Bye Bye Blue

This is my Crayola Crayon Colored...front door.....

But nooooo more!

Check out my Huck Finn pants. I'm a sexy lady. I'm so glad I don't wear these jeans in public. Dang they are not pretty.

Tadaaaaaaaa!!!!! New door!

I meant to paint it charcoal gray....It turned out black. I'm not necessarily upset about this. Not a little bit at all. It's soooo much better than it was....when I dreamed of blue balloons and blue bicycles and blue baboons and blue berrrrries? I'm done...cut me off...

Tiberian Vocalization

Not gonna lie...I flat out Wikipediad that. Cause I felt the need to conjugate or to make a word into a new word...a Lindsoism if you will and I like to pretend I know what I'm talking about so I often google things to make sure I'm not swearing in another language or offending an aboriginal tribe in another country that doesn't even have Internet access.

This is my life...lets just roll with it okay?

This is your Tiberian Update. Tiberian Vocalization information can be found here. This current rant on the other hand has NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT.

In the last week Dave has gotten around to calling Tiberius by his actual name. It's adorably and ridiculous that I talk about this plant SO MUCH that Dave has started referring to it by name. He talks about Tiberius like he's hangin out the couch with us watch TV...eating some popcorn.

This is Tiberius the other day, before the storms. I swear he's about to make his move...into my house to hang out on my couch...maybe he can keep the cats from peeing on the brand new couch? Maybe?

Look how much taller he is, this kid is totally growing like a weed. Er...maybe I'm being a little too direct here...or blatantly using really bad humor...I mean...I think I'm funny?

Anyway we got A TON of rain over the weekend...and look at poor Tiberius! He's falling over. I probably shouldn't have given him a girly name cause he has purplish pink flowers. But he does not look like a lady?

Anyway check this out... Tiberius is down and he's still trying to grow. He's now hanging about three feet into our yard but the flowers are still pointing up. What a wack job. Seriously this WEED was meant to live in my backyard. Our neighbors probably think we are nut cases considering how often I go out and take pictures of him....or the fact that our lawn looks like a overflowing weedtastic tundra. There's always that.

I do however pride myself on having a nicer yard than some of my neighbors...which is EXTREMELY sad, and also makes me very very proud!

xoxo to my friend Tiberius. Live long and prosper.....in my backyard!

Wise words.....

Don't kiss your honey

When your nose is runny

You might think it's funny

but it snot.

Recycle...the four letter word.

I'd like to send a big shout out and a thank you to my special friends in the movie theatre over the weekend. I'd like to thank you for bringing your young impressionable tweens to a movie and making sure you allow them to become the most obnoxious careless citizens in a few short years when you are not always available for guidance and counsel. Thank you for guiding them away from throwing trash into the trash can, and recycling their 3D glasses. I appreciate you telling your daughter after she ASKED YOU if she should take her trash with her....to just leave it there. I enjoyed watching the nacho cheese hit the theatre seats and drip down to the floor.

It was also very nice of you to tell your children that they could just keep their 3D glasses....in front of the HUGE SIGN that said RECYCLE YOUR 3D GLASSES HERE!!!!! I'm sure the inner city kids who are missing out on seeing a really cool 3D movie appreciate your blatant consumeristic selfish hording. Or possibly the man or woman who injured themselves; that silly plastic you chose not to recycle wasn't going to make them a cast or brace. It wasn't going to turn into packaging to send needed food and supplies for humanitarian aid. I mean really...there's no reason to recycle? I also know that your trashcan which those glasses will soon be residing in...appreciates the business. I'm pretty sure with the social awareness you displayed today that you do not recycle at home.

I want to take this one more opportunity to thank you for the continued effort it will now take me, my husband and the rest of my environmentally conscience family to clean up after you and your slobtastic children. What I most enjoyed about this entire interaction was the fact that your daughter asked if she should do the right thing and you told her not to bother.

Thanks for that...go pour some oil on wildlife!

Swings: Epilogue

We were out and about all day and of course the pictures of my child having a fantabulously good time were caught on my iPhone not my camera. Maybe we'll go to a park tomorrow or Sunday and try these pictures again but check out the 180 on the bebes and her new love of swinging...crazy child.

She's like "Mom why would you think I wouldnt like this? Was it because I was screaming about it less than a week ago....oh it was....okay well WHAAATEVER MOM!"

Assortment of Adorable...to make you all gag...

This is just a few pictures from the past few weeks...all of my kid. What can I say...she's cute?

Thumbs up! I think she's saying she approves?

I put a wipe on her head and lets just say this is one of 928374 pictures I took she just kept it on head? What a nut job? :)

Our new sitter does her hair almost everyday. I think its beyond annoyingly cute. I wonder if she'll let me sit around one day and learn how to do baby hair? I don't do my own hair....maybe I'm better at doing someone elses hair?

So annoying...seriously....I really dislike this child. So much expression in such a small package.

Mid Project...Mid Many Projects

So we're painting the hallways, and the living room. We are very much mid-project because our living room is open to the second floor and entryway so its a very wide open space. That being said we do not own a ladder tall enough to repaint our ceilings and paint the walls at the current time. Regardless we are painting what Dave can reach...cause lets be honest he isn't really a team player when it comes to home improvement so I'm mostly just supervising. Sometimes he lets me hold the brush or fix a drip mark. I'm also very okay with this. I enjoy the supervisory role in this scenario. Anyway so we are painting and the walls before...look as though they were first yellow...then they were dark blue and then instead of painting the walls white or priming them they turned into baby blue. So before...when you walked into our house you saw a baby blue entryway. The previous owners were really huge fans of Ikea too so you have baby blue walls and Ikea furnishings in a borderline country styled home. Anyway we've painted:

This picture I can't really explain myself so lets hope the pictures do. The previous owners painted this blue wall here...IN THE FAMILY ROOM. I'm not sure if you notice the clearly defined separation between entryway and the family room. This is the only wall in the entire family room painted blue. Does anyone else see the divide of carpet and hardwood? Maybe it's just me...silliness. Anyway...this is the best part:

Because we have yet to choose a color for the family room, because we are so very indecisive on the subject, the family room is still this ivorytanish color, next to the ONE blue remaining wall in my house....and then there next to the new butterscotch color that I love.

Here is my hallway, mid-project....I know I took a picture of it finished but I can't seem to find it...Ooooh well. I was worried the color wouldn't be bold enough but I'm really happy with it. It works really well with the hardwood floors and the white woodwork. Even the butt ugly carpet looks good with it. This color had to be bold but still neutral because its going to be in the whole entryway up to the second floor and the hallways up and down. The living room which will also have furnishings in it is going to be this color. It was a big *good* decision. Phew....

Here is Dave disappearing the bluuuue: Our bench that we have that goes on this wall looks AWESOME there now. It's a really dark wood bench and it just...gah the blue was just not doing it any justice haha.

I'm pretty happy with our midway point, now lets just see how quickly we can procrastinate towards the finishing of the downstairs bathroom. Die Lavender Die!

I've also decided that we need to spray paint our bed frame IMMEDIATELY. All of the hardware in our room is a silver/brushed nickel sort of color and originally I was convinced we needed to buy a new wooden bed frame and then the genius in me realized that I could spend under 50 dollars and just spray paint the current one and it would reflect our style much more than a wooden frame would have. Now we only need paint on the walls, new end tables, curtains and brand new bedding and that room is done...so you know...a small investment? haha

Tiberius

Dave....has done some work on our front yard. It's looking nice. Most of our front yard is grass/trees and perennials. Low maintenance...lovely for our current lifestyle. Our backyard is almost bare other than grass. The previous owners and the original owners in the amazing 7 year history of my home....did NOTHING with the backyard. Our neighbors have nice brick patios and decks, play sets and small manicured gardens.....WE have a cement block stepping down from our screen door. We LIVE AND BREATH Class....Claaaaaassy!

To add to the sexiness of our backyard, we have no flower beds, no landscaping at all. Honestly we are dragging our feet a bit because we would like to put in a brick patio and a few raised flower beds, maybe I can grow a vegetable or two back there...but not this summer. But maybe next year we can make it a project? Who knows. Anyway our backyard is crazy bare. Except for this very special friend of mine:

I've named him Tiberius. I really like the name Tiberius but I'm teetering on whether to use it for a child. Dave says I should not have named the weed Tiberius....but heck does his opinion actually count? Nooooo silly....Plus as he kindly pointed out we've got enough names for at least 293874 future children...I'm sure we can find another name besides Tiberius which most people would reference with Star Trek and not Tiberius the Roman Emperor.

Regardless. This is my friend Tiberius, we aren't really BFF's but we are rather close. Mostly because that window leads into my family room and my couch is on the other side of that wall...so technically we hang out a lot. I told Dave he wasn't allowed to trim my weed down. I mean soon this weed will be physically climbing into my family room, strangling my cats and hanging out in my kitchen. It's almost like family......almost.

Maybe I'll feed it some Miracle Gro and see if it kills it or turns it into a massive beast worthy of being chainsawed down.

Detestable Fun

Please try very hard to appreciate these pictures for their 'artistic value.'

I hate swings

I hate swinging.

My mom is a bad photographer...and I hate swings that can swing or that are swinging.

Mother Vow: I promise to never try and force you to ever in your life never ever to have fun ever...I promise never will I make you have fun...promise...

Until I drag you back to that playground and try to swing you in a swing again...then you might be forced to try this 'fun' thing all over again.....detestable isn't it!

Honk Shooooo Toooooo

I was going to just post this picture and then I glanced at my blog....apparently all about the sleepin bebes this week? This one was particularly adorable rarely does she sleep on us. We are never lucky enough to get sleep and snuggle at the same time. She woke up shortly after this because we were heading into Cheesecake Factory and heck...I would wake up to eat stuffed dates and tuna tar tar too.

We went and saw a reopening of an Apple store near by today, it smelled new which I believe was worth the remodel. I then went to store where I had recently shopped.....and had a snit with a manager. To sound as snotty as humanly possibly...I got my way, which was nice but DAAAANG the lady was really rude. I didn't feel bad at all asking the woman to honor a 14 day policy on the 16th day. Normally I would but the situation truly warranted it. I am NOOOOT the person that would do something like that but I saved 54 dollars... FIFTY FOUR DOLLARS. I think that was worth getting a lecture from a tall skinny meticulously dressed manicured woman on how she shouldn't be doing this because you know....the economy is bad. Did I mention she was well dressed...the economy was probably not affecting this woman...just being honest. Well keeping my business by working a customer service mentality might be better for the economy than you think...mostly because your rude behavior wasn't going to keep me shopping in your store. I know I sound like a snobby brat but I promise it was a very valid and justifiable argument made today. I got a store credit which I then turned around and used in the store. I count it as a win win. Although I'm pretty sure I didn't make any new friends today...that's for sure.

We meandered home this afternoon and we ALL took a 3 hour nap...talk about productivity I think it might have been the wisest use of our time all day. We got up and Dave started to finish our semi small painting project....4 hours later we have the downstairs hallway, half the entryway and the short wall(s) in the living room painted. They look AWESOME. To finish the hallways and the entryway and the living room we need either scaffolding or a super amazing tall ladder. Both of which we could borrow from our parents who have offered to lend us...if only we could find a way to get the supplies here...FROM OHIO...(I really like CAPSLOCK TODAY). Oh and we need at least 5 more cans of paint...silly details. Anyway we got as much done as we/he physically can without my constant help of holding a ladder...a shorter ladder of course. The main reason we need a tall ladder isn't for the walls but to repaint the ceiling. Our house as a bad case of the uglies when it comes to previous paint colors and no one really took care of the walls and ceilings so they are all dinged up. Lets not talk about the baseboards either...that's a whole other ramble....

Anyway we are now chilling on the couch...two pieces of cheesecake (only one for me...I'm not THAT hungry lol) and a coke zero.....there might be some rum in my coke...noooot gonna lie. Watching our normal run of geektv...they should create a network called that. All the SciFi and geek humor all wrapped up in one station...that would be lovely.

This is the first weekend of Dave's new schedule and I'm a huge fan. This is the first Saturday we've had off together without requesting it off in probably a year...maybe longer? His schedule is changed officially now and it looks like we'll be spending time together from now on...we haven't had that kind of time since we lived in the apartment...back in September. Silly quality time...so overrated!

As usual...I have no interest in 'ending' this post...I'm so bad at that anyway...I can't wrap up a thought if my life depends on it.

*bye*

Honk Shooooo

We were going to go visit Daddy after playing at the sitters all day. Then we were going to explore a new park because I'm desperate to try out swings and see how the bebes like them. Instead..........


Someone passed out in the car...because they hadn't napped all day.

My favorite part of this whole scenario is that she has her legs crossed. She is overly feminine even in her sleep. Except when she burbs...that is not feminine at all....but still amusing.