Now now now...don't get me WRONG... there is NOTHING the matter with the Highlander as it stands. In my humble opinion that film has ONE home and that's the 80's...the cheesey, over the top, Queen is the soundtrack, 80's. But if you're me and my mister, you can't watch the movie without wondering... could you make this today?
Not too far back I heard an absurd rumor that "They" were looking at Ryan Reynolds to rehash the Christopher Lambert role...I'm BREATHING okay, I like me some Ryan Reynolds, but as The Highlander?! Can I be a little cheesey myself here for a second and say, "There can be only one..."
However, that doesn't mean that a discussion didn't get had, and a list didn't get made... so I present you with Dream Casting: Highlander Edition.
Connor MacLeod: Paul Bettany
Roxanne Hart: Olivia Wilde
The Kurgan: Tom Hardy (or Manu Bennett)
Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez: Liam Neeson
Heather MacLeod: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
...and so on and so forth... and now you want to watch that don't you?
Monday, February 3, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
And On The 13th Day...
Good Monday... Good Morning... however you prefer... I prefer whichever way works the best!
We have had quite a beginning of the year...And all in good ways! One of my cousins on my dad's side, which is a very small side, they're the Rhode Island of families, recently moved two towns away from me if you're counting from my house. SAME town if you're counting from work. Yay!! I get to see her more! She moved in with her mum, my Pop's little sister, and I might get to see her more too. She's a Hermit Crab. Not just a Hermit, a Hermit CRAB... She's rad and we love her, but she can be a bit of a crabapple. 4 years in the same town as my work and I have yet to see her due to that fact. Saw her twice, once at a wedding in Pismo Beach of all places and once at my baby shower for Thing 2. That was a surprise!!! It was the best surprise of the day, really. She took Pop's death really hard and she's one of those people that doesn't want to be reminded of the negative, even if it means staying away from the negative's children. Hopefully a trend to be changing in the not too distant future... I'm leaning towards Saturday!
I am still rolling with the changes, REO Speedwagon style, as to having a child born in January... Atleast it's at the polar end of Christmas and New Years, but still...January. I have decided to make it less stress and I am now not including the month of January in my yearly budget. January is a free for all...The "year" will start with my January 31st check, not with my December 31st check as previous years sans Thing 2. Once I decided on that, my whole outlook on this month was A-Number 1-100%-OK. Yay! Nothing extravagant for her bday this year. Just an intimate family party with some cake, some pizza. You know, health food. I'm excited though just the same because it means we have managed to keep the tiny human safe and sound for two whole years. It's as much a celebration of the day of her birth as it is of every day since... I am a proud mama of this little one and of our family as a whole! Yay us!
We got our W-2's at work today...You know what that means...the tax man waits for no one... I get to start my orange tri-cut folder of 2013 tax info. My tax lady loves me for this, by the way... she LOVES me for this. I have two more W-2's, the mortgage company info for the house, the bank statement year ends and my 401k stuff to throw in and we're getting our taxes done! YAY! I know, shut up, I like YAY... it works for me right now.
I have the taxes all tangled up already and I'm fine with the outcome so far. I am VERY fine with the fact that the lens that was suggested to me by my lil cuz is coming down in price as we speak. I love the Amazon Wish List, it's one of my favourite things. Then there's the whole Flash debacle. I have been putting off getting a flash for my DSLR since I bought my very FIRST one. I have a flash for a SLR, and I LOVE it... nothing special, but it's fancy enough for me. I am not a true dyed in the wool photog, though... so I am not comfortable using the 35mm that was once my gpa's anymore...So it's time to walk away from the past and make the push into the new millennia...14 years after it started, but still...shut up. I am DYING to get the lens and flash because now that the prices have dropped SO significantly I feel super justified in the purchases. Then there's the struts for our civic, still need to do that... we are getting our new phones, and now there is a new deal through TMobile that I am wondering if we should check out. Getting these phones is going to be just as if not more harrowing than getting our house. But that's how I roll and that is one of the reasons my hunny loves me!
Wednesday I have taken a personal day to stay within the vicinity of my home and await the arrival of my Pop's elder sister to come into town from several states away with my Uncle and their RV... I LOVE that I get to see them too! I have gotten to see her a lot I'd say... for someone that lives STATES away. I LOVE seeing the side of the family that completes my puzzle. That's what Choners says. He kinda gets where I fit in with Ma's family...but when we're around Pop's family it's like a game show buzzer going off in his head and it's lovely.
Another reason for us to write off January as a loss, other than Thing 2's bday, this year my favorite bookstore in town is closing it's doors. They couldn't brave the slow paced sMall that they reside in and have to make a decision. I have been a patron of the store since day one and will miss them so. They had GREAT discounts when there were discounts, and it's even better with 75% off the lowest price. I got THREE bags of books for $24. And there's something in there for ALL of us! It was so bittersweet... So many empty stores in our sMall. Atleast during Halloween they put one of those atrocious Costume City things in there and it beefs up the traffic something wonderful... I loved how artificially busy it was Saturday with the closing sale. People came out of the woodwork. Aaahh, small towns...
We still don't know what we're doing for the Big 10... and we also made another financial decision. To cancel our New York trip next year so I can get LASIK... I am just about Legally Blind and I am a candidate and Ma works in Optometry and can get me a deal...but with the things we have going on this year, I would really like to get my eyes done next year. I almost bit the bullet and did it this year, but it would cut too heavily into our, lets say, profit margin...Still not sure how to incorporate photos into the blog to make it interesting... so I'm considering that heavily and hopefully that will improve with the new upgrades to ol' Betsy. Other than that, everything's good. Rolling along at work... I need to get in for a trim, keeping the short 'do...
We have had quite a beginning of the year...And all in good ways! One of my cousins on my dad's side, which is a very small side, they're the Rhode Island of families, recently moved two towns away from me if you're counting from my house. SAME town if you're counting from work. Yay!! I get to see her more! She moved in with her mum, my Pop's little sister, and I might get to see her more too. She's a Hermit Crab. Not just a Hermit, a Hermit CRAB... She's rad and we love her, but she can be a bit of a crabapple. 4 years in the same town as my work and I have yet to see her due to that fact. Saw her twice, once at a wedding in Pismo Beach of all places and once at my baby shower for Thing 2. That was a surprise!!! It was the best surprise of the day, really. She took Pop's death really hard and she's one of those people that doesn't want to be reminded of the negative, even if it means staying away from the negative's children. Hopefully a trend to be changing in the not too distant future... I'm leaning towards Saturday!
I am still rolling with the changes, REO Speedwagon style, as to having a child born in January... Atleast it's at the polar end of Christmas and New Years, but still...January. I have decided to make it less stress and I am now not including the month of January in my yearly budget. January is a free for all...The "year" will start with my January 31st check, not with my December 31st check as previous years sans Thing 2. Once I decided on that, my whole outlook on this month was A-Number 1-100%-OK. Yay! Nothing extravagant for her bday this year. Just an intimate family party with some cake, some pizza. You know, health food. I'm excited though just the same because it means we have managed to keep the tiny human safe and sound for two whole years. It's as much a celebration of the day of her birth as it is of every day since... I am a proud mama of this little one and of our family as a whole! Yay us!
We got our W-2's at work today...You know what that means...the tax man waits for no one... I get to start my orange tri-cut folder of 2013 tax info. My tax lady loves me for this, by the way... she LOVES me for this. I have two more W-2's, the mortgage company info for the house, the bank statement year ends and my 401k stuff to throw in and we're getting our taxes done! YAY! I know, shut up, I like YAY... it works for me right now.
I have the taxes all tangled up already and I'm fine with the outcome so far. I am VERY fine with the fact that the lens that was suggested to me by my lil cuz is coming down in price as we speak. I love the Amazon Wish List, it's one of my favourite things. Then there's the whole Flash debacle. I have been putting off getting a flash for my DSLR since I bought my very FIRST one. I have a flash for a SLR, and I LOVE it... nothing special, but it's fancy enough for me. I am not a true dyed in the wool photog, though... so I am not comfortable using the 35mm that was once my gpa's anymore...So it's time to walk away from the past and make the push into the new millennia...14 years after it started, but still...shut up. I am DYING to get the lens and flash because now that the prices have dropped SO significantly I feel super justified in the purchases. Then there's the struts for our civic, still need to do that... we are getting our new phones, and now there is a new deal through TMobile that I am wondering if we should check out. Getting these phones is going to be just as if not more harrowing than getting our house. But that's how I roll and that is one of the reasons my hunny loves me!
Wednesday I have taken a personal day to stay within the vicinity of my home and await the arrival of my Pop's elder sister to come into town from several states away with my Uncle and their RV... I LOVE that I get to see them too! I have gotten to see her a lot I'd say... for someone that lives STATES away. I LOVE seeing the side of the family that completes my puzzle. That's what Choners says. He kinda gets where I fit in with Ma's family...but when we're around Pop's family it's like a game show buzzer going off in his head and it's lovely.
Another reason for us to write off January as a loss, other than Thing 2's bday, this year my favorite bookstore in town is closing it's doors. They couldn't brave the slow paced sMall that they reside in and have to make a decision. I have been a patron of the store since day one and will miss them so. They had GREAT discounts when there were discounts, and it's even better with 75% off the lowest price. I got THREE bags of books for $24. And there's something in there for ALL of us! It was so bittersweet... So many empty stores in our sMall. Atleast during Halloween they put one of those atrocious Costume City things in there and it beefs up the traffic something wonderful... I loved how artificially busy it was Saturday with the closing sale. People came out of the woodwork. Aaahh, small towns...
We still don't know what we're doing for the Big 10... and we also made another financial decision. To cancel our New York trip next year so I can get LASIK... I am just about Legally Blind and I am a candidate and Ma works in Optometry and can get me a deal...but with the things we have going on this year, I would really like to get my eyes done next year. I almost bit the bullet and did it this year, but it would cut too heavily into our, lets say, profit margin...Still not sure how to incorporate photos into the blog to make it interesting... so I'm considering that heavily and hopefully that will improve with the new upgrades to ol' Betsy. Other than that, everything's good. Rolling along at work... I need to get in for a trim, keeping the short 'do...
First Pic...
Having fun with the 'do...
These are my wascally wabbits...
And one of them will be two :*(
Two days....
Two Years!!!
and always with the squishy face!!
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
On The 6th Day...
Not only would I NEVER believe it was January, I would never believe it was winter, I would never believe that 2013 was only 6 days away...
I would swear that it was, in itself, a WHOLE YEAR away.
Recap:
Christmas was wonderful... minus the SICK... the ungodly sick that we all experienced... starting with the Wee One and working it's horrid way up... Daddy took the longest to recover, but alas, it happened and we were staring The New Year straight in the face. We had our usual NYE. Kids in bed early because the big one tries to stay up and can't, Martinelli's chillin until the ball drops and BOOM... a good time for all :)
***took a break and came back the next morning, started the post at 4:30pm on 1/6/14... wrapping it up morning of 1/07***
It was a modest Christmas this year, and I think it was better for it. Thing 1 got games and Hello Kitty stuff and Thing 2 got her first trike. I got some bad ass books that I can't WAIT to read, because I gotta say... as much as I wanted to go back to the Stephen King Library at home and re-read, I AM refreshed that after 13 years together, the Mister is still providing new and exciting literature! I can't be upset at that... like, at all. I had some nice time off with the family, even though we were sick up to our eyeballs and I still have a lingering cold/allergy thing going on... but hey, it didn't stop us from the important thing; spending time together.
My lil sis's 13th birthday celebration extraordinaire was just a dinner at her favorite (right now) restaurant, yummy food and I got to spend a whole HALF of the dinner with her because Thing 2 didn't get her naps in and that was the end of that.
Speaking of sleepy Thing 2... she got a new bed. Courtesy of a recall and that she BROKE her bed due to the problem of the recall before I could address the issue... plus that crib is SUPER old anyways. I promised I would order the new one after the New Year... January 2nd, I ordered that bad ass bitch and it already came to the house!! It came to the house yesterday and when I got home last night daddy had it all put together! Then he spouted off about extra pieces...those would be for the Toddler bed conversion. I can't believe the deal I got, I was so excited... I felt awesome about the purchase because we were UP on our budget this year!!! WTF?!?! I know !!! It was exactly the amount of the bed and well, who can have a new bed without new bedding?? Nobody!! That's HOO! Hehe... yep, owl bedding.. it happened... It's super cute, it's girly without drowning in pink and I LOVE it, and I found a good deal on the set...so the bedding + the bed = our "profit" from our budget. I was so excited. I couldn't believe it. Nothing like starting the year on a total up note right?
Other than the plans I made for our tax return, there really aren't any HUGE decisions on the horizon, which means something unexpected is probably going to happen. So super saving McScrooger time is back in effect immediately. I might need a hair trim, other than that though, not really planning on anything for myself. I can't WAIT to get that tax return though. Not gonna lie. I have my lens to look forward to, the car needs struts (that's a duh with the miles on it and how old it is and that I haven't done them before), we're getting new phones!!!, and we are doing something super extra special for our 10 year wedding anniversary!!! I wanted to do something special and surprise the mister, I feel he really deserves a surprise...but then I started thinking and the thinking got out of hand and then there was a WHOLE list of things to choose from!! I didn't know which one would be best, I wouldn't want to get back from the trip and say," Oh you liked that? Yeah, well, it was between this, and this...and this and this and this and this..." and I wouldn't want him to sit there and think that there was a better possibility out there and I picked whatever it was I picked and why did I do that and OMG OMGOMG!!!... so I brought him in on it...and it was so freaking cute too... so now we are mulling over three major possibilities, but I DO believe it's swinging one way.. A weekend Disneyland Resort getaway with a two park hopper :) We haven't done Disneyland in FOREVER!!! And NO...we are not taking the kids...and NO ... I do NOT feel badly about that decision... AT ALL. We already promised ourselves we would take them when Thing 2 is older. That makes the most sense... We took Thing 1 when she was 2 and some months...it was magical. Thing 2...is not magical. So, I say... we wait to take the kiddos... But then again, I don't know that we're doing that... we'll see. We have... uhm... three months or something like that to figure it out.. Less than that actually... two months to cell phones, three months to anniversary.
Also, the first time we'll be away from both kids for time to ourselves EVER... We've not done this before. We've been there for the kids...and I think that this particular event calls for some Mommy/Daddy time, don't you? Me too!!
There's THAT....
It doesn't feel like the 7th day of January today... Yesterday didn't feel like the 6th day... and today doesn't feel like the 7th... It.just.doesn't. It's SUPER hot here. The rest of the country is experiencing this Polar Vortex thingy... Not here... Not us... Of course. I wanted it to be damned COLD! I wanted the cold, I wanted to see snow this year and we were well on our way with the coldest autumn in our history and record breaking lows in November...but alas... no... dammit. And it doesn't look like we're going to see any cold ever... I don't see where we are... Unless the Spring stays cold... which would be nice.
My tape player in my car died again, which brings the question...do you replace the radio on a 12 year old car with 217k on it? Even if it runs like new? Yeah, we'll be pondering that for sure.
Crafting a lot already... getting down the list of Christmas gifts... uhm..yeah...
I feel this is the catch up necessary to bring us to the New Year. I am excited about this year, last year wasn't great. It by far was not the worst... but...it was... underwhelming. New year, new rules... new rules to have a great year! Thing 2 turns 2 and I think it's going to be a small affair due to the fact that I don't want to start the year off with no saving ;) And she's 2.. come on... she still wasn't all that into Christmas... we had to open her gifts for her, mostly and then she just wanted us to get on with the opening of the actual gift itself. She had no concept that there was MORE... so... with her bday... we're going small this year. Maybe something next year, but even so, probably NOT. And you know what sucks, this year would be great for us to finally host a party at our house even in the winter... it's NOT COLD! Oh well... Still loving my short-ass hair cut... LOVE.IT. Ok, well, I think that's all the damage I can do for now. Also, we now have Netflix... we have internet and we have Netflix. We are no longer cavemen... write that down...
I would swear that it was, in itself, a WHOLE YEAR away.
Recap:
Christmas was wonderful... minus the SICK... the ungodly sick that we all experienced... starting with the Wee One and working it's horrid way up... Daddy took the longest to recover, but alas, it happened and we were staring The New Year straight in the face. We had our usual NYE. Kids in bed early because the big one tries to stay up and can't, Martinelli's chillin until the ball drops and BOOM... a good time for all :)
***took a break and came back the next morning, started the post at 4:30pm on 1/6/14... wrapping it up morning of 1/07***
It was a modest Christmas this year, and I think it was better for it. Thing 1 got games and Hello Kitty stuff and Thing 2 got her first trike. I got some bad ass books that I can't WAIT to read, because I gotta say... as much as I wanted to go back to the Stephen King Library at home and re-read, I AM refreshed that after 13 years together, the Mister is still providing new and exciting literature! I can't be upset at that... like, at all. I had some nice time off with the family, even though we were sick up to our eyeballs and I still have a lingering cold/allergy thing going on... but hey, it didn't stop us from the important thing; spending time together.
My lil sis's 13th birthday celebration extraordinaire was just a dinner at her favorite (right now) restaurant, yummy food and I got to spend a whole HALF of the dinner with her because Thing 2 didn't get her naps in and that was the end of that.
Speaking of sleepy Thing 2... she got a new bed. Courtesy of a recall and that she BROKE her bed due to the problem of the recall before I could address the issue... plus that crib is SUPER old anyways. I promised I would order the new one after the New Year... January 2nd, I ordered that bad ass bitch and it already came to the house!! It came to the house yesterday and when I got home last night daddy had it all put together! Then he spouted off about extra pieces...those would be for the Toddler bed conversion. I can't believe the deal I got, I was so excited... I felt awesome about the purchase because we were UP on our budget this year!!! WTF?!?! I know !!! It was exactly the amount of the bed and well, who can have a new bed without new bedding?? Nobody!! That's HOO! Hehe... yep, owl bedding.. it happened... It's super cute, it's girly without drowning in pink and I LOVE it, and I found a good deal on the set...so the bedding + the bed = our "profit" from our budget. I was so excited. I couldn't believe it. Nothing like starting the year on a total up note right?
Other than the plans I made for our tax return, there really aren't any HUGE decisions on the horizon, which means something unexpected is probably going to happen. So super saving McScrooger time is back in effect immediately. I might need a hair trim, other than that though, not really planning on anything for myself. I can't WAIT to get that tax return though. Not gonna lie. I have my lens to look forward to, the car needs struts (that's a duh with the miles on it and how old it is and that I haven't done them before), we're getting new phones!!!, and we are doing something super extra special for our 10 year wedding anniversary!!! I wanted to do something special and surprise the mister, I feel he really deserves a surprise...but then I started thinking and the thinking got out of hand and then there was a WHOLE list of things to choose from!! I didn't know which one would be best, I wouldn't want to get back from the trip and say," Oh you liked that? Yeah, well, it was between this, and this...and this and this and this and this..." and I wouldn't want him to sit there and think that there was a better possibility out there and I picked whatever it was I picked and why did I do that and OMG OMGOMG!!!... so I brought him in on it...and it was so freaking cute too... so now we are mulling over three major possibilities, but I DO believe it's swinging one way.. A weekend Disneyland Resort getaway with a two park hopper :) We haven't done Disneyland in FOREVER!!! And NO...we are not taking the kids...and NO ... I do NOT feel badly about that decision... AT ALL. We already promised ourselves we would take them when Thing 2 is older. That makes the most sense... We took Thing 1 when she was 2 and some months...it was magical. Thing 2...is not magical. So, I say... we wait to take the kiddos... But then again, I don't know that we're doing that... we'll see. We have... uhm... three months or something like that to figure it out.. Less than that actually... two months to cell phones, three months to anniversary.
Also, the first time we'll be away from both kids for time to ourselves EVER... We've not done this before. We've been there for the kids...and I think that this particular event calls for some Mommy/Daddy time, don't you? Me too!!
There's THAT....
It doesn't feel like the 7th day of January today... Yesterday didn't feel like the 6th day... and today doesn't feel like the 7th... It.just.doesn't. It's SUPER hot here. The rest of the country is experiencing this Polar Vortex thingy... Not here... Not us... Of course. I wanted it to be damned COLD! I wanted the cold, I wanted to see snow this year and we were well on our way with the coldest autumn in our history and record breaking lows in November...but alas... no... dammit. And it doesn't look like we're going to see any cold ever... I don't see where we are... Unless the Spring stays cold... which would be nice.
My tape player in my car died again, which brings the question...do you replace the radio on a 12 year old car with 217k on it? Even if it runs like new? Yeah, we'll be pondering that for sure.
Crafting a lot already... getting down the list of Christmas gifts... uhm..yeah...
I feel this is the catch up necessary to bring us to the New Year. I am excited about this year, last year wasn't great. It by far was not the worst... but...it was... underwhelming. New year, new rules... new rules to have a great year! Thing 2 turns 2 and I think it's going to be a small affair due to the fact that I don't want to start the year off with no saving ;) And she's 2.. come on... she still wasn't all that into Christmas... we had to open her gifts for her, mostly and then she just wanted us to get on with the opening of the actual gift itself. She had no concept that there was MORE... so... with her bday... we're going small this year. Maybe something next year, but even so, probably NOT. And you know what sucks, this year would be great for us to finally host a party at our house even in the winter... it's NOT COLD! Oh well... Still loving my short-ass hair cut... LOVE.IT. Ok, well, I think that's all the damage I can do for now. Also, we now have Netflix... we have internet and we have Netflix. We are no longer cavemen... write that down...
Saturday, December 21, 2013
The Making of The Making of...
Some genius somewhere decided that there weren't enough flicks about Hitchcock...and then decided that two flick should come out at the same time.
Saw them both...liked one better than the other, hands down...and of course, it lead to THIS discussion:
So what if a movie was made about the making of "The Shining"?
Oh shit...
And who would play who?
We're glad you asked.
Stanley Kubrick: Dominic Cooper
Stephen King: Nicholas Hoult
Jack Nicholson: Christian Slater
Shelley Duvall: Rebecca Hall
Scatman Crothers: Mario Van Peebles
Joe Turkel (Lloyd The Bartender): Burn Gorman or Joseph Gordon Levitt Or James Franco (ok now we're just having too much fun)
and so on and so forth for the rest of the cast because the film would really be focusing on Kubrick's day to day dealings with the cast...and who are the actual cast members he would dealing with the most? So there you have it...your cinematic earwig for the rest of whatever. Oh wait... now imagine if it was written by Aaron Sorkin... And now you want to watch it!!
Saw them both...liked one better than the other, hands down...and of course, it lead to THIS discussion:
So what if a movie was made about the making of "The Shining"?
Oh shit...
And who would play who?
We're glad you asked.
Stanley Kubrick: Dominic Cooper
Stephen King: Nicholas Hoult
Jack Nicholson: Christian Slater
Shelley Duvall: Rebecca Hall
Scatman Crothers: Mario Van Peebles
Joe Turkel (Lloyd The Bartender): Burn Gorman or Joseph Gordon Levitt Or James Franco (ok now we're just having too much fun)
and so on and so forth for the rest of the cast because the film would really be focusing on Kubrick's day to day dealings with the cast...and who are the actual cast members he would dealing with the most? So there you have it...your cinematic earwig for the rest of whatever. Oh wait... now imagine if it was written by Aaron Sorkin... And now you want to watch it!!
When in Doubt, Back To The Drawing Board...
I have been saying that ALOT lately...
Back to the drawing board...and of course, I say it in my head in the fashion of Wyle E. Coyote... Cause it's funny...
I got a book from my Guria for my birthday...and with that book (cause she knows me) was another book... blank pages of an unwritten confession..so she says... and she's not wrong. I miss it. I do. I miss my daily entries... and I told myself, I would return to them when I was ready. My hiatus is nearly to an end. My carpel tunnel, however...is not...thank Jebus for wrist supports...
I almost gave into a version of myself that takes up about 4% real estate of my brain... that version of myself thinks that they can take a Smash journal and use it over a nice long span of time... when in reality, the MOST of my brain would probably finish that damn thing in a week... or less... less is more likely...
Fuck me... even typing hurts now...and since I can't win...I'm just going to go back to writing...
After being in Michaels and seeing all those beautiful journals in all their various allowance glory... I realized something...I had it down... I had it down to my personality already. I didn't need glitz, and tabs, and stickers, (well maybe stickers) and labels and shit... basically a scrapbook... I don't like scrapbooks... I find myself taking them too seriously...and then they don't get finished...or they DO get finished, but then they mean as much to me as that paper I wrote three hours before it was due, receiving a mediocrely deserved A- in the process...
I was crocheting yet ANOTHER late entry into my Christmas list of giving, dug deep to fish a pencil out of my awesome Owl Tote Ma got me as a early Christmas-present-just-cause-I-got-a-killer-ass-deal-at-Old-navy kind of thing... I found the pencil..inside the awesome, blue embossed covered journal my Guria got me for my bday..still empty...and it didn't bother me that it was empty before...but it bothered me today...and just today I had all these things come up... with seeing the Smash journals at Hobby Lobby and then again at Michael's...had a chat about my bajillion journals at the foot of my closet...and then finding something I hadn't seen in 5 months... probably because I subconsciously hid it so I wouldn't feel it's eyes boring into the back of my skull... So, since typing kills me anyways, and I think maybe some of my inspriations I had when I started doing this might come back to me in the process...I think it's time to end my hiatus from the journaling. It's too coincidental, don't you think? I think so too...
Speaking of back to the drawing board...I think I finally found a liquid homemade laundry soap that goes well with cold water recipe for us to try. We are both on board with the experiment, and with a half bottle of brand soap to go, it's time to fish or cut bait... or insert your own decision making analogy here...
On the list of DIY's... No Poo...yes I know... I'm gonna try it. I have a need for head n shoulders and I'm wondering if I perpetuate the need because of all the crap in the shampoo and conditioner ... so I'm gonna try the homemade stuff and see what happens. It's winter, it's the perfect time to try it because I can wear hats during the Dirty Thirty Day trial period that I have been reassured is going to happen. I have organic coconut oil at hand for dryness... I'm excited to try this. if it works for me and I can get it down to a science, I will be introducing it to Choners and the Things... yay!! Got to see my bestie from Sin City today and not for long enough... *sad face*... but she'll never move back here and I'll NEVER EVER move my ass there... so it's one of those things that I gotta get over... and I'm over it. Doesn't mean I can't be sad about it once it awhile, right? Right! Christmas countdown is underweigh and for the slimness of the giving and receiving, it's gonna be an awesome Christmas. I can already feel it being one mostly of the reason of the season and less about the commercializing of the season... wa-hoo.
In a nutshell...feeling very "back to the drawing board"...but ... in the BEST way possible. Super uber refreshing way possible...even Fallon and Timberlake are taking it back to the drawing board. I must be on to something... Next obsession on my list... my new camera lens.. My lil cuz is amazing and I'm DYING to get my lens. I might even get a flash... with a dome diffuser... but that's...another story...
Back to the drawing board...and of course, I say it in my head in the fashion of Wyle E. Coyote... Cause it's funny...
I got a book from my Guria for my birthday...and with that book (cause she knows me) was another book... blank pages of an unwritten confession..so she says... and she's not wrong. I miss it. I do. I miss my daily entries... and I told myself, I would return to them when I was ready. My hiatus is nearly to an end. My carpel tunnel, however...is not...thank Jebus for wrist supports...
I almost gave into a version of myself that takes up about 4% real estate of my brain... that version of myself thinks that they can take a Smash journal and use it over a nice long span of time... when in reality, the MOST of my brain would probably finish that damn thing in a week... or less... less is more likely...
Fuck me... even typing hurts now...and since I can't win...I'm just going to go back to writing...
After being in Michaels and seeing all those beautiful journals in all their various allowance glory... I realized something...I had it down... I had it down to my personality already. I didn't need glitz, and tabs, and stickers, (well maybe stickers) and labels and shit... basically a scrapbook... I don't like scrapbooks... I find myself taking them too seriously...and then they don't get finished...or they DO get finished, but then they mean as much to me as that paper I wrote three hours before it was due, receiving a mediocrely deserved A- in the process...
I was crocheting yet ANOTHER late entry into my Christmas list of giving, dug deep to fish a pencil out of my awesome Owl Tote Ma got me as a early Christmas-present-just-cause-I-got-a-killer-ass-deal-at-Old-navy kind of thing... I found the pencil..inside the awesome, blue embossed covered journal my Guria got me for my bday..still empty...and it didn't bother me that it was empty before...but it bothered me today...and just today I had all these things come up... with seeing the Smash journals at Hobby Lobby and then again at Michael's...had a chat about my bajillion journals at the foot of my closet...and then finding something I hadn't seen in 5 months... probably because I subconsciously hid it so I wouldn't feel it's eyes boring into the back of my skull... So, since typing kills me anyways, and I think maybe some of my inspriations I had when I started doing this might come back to me in the process...I think it's time to end my hiatus from the journaling. It's too coincidental, don't you think? I think so too...
Speaking of back to the drawing board...I think I finally found a liquid homemade laundry soap that goes well with cold water recipe for us to try. We are both on board with the experiment, and with a half bottle of brand soap to go, it's time to fish or cut bait... or insert your own decision making analogy here...
On the list of DIY's... No Poo...yes I know... I'm gonna try it. I have a need for head n shoulders and I'm wondering if I perpetuate the need because of all the crap in the shampoo and conditioner ... so I'm gonna try the homemade stuff and see what happens. It's winter, it's the perfect time to try it because I can wear hats during the Dirty Thirty Day trial period that I have been reassured is going to happen. I have organic coconut oil at hand for dryness... I'm excited to try this. if it works for me and I can get it down to a science, I will be introducing it to Choners and the Things... yay!! Got to see my bestie from Sin City today and not for long enough... *sad face*... but she'll never move back here and I'll NEVER EVER move my ass there... so it's one of those things that I gotta get over... and I'm over it. Doesn't mean I can't be sad about it once it awhile, right? Right! Christmas countdown is underweigh and for the slimness of the giving and receiving, it's gonna be an awesome Christmas. I can already feel it being one mostly of the reason of the season and less about the commercializing of the season... wa-hoo.
In a nutshell...feeling very "back to the drawing board"...but ... in the BEST way possible. Super uber refreshing way possible...even Fallon and Timberlake are taking it back to the drawing board. I must be on to something... Next obsession on my list... my new camera lens.. My lil cuz is amazing and I'm DYING to get my lens. I might even get a flash... with a dome diffuser... but that's...another story...
Friday, November 22, 2013
♪Oh The Weather Outside Is Weather...♪
I have been crafting up a storm and the man has been baking cookies fresh for Thing 1's lunches... peanut butter oatmeal. Yum! Cookies make the house warm and it smells like the holidays already! Generally I am ALL about making room for Thanksgiving so it doesn't feel like the redheaded stepchild of the holiday season, but this year man, it just seems like we need the OOMPH into Christmas. Luckily for me, I have never had decorations for Thanksgiving and the stores decided to lump Halloween and Thanksgiving together this year. Amazingly enough, I now have Thanksgiving décor due to the storewide "fall" clearances that did the lumping together! Haha!
Ma and her man are doing well...we like him. He might be around for Thanksgiving... hope so... he's fun. It's going to be a small Thanksgiving this year, much like Christmas. I'm just glad I finished shopping already. I get to sit back and enjoy now. Generally, what we do is take the Friday after Thanksgiving to decorate like so many people I'm sure do. This year, I'm jumping the gun...and get this...at the request of Choners...he is usually VERY adamant about giving Turkey Day it's due. Well, this year, he wants his cake and he's going to eat it too... Next Monday, whether the big one goes to day care or not, we are doing our Christmas décor. It's something to pass the time and we might have Knott's plans on Saturday... but until that is certain I don't want to make any plans in stone. So I say, the general idea will be to get out the Christmas awesomeness for Monday... and if Thing 1 goes, she will come home to a winter wonderland in the house :) Also, I am planning on lights outside this year! Shhh, don't tell Mister...
This weekend is family weekend, we're gonna see a lot of his family :) I say his family, but they're really OUR family...It's funny, I just wanted to specify WHICH side of the family, mine or his... I could say The Brown side... But really, that doesn't help... us Irish have been known to have the fever. So both sides are relatively brown.. hehehe...
Tuesday is Christmas pictures... I have been saying, I want to make more image heavy posts, but I haven't yet. I think because I don't plan them THAT far ahead... so it's hard to do. Also, I love my camera. I love it SO much I'm afraid to leave the house with it... I know.. shut up... I got a filter for it to protect the lens so perhaps I would feel better about letting it bang around my back pack... wrapped in a scarf... and maybe a sweater.
Next years tax return already has a portion dedicated to my new lens. My cousin Ace is in "the business" and he helped me out HUGE on shopping around for my next lens purchase... And the more Choni is working on his film project the more I think he will probably want to use the Nikon for projects... A new lens wouldn't hurt! Ace said that my camera body and specs are great, I should be getting great results when I put the new lens on ...next year...
I am LOVING the weather...cold. I love cold. Snuggles, soup, hot cocoa, coffee NOT for my morning commute... aaaahhhh... Blankets on the couches... I LOVE blankets... kid snuggles... and when the decorations go up...the soft warm glow of the tree... oh yeah... that's the stuff....
Today is my last work day of November and I start my staycation... Thing 1 asked if I had any time off that overlapped HER time off...so I made some... cause sometimes, you just have to. I hope this allergy/cold thing goes away... Maybe with a little help from my friends Alka Seltzer and Nyquil...
Too bad there's not a way to make people leave comments... I want comments...
Ma and her man are doing well...we like him. He might be around for Thanksgiving... hope so... he's fun. It's going to be a small Thanksgiving this year, much like Christmas. I'm just glad I finished shopping already. I get to sit back and enjoy now. Generally, what we do is take the Friday after Thanksgiving to decorate like so many people I'm sure do. This year, I'm jumping the gun...and get this...at the request of Choners...he is usually VERY adamant about giving Turkey Day it's due. Well, this year, he wants his cake and he's going to eat it too... Next Monday, whether the big one goes to day care or not, we are doing our Christmas décor. It's something to pass the time and we might have Knott's plans on Saturday... but until that is certain I don't want to make any plans in stone. So I say, the general idea will be to get out the Christmas awesomeness for Monday... and if Thing 1 goes, she will come home to a winter wonderland in the house :) Also, I am planning on lights outside this year! Shhh, don't tell Mister...
This weekend is family weekend, we're gonna see a lot of his family :) I say his family, but they're really OUR family...It's funny, I just wanted to specify WHICH side of the family, mine or his... I could say The Brown side... But really, that doesn't help... us Irish have been known to have the fever. So both sides are relatively brown.. hehehe...
Tuesday is Christmas pictures... I have been saying, I want to make more image heavy posts, but I haven't yet. I think because I don't plan them THAT far ahead... so it's hard to do. Also, I love my camera. I love it SO much I'm afraid to leave the house with it... I know.. shut up... I got a filter for it to protect the lens so perhaps I would feel better about letting it bang around my back pack... wrapped in a scarf... and maybe a sweater.
Next years tax return already has a portion dedicated to my new lens. My cousin Ace is in "the business" and he helped me out HUGE on shopping around for my next lens purchase... And the more Choni is working on his film project the more I think he will probably want to use the Nikon for projects... A new lens wouldn't hurt! Ace said that my camera body and specs are great, I should be getting great results when I put the new lens on ...next year...
I am LOVING the weather...cold. I love cold. Snuggles, soup, hot cocoa, coffee NOT for my morning commute... aaaahhhh... Blankets on the couches... I LOVE blankets... kid snuggles... and when the decorations go up...the soft warm glow of the tree... oh yeah... that's the stuff....
Today is my last work day of November and I start my staycation... Thing 1 asked if I had any time off that overlapped HER time off...so I made some... cause sometimes, you just have to. I hope this allergy/cold thing goes away... Maybe with a little help from my friends Alka Seltzer and Nyquil...
Too bad there's not a way to make people leave comments... I want comments...
I'm Better at Stalking...
I have been keeping up with READING the blogs I follow... reciprocation has been more difficult...
This is what happens to US when the economy tanks and slowly comes back on line...and by slowly, I mean I don't think that there is an instrument that can measure the slowness... THAT's how slow...
I can be so busy I work through lunch one day, and the next day I can be completely dead and begging for work to do... I always have work to do, it's like home...when in doubt, clean. Here it's the same basic principle... You just need to know what and where to clean. Know that, and there will always be something to do. Such is life, eh? Yup, I think so, too.
The past two months have been unreal busy...just as I said. It's amazing, because the time I feel I have the most to say I am unable to say anything because I am sitting here with visions of V-Tech toys dancing through my head... not really... My Christmas shopping is finished. Just two things to pick up when they arrive at the store and I'm DONE. Because Christmas is thin this year.
I can't believe how quick it came up on us, and I say that every year, but I really mean it this year. And I'll really mean it next year, and ten years from now. I swear... I totally swear.. like... totally.
I have the dreaded second birthday coming up of Thing 2...and not just any second birthday, the last second birthday I will throw...so do I throw one? do I do something at home in the backyard? Do I say "Hey Clan, who wants to meet us at (insert pizza place with games here) on such a day at such a time?" and see who shows up? I have NO friggin clue... Not a single damned one... dammit...
So instead of freaking out about it, I'm just gonna leave it alone for now. I have too many things. My weekends are filling up fast and I am increasingly ecstatic about the fact I found the planner I did when I did. Otherwise I'd have post it notes where plans should be and that would be a disaster... mentally more than anything else, but still...It would be there...bahaha...
Everyone's doing really well...Thing 1 is bringing us to a place where just when we think maybe she's not doing as well in school as we once thought, BOOM... nope, we get the great behavior report followed up by the awesome AR testing report and we put those worries to beddy-bye...
Thing 2... Jesus pleezus... She's crazy. I mean it, she's NUTS... she just runs around the house with her little blahblahblah language and talks to you like she's just having herself a conversation you never knew you were in the middle of. Then there's the whole breaking the crib thing...she broke the crib...she is SO not ready for a bed yet, not even a toddler bed...she would be crawling up into Thing 1's bed and head butting her to instigate a playtime at midnight....so we are totally NOT doing this bed training thing yet...that being said, we are need of a new crib. So I have my eye out on one that's atleast half what I paid for this one new...I don't need the mattress, just the crib...it's not safe for her to have it the way it is now and it really freaks me out... no matter how many zip ties or nails or screws you use, there's always that mom gut thing that makes you think, FUCK THIS, I NEED A NEW ONE... and that mom gut is applied to so many things... I don't mess with the mom gut.
Speaking of mom guts, mine is pretty much gone ;) I am down 10 pounds and I have another 10 before I get to where I was before thing 1 was a twinkle in our eyes...another 10 pounds after that and I'll be perfecto...right at the place I need to be period.the end. So that's a nice sentiment. And now my rings fall off....shit.
And to celebrate my awesome personal triumph, I cut my hair off... pixie cuts are huge right now, and no it's never been my way to follow the herd (baaaa n shit) but my hurr... oy vay.
I highlighted it...fine...it was great...fine...I stopped the affordability on it...had to stop...fine...so I did... and then I had bleached ends...meh. I covered them with wash-out brown...fine...worked for a little while but it's still crunchy feeling... meh.
Stop the color, stop the bleach and the crunchy... cut the hair. Done... looks freakin sweet and I can't believe I didn't talk myself into this sooner. As much as I feel that having long hair is something I owe the "bad hair" community, I am sorry all you thin stringy hair'd folk...but long hair thick hair is NOT awesome...Looks great, I'm not denying that fact... but it sucks to have it on your head, on your shoulders and then there's that whole "I Don't Like Things Hanging Off My Body" syndrome... haven't heard of it yet? really? It's new... I have it...with a vengeance.
Until they make a pill for that, I will not have a purse, a child, a scarf, hair, bags, whatnot hanging off my body at anytime. This is why I don't let my kids pull on my person, I carry a backpack not a purse and why if I am carrying bags from the car to the house...of who am I kidding...if I can help it I NEVER CARRY BAGS FROM THE CAR TO THE HOUSE! Carpel tunnel and IDLTHOMB syndrome are why.
<END RANT>
<NEW RANT>
Unless I'm missing some mystical, cosmic, universal message...me n the significant other are awesome fantasticness... Ever have those friends that were like, in marital distress... and people were like, "Oh shit, are they gonna make it?" Yeah, I had those too... friends...family... whoever... Well, we haven't had that. Ever. I just realized that the other day when I recently heard of a split. Knew the couple fairly well... and BOOM... split. It was a surprise to her, too, turns out. Pretty sad when I think of it. Made me think of me n Choners... and I came to that conclusion. I don't know, makes me pretty proud to think of that. I mean, no I don't have a BA in bullshit from FU... but I take pride in my family...my marriage...Which is probably why we are in the 13th year of couple-dom and nearing the 11th anniversary of our engagement, and the 10th anniversary of marriage is next April...
I was thinking that we should do something special and when I mentioned it to the mister and said, We should do something for our anniversary next year (which we NEVER EVER do)" and he nods...and then he thinks...and then he says "Why next year? What's so special about next year?" And when I tell him it'll be TEN whole years...oh the look on his face...so adorable I could have just died....
I still look at that face and see the baby face I met when I was 19... I was 22 (going on 23) when we got married. I know plenty of people who were married younger than that...but ask me how many of them are STILL married?? Go ahead...ASK ME... not much...
Not that I want to turn this into a bragging session, but I'll tell you what...My foot still hurts, I found out I have TMJ and the mouthguard is too expensive to buy right now so I go to bed with Motrin every other night...My allergies have been taking this opportunity of our weird weather to SHIT all over me and make me miserable and the TMJ is now causing tension headaches and tension in my neck and shoulders comes and goes... I am doing little exercises at my desk all day to curb this. My dentist basically told me my teeth are just BAD and if I want to continue eating food that I need to brush and floss after every meal and use a special rinse that helps decrease the dry mouth I have as a direct result of taking antihistamines which I cannot function without.
My point is this... I take the things that are awesome and going RAD and focus on them 100% because there is enough SHIT to balance them out...Trust & believe...It's NOT ALL wine and roses...but when I sit back after doing shit ton of crap work and think about going home to my hunnies... it makes things better... and it makes things better because my mister makes ME better... being a good mom to the kiddos makes me want to be a better person...and then sometimes kids are just assholes... They just are...and I think sometimes what you need to do is realize that, walk away, and pick up somewhere fresh in the morning.. That's what works for us so far!
Yay! Basically, balance. Everything is... balanced... There's good to outweigh the bad and sometimes, the opposite is true. To wrap it up (as if that's at all possible with me) my foot hurts, my jaw hurts, my mouth forever tastes of toothpaste and flavored floss and my husband is all kinds of MAD awesomeness...and I think I'll keep the kids, too. Aloha.
This is what happens to US when the economy tanks and slowly comes back on line...and by slowly, I mean I don't think that there is an instrument that can measure the slowness... THAT's how slow...
I can be so busy I work through lunch one day, and the next day I can be completely dead and begging for work to do... I always have work to do, it's like home...when in doubt, clean. Here it's the same basic principle... You just need to know what and where to clean. Know that, and there will always be something to do. Such is life, eh? Yup, I think so, too.
The past two months have been unreal busy...just as I said. It's amazing, because the time I feel I have the most to say I am unable to say anything because I am sitting here with visions of V-Tech toys dancing through my head... not really... My Christmas shopping is finished. Just two things to pick up when they arrive at the store and I'm DONE. Because Christmas is thin this year.
I can't believe how quick it came up on us, and I say that every year, but I really mean it this year. And I'll really mean it next year, and ten years from now. I swear... I totally swear.. like... totally.
I have the dreaded second birthday coming up of Thing 2...and not just any second birthday, the last second birthday I will throw...so do I throw one? do I do something at home in the backyard? Do I say "Hey Clan, who wants to meet us at (insert pizza place with games here) on such a day at such a time?" and see who shows up? I have NO friggin clue... Not a single damned one... dammit...
So instead of freaking out about it, I'm just gonna leave it alone for now. I have too many things. My weekends are filling up fast and I am increasingly ecstatic about the fact I found the planner I did when I did. Otherwise I'd have post it notes where plans should be and that would be a disaster... mentally more than anything else, but still...It would be there...bahaha...
Everyone's doing really well...Thing 1 is bringing us to a place where just when we think maybe she's not doing as well in school as we once thought, BOOM... nope, we get the great behavior report followed up by the awesome AR testing report and we put those worries to beddy-bye...
Thing 2... Jesus pleezus... She's crazy. I mean it, she's NUTS... she just runs around the house with her little blahblahblah language and talks to you like she's just having herself a conversation you never knew you were in the middle of. Then there's the whole breaking the crib thing...she broke the crib...she is SO not ready for a bed yet, not even a toddler bed...she would be crawling up into Thing 1's bed and head butting her to instigate a playtime at midnight....so we are totally NOT doing this bed training thing yet...that being said, we are need of a new crib. So I have my eye out on one that's atleast half what I paid for this one new...I don't need the mattress, just the crib...it's not safe for her to have it the way it is now and it really freaks me out... no matter how many zip ties or nails or screws you use, there's always that mom gut thing that makes you think, FUCK THIS, I NEED A NEW ONE... and that mom gut is applied to so many things... I don't mess with the mom gut.
Speaking of mom guts, mine is pretty much gone ;) I am down 10 pounds and I have another 10 before I get to where I was before thing 1 was a twinkle in our eyes...another 10 pounds after that and I'll be perfecto...right at the place I need to be period.the end. So that's a nice sentiment. And now my rings fall off....shit.
And to celebrate my awesome personal triumph, I cut my hair off... pixie cuts are huge right now, and no it's never been my way to follow the herd (baaaa n shit) but my hurr... oy vay.
I highlighted it...fine...it was great...fine...I stopped the affordability on it...had to stop...fine...so I did... and then I had bleached ends...meh. I covered them with wash-out brown...fine...worked for a little while but it's still crunchy feeling... meh.
Stop the color, stop the bleach and the crunchy... cut the hair. Done... looks freakin sweet and I can't believe I didn't talk myself into this sooner. As much as I feel that having long hair is something I owe the "bad hair" community, I am sorry all you thin stringy hair'd folk...but long hair thick hair is NOT awesome...Looks great, I'm not denying that fact... but it sucks to have it on your head, on your shoulders and then there's that whole "I Don't Like Things Hanging Off My Body" syndrome... haven't heard of it yet? really? It's new... I have it...with a vengeance.
Until they make a pill for that, I will not have a purse, a child, a scarf, hair, bags, whatnot hanging off my body at anytime. This is why I don't let my kids pull on my person, I carry a backpack not a purse and why if I am carrying bags from the car to the house...of who am I kidding...if I can help it I NEVER CARRY BAGS FROM THE CAR TO THE HOUSE! Carpel tunnel and IDLTHOMB syndrome are why.
<END RANT>
<NEW RANT>
Unless I'm missing some mystical, cosmic, universal message...me n the significant other are awesome fantasticness... Ever have those friends that were like, in marital distress... and people were like, "Oh shit, are they gonna make it?" Yeah, I had those too... friends...family... whoever... Well, we haven't had that. Ever. I just realized that the other day when I recently heard of a split. Knew the couple fairly well... and BOOM... split. It was a surprise to her, too, turns out. Pretty sad when I think of it. Made me think of me n Choners... and I came to that conclusion. I don't know, makes me pretty proud to think of that. I mean, no I don't have a BA in bullshit from FU... but I take pride in my family...my marriage...Which is probably why we are in the 13th year of couple-dom and nearing the 11th anniversary of our engagement, and the 10th anniversary of marriage is next April...
I was thinking that we should do something special and when I mentioned it to the mister and said, We should do something for our anniversary next year (which we NEVER EVER do)" and he nods...and then he thinks...and then he says "Why next year? What's so special about next year?" And when I tell him it'll be TEN whole years...oh the look on his face...so adorable I could have just died....
I still look at that face and see the baby face I met when I was 19... I was 22 (going on 23) when we got married. I know plenty of people who were married younger than that...but ask me how many of them are STILL married?? Go ahead...ASK ME... not much...
Not that I want to turn this into a bragging session, but I'll tell you what...My foot still hurts, I found out I have TMJ and the mouthguard is too expensive to buy right now so I go to bed with Motrin every other night...My allergies have been taking this opportunity of our weird weather to SHIT all over me and make me miserable and the TMJ is now causing tension headaches and tension in my neck and shoulders comes and goes... I am doing little exercises at my desk all day to curb this. My dentist basically told me my teeth are just BAD and if I want to continue eating food that I need to brush and floss after every meal and use a special rinse that helps decrease the dry mouth I have as a direct result of taking antihistamines which I cannot function without.
My point is this... I take the things that are awesome and going RAD and focus on them 100% because there is enough SHIT to balance them out...Trust & believe...It's NOT ALL wine and roses...but when I sit back after doing shit ton of crap work and think about going home to my hunnies... it makes things better... and it makes things better because my mister makes ME better... being a good mom to the kiddos makes me want to be a better person...and then sometimes kids are just assholes... They just are...and I think sometimes what you need to do is realize that, walk away, and pick up somewhere fresh in the morning.. That's what works for us so far!
Yay! Basically, balance. Everything is... balanced... There's good to outweigh the bad and sometimes, the opposite is true. To wrap it up (as if that's at all possible with me) my foot hurts, my jaw hurts, my mouth forever tastes of toothpaste and flavored floss and my husband is all kinds of MAD awesomeness...and I think I'll keep the kids, too. Aloha.
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