Sunday, October 30, 2005

the Mofleato, the Chorizo, the Tiajuana Pirrana...

Franklin got his own post on Friday, so Mojito gets his own today.


Peligro! Achtung! This chihua-schund is a licking loose cannon. These men fell victim, sometimes he's licks faster than film can capture. Do not underestimate Mojito! Posted by Picasa

Mojito decided to pull his weight (although puny) around here and make his own salsa. *Fur Free!* Posted by Picasa

Saturday, October 29, 2005

wee little recluse

Yesterday I met some moms who were discussing how their kids liked going to preschool, and comparing to what degree they were enjoying it, and then I chimed in "I didn't like preschool at all."
Screeech! [Incredulous stare.]
"You didn't?!"
"Well no...you see, I liked to just do my own thing, live in my own little world at home."
They still didn't understand. I guess they never met a reclusive preschooler before, past or present.
I later discussed it with Kevin and he said "I don't remember preschool."
(He doesn't remember much of his childhood, sometimes I think he fell down a well at some point, causing memory loss.)
I said "you don't? [insert heckling here] I remember alot!"
So this is what I remember of Childrens Creative Center:

1.It was run by an "old" couple that creeped me out. I put old in quotes because in hindsight they probably weren't that old, maybe in their 40s. But the woman had dark puffy hair and big 80's magenta-tinted glasses so you never saw her eyes, it just made her seem evil. Whenever I saw her, I got the same sensation I get when I see a cop in my rearview mirror, even if I'm not speeding. And her husband, which I thought looked like Ed McMahon (yes I knew who he was back then, I watched alot of TV), had patches on his blazer sleeves. To this day, when I see blazer-sleeve-patches, I think of that guy.
2. They asked us each to bring a box of crayons. My mom bought me the coolest crayons on the market and I was so excited. Then to my horror, they took them from me and dumped them in a community crayon tub! Occasionally later on I would find broken stubs of my once pristine crayons, and get depressed. Crayon Communists!
3. The music teacher was very ambitious. We learned how to play our own halfsize violins and even how to rosin our bows and what rosin and violin bows are made from. We sung songs from the Police's Synchonicity album and learned every gruesome verse from The Cat Came Back.
4. A hispanic lady came in occasionally and taught us Spanish. Yeah like that was gonna stick.
5. We had ballet class. Ballet class is a cruel joke for the biggest girl in the class who wears grey sweatshirts and jeans to class while the other little princesses wear leotards. We all had to wear pink tutus.
6. I played Simon for the first time and got annoyed by it and gave it to some other kid after a couple of tries.
7. Our class got in trouble one time for being too loud (which I always felt was unjust because I was a good quiet girl) and the teacher made us all hold our arms in the air for seemingly hours. In reality it was probably only a few minutes, but man, that was rough.
8. I saw my first "tantrum." It was like watching a train wreck right before my eyes. "What's wrong with that guy?!" I thought "He's got problems."
9. I had my first headache outside in the play area. I remember walking up to one of the teachers and trying to communicate that my head hurt and she didn't believe me. I was frustrated that she thought I would lie, but after all I was the little girl that cried and said "I want my mom" the entire first day. I guess I could have had other motives.
10. We had 3 computers to use/play on. I wasn't really into them-- but I've made up for that now. :)

Friday, October 28, 2005

show me love, Franklin

The American Boston Terrier Rescue (otherwise known as a Boston lovin' lady who lives outside of Gainesville, TX) is having a calendar photo contest to raise money for the bean dogs. I submitted the two below.

"hello ladies." Posted by Picasa

Franklin, point-me-towards-the-luau, Thayer Posted by Picasa

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

howdy ho neighbor!

Everyone meet Jenna, she's in my Rockabilly Mommies group. :)
Henceforth she is added to my side-column-links-thing...over there on the right.

And I will now honor her further by blatantly stealing a funny link from her blog
BEEDOGS! ...I gotta get me some bee costumes for mis perros....

I'm like a koala...with responsibilites

I'm so tired this morning (to be read like "you momma's so fat...):

My breakfast was two slices of leftover pizza and instant coffee.
I haven't changed my clothes since monday night.
It took me a 30 second stare at the ceiling to figure out what the day before yesterday was.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Baby Tuesday

Pertinent baby information:
She's sleeping longer during the night (praise God)
I've lost 10 lbs in the last two weeks (praise God)

She's crying in the other room while I type this...and I still have to blow dry my hair! Hang on little bug, I'll be there soon!...


We had a birth class reunion party on Sunday. There were two babies missing. Here's the one pic I got when Cricket was somewhat calm. She only cried during the photo shoot. We joked that it was because she had to sit next to the boy. Posted by Picasa

which baby is the angry baby? mine. Posted by Picasa

so cute, a caption would ruin it Posted by Picasa

yet another stoller success Posted by Picasa

I would never spend $35 to buy a yoda baby costume, but I might spend 30 minutes superimposing my baby's face in the costume. Posted by Picasa

Friday, October 21, 2005

Sky falls you feel like, It's a...


Our church began doing an annual public service day last year. This year we've expanded it to a whole weekend of cleaning up local schools, giving turkeys away, giving blood, etc. Naturally, we can't have an event like this without cool T-shirts, hehe, and they have graciously granted my wish to design them. Here are my submissions. Which one do you like?  Posted by Picasa

Thursday, October 20, 2005

still figuring this out

My friend Becky came to town for a couple of days, so we went "out" with the baby yesterday. 'Harder than I thought it would be. Feeding her, changing her diaper, and especially trying to soothe her crying were way more complicated when we're not in our living room, and I had a super-baby-helper, Becky with me. I think going out, just baby and me, for more than just 20 minutes, is out of the question for a while.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Baby Tuesday

6 weeks old today. Enjoy...

that's right, dirty dishes on the couch! Posted by Picasa

one's a cute sleeper, one's not. Posted by Picasa

en boppe Posted by Picasa

holds the pacifier! Posted by Picasa

pre walk Posted by Picasa

post walk Posted by Picasa

Sunday, October 16, 2005

another assignment

Again I have been given an assignment from Westgate: Prayer Room sign. This is my idea.
It'll be about 4' x 3' and made out of mdf board...the room is red, does it make more sense knowing that?

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Friday, October 14, 2005

what a racket

You'd have to live in a hole not know about the scrapbooking fever that's swept the country.
And since people know I'm crafty, they're often surprised to hear that I don't scrapbook, that I just put my unmolested photos in, gasp, photo albums.
But like I said before, I now have the Italy photos, all 200+ of them. And if I don't write down what's in those photos, I'll forget in a few years. The answer, I thought-- scrapbook them.
I had bought a sensible black leather book to put them in about 6 months ago. This afternoon I opened that puppy up and found that it did not come with enough pages to accomidate my bevy of images. Alright, I'll need more pages...
Oh, and page protectors...
and photo corners...
and special adhesives...
and sparkly doo-dads!...aaa!
This is going to be the most expesnsive photo album ever!
It does not appeal to the starving artist in me, this whole specialty market of scrapbooking.
Hopefully I can get to Michaels (my cheapo art supply headquarters) tomorrow and find some resolve.
At this point, no, I'm not going to scrapbook the baby photos, they are getting their own exclusive photo albums and that's it. That's it, I tell ya.

this desk is ready for re-entry into our atmosphere


A friend of ours sent this photo of how he covered a co-worker's cubicle in foil. I had to show the world. And by "world" I mean the 5 people that read this blog.  Posted by Picasa

Thursday, October 13, 2005

It's like COPS with a heart


Dog The Bounty Hunter is a new must see TV show for me. The mullet woo'ed me in, but the family element keeps me coming back for more. Posted by Picasa

if you don't think this is cute, somthing is wrong with you

A very nice lady gave me a Boppy. (The name gives me the creeps, in a Barney/BabyBop kind of way.)
Many people swore by these overgrown neck-pillows like they were the holy grail of breastfeeding. But I haven't really used it, it's too awkward.
This morning I set Cricket in it while I made my oatmeal. Then I picked her up and we sat together on the couch while I ate. When I finished, I looked over and saw this:

Mojito knows how to use it better than me. Posted by Picasa

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

nothing coherent, I need more sleep for that

Did you know that Stephen Baldwin is a Christian? That made me happy (I glazed over the "why it's OK to call the Lord 'dude.'" thing, I blame it on the geeky interviewer.)

also

I enjoy this site's stickers.
I have this one on my car.
I use these to stick on porn vending machines around the south bay. (Am I the only one that wants to kick those over and set them on fire?)
And I gave this one to Allison to wear on her first week of work.
I like those bandaids, but I haven't bought them yet.

and lastly my Kevo movie report (Kevin made his own Tivo, I call it Kevo)

The Milagro Beanfield War
We both really liked it. I'll say it was probably the best movie made in 1988. There's a quirky New Mexican pig and Christopher Walken in it, what more could you want from a movie?

Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
Facinating. Did anyone remember this? I was too young and not skate-y when it all went down.

Oprah
Ok not a movie but I did Kevo it. Last week she did a show about child molesters/killers and at the end featured ten fugitives and said she would give $100,000 to whoever spotted them and turned them into the FBI. 48 hours later, two were in custody, thanks to Oprah viewers!! She did a follow up yesterday and one guy was living upstairs from a family of 3 litte kids. Aaa!
I want to turn one in! My eyes are peeled!

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Baby Tuesday

Cricket is one month old today...well according to the weeks. The 13th won't be for a couple more days. Last night I employed a huge cup of Mountain Dew and it helped me stay up and keep the mindset of if she stays awake all night, I can too. I got five hours of sleep total, not terrible.

This is my favorite baby mode: deep sleep! Posted by Picasa

Self explanatory. Posted by Picasa

It was Cricket's first day at church. Couture: handmade from the senior center. :)  Posted by Picasa

Monday, October 10, 2005

Y'all gon' make me lose my mind, up in HERE, up in here

Last night ws my first no-kevin-help night (he went back to work today).
IT SUCKED!!
I had to stifle my own scream of desperation at least 3 times. She would sleep for 5 min, cry for 10 min over and over and over, all night!
I'm gonna have to get a coffee maker. So tired!!

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Italy...more than a year later

I finally decided to get my Italy photos from last year printed. I happened to fix a few icky photos of myself at the same time, here's a sample...

Me in a water taxi in Venice. Posted by Picasa

Thank you photoshop, now I look normal in front of the tower of Pisa. Posted by Picasa