Stop motion Halloween

yeah. you try taking pictures in the dark while you're jumping around. kinda cool actually..

A new addition

Welcome little one :)

AND... Mental Floss sent me a present too :

My tshirt to commemorate my 15 seconds of mental floss fame, along with a note -

My future.

This will be my future daughter. I just know it.

I've had shoes I never wanted to take off too :)

I am SOOOOO famous

Those who know me know that I love Mental Floss. Well, the love has just grown.

Aw yeah - that's me! Cool AND informative.

Postscript:

It get's even better! I won a t-shirt too!! :D I am SO cool.

More than just a name

It's also another opportunity for the mailroom to misdirect our packages.

At this very moment

... I am in love with and/or thinking about the following:

Orange as an accent color and focal point. Solid or patterned, it doesn't really matter. It's Fall. And orange is just happy. Slow cooker recipes. It's so awesome to have a meal "made" for me all toasty and warm... Mittens. I'm going to have to start wearing them again. Not because it's so cold, but because I'm on the bus and people are gross about their germs on the bus.
Tweed. Call me an Anglophile if you like. Again, I don't care. It's cozy, studious, nerdy & timeless all at the same time. I can almost smell a pipe...

Books. Psst! Hey Kristine! Thanks for the post on this book ~ I'm lovin' it!
With my boycott of all things cola I'm finding other things I'd like to change to. Many gracias to Rebekah - fast becoming my nutritionist :) Any argument that emphasizes REAL cheese is tops in my book.

I so stole this from Leah

But I'll get over it sooner rather than later.

Ladies, please check this out: http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/

heh heh...this would be a lot funnier if I didn't know so many people who think this way... sigh.

You don't own me.

Why is this important? Because it has been 10 days since I drank this, the last Diet Dr. Pepper. No more cola goodness until January 2010. Why? Because I am a rock. That's why.

Fated Furniture

So 2 months ago I went to the Fremont Sunday Fair with my sister-in-law Nicole. We went because of this one woman who has a refinished furniture store in Port Orchard and were so excited because now we didn't have to schlep our sorry butts 2 hours away to see her merchandise. Anyway, the Fremont Fair is pretty much what you'd expect from a Fremont fair but without the nakedness.

Anyway, we were walking down the promenade and I looked to my left & saw this crushed blue velvet club chair. Oooooh I said and drug Nicole over to it so I could see how much it was. $80. Damn. That's a pretty decent price I thought. But then I only have my Corolla and there's no way I can take it home. Sad. I thought. And so we returned home.

Two weeks went by and I couldn't think about anything but this club chair. I cursed my rotten luck. Someone else now has my club chair and I will never ever find another one like it and I'll have to pay way more for the runner up and I'm pathetic I thought. I couldn't stop thinking about the next time I'd get to go to the fair and the next opportunity I had I sped over there and looked for the booth that the chair lived in, certain that it was gone forever.

It wasn't. There it was, just as blue and crushed and 50s wonderful as I had remembered it. Trying to look disinterested I asked the woman if she had a store and explained that I'd be interested in the chair but that I couldn't transport it that day. No she said, but if I would be willing to pick it up from her home in Tacoma that she'd sell it to me then and there AND knock of $20!

$60!! Hell yea. So I introduce you to my new Mad Men chair.
When I told Mom about it she was skeptical because I'm still unable to make wise purchases in her mind... hm.. When I brought it to her house (because she lives in Tacoma and has the truck) she grudgingly admitted that it wasn't so bad.
In fact, she said, it cleaned up really nicely, was well built (no IKEA crap for me!) and didn't have any weird smells. These are all key. And to further prove that this chair was fated for me, Wrigley has now put his stamp of approval on it too.

Welcome to my home Blue.