Bless Your Heart

it’s official

i’m a suburbanite now. yep, we now have mini garden flags. this dragonfly one is in the back yard near the little pond and out front we have a mini american flag. husband resisted at first, but resistance is futile when it comes to cute accessories!

i wanna go on holiday!

i abosolutely can not wait for our vacation to get here. i need one so badly. i haven’t had one since the beginning of feb, but we moved into the house that week. not exactly a week on the beach. so i actually haven’t had a vacation since last june. only a couple of more weeks to go and we’ll be staying in hotels and hanging out with rachel, going to a baseball game and shopping at ikea. ahhh bliss.

weird pet names

rachel mentioned a weird pet name she saw on a dog license application and that got me to thinking about pets & their weird names. mine are weird. but there’s a method to the madness. some people think it’s silly to name your pets something other than max or whiskers, but we figure why not have fun with their names? we’re pretty sure they won’t suffer any long term damage. the only downside is the vet seems to have a hard time remembering how to pronounce 1 of them. so here are the stories…

dabrie came first. husband and i were joking one day about how hard it’s going to be to name our children due to our unusual last name. so we said we might as well give them the most ridiculous names ever. of course we would never do that to our kids, but the idea stuck. we had come up with a couple of names and we talked about how we thought the word debris sounds so pretty but it means what it means. so when we adopted dabrie from the shelter it sorta fit. we changed the spelling to DaBrie and added DuBois for her middle name. when nimbus came along she was a wee bitty baby kitty and was all white like a cloud. so husband wanted to name her after a cloud. i picked jamiroquai because i thought it sounded like the most fun band name ever. we named kenichi the amazing japanese fighting fish after one of the iron chefs from the food network. nelson was the last to come to join the family. . he had been given the name nelson at the shelter where we adopted him. his original name was lucky, but they have so many named lucky that they change the names. we thought and thought for a new name for him, but we liked nelson so much it stuck. we didn’t give him a middle name until after his wreck when he had to wear his big satellite collar. we thought he looked just like the pixar lamp. so he’s now nelson pixar. and there you have it. because our pets have such good senses of humor our children can be spared silly names!

très délicieux



last night i watched the dvd of amelie. absolutely a delight! audrey tatou is so adorable it should be a crime. the movie was witty, and sweet. and there are so many parts i loved. like the gnome and his travels. it reminded me of the gnomes jenny mentioned in her blog.. i loved how the narrator pointed out the little things the characters liked & disliked- for instance amelie’s father and how he likes to peel large pieces of wallpaper. who doesn’t? it’s so satisfying. movies like that make me want to learn french. it’s not due back until tomorrow. i may have to watch it again tonight!

my face hurts

i am laughing so hard. i have a confession to make. i love america’s funniest home videos . love em, love em, love em. now, i’m not crazy about the hosts, or the witty banter. but i swear, i laugh so hard at those videos. maybe that’s not something i should tell people.

toad-aly



this is fernando our guard frog. and this is the little toad house i put out for him. not sure if he’s taken up residence there, but he comes out just about every night and sits like a little sentinal next to the front door. tonight jon went in and out the door a couple of times and fernando never moved. so husband calls me out to see him and he’s still there. ran in and got the camera- still there. come by some time next week and i’ll betcha he’ll still be there! maybe i can pay him to watche the house while we’re in baltimore!

weekend baby
friday night husband and i went to qdoba for dinner then went home to watch the royal tenenbaums. it was really cute. very quirky.
saturday husband closed at work (3pm-12am shift) so we got to hang out together in the morning. we went to space savers for a spice cabinet organizer & some gonzo. that stuff is amazing. it will get any stain out of anything. so then he went off to work and i went to hallmark & the scrapbook store for supplies. i got home, made some chicken pad thai and it started to rain. hard. rained all night and almost til noon sunday. it was awesome. it filled up our pond again and everything looks so nice and green now. i remember when it would annoy me when it rained. buy a house and it all changes. i wish we could get some more rain around here though.
i watched the makeover story with ty & amy winn. it was cute. you know, he’s funny, but he seems like he’s always on if you know what i mean. like he’s always got to be funny, got to be cracking a joke. so it was nice when he was serious for a minute and told her how great she looked. she did too.
today (sunday) sara and i went to see yaya sisterhood. total chick flick. it was good though. roger ebert or some critic said that the characters were too dramatic & over the top to be believable. he just needs to grow up in the south and he’d see that they were exactly right on. i saw so many women i know and have known in those characters. according to the ya ya name generator my ya ya name would be Queen Because-I-Said-So. that sounds about right!
after the movie we kinda doinked around returning wedding gifts, etc. went to pottery barn (which is apparently owned by williams sonoma) who knew?, bed bath & beyond, & williams sonoma. i didn’t buy a thing though. i’m being good. ikea is but 3 weeks away!!

do yourself a flavor



that’s the logo bojangle’s has adopted. it cracks me up. they’re celebrating their 25th anniversary so last night husband and i decided to partake in the festivities and had ourselves some fried chicken for dinner. we just couldn’t pass up an 8 piece box with 4 biscuits for $4.99!! (they rolled back the prices to 1977). thing is, chicken makes me full fast, so i just had 1 piece leaving jon with the rest. he polished off 4 pieces so now there’s leftover chicken & biscuits in the fridge. i just can’t do leftover fried chicken. i swear the older i get the more neurotic i get. i have a hard time with leftovers. but i digress. for all of you not living near a bojangles, they make spicy fried chicken and big southern style biscuits. i’m pretty sure they started here in charlotte. warning: don’t eat there very often, unless you like your arteries clogged!

ty sighting



last night i had the country music channel on the tv for background noise. i looked over during this one video and there’s ty from trading spaces! now, i don’t often watch cmt so i’m not sure who it was that was singing, but it was cute.

in other decorating tv news…i watched the premier episode of while you were out- that new decorating show on tlc. they decorate a room while your husband or wife is out of the house. they acted like it was all cutting edge and racey. the husband was on a fishing trip and the wife redecorated the back porch to look like a log cabin. it looked really cute, but they kept acting like he might get mad or something. why would he get mad? she did it for him. he was thrilled. the show was cute, but i like trading spaces better. they show you how to do things where the new show just kinda does it.

speaking of…ty and amy wynn are going to be on a makeover story this weekend. that should be cute!

for those who love kitties…

i’ve finally gotten around to posting pics of my kitty girls. you can check out nimbus and dabrie here. scroll to the bottom to see the furry faces.