it stopped. silence!! i tried to put it gently back down and whooosh! again with the water rushing sound!! stop!!! so i lifted it up and tried to prop it but it was unproppable - i was going to have to spend my ENTIRE DAY holding that big ball up inside the toilet :( i finally jerry-rigged the contraption to hold it's own weight and fingers crossed, so far my plumbing solution is working....

next i decided to vacuum - being poorly i instructed my robot to do it for me. i hate that robot. if it was a person it would be a snarky teenage boy with wispy facial hair, a too-long fringe and a penchant for school shooting video games, who's laundry i NEVER want to have to smell. it's lazy and does half a job, if that :| it hides under the bed pretending it's done and texts it's friends. this morning, since i had a HEADACHE FROM HELL so it decided to be super loud and annoying and seemed to be turning and aiming for the pets for absolutely no reason other than to be annoying. i gave a small 'tap' to remind it who's boss and now it is super quiet and super moody and hardly picking up ANYTHING anymore. urgh, how i dread the teenage years - if this robot is any kind of simulation of what's to come, i am officially screwed.

soooo, in a last ditch effort to claim back my day, i am going to Superior Market in downtown Santa Ana!! because the day can get no worse... right....? back later with a clearer head (hopefully)

oh and ps.... can i get 'tardy for the parday' out of my head? no i cannot. thanks Amy :)

am secretly glad
that Chicago didn't get to host the olympics. hehehehe :)

wondering
if ANY human being - never mind a kindergartner, can actually finish this game - it's completely impossible :|

feeling slightly guilty
about spending the entire day watching tv in bed. yawwwn. but in my defense i was feeling very light headed this morning and my nose is hopelessly blocked up too...

trying to figure out
what on earth got into Ryan on flipping out. surely he isn't the lowdown dirty snake of a man they are making him out to be?!

eternally thankful
that the policeman who was driving behind me when i accidentally ran a red light trying to find my lipbalm was just as distracted as me and didn't seem to notice :)

found the missing piece
of Sam's halloween costume today - he needed a big fancy stick that a king carries with a big fancy ball on top (i am sure it has a big fancy name too). at party city it goes by the name of 'pimp cane' :) ahem. i am hoping he doesn't get sent home from school for bringing a pimp cane to the halloween parade :) but a sword isn't allowed either....

thursday things

it drives me crazy when
i try to IM someone and accidentally click too far to the right and i end up calling them :| that ring tone sends pure terror coursing through my veins, i am deathly allergic to the phone

it also drives me crazy when
a particular song plays in my head for an entire week on a continuous loop - case in point: pokerface by lady gaga, a very las vegas song of course

it drives me crazy that
the last song stuck in my head was lady gaga paparazzi. yes i'm really 15 and yes of course i watched the VMAs.... and yes, it's been stuck in my head that long ;) and yes i think she is totally cool (she's wheelchair bound, bless her heart :)

it drives me crazy that
people still think finger mustaches are cute, zany and original :| <- bemused expression...NOT a finger mustache

it drives me crazy that
Gil Grissom left CSI. i haven't watched it since he left :(

it drives me crazy that
we have no ice cream whatsoever! not even crap ice cream. and ice cream is like a staple item here, like milk and gummie-snacks. surely there is some in the emergency freezer that we keep fully stocked at all times for disasters... such as tonight... when a bowl of doubleberry cheesecake ice cream could really be considered first aid...?

off to check then going to bed... but not before posting pictures of the day though ;)


baseball





it was a sick day from preschool with other poorly little friends :)