Visiting Oz and the Munchkins

SATURDAY

I am on the road! I decided to go visit my best friend and her family. (Read: Mom, Dad and 4 kids!)

I'd forgotten how funny kids are. I hadn't been here more than a few hours when #1 son, who we will call D, insulted the size of my head. As if that weren't bad enough, Best Fried, BF/Mom, told D that is was not nice to insult the size of someone's freakishly large head. Thanks. Appreciate it. ( I do not have a freakishly large head by the way...Big hair yes, head no.)

#2 son, W, is potty training. So he gets up from the table and announces he needs to go poo. Good for you W! He runs to the bathroom. Mom, #1 daughter, J, #1 son D, and I mostly ignore the goings on until he calls from the bathroom. Dad goes into the bathroom to help. We hear, "What? Wha-? What have you done? What have you done?!" We all look up at dad walking into the bathroom.

Mom calls, " Do you need help?"

Dad comes out of the bathroom with a gray, plastic toy part and holds it over the sink.

"What happened?" mom asks.

Exasperated, he holds up the toy, closes his eyes and says, "This has poop on it."

BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!

All four of us at the table fell out laughing. We didn't even TRY to hide our amusement. Mom gets up and goes into the bathroom while dad cleans said toy. The kids and I go back to doing whatever it is we were doing when we hear W in the bathroom sing, "I go poop! I go poop! Yay! Yay! I go poop! I go poop! Yay! Yay!" Over and over...

I smile to myself because, well, it's funny. Until I hear...

"W stop dancing so I can wipe your butt! NO! STOP DANCING!!"

So then, it's not funny...IT'S FREAKING HILARIOUS!"

Later W, started calling me grandma. *sigh* I can't win for losing. There is no place like home...or your best friend's house.

On the brighter side, J made me 2 pot holders and a necklace. Which was too small to fit over my head, (which is what sparked the freakishly large head convo) so now I wear it as a bracelet.

SUNDAY

We went to the farmer's market and tooled around there. Very nice! Then we went to the park. Did I mention that J wore her pretty polka dot dress because she wanted to be "fancy." She is such a girly girl. D on the other hand wore his black cape. Yes, black cape. I took to calling him Darth.


Turns out I was wrong. His chosen career path is Super Hero, hence the cape......or he wants to be a Policeman.

J on the other hand would like to open a princess school.

Teach girls how to be princesses with princess manners and such. I laughed, too. For like a second until I thought...actually, that might be fun! So if she does open the school, I am ready to go. I think this little girl will be too.



After the park, we went to Johnny Rocket's for lunch, then looked around the mall. When it was time to go home, W had a melt down. "I don't wanna go home! No thank you! I don't wanna go home! No thank you!" No thank you? Who is this kid?

We get home put on a a movie and we all decide it's nap time...well except for D & J. I go in my room and lie down. D comes in and asks, "Would you like a foot rub?"
Um, well, YEAH!!!! DUH!!! He says, "Oh! I know what you will like!" Then runs off and comes back with a cool, wet, wash cloth and begins to wash my feet. Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Yes he does know what I like. I then make note to tell all men in my world they need to talk to D. He clearly knows what women want.

So, my nap went well. I got up we had Gouda, crackers, cantaloupe from the farmers market and Kalamata olives for dinner and that was pretty much my day.

Oh daughter #2 isn't mentioned much because she is 6 months old and well, pretty much just sits and laughs at me...I should probably be worried by this, but she is so damn cute, I don't care! I just want her to always laugh!

Hopefully this coming week will include, mani, pedi and waxing. Not a brazilian because I am only letting my regular waxing specialist do that...


Night!

Fuck you I won't do what they tell me!!

Now playing: Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of
via FoxyTunes

Harsh I know but it is my little tribute to Rage Against the Machine. More on that later.


First, let's speak of River of Death...

River of Death

So, about two weeks ago, I took the annual family camping trip up north, affectionately named River of Death. No it is not a scary river, it's just that the first couple of years, were...rough...

We have it down now! Right down to food and cold adult beverages. This year I didn't camp or go down the river...don't ask...I'm an indoor girl and that is all I have to say about that. I did miss going down the river. There was family out from back east and it was great to see them. I wish they lived here. So here are a couple of pictures from the trip.

Pictures of the River:

Looking up the river.

This is where we sat waiting for the group to come down the river.

Little C in the water. He was so cute!! I have very cute relatives...

My feet. Why?...have you not seen my blog...although, I don't know why the picture is sideways, it's not sideways on my computer...


Here they came...they were soooooooo tired...me and the cousins...not so much..heh.


Big J and Little C skipping rocks together. J is so good with C. Made my heart all warm and fuzzy. I have great relatives!


At the end of the day, we all go get ice cream. We were really late this time and the nice girls at the store stayed open for us! Yay them!!!

Oh yeah, and we found Big Foot. Large fucker aint he?

Then we went back to the campsite where we bbq'ed tri tip
...mmmmmmmm...tri tip....mmmmmmmmmmm

Ok...Next installment...

ROCK THE BELLS!!!

REPRESENT + RESPECT + RECOGNIZE

Saturday we went to an all day concert at Mc Covey Cove Parking Lot. First let me say, lousy place for a concert. Other than that, IT FUCKING ROCKED!!


We got there in time to see Mos Def, and stayed through Rage. The show was sold out! 40,000 people. Dude, that is A LOT of people...let me tell you! There was one point of the show when Rage came out, and the parking lot bounced in time to the music from all the people jumping. I swear to you, I thought the thing would collapse into the ocean. 40,000 people jumping in unison? Well 39,999, I wasn't jumping...I was looking for an exit, if this thing went south, I was GONE!

Here are some pics, as soon as the videos are uploaded I will post them too:

My view from the ground in between shows. At least I didn't take a picture of the guy peeing into his water bottle. Gross.

The throbbing, writhing crowd en mass.

Um...ya.

Stage shot.

He means you!

He's serious!

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, ladies and gentlemen.

Mac says what?!?!

I have had my Mac for what 6 months? Friday I realized it had a mic. Not only that you can talk to it and tell it to do stuff. Like what you ask? Like open programs. Close windows. Tell you a knock knock joke!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Leave it to fucking Apple to program your computer to tell you knock knock jokes! God I love my Mac!!

Last but not least...

My cat has taken to bringing us sticks again. On one hand, I am very glad she is a vegetarian and not bringing me dead rodents, on the other hand, how weird is that? In any case...thanks girlie!

And yes, she always looks that grumpy...even with out the bow...

Motel Camping

This weekend is the annual family camping trip. I will be staying at a low rate motel that has a number in it. It is a lot like camping, there is no room service... *shudder*

So the drive will take about 8 hours...yes I am bringing my laptop. Yes I am bringing movies.

Yes I am taking my iPod and cell phone.Yes I plan on taking some of my other hobbies with me. I am an indoor girl. You know this. I can not live with out my stuff. It will be bad enough there will probably be no internet... I may go into withdrawal. Also, I am not good in a car for long periods of time. 4 or 5 hours and then I get punchy and grumpy.

Anyway, there are extra family members coming out from back east and the south west. That is very cool! I like them...A LOT!

Nic-mother will be staying at my place and watching over the kitties and playing with our ginourmus HDTV (67"). She is in heaven right now!

Well, that's all I got. Have a good week!

Ode to Wentworth Miller

There once was a man from the east,


He came out west for nicbeast,


She then grabbed his peen, how lovely it's been,


They have sex thrice a day, at least.

Virtual Pet

I have a new virtual pet! Go click on him and play with him. If you click and hold and rub him he purrs! Click out of the basket and he hops out, click in, he jumps back in! He is a good kitty. I will be showing him to my kitties so they can see what a good kitty looks like.

Another day, another interview...

Well, the first interview went so well, they invited me back for a second...for a different position. I will turn it down. It's part time. I can't do that. Financially it is not viable, no matter how fun it would be to work there. Oh well. The other job called me and I have an interview with them next week. That is probably a better fit for me anyway. Not nearly as fun, but good money and very close to home and good benefits.

Family is coming to visit this weekend for a couple days. That will be nice.

Next weekend is the annual camping trip, River of Death. Not sure about the camping, still haven't found all the camping supplies; but I am not looking that hard either. I hate camping. I am very much an indoor girl.

I think I see a motel in my future, which if you think about it is a lot like camping. At least there is indoor plumbing.

Sorry I wasn't more interesting, but when you never leave the house, what is there to talk about. Maybe in the future, I will pick a random topic and pontificate on it for a while....or not.

And just becauase...

Dear Sweet Lord Jesus...

Let us pray....

Heavenly father, please bless me with Wentworth Miller...IMMEDIATELY! Amen.

A Job By Any Other Name...is still work.

Mistakes

It could be that the purpose of your life is
only to serve as a warning to others.

I love that quote!

Anywhoo...I had my first job interview in three years. I had to search the depths of my closet for my "Interview Suit" and pray that it still fit. Well who would have guessed, it did! In fact it was too big...go figure..

I went in, answered all the questions, filled out all the forms. I was cordial, professional, charming even. I gave her pretty copies of my resume, my card and my resume on disc...just in case. I wish I could get a job just interviewing. I'm good at it.

So, all in all, it went well. I don't know that I am qualified for the position, but I think it would be fun. We'll see how it goes.

Saturday, I took a test to work for the city. I'm not sure who writes those tests, but they need to find someone else to do it. They make very little sense. But, I did what I could do. They made me do Fractions! FRACTIONS! I haven't done fractions since, I think Jr. High School. Holy manhole covers Batman.

So I am going to be in a wedding next year. Yep. I'm a bride's maid. So the bride called and asked me to go to a Wedding Faire with her. So Saturday I did that too after the test. I came home around 6:00 p.m. and fell out! Man was I tired. I woke up at 10:00 p.m. I was looking around like what happened, why is it dark? Anyway...I guess that's all I got.

Later.