A Little Mid-Week Swoon.

I'm working my way out of the dark cave I've been hiding in, so here's a little treat for you whilst I fold my laundry and finish my next post.

Warning: The video jumps around quickly, so you may have to watch it many times. Many...delicious....times.

As Good as it Gets

The best possible way to spend a Friday afternoon.

Thanks, Ali!

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name

Today was a fractured, frantic day which included:
• a vase-breaking incident while at Primary Presidency mtg (guilty party: one mischievous, tow-headed toddler)
• the 3rd trip to the grocery store in 3 days...forgetting onions EACH time...will I EVER finish this blasted canning of salsa???
• running hither & yon for the fetching & ferrying of kids; school pickups, guitar lessons, etc.
• helping with party cupcakes and breaking Ali's hand mixer
• almost ruining frosting for said cupcakes
• sitting with vase-breaking toddler in the car for 60 seemingly endless minutes while waiting for kids in guitar lessons
• reading Cinderella to Mimi 3 times in succession (which I admit was fun)
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• dropping into a chair at Chili's, surrounded by some of my favorite people on the planet, being served 2 Diet Cokes at once by our Best Waiter Ever Zach--whom, by the way, we set up on a blind date & successfully married off--
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• laughing our guts out for 4 hours about life's various idiosyncrasies including, but not limited to: Bert & Ernie, facebook, kids, movies, books, Disneyland, weird people in the general public, tiki torches, near-misses, Thriller, missing teeth, mutual disgust of dogs, Christmas present cleverness, the Swedish subway, Beatles Rockband and husbands.

Thanks girls.

(please note my mandatory bowl of lemons &
2 simultaneously-served Diet Cokes.)

* Not pictured: Ali & Ann, who were late.

Shakey Shake....Shake It!

From back in the day. Oh, how I love this band forever.

Oh yeah. Ohhhhh, yeahhhhhh.

"Look Back."



I have lots to post, and will do so tomorrow. But for tonight, I give you John Thornton. Shiver.

(Watch "North & South"! Watch it tonight!)

Bless You, Unknown Mother in Jammies

Yesterday as I was walking Max into school, about to embark on his field trip (another post), I caught sight of something that made my heart sing. SING.

(You can't see her well at all, because it took me too long to grab my phone and snap a photo! And I was trying--at least a bit--to be surreptitious. She got all the way to the end of the grass, dangit.)

A mom walking her child to the school door in her jammies. Yes, jammies. And bedhead. Pajama pants, baggy sleeping man-shirt, no makeup, and hair that was respectable but by no means brushed or styled. She walked him right up to the school door, kissed him, then proceeded to walk down the block to her house. Not into her car, waiting at the curb, but down the entire block!

Whomever you are, dear woman, I love you.

(can we be friends?)

What I'm Doing Tonight.

Regifting: the act of taking a gift that has been received and giving it to somebody else, sometimes in the guise of a new gift.

I began writing for today's post and realized I'd already said it all--succinctly--in an email to my mom. So I am cutting & pasting my email. I suppose you could say this post makes me a re-gifter. Re-poster? Whatever. I'm tired. Goodnight.

Max, acting as The Bread Boy, sold 2 doz rolls and 1 loaf of bread to my friend Ali for $3 & received a $2 tip. She always tips him a dollar or two. He is ecstatic. Max has saved enough "dough," so to speak, (hahahahahaha) to purchase himself an ipod touch.

Mike just ordered 2 iphones and I am VERY excited!!! I have secretly wanted one for 2 years.

Tonight we will eat spaghetti & frozen costco meatballs (very delicious) for dinner. And warmed-up rolls.

I informed Mike yesterday that if/when we have to move I plan to paint the kitchen Tiffany Blue (look it up--the color of the Tiffany jewelry box), the cabinets cream, and the rest of the house apple green. I informed him that he has NO SAY in this and it WILL BE SO. Since i have endured 2 years of stress and emotional drain of my chi (google it), I will paint my next place in happy colors which restore my chi.

So there we have it; the summation of my day. I did get my hair cut & colored, a most welcome event. I never realize how drab my hair looks, when I'm overdue for a color, until I get it done. Oh happy day! I'm trailer-trash blonde again!!!

My color palette! Tiffany Blue and Apple Green.
Mike, you can just bite it now. I will prevail. Save the olive green for your office. And. Mike. I'm going to put a big, sparkly chandelier over the kitchen table, so mmlllehhhh (sound of me childishly sticking my tongue out).

I'm thinking Bold! Bright! In-your-face Cheery! (Claudia, come help me execute it...!)(photo swiped from everythingturquoise)