toddlers, tiaras and terrible cooking

recovering
from walking 8 miles in 81 perfect degrees of sunshine

making
chocolate chip cookies. i shouldn't be. but i am :| after walking 8 miles on blistered bloody stumps for feet :|

neeeeeding
to take the darned christmas songs off my ipod - for the love of pete, christmas in january is horrid!

loving
our sweet neighbor 'Miss Braaabraaa', a retired kindergarten teacher, who reads with Danny and is helping him learn to read :)

working
on our taxes already :) once the final documents arrive: bam! and "bingo bango bongo" to quote Montel Williams ;)

wanting
this trike. but not wanting to feel like a loser who can't ride a bike :| (because i can - just not on busy streets or anywhere near cars :)

loving
how the baby is absolutely captivated by 'Toddlers and Tiaras' - i would love to know what he's thinking :)

wishing
i could find more episodes 'extreme couponing'. and 'high school reunion'. clearly i am in dire need of quality broadcasting options;)

hating
my cooking. it's the worst. i am making grilled fish with a medley of golden vegetables (which are all either too hard or too soft or stuck to the pan) and i have completely lost my appetite :|

off to 'enjoy' it... back later (maybe;)

10 loves

• laughing cow cheese: creamy and yummy on crackers (and only 35 calories per triangle! i've had cheese and crackers for lunch every day this week :)

• notes from old friends who take the time and effort to stay in touch :)

• blurb for reprinting my book, sight unseen - no questions asked - no muss no fuss, when i mentioned in passing that one page was kind of falling out (now that's what i'm talking about, Willis!!)

• Barack Obama: he has a nice smile and he's, like, tooootally smart :)
  

• my camera - oh how i love my camera (and i will never take it for granted ever again if it will just hurry back, preferably before weekend ;)

• three day weekends :)

• AND!!! school being off on my birthday (how did they know i had big plans for that day, which i haven't decided yet but they are BIG!)

• our washer and dryer working effortlessly day after day to keep our laundry baskets from overflowing

• the boys doing so wonderfully well in school (we pay $5 per 'A' and are going broke :)

• my iphone: the more i know it, the more i love it :) it's like a phone version of Aaron (but with bad reception :)
  

Justin Bieber, Jason Davis and cheese

listening
to Justin Bieber. oh yes, FML is about right ;)

loving/hating
Jenelle from Teen Mom - she makes me SO GLAD i have sons :|

craving
cheese. as in a big costco sized block of cheddar cheese. being on a diet will do that to you ;)

wishing
i knew what to do with the HUGE blister that has become my little toe - it looks like it's full of blood and it's sooooooo sore (but i still managed to walk 8 miles on it today ;)

which reminds me.....

wondering
who that grotesque ogre Jason Davis from Celeb Rehab is... he is always all sweaty with big open sores all over his body and greasy hair. i need a picture of him on my fridge to stop me from eating cheese and other bad things (can one enter rehab for diet coke and cheese addiction?) oh yes, this picture should do the trick :)



hoping
to avoid being roped into attending the McDonalds McTeacher thingie tomorrow night... the last thing i need is McDonalds french fries wafting under my nose (but oh gawd it sounds SO GOOD right about now!!)

off to bed(fordshire) back tomorrow with ABSOLUTELY NO PICTURES. FML yet again ;)

loveline and broken stuff

listening to
loveline. and not learning a darned thing i don't already know (since this show is obviously meant for 16 year old boys ;) and honestly, what's the point of the radio??? i just don't see the point, it's so one dimensional and boring :( and Dr Drew c-l-e-a-r-l-y belongs on TV :)

wondering
who would let their child sleep in this bed???! it's so dangerous! (and not even that awesome ;) not that awesomeness is more important than safety... but honestly???


missing
my camera. it's dead and being resuscitated at the Canon factory as i type (and i wish they would hurry up!! i neeeed it back already, they've had it since 10:30am... i miss my camera, i love my camera... i will never say bad things about it ever again, if it will just hurry back....)

rejoicing
that Aaron has fixed the roomba - i missed it sooooo much!!!!! and just like the camera, i vow to never call it names again*

*(unless it hides under the bed like it always does, to get out of cleaning...it's soooo unbelievably sneaky and lazy)

loving
Danny's loud exclamation "oh for cwy-ing out woud!!"

realizing
after all these years, that it really was totally awesome of Princess Diana to always have short hair (still missing her presence so very much)

thinking
i might have to throw away the rest of the salted chocolate caramels :| i am eating way way way too many of them today and they are making me feel like a complete loser :|

recovering
from walking 12 miles yesterday... my feet were soooooo sore and blistered and bloody today i only managed 4 miles :|

wanting
to kill runkeeper. if it was a tangible thing i would wring it's neck with my bare hands! i got the fancy upgraded app and it completely SUCKS! you only have to look at it sideways and it pauses. now i spend my entire walk watching the seconds to make sure it hasn't paused and swindled me out of calories burned. yesterday it paused for a whole mile (that's 95 calories worth!!) before i noticed and today it tried it again but i was onto it IMMEDIATELY - caught ya, you crafty little git!

no pictures, thanks to my asshole camera... back tomorrow xoxox

beatles and bicycles and peanut butter pie

blissfully listening
to the white album. it might just be my all time favorite beatles album* (after revolver, rubber soul, sgt pepper, magical mystery tour, abbey road, let it be and love ;)

* i always wondered what sir walter raleigh did to be labeled as 'such a stupid get'. i thought he invented the bicycle so being called a stupid get hardly made sense. turns out, thanks to songfacts for allowing me to get a wink of sleep tonight, that he actually invented cigarettes (or something... reading ADD and all that) having relistened to 'i'm so tired' it all makes much more sense than being cross at the inventor of the bicycle :)

wishing
blackbird was on rock band. but it's not. and neither is 'happiness is a warm gun' which is even more of a tragedy :( that might just be my alltime favorite beatles song. apart from strawberry fields forever, hey jude, michelle, penny lane, let it be, something, birthday, we can work it out, lady madonna, etc etc etc etc etc etc)

madly craving
peanut butter pie. but i'm not going to actually have any with my awesome willpower and all (she lied:)

i love Mr Bumps and his crossed arms


breakfast (not nearly as awesome as Country Kitchen....my number four reason to move to Massachusetts)

at the fancy swap meet (i want those nails in the middle at the top - yes, the huge awesome spikes!)

awwwww :)

at sticki picki :)

his creation (he's gifted - i'm so not biased but he is, right??!)

more homesick blues: Abbey Road studios and zebra crossing - how come the google car didn't wait for a) DAYLIGHT!!!! and b) people pretending to the Beatles on the crossing??!

Sam at Abbey Road on his sixth birthday (hence six Sams:)

dislikes

how COLD it is. yes - STILL!!!

Jenessa from bridalplasty. she is very very VERY horrible :|

our Trader Joe's. sure they have Pedro Hernandez but if you find the turtle, you only get a lame stupid shell with a big mean sign saying 'ONE SHELL ONLY'! at the TJ's down the street you get a CHOCOLATE BAR!! (but it's too far to go there all the time...)

this wildebeast for trying to eat my not even opened yet irises :| (BAD KITTY)

that small paul isn't for bigger kids too - grrrr! this hoodie is three sizes too small but i still insist he wears it because i love it so

homework - argh i hate it!!! it's EASY - 5 + 7 = 12!!!! but can i say that? NO!

i don't hate photobooth but i do hate that i had all four pets lined up to take one frame each with me and they reeeeefuuuuused to cooperate. sooooo not cool, pets :| SO NOT COOL :|

cats and hillslides and FML

dining on
pumpkin bread for breakfast (oh gawd, i really need to get some help...) but it's technically a vegetable, right...? (with three inches of cream cheese frosting on top:)

looking
through a flicking CAT'S TAIL at my screen... Friday's new year's resolution for 2011: sit on the little shelf over my desk, being as annoying as felinely possible and make me really wish i could swap her for one of the kind, grateful cats at the shelter

wishing
it wasn't so FREAKING FRACKING COLD. i am soooo NOT a baby - i used to live in England for heaven's sake which is like the north pole (how on earth i survived, i have no idea....) it has to be like 40 degrees here. i am SO NOT KIDDING. today's high: 62 :| i am going to say it.... i have no choice: FML* :|

*oh gawd how i hate that expression :| worse than the sum of OMG/LOL/ROFL/TIA/IDK/and all the other horrible expressions. FML is just absolutely horrible and shocking. this expression is usually typed on one's smartphone, while sitting in one's air conditioned SUV, while sipping a ventifrappolatte with non fat soy milk that a humble minion prepared, while driving to the gym to climb into a human hamster wheel, while another minion scurries around said person's house, cleaning the pee around the toilet rim for said ungrateful one, before another minion scrapes the dirt from beneath said one's nails and painstakingly paints zebra stripes on them. oh how i hate FML. it's the epitomy of everything that's wrong with (ungrateful) people today (and in case i didn't say it clearly enough... I HATE IT!!!)

not really feeling the love with
the boys being back to school. i know i'm the only one in the entire world.... but i truly love endless days filled with nothing and nowhere to be (homeschooling would interfere with this zen ;)

thanking my lucky stars
we weren't driving on this road when it disappeared last wednesday - that road is scary enough without the huge chunk missing from it :|



ps i am NOT POSTING THIS PICTURE for my own selfish personal gratification, but here is Dr Drew for Wendy :) (does this mean, Wendy, you've never watched '16 and pregnant' or 'teen mom'...? or 'celeb rehab'...??! while they are in NO WAY comparable to 'married to rock' (but honestly, what is?!) they are quite wonderful if their own ways, namely Mr Dr Drew (his first name's Dr, right? :)

chicks, pubs and strawberry fields (forever:)

journaling about chicks, man ;)

yes we take innocent little babies to the pub, doesn't everyone??!

the other new year's resolution: be in more pictures (and start working out tomorrow :)

after school trip to the zoo




because these are the pointless little things that keep me up at night, here is a street view of Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields (forever:)

loves

• my tennis elbow arm feeling ohhhh soooo much better, thanks to that steroid shot thingie... which i highly recommend even though i don't really know what it is :) i haven't taken aleve all week, it's a miracle!

• short to-the-point-no-chitty-chatty-bullshit phone calls :)

• rain boots (especially on very rainy days)
  

• making Jerry a two story rattie dreamhome out of USPS boxes :) shh, don't tell the USPS... it says using their boxes for anything but sending mail is a federal offense or something :|

• lunchdates to Maggie's for fish and chips :)

• teeny tiny cards arriving in the mail from deepest, woolliest Wales (the envelope is smaller than the postage stamp and so completely adorable i am never throwing it away :)
  

• playdoh (and the way it's smell reminds me of christmases in the olden days :)

• a huge bowl of fresh really yummy oranges from our neighbor's tree (which still amazes me - they don't have oranges on trees in England... well maybe they do now, it seems like England is a whole lot more user friendly these days:)

• his penchant for digestive biscuits dipped in ice cold milk

• coming home from school caked in mud and pink cheeked from playing (yes he is always always shirtless...)

• the cape cod starfish i hung in the windows for christmas that are too precious to take down just yet...
  

• being surrounded by kittycats :) this is Trinity (who now has a cute little bobtail...), Sully, Charlie Girl and Lanora (who usually sits on the top of the cat tree:)
  

what i did so far this year....

• posed as the date, yesterday 1.1.11 :) our dogs refused to be the decimal points and we were SO MAD we pretended to be a pair of dentists' pliers and a red devil and a werewolf just to scare them ;)

• stopped being polite and started getting real :) ok, that's been my resolution since the beginning of time (ie beginning of real world)... i just emphatically renew it every 1.1.xx

• tried to remember to sit up straight (just sat up straight again...)

• tried to watch the Oprah Winfrey Network - it's all sneak peeks and i hate sneak peeks, i want real SHOWS!!

• read a really interesting article on jogging (but wasn't inspired to take it up :)

• used fancy coordinates that look like this N3407.688 W118 18.946 to get to the Hollywood sign (and they actually worked, i felt like Christopher Columbus with my trusty white iphone and GPS!)

• endured twelve episodes of being too tired to walk another step :|

• found the Hollywood sign!!

• hiked sooooo high we could see the earth curvature :)

• drove around L.A. as there was ZERO TRAFFIC!!!

Jeff Lewis' house is gated - grrr, spoilsport!!!