Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Escape Artist Hound

We were in WI for the last week due to a death in the family. Marty spent that time at the kennel.

Jer went to pick him up when we got home on Sunday and relayed the following story.

Jer- So I walked into the little office thing and nobody was there so I flipped the light switch om the wall to let them know I was waiting. I was starting to get pissed cause I had been waiting for almost five minutes and then I hear clickety clickety click coming down the hallway. I turned and here comes the hound walking from the back room, alone. He freaks out and attacks me as per usual. Nobody comes, it's just him. So I start thinking what the hell, are there cameras in here or something that they knew to let him out?
A minute later the lady comes out and takes Marty by the collar all exasperated saying "Oh you dog, come on, back in you go" and takes Marty back into the kennels. She then comes back into the office and asks me who I'm picking up. When I tell her Marty she laughs and says that he has been escaping. Somehow he gets through two gates with latches and nobody knows how he does it.

I guess nobody can keep this hound down. Maybe that bionic back is the secret. I think it has more to do with his bionic nose. After all his nose has a record. He has already broken two toilet tanks with it. It's a nose to be reckoned with, don't take it lightly. I'm pretty sure he could break your leg with that thing if you pushed him far enough. Don't let the ears fool you, he's dangerous.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Funnies

Ok, more blogs and sites. This is my list of everyday funnies. When you're home all day with four year olds you need a little dose of funny to counteract the rainbows and unicorns. Please add to the list.








Thursday, February 4, 2010

Just sayin'

You know how wonderful it is to find a great new website or blog? Maybe it's just me but when I find something new I immediately read everything on it.

I was introduced to this blog yesterday http://knockoffwood.blogspot.com/2010/01/plans-recycling-center-pottery-barn.html and I now have a list a mile long of all the cool shit I could build, or rather, have my husband build, on the cheap.

This is another one of my favorites. http://www.ourvictorianhouse.com/index.htm The before and after gallery just kills me.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I don't even know.

Yesterday I was online window shopping at Victoria's Secret and checking out their new swim wear and shoes (lots of their styles go up to size 11, I'm guessing for the cross dressing crowd). Anyway, I think I may try one of their long torso tankini's.

Then I looked at the bikinis. Why, you ask? Because at one point in my life before children, before infertility drugs, and before the birth control pill I could have worn every single one of them and looked HOT. And I was bored. SO I found some super cute ones that I would have bought back in the day for my former stick figure self.

Like this one

And this one

But then they got scary.

And then I just couldn't comprehend them anymore.

That last one is a topless bikini. Why? Why would you do that to yourself? It's not flattering, even to the stick figure model. And yet you know that some girl with giant boobs is going to buy that, wear it on spring break, and be in video. Honestly, if you want to show off the ladies just take your shirt off. There is no need to buy a topless bikini for $68.

Am I old? Does this make me not cool?

Friday, January 15, 2010

Project planning

Spring will get here eventually and I am already planning our spring/summer projects. There's a ton of painting to do; which means at some point I will need to decide on some paint colors and stay with those decisions.

The project I'm really looking forward to is outside. We need to do some grading and rebuild some window wells and after that's done we will be re-landscaping the backyard complete with patio and walkway, fence, new play set, more vegetable and herb beds, and flowers. An outdoor fireplace might also be in order.

I am in planning and info gathering mode right now. We are going to do all of this ourselves. I am so excited to be planning something again.

So how about you? What are you plotting at the moment?

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Bring on the organizational ninjas

I'm kinda over the whole Christmas decoration thing. I still like the outside ones but the inside ones are getting old. I wish that I could blink my eyes and have all of it put away. I wish all the new toys had a spot to go. I wish that my floors were dust mopped and needle free. I wish that someone would come to my house and eat all of the Christmas candy and cookies I still have left so I wouldn't have to eat them myself.

A girl can dream I guess.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Christmas Food

This is the first year ever that we have done our own Christmas. We've been married 8 years, together for 13. Every single year we've gone home to WI and spent the holiday at my parents house. We always have fun at home but when the girls were born I started wanting to have Christmas at our own home. Last year we weren't going to come home, but then we ended up with a crazy move to OH over the holidays and stayed with my parents yet again.

This is our year to stay home and I am loving every minute of it. My parents won't be coming, which is weird and kind of sad, but my in laws will be here and the girls are excited. I am busily trying to recreate all of the traditions I grew up with for the girls, and add new ones of our own. I am realizing that a lot of our traditions are food based. There are foods that we NEED to have or it just wouldn't be Christmas. Most of those I won't even eat but I still need to have at the table.

Snacks
-raw beef with onions, pepper, and rye bread
-herring and crackers
-summer sausage, assorted sliced cheeses, spreadable cheese, and crackers
-tiny pickles (sweet and dill)
-olives (green and black)

Cookies/Candy
-peanut butter bon bons
-cut outs
-coconut balls

Breakfast
-spinach casserole
-caramel sticky buns

What's on your table every year? And what is with the herring, anybody else have that?