My Favorite Things

It's a new day, I'm feeling refreshed and I'm totally renewed! Gotta love those cranky anxiety-ridden days. Glad it's over!

I've got a few favorites that I want to share. You know, shit that makes me smile on a daily basis.


1. Fall has officially begun. There are no words to express my love for all that is fall ~ changing colors, crisp air, football, birthdays (both Thing 2 and the Baby Boy Child have birthdays in the fall), our anniversary, silly halloween costumes...the list in endless! I took this picture yesterday as we were driving home from our family fun time. LOVE THE COLORS! Fall in Minnesota is DEVINE.




2. A friend of mine (The Shelster) turned me on to this while we were hanging out in Chicago several weeks ago. She had this big ass bottle of piss colored tea that she drank the entire weekend. The Queen Bitch and I were a little nervous about this drink but we tried it anyway. I believe The Shelster said "looks like piss, tastes like heaven" when we were laughing at her for drinking it.
Well, she was right. I bow down to your awesomeness oh Shelster.



Afterthought ~ Did I already blog about my love of this tea? I feel like I did so if I did, I apologize for the duplicate info. If anything, it just confirms my love for the piss-colored tea.


3. If you have glanced at my blogroll, you see that I read a shitload of blogs. I can't help it. I love reading blogs. Especially crafty ones, which is how I can upon this company. She makes the CUTEST stamps! I have three brand-new Bellas sitting on my desk right now. I can't wait to play with them. It's funny because I *rarely* stamp. I have several ideas for my new ones though and can't wait to play! If you stamp, check out the Bellas!




4. A new "scrapbooking" website opened a few months ago and I frequent their gallery for inspiration. I haven't really checked out the message boards (dude...I can only do three message boards without going insane...but it's really only two since I suck as a member at the third...love you Zenners!!) If you are looking for inspiration, go visit Scrap In Style. Their gallery is called "Strut Your Stuff" and has some crazy cool shit in it!




5. This song makes me want to go back to the gym and work out for a second time tonight! LOVE KANYE.




6. K-Ville.
Anthony Anderson cracks me up (always has) and Cole Hauser makes me happy in my naughty bits.



7. My last bit of favorite things are my kids. I must credit Thing 1 and Thing 2 for helping bring me out of my funk last night (the BBC was sleeping in his crib while Mister Hunzer and The Teen were not at home). They were jumping on the couch, being goofy...being kids. The first photo is Thing 1 in downtown Stillwater yesterday. The second photo is Thing 2 doing face-plants on my couch. He did them PERFECTLY, hitting the couch totally parallel to it. My little brother did the same shit when he was a kid. It was totally nostalgic to watch Thing 2 do this!






~ xoxo ~

Grrrrrr.

I'm fucking CRABBY.

That is all.










(I saw a tshirt the other day that I REALLY wish I had right now. It was black had the following saying all done in rhinestones:

FUCK YOU YA FUCKING FUCK!



Maybe I will create a little sign with that for my home office for days like this. I would say it was PMS but with no uterus, how does one get PMS??

Why do I do this to myself?

My office has been a big huge mess as of late. It's no big deal...I'm messy. I like to think I'm organized but the truth is, I stopped being organized once the first kid dropped from my gash.

So I'm sitting here at my desk, reading blog updates, feeling good when I see one of my favorite scrapbookers updated her blog. She talks about organizing and purging stuff. I made some snarky comment about how I'd rather get a pap smear with a rusty nail than help organize anyone's scraproom.

Then I went shopping.

I bought too much shit ~ curtains, curtain rods, Halloween decorations, Mr. Potato Head pumpkin bits, basically everything but tampons (because I don't need 'em ever again!!)


(Had to throw that last bit in there because it is SO NICE to walk past the tampon aisle and give it the stink eye.)


I get home and am suddenly in the mood to clean my office.

Shit.

It's not a quick job.

But it's done. And I have pictures to prove it!!


























(HEY ~ How'd that last one get in there? Who gives a shit ~ he's damn cute! He'll be ONE in less than TWO weeks. How in the HELL did that happen??)

Oh ~ and some mindless information...

As I wrote out this post, I listened to Dr. Dre, Kanye, Staind (of course), Candlebox and Justin Timberlake. Sometimes music is all the motivation that I need!

~ xoxo ~

A little ink.

I added a little ink to the tattoo on my upper back today.





The "A" is new. It is my stepdaughter's first initial.


I was out shopping today...having a little Mommy time to myself when I decided to buzz in to a tattoo shop and get her initial forever imprinted "in my heart". I was in a great mood before the tattoo and even during the process. I've never gotten a tattoo alone before but this was no big deal (I got my nose pierced the same way ~ just got a bug up my ass, walked into a place and got it done while alone).

After I left the tattoo place, I got in the car and nearly lost it. I was suddenly sooooo upset. SO SAD. I am missing Amanda SO MUCH. Did having her intital tattooed on me set something off?

It's not like I don't think about her every single minute of every single day.

I don't know.

I was pretty upset though.

I came home to my husband and kids ~ the best healers of all. I'm doing better now and absolutely love my new ink. Mister Hunzer is going to draw up some additions to this tattoo that include her birthdate, her death date, our other kids' names, and maybe a tear drop.

Who knows.

I just really miss her.


~ xoxo ~

{ Happy Mail Day! }

I got this YUMMYLICIOUS book from Amazon.com today. I can't wait to dive in to it and just take all the funky layouts in to my psyche.




Last week I picked up these gems:





Again, LOVING THEM!!


I get to scrapbook tomorrow night at the LSS with a friend. Gonna be fun!! Although I may walk down the street to the bar for a shot of inspiriation here and there...

~ xoxo ~

Imagine, if you will...

A Timbaland/Hunzer/Timberlake sandwich.





Edited to add a photo from one of my bestest friends...




Thanks Love!!



Mmmmm...yeah.
That sounds good.
I'll have that.



~ xoxo ~


PS...Bonus points to whomever can name the movie quote in that last part! I'll send you, um...a big cyber KISS!!

{ 9.11.01 }

I am LOVING it!!

I love fall. Absolutely LOVE it. I hate hot weather and by the end of August, I'm hiding out in my house where the A/C is cranked and I can wrap myself up in my pink stripey fleece blankie.

It's been cooling off here in the 'Scrote and the forecast looks A.W.E.S.O.M.E.




(Isn't Sven a little hottie? Such a cute Scandanavian weather nerd!)


What else do I love about fall?

FOOTBALL!!

I caught the last quarter of the Vikings/Falcons game today while nursing a hangover. Note to self: Impromptu parties with the neighbors can be detrimental to your health. *wink*

I'll let the photos do the talking here:






...and a lovely, well-deserved FUCK YOU to Michael Vick...



Asshole.


Anyways...

The weather is FINALLY cooling down, football season is officially under way, Thing 2 starts his second year of preschool tomorrow and I am going to scrapbook today. Life is pretty fuckin' grand, ain't it?

Enjoy the rest of YOUR Sunday!!

~ xoxo ~

Oh HELL yeah!

No words...just emotions...

















...and I'm spent.


*smile*

~xoxo~

Just a little click...

and a little cash and YOU can help make the difference in a child's life who is battling a terminal illness. One of my fellow PEAS started this organization after her son was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

In her words:

"Nicky's Journey is a nonprofit organization existing for the sole purpose of providing a portable DVD player, case and a gift card for purchasing DVDs for children at Houston hospitals who are diagnosed with cancer. These newly diagnosed children need the gift of diversion too."





~ xoxo ~


...Off to make MY donation!!...

I want one.

Now.

Thanks in advance.





Seriously people. I was trying to get Mister Hunzer to take me to the Apple store on Monday so I could get an iPhone. I'm SO GLAD he didn't want to go! Now methinks I should keep my Razr (as much as I hate that fucking thing) and go with the 8GB iPod Touch.

By the time I make this decision, they will unveil some other cool shit that will make me change my mind AGAIN.




Here's a bonus video of the Baby Boy Child showing off some of his dancing skills (okay, it's not so much dancing but rocking side to side but it's still damn cute! Plus, you can hear me squak...I mean, sing.)



~ xoxo ~

Ew. Just...ew.

Mister Hunzer and I took the kids to the MN State Fair last week. We love the fair. We also have a food booth in the fair (technically Mister H owns it with two friends but I just say "we" for sake of argument). Since Mister H virtually lives at the fucking fair during it's entire 12 day run, we have to force ourselves to enjoy it when we are there with the kids.

Notice how I went from "we love the fair" to "the fucking fair" to "we have to force ourselves to enjoy it"? It truly is a love-hate relationship with most of the emphasis on "love".

This year we checked out the "butterly house". It was a huge room filled with random free-flying butterflies. It was actually pretty cool. They just landed on you anywhere ~ your head, your back, your leg, whatevs. Thing 1 and I just loved it. Thing 2 wasn't sure what to think. He liked that you could get so up close and personal with the butterflies but he only wanted it on HIS terms. The Baby Boy Child and DH could have cared less. (The Teen was working in our booth at this time or he would have been with us)...








I thought the butterfly house was cool as shit so when I found out that you could buy a container of caterpillars for home, I was all for it! Now we have these two containers with a couple coccoons in them a piece. FYI ~ coccoons are ugly.

This is where the "ew. Just...ew" part comes in.

The kids and I were in the kitchen and we kept hearing this faint "rattling" noise. One of them realized it was one of the effin' COCCOONS. It was wiggling and rattling and knocking on the side of the container.

EFFIN' GROSS!




Oh...I took video, of course. *wink*




See what I mean? CREEPY. This was earlier in the afternoon today. As of right now (10:25pm), nothing has come out of this coccoon. Perhaps it was just having a bad dream??

Apparently the MN State Fair is THE place to be. Vince Vaughn was here two nights ago! *smirk*

And now, more requisite Fair pictures...
















And with that, I'm out.

~ xoxo ~