ME & THE MR.

i absolutely love this pic of me and the mr. since i had my camera yesterday at work, i *made* him let me take some pics of us. i think it is just too cute. i decided that it is going to be my new avatar at glitter :)

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY MIKEY!!!!

well today is my lil bug's bday. i cannot believe that he is five. all day i have been reminising as to what i was doing on this day five years ago. i was able to call mikey at exactly 1:21 pm to tell him happy birthday and i tried to explain to him why i was calling on that minute (the time he was born) but he didn't understand. well, here is how mikey's day was: when mikey got to school, everyone shouted happy birthday. i dropped him off and me, his daddy, nonna, and bella came back around his lunch time to bring in the cupcakes for everyone. when we got there, we saw that mikey was wearing a big number five around his neck and had a "happy birthday" balloon on his chair. then ms. virginia put a candle in his cupcake and we all sang happy birthday. mikey thought that was so cool. after i picked the kids up from my mom's, we drove home to pick up daddy and then we all went to beef o'brady's (which is where mikey wanted to go to eat...for the video games of course!) so we ate and i had it set up that they would come out and sing to him when they brought him his piece of snickers pie. he loved that. he got a coffee filter for a hat and the yummiest piece of snickers pie that i have ever tasted. after we left beef o'brady's, we told mikey that we had a big surprise for him. we took him to toys r us. he had recd. a lil card in the mail, along with a $1 gift card. when we got to the service counter, we presented his lil card and he got a crown, a sticker, a balloon, and got a special cart that he got to ride around in. mikey had recd. some money from the asst. chief and from the major for his bday, so i let him pick something out with that. he picked out a gameboy game (which he is playing as we speak :) i hope my bug had the best 5th birthday ever! i love you bug!

mommy: "who's my baby?"

mikey: "mikey!"

mommy: "for how long?"

mikey: "forever!!!"

"awwww!!"

THE BATHROOM IS FINALLY DONE!

well after a week of working on my guest bathroom, *i* finally finished it (except for the stuff that is going to go at the bottom of the wall where it meets the floor. we bought the stuff at lowes and had a problem with the glue). notice how i put lil asteriks by the work i. i did it all by my lil ol self. i am so proud of *me*. i pulled the ugly green carpet, i layed the tile down. i put 4 coats of paint on the wall, i painted the border, i pulled the old tile around the sink and put in the new tile. the only thing i didn't do is take a "before" pic, which i am totally regretting right now. however, i am going to scrounge around and look for a picture that may have what the bathroom used to look like (green carpet, wood cabinets, navy blue backsplash tiles, wallpaper that had navy and green in it). but for now, here is how my bathroom looks now

MEET MY THIRD CHILD...JEFFIN!

for those of you that don't know, mikey has an imaginary friend named jeffin. why is he named jeffin you ask? well, my brother buddy has a friend named jeff. when my mom would mention the two of them she would say "jeff and buddy" and mikey just kind of put "jeff" & "and" together and you get "jeffin".

now lemme tell you a lil bit about jeffin. he is usually the one who writes on mikey's toys with marker, the one who makes mikey's room the mess it always is (or any mess for that matter), and the one who keeps my lil bug occupied on a regular basis. jeffin has been known to see in the trunk part of my car (suv), goes to work at night, and shares secrets with mikey. mikey and jeffin are the bestest of friends.

however, this past friday, while i was at home busy cleaning up for mikey's bday party, mikey had been playing in his room (with jeffin). he came into the living room, tears welled up in his eyes. i asked him what was wrong and he said "jeffin called me a big baby!". i had to bite my lip to keep from bustin' out laughin'. i asked mikey if he told jeffin that that was not a nice thing to say and he said yes and then went back into his room.

so you see, having jeffin around is like having a third child. he makes a mess, gets in arguments with my other child, and likes to use my walls and such for an art pad. jeffin is lucky...he nevers gets to go in time out but then again, he never gets any of mommy's loving either ;)

***oh i had to come home and add more to this post...while on our way home, my mom called and told me that mikey has been sleeping in her bedroom to take his nap once he gets there after school. well, after we left her house, she had to go to the "lil girls room" and when she walked in, she thought she entered a winter wonderland. she said there was baby powder everywhere!!! while i was on the phone with her, i asked mikey if he used nonna's bathroom. at first he fibbed and said no. then he said yes and i asked him if he got into the baby powder. he said, "i didn't do it" when i asked him who did, he said "jeffin did it"

here's a pic of mikey and jeffin :)

ITS MIKEY'S BDAY PARTY

mikey's bday party was a hit! the theme was teenage mutant ninja turtles (can you believe that they are back?). i made a turtle cake, made headware out of colored fabric (like the turtles have) and we had pizza to eat. the kids got swords and there was a pinata which the kids loved (could it be b/c it was filled with candy?) . the dining room table was covered with teenage mutant ninja turtle coloring pages and crayons and the kids colored while they ate.

mikey really lucked out and got a lot of great presents. mommy and daddy requested that guests gave mikey clothes due to the overload of toys in his room. everyone was really generous and he got a lot of great outfits for school.

i am so glad that mikey (and all the guests) had a lot of fun, but i am glad it is the day after (all the other mommy's out there know exactly what i am talking about ;)

mikey's actual bday is not until tuesday and we have a few lil surprises for him that day too!

I CAN'T POSSIBLY BE GETTING SICK CAN I?

well after about 4 nights of only getting 5-6 hours of sleep (yes, i know that this is a lot for some people, just not me), i am behind exhausted. i am starting to feel that sick feeling in my back and chest. this is not a good time to be getting sick. this is part of the reason why i am blogging at work and not at home. i prolly won't even sign on tonight. i need to work on getting the china back in the china cabinet and the dining room clean, but this may end up being a job for mike. all i want to do is get my pillow and hit the couch. i mean there is no possible way that i can be sick. mikey's bday party is in two days and if you read the other posts, i have entirely too much to do. so my lil game plan is to rest tonight and make sure i drink plenty of o.j. and just rest and that tomorrow i will be a new woman (i better be!)

:)

SO MUCH TO DO; SO LITTLE TIME

only me would tackle so many projects in such a small time frame. little did i know when i decided to paint the dining room and redo the guest bathroom 6 days before mikey's bday party, that there would be so many problems and setbacks. but we are almost done. i just need to put the wall protector thing along the bottom of the bathroom walls, hang up pics, the new light, and accessorize. right now mike is putting up yet another friggin' coat of paint and yes, in a slightly different color than the second one (which was a slightly different color than the first. which followed a coat of primer). i know i am happy with the warm color and it is going to look so good with the framed french chefs i have.

then after i finally get those tasks complete, it is on to the finishing details of mikey's bday party. thank goodness i decided to take a half a day off on friday and luckily i have everything else bought.

oh, and lemme fill ya in on my latest *adventure*. about two weeks ago, while mike was redoing the kitchen floor, a piece of glass must have stirred up from the time that i put a pyrex bowl on the stovetop not thinking and it exploded all over the place (someone must have been watching us that day, b/c me and mikey were in my bathroom and mike and bella were in bella's room changing diapers). so i stepped on this piece of glass and my foot started to bleed. once the bleeding stopped, i had mike get the glass out. so i figure he gets it out, however, i am still walking around with a limp. after a couple of days, i feel fine. a couple of days later, i don't feel fine. i ask mike about it and he takes a look. he says that he doesn't see anything there, but he is concerned about the brown spot on the bottom of my foot. i tell him that is where the glass is, he says that is not where he pulled something from my foot the other day . so he starts to tell me that i need to go to urgicare (clinic) and i refuse. i figure if people can walk around with bullets in them with no problems, i should be able to survive a small shiver of glass. so anyway, yesterday afternoon it starts to hurt really, really bad. the area on the bottom of my foot is red, and it is raised. i can feel something in there. finally mike convinces me to go to urgicare. so i am already annoyed that i have to miss some work (can you believe it, it is only b/c i had a ton to do on my lunch break). i get down there, have to get a tetnes (sp?) shot and three xrays only to be told that there is nothing in my foot and it is just infected. so now i am really annoyed. so i have to soak my foot in warm water three times a day (yeah right...i guess i am supposed to do some kind of gymnastic move to get my foot in the bathroom sink at work) and take an antibiotic. ugh!

what a day. if you have made it this far ((((((hugs))))))

SHOES AND HANDBAGS, OH MY!

okay, it's official, i am obsessed with shoe shopping. no questions about it. i even posted a whole thread on glitter (will post link to thread in the a.m. when i am lil more coherent) about it. glad to see though that i am not the only one. i bought two pairs of shoes at lunch. i don't feel too too bad about it considering that i only paid $13 total for both pair and they are too cute also (again, pics at a later time...to be honest, since i have neglected my blog so, i have forgotten how to post pics and lincs, and since it is almost 11 pm and well past my bedtime, there certainly is no time to look into it now). i am purely exhausted. tonight i did some touchup painting, took off the old tile and replaced with new tile on the backdrop of the sink, pulled the carpet, and primed the floor underneath in preparation for new tiles in the guest bathroom. i did it *almost* all by myself. i only needed michael's help to pull the carpet behind the toilet. i couldn't get it. but tomorrow i am going to attempt to put the vinyl tile down all by myself. the good thing about it, is it self-adhesive, so that is going to help big time. the bathroom is going to look so damn good when i am done. i am also going to print out photos of the kids in the tub in black and white and hang them on the bathroom walls in black frames. okay, why the hell can i not hit enter to start a new paragraph? what in God's name is going on with this...ugh! today mikey went on his first fieldtrip. he had so much fun he said. he visited his "great friends" (senior citizen home). i am glad his daycare does that. it is so nice. i always said when he was a baby, i would do that b/c i know they would get a kick outta him. but i never did. i never found the time. what a bunch of horseshit. the real answer is that i wouldn't get my butt off the couch and turn off whatever reality tv show i was watching at the time. you know while i have been in the bathroom sweating my ass off, i have realized that it is nice to come home and do something that i normally don't do (i.e. watch tv) and even though i am exhausted when i am thru, i am not going to bed before 9pm. okay, i saw the commercial again for the one click sharpies. why is it that office supplies turn me on so? i have *got* to get some of those sharpies. i already have quite the sharpie collection at home and at work. i felt that i needed shapies in all different colors from sam's. okay, i think today's entry is pure ramble ('member i am exhausted from manual labor) and now that i think about, i only wrote a few sentences about shoes, didn't even touch on the subject of handbags and then went into a ramble. for that i apologize :)

SO MUCH FOR....

...saying i wasn't going to neglect you blog. well, to kind of make up for it, lemme give ya some reasons as to why i have not be in 'my own lil space'.

mikey's bday is coming up. i cannot believe that my lil bug-a-boo is going to be five years old!!!! he is going to have a teenage mutant ninja turtle party this saturday (okay, is there anyone besides myself who cannot believe that they are back?) i have been busy making sure that all the goodies for the goody bags are bought. this includes: a bubble sword, teenage mutant ninja turtle playing cards, play doh, a piece of fabric to wear around their forehead like the tmnt's do, & some candy. i got a shrek pinata which i intend to take the shrek face off and put the covers of a tmnt notebook i got at wally world on it.
mikey also started pre-k on the 9th. he was so excited to go. i was extremely sad to see him. he took that first step to becoming his own lil man . once i dropped him, i started to tear up. he didn't even turn around to see me go out the door. he was that excited. he is having a blast there. i am so excited that i got him in. they do so many activities with him and he gets to go into the "room where Jesus and God are" (church). tomorrow he is going on a field trip to visit his "grand friends" (senior citizens).

isabella is quite the hoot. and quite the lil drama queen to boot! she is walking around like crazy. hell, who am i kiddin', she is practicly running! the current words for her vocabular are doggy, -ikey, daddy, momma, woof, meeeeow, -acker (cracker), ni-ni (night night=go to bed). and when my baby girl wants something, damn it she lets ya know. now i am not going to complain too much b/c i want my girl to be strong ;) just like her momma

michael has become quite obsessed with his new hobby. cigar smoking. lemme go on and tell ya, if two months ago you told me that he was going to be smoking cigars, i would have told ya that you got the wrong michael. my hubby is totally against that. he made me quit smoking, he can't stand the smell. i guess it just took one trip to milwaukee and one evening at festa italia to become a changed man. he now has made his own makeshift humidor. he controls the humity in them, makes sure that they are well taken care. he has spent a lot of mooo-la on those cancer sticks. he gets on the computer more than i do to check message boards and become friends with people he has never met (this of course does not mean that i will be giving up my reign as "message board queen". or even alloying him to be king for that matter ;) but do i really mind that he has a new hobby? hell no! not to mention, who the hell am i to say anything? i have too many hobbys.

and speaking of me ;) i have been busy getting ready for mikey's bday party and trying to keep up with housework, my craftin, and i decided that this past weekend i would paint our dining room and redo our guest bathroom. and since i know you are thinking it, yes, i decided to do this 6 days before we are going to have company. but i know once it is done, i will be so happy. i will post pictures with my finished product. unfortunately, i didn't take pictures in advance :( but it will still look good.

i have crafted some game related frames that i absolutely *LOVE*. it got me thinking though...could i create a whole line of stuff that was made from board games and playing cards? are there are other nuts out there who's hearts begin to pitter patter at top speed when they see dice or a monopoly game? is there anyone else who currently owns 5 clue games (3 being board, 1 electronic, & 1 you can play on the tv), 3 monopoly games, & 2 games of life to use for various crafts? hmmmmm......could there be?





note: pics to be posted once i get home

POOR NEGLECTED BLOG

oh how i have neglected you, my poor blog. hopefully within the week, i will have everything nicely updated. of course by now we are back from our milwaukee trip. i will post pictures later along with pictures from my latest recipes and craftiness. it is now august! absolutely unbelievable. i have to start planning mikey's bday party. he wants teenage mutant ninja turtles. i can't believe he loves that movie so much. esp. since it came out when i was a kid. but i have all sorts of ideas for what i am going to do. i need to start making the invitations this week also. again, i apologize dear blog for ignoring you. i promise to be better :)

A WEEK IN REVIEW!

well this week has been a nice week. i capped it off by waking up saturday morning and taking mikey to run some errands. we went to this great lil farmer's market and there i bought these beautiful flowers and tons of fruits and veggies (don't mind the tampax box in the background ;)



i didn't mention it, but wednesday, i did get my box of goodies and i must say that it was better than i thought...everything fit! down to the shoes. i couldn't believe my luck. i was a lil nervous about the shoes, but it was all good.

then thursday i got my delivery of books. found was better than i thought it was going to be. it kept me quite occupied on friday.

so back to saturday. me and mikey go to the farmer's market and then we hit a couple of garage sales on the way to walmart. i got a couple of board games that will eventually be something crafty, i'm sure of it. mikey got an airplane and an abulance. at another one i picked up some fabric. now i know why people always went on and on about all the stuff that me and mom put out for our garage sales. the two that i went to hardly had anything at it. me and mom look like we could open up our own store (and have been told that by a few patrons). after that we went to walmart and once we came home i caught a lifetime movie or two. mike finally started to put down the floor in the kitchen. i think it is taking a lil bit longer and a lil bit more of a difficult project than we both thought (due to the island being an odd shape). then sat. evening after the kiddies were in bed, i made these "candies" that michele told me about that i have been dying to make. they turned out deeeelicious. here is the recipe:

1 bag of rolo candies
1 bag of mini pretzel twists
some pecans

turn the oven on 250'. line a baking sheet with foil and spray with pam. place pretzel twists on the baking sheet evenly spaced. next place a rolo candy on top of the pretzel. place in the oven for about 4 minutes. as soon as you take the pretzels out, place a pecan on top of the chocolate and press down so the rolo candy spreads out on top of the pretzel. once you have done this on all the pretzels/rolos on the cookie sheet, place on a plate and put in the fridge for about 10 minutes so they can cool! voila! a turtle!

i didn't put a number on the pretzels or rolos b/c what is so great about this recipe is that you can make as many as you want or as less as you want. michele got this recipe out of the taste of home magazine.

well now on to sunday. i decided to make some italian recipes that i had printed out after going to pasta italia on wednesday. so for dinner i made the following (sorry that the pictures are of some have eating dishes, but i didn't think of taking pictures until after we had already eaten..so at least ya know its good)

pasta with carbonara sauce


1/2 cup of proscuitto (lean bacon or ham can be substituted)
3 cloves of garlic
1/3 cup heavy cream
2 eggs
1/3 cup parmesan cheese, grated

saute' proscuitto and garlic in a pan until slightly crisp. drain fat and discard the garlic. add cream to the pan, stir to combine. remove from heat. in a bowl, whisk together the eggs and cheese. slowly add the cream mixture to the eggs and the cheese. return the mixture to the pan and cook just long enough to heat through. voila!

this turned out very good. now i used turkey bacon b/c i didn't have any proscuitto at the house. i also used minced garlic and regular ol kraft parmesan. now i know this is not the italian way, but i must say that this turned out so damn good, that i can only imagine how it is if i used the ingredients it called for.

for dessert i made:

cherry zabaglione tart


Zabaglione:

3 egg yolks


1/4 cup sugar

3 TB. Marsala

1/2 cup whipping cream

3 TB. mascarpone or sour cream

Tart:

9-inch ready-made graham cracker or vanilla cookie pie crust

1-1/2 cups pitted fresh cherries

3 TB. grated dark chocolate

To make zabaglione:
Put the egg yolks and sugar in the top section of a double boiler over simmering water.
Whip the mixture with a whisk for 3-4 minutes, until it is creamy and yellow.

Stir in the Marsala.

Continue whisking until the mixture begins to foam and swell in volume, 6-8 minutes.
Zabaglione is ready when it stands in soft peaks.

Remove from heat and set the top section of the double boiler over a bowl of ice water.
Allow to cool.

With an electric mixer, beat the whipping cream and mascarpone until stiff.

Fold in the zabaglione. Cover and refrigerate until well chilled.

To make tart:

Arrange cherries in prepared pie crust. Spoon zabaglione mixture over. Smooth top.
Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour.

When ready to serve, sprinkle top with grated chocolate


both of these recipes are courtesy of mangia benepasta

now that all of that is done, i am watching the wire and getting ready to enjoy six feet under.

cute things mikey said or done this week:

*after dinner tonight he told me it was the best dinner ever.
*today i was so proud of mikey...he tried some peaches and decided that he liked them (but only with the skin removed) and he loved the cherries in our dessert.

cute things bella said or done this week:

*this a.m. while we were watching sesame street together, they were talking about the letter "s" and the sound it makes. after they said that "s" sound a few times, bella took her thumb out of her mouth and said "sssss".
*if you said "where's isabella", she points to herself
*she now really knows what "yes" and "no" mean. if you ask her if something she is eating is good, she shakes her head yes.

so i can only hope that this coming week is as good as this past week. i am sure it is since next weekend is fourth of july and we have a three day weekend.

ME LUUUUV SOME JUJY FRUITS!

anyone who knows me knows i LOVE jujy fruits!!!! LOVE is not even a strong enough word. i could eat boxes of them. i have a certain way that i eat them. i pop them in my mouth, except for the ones that say heide on them. when i eat those, i put them in between my front teeth and split it in two,then i chew about three times and then swallow them. usually that means i definetely swallow them whole! i can not eat them fast enough. there is such a wonderful man at work who will buy me three boxes of jujy fruits at one time to pay me back for the candy he eats off of my desk. i love the flavors (esp. now that the green is lime and not mint (yuck!), i love the shapes, the bright yellow box, the lil girl on the front, every bit of em!

here are some lil known facts about jujy fruits

*jujy fruits began in production in 1920

*they became popular at the movie theaters

*the jujy fruit shapes are: asparagus, tomato, grape bunches, banana, pineapple, raspberry, & pea pod.

*the flavors are: raspberry, licorice, lime, & lemon

*in january 1999, farleys and sathers co, changed the green, mint flavor to lime due to its unpopularity.

MY FAVORITE BOWLS!!!

if there is one thing that i remember about going to grandma costello's, its the metal bowls she had. i have no idea where she got them from, but i remember always having snacks in them (i.e. pretzels, chips, candy, or whatever other junk she wanted to feed us with..but hey, she was a grandma). the bowls are all dented and scratched, but they were lovely. after she had passed away, i remember telling mom that i wanted those bowls. mom got them, but i think we both kind of have forgotten about them. until today. i had called mom earlier in the day to see if she had some of gma's recipes. she told me that she had two recipes books. one from grandma and one from great-grandpa arbino and muriel. so when i got to her house to pick up the kids, there were the cookbooks and the four bowls. i love those bowls so much. they have so many fond memories for me. they will always symbolize grandma and grandpa's house.




mikey's quote for the day: "you are driving faster than my hotwheels"-as we were driving home in the country with the windows down and his hand out the window and with his face as close to it as he could get.

ARE THOSE CORN DOGS OVER THERE???

after i picked up the kids from mom's, we went my way out of her subdivision. my way consists of a couple of turns and a redlight. after we make a few turns, mikey says to me "are those corn dogs over there?" my response "no mikey, they're not". now i have to admit, i didn't even know what what he was talking about. then i got to thinking. then it hit me like a ton of bricks and i realized what he was talking about and started cracking up with laughter. after one of our turns, there is a fenced in area where there are....cattails!!!! he saw the cattails and thought they were corn dogs. well take a look for yourself...they do look like corn dogs.



well my box of goodies has one more day until they make it to my doorstep. i am beside myself with anticipation. i cannot wait. so to fill the time tonight to make it go by faster, i made dinner (well i always make dinner) of bean and cheese enchiladas and for the adults, we had margaritas. yummy! then for dessert, i made homemade whip cream with cinnamon and sugar tortillas.

now there is a chocolate amaretti cake in the oven to bring with me to pasta italia tomorrow.

well, i am off to make a bracelet to fill up that time :)

STARTING ALL OVER (WELL ALMOST)

well due to a virus, i had to redo some of my blog. those of you that are reading and are asking "so?" lemme fill ya in on something....i know NOTHING about html. and of course the only thing that got erased on the template was mostly lincs and such. so i had to try and remember how i did all of that...well after about an hour and a half, i got it figured it out (well some of it ;)

enough of that though...all afternoon though, i have been left to ponder the thought..."why is it that i think i am so crafty and clever, to just surf the web and discover that i am not as crafty and clever as i think i am?" i mean i am very crafty and clever person...but damn, there are some people out there make me say WOW!

so i am making a goal for myself: GET ONE CRAFTY THING DONE THIS WEEK!!!

(and make it fabbbbuuuulous dawling!)

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! (ORIGINALLY TO BE POSTED ON 6-20-04)

**well due to a problem with my space here, i am posting sunday's post today (monday)!

well happy father's day!!! today, we decided to hop in the car and drive to mobile so mike could go to gamestop over there and get a computer game that he wanted (i mean it is his day after all). once we got over there we did a lil shopping and i got to go to target (for those of you viewing that don't know...we don't have a damn target over here. i have to drive 45 minutes to get to one $!?*#$!!!!

we got home just in time to have our "father's day feast". mike had to in the bedroom with the door shut until we called for him to come out. me and mikey (while isabella watched) prepared the feast. we had the following:

*POPcorn
*MIKE and ikes
*our HERO sandwich
*POP (what us southerner's call soda)
*jello POPs



once he got to the table, he could see his father's day gift. mike and bella put there thumbprint on a piece of paper. i drew lil faces on them, matted them, and then framed them. i also made a card for him. he immediately brought the pictures to work.



all and all it was a great day!

A THRIFT SCORE!!!!

well, today as me and mikey were out and about, i decided to stop by the goodwill. i have only been in there one other time and didn't really see anything i had liked (plus, it had been quite a while since i had been thrifting).

well today was a total score. i got the most gorgeous bed skirt that matches my bed perfectly for $3.99 (pics to be posted at a later time). i prayed the whole way home that it was the size i needed (i couldn't tell since it was on a hanger and pinned). and it was! what luck.

i also got a couple of clothes, a few more curtains/sheets that are going to be purses one day (i swear...they will be), and then i got two records. one of leif garret & the other rick springfield. i also swear that i am going to learn how to make album cover purses and that is what i am going to use.

so needless to see, my first (well in a long time) thrift adventure was a grrrreat one!

ok...so i decided to not be lazy and post the pics. it looks perfect with the whi bedspread and the sage/tan pillows.

ATC'S?!?!?!?!

i just found out that there are atc's out there. what are atc's you ask? artist trading cards. you design your own cards that are about the shape of a baseball card. they you make enough that you can trade with other crafty folk! is this not the coolest thing ever. i had seen threads on my various msg. boards mentioning this, but i didn't even bother to look b/c i didn't know what it was. well thanks to a glitterati who post a link to this fabulous site, i was able to find out about it and many other cool crafts that are right up my alley. my head is swimming with so many ideas after looking around there. is it going to be a crafty weekend????

okay, off to bed (after i get my daily dose of mahjong that is)

BRUSHA, BRUSHA, BRUSHA....

today, while i was googling these cards that mike brought home from milwaukee i found a fabulous website called victorian halloween.

while there i found another great website that sells plus sized clothing (however, i don't understand why a size 12 and 14 is considered plus size when that is the average american woman size). torrid has some fabulous clothing along with some fabulous accessories. i have to say though, my favorite is a "grease" tshirt that i got.

when we were younger, me and stose would watch grease until we knew all the words. our favorite part was when the girls were staying the night at frenchy's house after the football game and a toothpaste commercial came on and the girl with the pigtails starts singing with the commerical. she sings "brusha, brusha, brusha. bucky beaver toothpaste..." and then one of the girls throws a pillow at her and she falls over and you hear her say "uggggh". me and stose would laugh and laugh and then rewind and rewatch. we would do it ten times. well check out the shirt i can not WAIT to get this and wear it to work so stose can see it. i'm not even going to tell her that i got it until she sees me wearing it.

i also bought a few books on amazon. sweets, found magazine the book, and common phrases and where they come from. i cannot wait to get these in the mail. these are going to be some great reads for work.

so all and all, i must say it has been a fabbbbbuuuuulicious day for shopping.

THIS IS THE BEST IDEA!

well since mom had to take amy and her hubby to the airport, i picked up the kids around 2ish. we stopped at the radio station to pick up the 50 bucks that i won (whoo hoo!) and then stopped by michael's. bella had so much fun sitting in the back of the cart. once we got home, we kinda sat around and played (well the kids played and i watched instyle's celebrity weddings which made me cry and made me wish i had the wedding of my dreams). then after my bella boo went to bed, me and mikey plopped on the couch under a woobie and shared a bowl of icecream. one bowl of fudget brownie nut and two spoons. after we said "salute" with our spoons, mikey said "this is the best idea ever!"

i have to say that was the perfect ending to my day!



Fudge Brownie Nut – Gold Rim
Dark chocolate ice cream with chewy fudge brownie pieces and tasty pecans.