Sushi

Our friends had a SUPER COOL PARTY this past Friday. It was a SUSHI PARTY! They were learning and teaching us how to make sushi rolls.



Mine wasn't pretty, but it's a start. L was eating sliced 'ava ka dough' (avocado) and T ate apart of a California roll.


Dude and I agree that we want to host one sometime. AFTER Farrell's, when we can eat as many carbs as we want (oh carbs how I miss you).

(Photos courtesy of jensennrf)

My Something Creative - St Patty's Day

I missed last week. Dude was out of town, so between WORK, KIDS and FARRELLS I didn't have a lot of time for anything other than life, so nothing creative. I was able to pull a shirt together for L this week, but no huge brownie points for orginality. Just the same, it is always neat to see her wear something I made her.

This is me

A few weeks ago I got 'tagged' on a Facebook (FB) note. My FB friend (and FXB cohort) said something like how she admired how I seemed to have it all together. To be CLEAR - FAR FAR FROM IT! Just to prove it, below is an edited snippet of an email I sent to a friend today:

"OMG! I FORGOT I WAS GOING TO GET YOUR LUNCH TODAY!!!! I AM PUTTING A CHECK IN THE MAIL TONIGHT!!!!!!!! THANKS AGAIN FOR COVERING L's REGISTRATION FEE FOR PRESCHOOL WHEN I FORGOT MY CHECKBOOK FOR PRESCHOOL REGISTRATION!

[it is so not like me to be a basket case or crazy or witchy or indecisive about life in general (okay maybe witchy, but just once a month, for a few days)...... I am WORKING on getting over all of these things and trying to get back more to being ME and to be more POSTIVE, not focusing on the negative! I too enjoyed lunch today – sorry I was just a debbie DOWNER. I PROMISE I will do my VERY BEST to not be like that next time – I am so glad that you want to get together again for lunch]"

File under "Things I don't want to forget"

For those of you that have children you know that they say and do things that you laugh at and think to yourself "I don't ever want to forget that". From there I do a REALLY great job of forgetting. I have done a pretty good job of capturing pictures.




BUT it is the words/actions that I want to capture. In an ATTEMPT to remember, every so often I am going to do a post where I list things that "I don't want to forget".

For instance:

• L calls soup "SLOOOup"


• That my son dances like a chicken. There doesn't even have to be music, you just have to ask him to dance and he bops up and down like a chicken eating chicken feed.


• Everytime it snows overnight when L wakes up and sees it, she shouts "Yeah! It is Christmas Day!"


• EVERY man with a beard L gets SUPER excited and says "There is Ho-Ho! Even to Dude's uncle. And the grouchy construction worker at the cafe, and the random man at the store. EVERY man with a beard


• my little guy, T, CHOOSES to wear ONE shoe or boot at ALL TIMES. He'll bring me his boot and grunt at me until I put it on, then happily walks away and plays, for hours (well not hours, but hours in 14 month old time)
  
  

Wild Animals

The hearth room in our house looks like this:

(notice the chairs on top of the table and the footstool on top of the chair)


All becase of this:




I guess the next step is to completely eradicate my house of ALL furniture.

Lessons Learned

When your manager tells you about his/her threesome with his/her crack dealer, RUN! run FAST! Find a NEW JOB!

Please folks, learn from the mistakes of others that are not smart enough to figure it out themselves.

What Cool People do on Saturday Nights

Zero style points. They were all sitting down! The drummer I can understand, but the guitars COME ON- let me see you ROCK!