Now ya’ll know I love my trees! And this story just warms my treehuggin’ heart!
Archives for November 2007
Lucky! You’re supposed to do that at home!
November 28, 2007 by Leave a Comment
My sweet dog, Lucky, who I usually refer to as ‘Puppy’, has developed an icky habit lately. You know I’ve been making an effort to take more walks. And half of the time, I take Puppy with me. And the little monster (‘little’ meaning: dear, sweet, honeybaby – we all know he’s not little!) is defecating in neighbor’s yards!! What?! That is not how we do it! He has been an at-home-pooper all his life! I mean – all his life! What on earth happened? If this keeps up, I’m going to have to go shopping for some pet supplies. The plastic bag over the hand thing is just YUCK! I’d like to find a pooper scooper like my dad had once – it was this really cool contraption, that would keep your hands totally clean! Clean is definitely good when it comes to my hands. But that’s a whole ‘nother issue we’ll discuss another day!
Promoting my husband
November 28, 2007 by Leave a Comment
I’ve been working on getting my husband some business from the internet. He’s not entirely convinced that it’s actually going to work. He is a contractor – mostly residential remodeling. And he just doesn’t see the value in marketing a local-only business online.
I’m working on it slowly, bit by bit. I had gotten a pretty good start on it – I started a website for him, and then I registered him at Merchant Circle. And then I started him a few Squidoo lenses. And then I left it all sitting there. I completely lost all my steam for it.
Recently, however, I received a message from someone on Squidoo about his lenses. The message was from a realtor and he has a group on Squidoo that he was inviting us to join. And ever since then, marketing my husband’s remodeling services has been back on my mind again.
I want so much to prove to him that it would be beneficial for him to establish an online presence, but, I get so distracted with all of my other sites and blogs.
We’ll see – I may just make it work and wind up teaching him a thing or two!
Don’t stay up so late!
November 28, 2007 by Leave a Comment
I’m completely worthless today. I was semi-functional for most of the day, but, since around 1pm, I’ve been a lump in front of this screen. I stupidly stayed up last night until 12:30am! What was I thinking? I know full well that lately I’ve been very tired – even falling asleep for the night one night at 7:30pm! And yet, I go and stay up that late!
I’ve got lots of work that I could be doing right now, but, I am so uber sleepy, I am half considering going to bed! You know what time it is here? It’s only 4:30! Isn’t that crazy? I wish I had an in-house movie theater – that would be just perfect right now. I mean, really – I’d hate to go to bed at 4 in the afternoon! But if I could get cozy in some home theater furniture, relax, and watch a movie – that would be perfect!
One thing is for sure – you won’t catch me staying up that late again any time soon! Sheesh!
Indigestion! Indigestion!
November 27, 2007 by Leave a Comment
I’ve got some dumb song stuck in my head and I’m not even sure what song it is! I have the worst indigestion – it seems like just about anything can give me indigestion lately. And the song that is stuck in my head is a made up one!
You know the guys that did the ‘Conjunction, Junction – What’s Your Function?’ song… It’s that educational cartoon that used to come on Saturday mornings between our ‘real’ cartoons. And one of those songs is repeating endlessly in my head with its words changed to …. you guessed it!
“In – di – ges – tion! In– di – ges – tion!”
So silly!
Oh no! Another kid coughing!
November 27, 2007 by Leave a Comment
It’s 11pm and I can hear a kid up who can’t sleep for coughing! Nooo! We can’t have any more sickness in this house! Well, Sammie has sick days available, but, the boys sure don’t! And it is Patrick that is coughing!
Our little mini-district has a five-absence-per-semester rule – after that the children need doctor’s notes in order for their absences to be excused. And if your absence is unexcused, your grades for that day’s work? Zeros! Ack! Zeros? That’s terrible.
A lot of times kids get sick and it doesn’t warrant a trip to the doctor. This is a hard rule to follow.
We just had our town Christmas parade, and Patrick and the school band were in it – so hopefully he just got chilled and his allergies are acting up. He doesn’t usually catch the infections that are going around, and if he’s just ‘sort of’ sick, I’m not taking him to the doctor – just to ‘buy’ an excused absence! That’s $50 for an excuse note!
No more coughing, kid! And most definitely, for sure – no 
I pinked my shag again!
November 19, 2007 by 2 Comments
Well, ok, it might not exactly still qualify as a ‘shag’, but, it is definitely layered! And I have once again added pink to it! And I have a young friend up in Canada (Hi Alyssa!) who recently had some pink highlights put in, as well! And so I tried to do a ‘dedication chunk’ to her, but, I discovered that it was really tricky to get a ‘chunk’ of hair colored when your hair is so layered. I did it as much as I could, though. Here’s my ‘Dedicated to Alyssa’ chunk:
Ain’t it pretty? I just love that shot! I only wish the chunk had been from the top of my head down, but, that was two separate sections of hair, because of the layering, and so I couldn’t figure out how to do it without making a big mess!
And here I am, being a total weirdo, stretching up so you can see the pink chunk:
That wasn’t working so well, so that’s when I decided the closeup would be better.
And here’s just me:
Hopefully, you can see in that shot, there’s a good bit of it in my bangs, too. And then I did the highlights very softly all around and a bunch on the tips. I like the way it came out.
It’s so much fun to do, and it gives me such an uplift to my spirit. I really enjoy doing stuff like that to my hair – it just perks me up a bit! And it’s so easy on the checking account, because, since I’m only doing highlights, and my hair is now short – I got to use that same box of color around four times! So that is definitely cool! If I had to go spend $65 every time I wanted this done, it would be such a bummer! It’s fun to have it done professionally sometimes, but, I sure wouldn’t want to pay that all the time!
I conquered ‘The Beast’!
November 18, 2007 by Leave a Comment
The other day I was telling you about my ‘Little San Fransisco’ neighborhood that I live in and how I was going to ‘Conquer the Beast’ – the big hill up the street from me. Well, I did it! I conquered The Beast! It was hard, and I had to stop once in the middle to catch my breath and make sure my legs hadn’t fallen off, but, I made it!
This was last Wednesday, and I haven’t been back out since – so I’ve done a horrible job with my LiTaWaMo. I have done wonderful, in that I keep getting ‘back on that horse’!
We’ve had a lot of chaos in our lives lately, though. My middle son just got sick with asthmatic bronchitis and missed a whole week of school. My daughter just celebrated her eleventh birthday and had some activities at school, and my parents are coming into town in a couple of days.
So I’m still plugging along, but, I’m not getting out there every day. The cool thing, was that my husband had just bought some new batteries for my camera – so I took some wonderful pictures of the fall colors around here on my walk. I don’t think I’ll take my camera every time, as it was kind of obnoxious carrying it. And I wound up taking about one hundred pictures that day. If I kept that up, I’d have way too many pictures to deal with!
I really want to get out there and walk tomorrow and Tuesday, so that when my mom is here she and I can walk – she loves taking walks and it is so beautiful out here, that it will be nice to be able to to do that with her. And I figure taking walks the next two days will loosen me up a bit for it.
Precious angel fleece blanket
November 18, 2007 by Leave a Comment
I really would love to have this Christmas angel fleece blanket! It is so cute, that I think that I would use it all year, just like I do my angel tree topper. Mark got me the prettiest angel to go on top of my Christmas tree last year, and she is so pretty that I could not bear to put her away in a box to live in the garage for a whole year! I wish that these fleece blankets would be a bit bigger, though. It seems that most of them are 60 inches. Well, it would be a good one for Sammie – or I could hang it on the wall for a sweet decoration. If you’d like to see the shop this comes from, just click here.
Sammie’s fun-filled birthday!
November 18, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Ok, so Sammie’s birthday was November 15th, and she had a lot of stuff going on that day!
When she got up in the morning, we gave her a few small presents to start the day off right, and then she had to get ready for school. Here she is in the kitchen eating her breakfast:
Then we had to go outside to wait for the bus. I drove her crazy out there taking pics, I won’t subject you to all of them, but, how about one of her disgust?
Would you quit it, Mother?!!
No, actually, I won’t. Bwahahaha! I mean, just look how darn cute she is!!
She has those straight-legged, skinny pants with the flared bottoms – I just love that look! She is so totally cute! I did carry her in my womb for nine months, though, so that could just be me! Haha!
Isn’t that just cute?
And because I’m such a dork, and just can’t get over the fact that the bus actually comes to our house to pick up the kids – and because I think it’s so adorable and cute and sweet that the bus actually comes the house to pick up the kids (I know, I’m a dork, I got that!) :
Isn’t that just cute?
Ok, so we need to move on from the morning. The school had two big things happening on that day – one was the mini-production of Grease, followed by each grade level doing some dances to the songs from Grease. And the other big thing was their Thanksgiving lunch, to which the parents were invited. And then, of course, we had birthday cupcakes to hand out! I only have pictures of the Grease event. (Aren’t you lucky? Haha!)
Here she is laughing and doing The Hand Jive:
And here she is outside with the sign that I thought was very impressive for an elementary, during the school day production:
That night, Mark came home and we gave her the rest of her presents – she got a very cool stereo, that’s kind of space-age-y! And one of those music player-thingymabobs. And the game Cats for her DSPSQR, whatever the hell that gameboy is called!! Haha! These kids are draining our checking accounts!!
Then Mark cooked spaghetti for her and then we had birthday cake! Yumm!
And, of course, all throughout the day we fielded phone calls from one family member and then the next, who wanted to wish Sammie ‘Happy Birthday’!! All in all, it was a great day!
