The good news is.... the bad news is...

ya know that email that gets passed around in the spring every year with this picture in it?


The good news is she was getting a pedicure.... the bad news is she was sitting next to me while it was being done! :GAG:

I went to a new place last night, they were offering 30% off salon services and I'm really not one to pass up a bargain. I went in, got seated, and after repeatedly telling the nail tech person that I didn't want color on my nails AT ALL, I whipped out my phone to play ZUMA to pass the time. I have a love hate relationship with pedicures. I HATE putting my feet in a spot where other naked feet have been and all that and I'm not too fond of a stranger (or anyone really) fondling my feet but I LOVE the look of my feet when all is said and done. The lotion massage isn't so bad either! ;) Soooooooooo, last night, I'm minding my own business when my tech asks me what kind of pedicure I'd like and hands me a 'menu', I read the differences in the 4 different choices and decided that the classic was really all I needed. I don't have white yucky ashyness (see above picture) on my feet so I didn't require 'extensive callus removal' or any thing like that, plus since I do have that 'hate' part of my relationship with pedicures, I like to be in and out of there as quickly as possible. I get back into my game when I begin to hear some conversation between the lady in the chair and her nail tech, at first I didn't pay attention but the lady was beginning to show some frustration in trying to convey to the nail tech her wants/needs. (that's another 'hate' aspect of my relationship with salon services: the language barrier) She was telling the tech that she had some 'dry skin' that needed to be addressed, the tech conferred w/ an associate and they determined that this woman's request would require an upgrade from the original pedicure she had chosen, so the woman agreed to the additional fee. From this point the tech pulled out the scraper/shaver thing and proceeded to shave the calluses from this woman's feet. OH MY WORD!!! The 'stuff' that was coming out of the back of that scraper/shaver thing.... I had to look away or I was going to lose my dinner on my own freshly groomed feet.
Oh and if you see me and I seemed SURPRISED... that would be due to the language barrier between myself and the salon tech... she took off a little more of my eyebrows than I had anticipated. :sigh:

The post where I ramble...

our dogs sleep in our room with us. The little one, Josie, is not comfy to sleep with, she spreads out, she's hot, she pushes against you. So she gets kenneled when its actually time to sleep. The big guy, Duke, well, he's royalty, so he sleeps wherever he wants. He is awesome to sleep with, he really is a great cuddle-er and he will even 'talk' to you to encourage you to 'love on' him. Sometimes, he will leave you for his own space and that's ok, b/c you know that it is not personal. ;) What cracks me up about Josie is that sometimes she gets thirsty... so she just hops in the shower and laps up any water droplets that she finds in there. It totally cracks me up to see her do that. I can see the shower from where I sleep in our bed and trust me, it is super silly to see her poke her head around the shower curtain and jump out from the ledge of the bathtub smacking her lips!

For the record, my favorite cup of coffee... Green Mountain Coffee's Nantucket Blend for my Keurig machine. YUMMO!!!

By the way, it is NOT a HOT water heater... it is just a WATER HEATER!!!!!!!!

The Girl is growing her brains by leaps and bounds! She astounds us everyday with what she has learned/developed. The other night, she and C were doing their nighttime routine thing and I was 'setting the stage for sleeping' ie: getting her bed ready, turning on Thomas, and her noise machine. In her hands, The Girl was holding the eyeglass frames to her Mr Potato Head toy and she proceeded to rub the 'lens' on her shirt like she was cleaning them! HOW STINKING CUTE IS THAT????

Do you want some stats on The Girl? She is 20 months old, 35 inches tall and weighs 32 pounds. She has a mouth full of teeth, I haven't counted them but there are a lot in there. :) She is actually leaving a clip in her hair now (YAY!) and ON OCCASION, she will allow me to put it in a ponytail.

Ok, I've got actual things to do today, so I'll have to ramble on another time.
Later Gaters!

~Til next time!

Awwwwwwwwwwwww

Easter Sunday

Rainy and chilly.
Bummer.
I bought The Girl's Easter dress probably 2 months ago, but didn't get shoes at the same time. I saw some in an ad a few weeks ago, mentioned to C that I wanted to get those for her for Easter, didn't get to that store. Last night, like a crazy person I'm out looking for shoes. We went to the store whose ad I had seen, no shoes that went with her dress. We hit Wallyworld since it was right there... no shoes (seriously NONE in her size AT ALL!). We went to 3 other stores and finally found some shoes at Target. C and I had looked at these shoes a few weeks, ago but I hemmed and hawed and said no, they are too much of a big girl shoe, I really want the white mary janes that I saw. Well, guess what was the only shoe left at Target last night... the white 'big girl' shoes. So I had to get them. The Girl was really excited about them, kept saying 'shoe, shoe, shoe' when I showed them to her. I put them on and she did this little shuffle w/ her feet... then fell. See, they have a bit of a heel to them. Nice mom huh? Give a toddler who is relatively new to the walking world a pair of wedges. Without further adieu....
The Shoes:


The outfit:



I've got more pictures, but blogger isn't letting me post them right now, I'll try again later.

~Til next time!

yardsales and craigslist...

gotta be one of the best things since the wheel, well maybe at least the Internet! :)

About 2 weeks ago, I was driving home from dropping The Girl off at a friends for a few hours so that I could get some things done around the house when I passed a sign bragging about a HUGE Multifamily yard sale... I did a 'u-y' and followed the sign... but wound up getting stopped at a different yard sale b/c I saw one of those little tykes coupe cars... I jumped out of my car, checked it over (not very well apparently but I'll tell you about that later) I was sooooooooooo embarrassed b/c I had my slippers on and I hadn't even showered for the day yet. They wanted $15 bucks for it, I happened to have the cash on me and I just KNEW The Girl would love it. Sure enough, when I got her home later that day and after her nap of course she was ALL SMILES! :D Now for the bummer part, needs a little bit of repair... C worked on it once, but already that has fallen apart, he's got another idea and we are gonna try that... keeping my fingers crossed that it holds this time.
(Please excuse my seriously messy garage. Thank you!)






Doesn't that face just make your day???

Now for my craigslist finds: I guess its been about 2 months now, but I found this WAY COOL train table and some accessories listed for $50 (totally worth A LOT more than that, but I wasn't going to complain). It was in a town that is close to an hour from me, but I happen to have a friend that lives in that town... after a few emails back and forth between my friend and the seller and myself... bam! its ours and I'm sooooo excited! :D
I'd post some pictures, but I want to do it when the track is all set up correctly. We had it that way once, but ya know how kids are... it was apart before I could get my camera out!

When The Girl is at my friends house they have these great outside toys, a slide, a motorized Jeep (sooooo keeping my eye out for one of those!), and a bunch of other great kid toys. Sometimes when I go pick up The Girl its like I'm kidnapping her when I try to take her away from either the slide or the Jeep. In the toysrus ad last week, they had the slide 'on sale' for $70! HELLO!! It's a PLASTIC SLIDE!!!! I mentioned it to my friend and she said she'd keep an eye out at yardsales or on craigslist for me. So we both have been looking, well last Thursday my friend sent me an email w/a link to a craigslist ad w/ the slide for $15. The seller and I emailed a few times, the ad said there was sun fading and some wear and tear. I asked how bad the wear and tear was, she said it had been heavily used for 2 years by her girls. I said that if my daughter was able to go up the ladder and slide down safely than it was perfect for me. She said that the slide fit my requirements. She also mentioned that there had been other inquiries and she was going with the first person that set up a time to meet. We agreed I'd call her at 8am to set something up. If you know me, you know that if I agreed to do something at 8am then I REALLY must have wanted it. :) I called at 8am, she said I was the 1st one to call to set up a time to meet so it was mine! YAY!!! (we met up at noon, btw) Told you mornings are just not my thing.
Well, when I pulled in the driveway, C and The Girl were already outside, we pulled the slide out and WAHOOO!! we had ourselves on VERY HAPPY little girl! :D Now anytime we pull in the driveway or open the door to the garage she starts pointing and says WEEEE? WEEEEE? WEEEEE? She LOVES LOVES LOVES the slide. I'm sooooo happy I got it for her.


She also loves to send her Madagascar dudes down the slide. Totally makes her day! :D


Please excuse my snorting!!! :)