Bless Your Heart

All Girls Skate

Tonight after work and dinner, my mom, Morgan and I went roller skating at a local rink the next town over. We pulled in right behind a dump truck that produced a man and 3 teenage girls from the cab. Are there no other vehicles at their house? With gas prices the way they are I can’t imagine that’s the best way to travel right now.

Anyway, I haven’t skated in at least 10 years. Neither has my mom, and I think Morgan’s maybe skated 2 or 3 times. So lacing up and hitting the floor was quite a sight. My mom rolls off like Dorothy Hamill or something, like she was born on wheels. Morgan was glued to the wall for a while, then finally got the hang of it and did great.

I fell at least 3 times. And that was the easy part. It’s the getting up that’s hard. The mom’s sitting on the bench watching their children took pity on me and shouted encouraging words, but I knew I still looked like a drunk flamingo.

Eventually I got going pretty well, but I need a lot of practice.

We did decide that we won’t be visiting that particular rink anymore. The skate wheels were filthy and the floor and carpet were all dirty. The only person who seemed concerned about cleanliness was a 3 year old boy in tiny socks pushing a broom and dust pan around yelling “SCUSE ME!”.

Well Guarded Secret

While shopping at Bath & Body Works not too long ago I was chatting with the salesgirl and I mentioned that I missed a couple of their discontinued fragrances. She told me that they still produce a lot of their “discontinued” fragrances, they just don’t sell them in the store. They sell them by mail order. Call 1-800-518-3616 and you can order direct. Who knew!?

The scents they still produce are:

> White Ginger and Amber

> Citrus Punch

> Daffodil Fields

> Flowering Herbs

> Freesia

> Fresh Ginger Lime

> Fresh Lilac

> Happy Daisy

> Honeysuckle

> Herbal Mist

> Lavender Flowers

> May Bouquet

> Peach Nectar

> Refreshing Garden Mint

> Seaspray

> Sparkling Green Apple

> Strawberry Lemonade

> Sunsweet Kiwi

> Toasted Hazelnut

> Vanilla Bean

> White Gardenia

There’s a little note at the bottom of my flyer that says scents may

change based on inventory availability.

Now if I had just been informed of this a year or so ago then I wouldn’t have scared that BBW salesgirl like I did with my dismay over the loss of May Bouquet!

Tiny hands for tiny pug babies

Kea went for her spay today. I got a call from the vet around 11 to tell me she came through just fine. We were so worried about her though- she’s still so teeny! She weighed in at 9 pounds today and she’s 6 months old. The vet doesn’t think she’ll get much bigger at all. Last night Jon said “Well at least Dr. Martin’s tiny with tiny hands so she can get into Kea’s tiny belly.” She comes home tomorrow a changed woman. Now maybe she’ll let Ike go hump free!

On another note, I can hardly even talk about how much we’re loving, LOVING, Netflix. These people are so dang fast. Example: Monday I mailed back 3 movies. Tuesday I got an email saying they received the movies and shipped out new ones. Wednesday I get home from work and tell Jon his Metallica dvd should be coming on Thursday. He said “Oh, we got 3 movies today and I watched my Metallica one already.” So fast! I’m up to 80 movies in the queue!

Coffee or Tea? I don’t wanna see!

You know what creeps me out? And for no apparent reason? Hot drinks in

clear glass vessels. I don’t want to see you drink coffee, tea, or hot

chocolate in a clear glass cup. Put it in a ceramic mug please, or for the

love of Pete, even a plastic cup, as long as it’s not see through. I’m not

sure why this bothers me, but it does. If you are drinking an iced coffee

or tea then by all means, serve it in a glass. But hot drinks that I can

see give me the heebies. While watching House of Sand and Fog and in one

episode of Sex and the City I noticed people drinking hot tea/coffee in

clear glass mugs. Shudder. I was so glad they were short scenes.

Alright, so there’s one more reason I’m going to be that crazy lady down

the street when I get old! =)

Happy Chicken

We went to dinner tonight with Jon’s parents at IHOP. Our waiter was fun and jokey with us and while we were ordering I commented to my MIL that the eggs there are really good. MIL said- “Oh, they must be happy chickens. I’ll have some too then.” So she turns to the waiter and asks for eggs etc. He turns to me and asks me if I’d also like the Happy Chicken. I said sure! Then my FIL ordered the same thing.

A few minutes pass and the waiter comes back and asks us “Have you gotten the Happy Chicken before because I can’t find it on our menu. It’s my 3rd day on the job, sorry about that.”

Bwahahaha! There’s nothing on the IHOP menu called Happy Chicken! He even wrote down Happy Chicken on his pad! We corrected him and he gave me the sheet off his ordering pad with Happy Chicken x3 written on it for a souvenir!

Jon’s aunt and uncle gave us a gift certificate to Restoration Hardware as a housewarming gift when they visited last week. We bought all kinds of cute stuff including an extendable back scratcher, linen spray, a tote bag, and this Brainiac hands free headlamp! I’ve had my eye on it for years. Can you imagine how much I’ll get done now with a light on my head?? I’m so excited!! 

Buggin
We finally found the mosquito plants we’ve been looking for. We looked everywhere and finally on our 2nd plant trip to Walmart we found them. Not only are they pretty, but they give off a very fragrant citronella scent and they keep the bugs away! 

Rachel & I are hosting a Pampered Chef online party! If you are having as busy a summer as I am, then you’ll appreciate this convenient opportunity to browse and purchase Pampered Chef products without having to schedule time for a party! Just click on the link below: (you’ll need my full name to enter on the site, so email me if you’re interested!)

I want fabulous kitchen tools!

My party is open until June 15th. So click on the link above and start shopping today! Don’t forget to check the Guest Specials!

testing this whole bloggerbot hello photo thingy out. 

Van Gogh? Oh, no.

Jon’s mom is a librarian and her library just turned 4 years old. So on Thursday we went to the library to volunteer at the festivities. Jon put together bubble makers- I overheard a little kid say “Did you hear that? The giant is going to blow bubbles outside!”, so for the rest of the day he was Jon the Giant bubble man. My job was face painting. I brought my paint brushes, qtips, a mirror, glitter, and a little poster I made of simple designs to give the kids suggestions. My line never ended and I painted non-stop all afternoon. Most wanted dragonflies or flowers or rainbows, and the Harry Potter lightning scar was a big hit. The kids were really cute and sweet, but when they were all done they’d just run away. It wasn’t until later that I found out they were running to show their friends. Here I thought I was scaring them or something! One little boy requested a great white shark. I wanted to tell him Dude, I can do a football. How about a football? But I did my best and he ran over to his friends to show off then I painted 4 or 5 more long sardine looking fish that may resemble a great white if you squint.

To my surprise one of the parents asked how much I charge for my services. (!!!) Since it was only my 2nd time EVER painting faces I told her I’d have to check my calendar, but if I’m free in October she wants to book me for a fall festival! I’m famous! My MIL said- now don’t commit, check around and find out how much to charge. To which Jon replied “Yeah, why don’t you ask all your face painting friends how much they charge!”. So, I plan on calling some events planners and clowns, but what sounds reasonable?