Judy Staring at the Sun - Its Fabulous

Today I am fabulous because I have a superfinepedi in preparation for my trip to Orlando, FL...

Not to Disney, but to visit my girlie!

Yup, that's my Amy Viking!

Here is my sausage toes from arthritis pedi...

Why YES those are silver flip-flops.  Thank you!

I also got this FAB email - because of my comment on this blog.  ZDub is a good read...and I love that I made HER laugh:

BWAHAHAHAHA! Best comment ever!


Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
 
Now please enjoy one of my favorite songs from the 90's.  From the CD Happy Days its Catherine Wheel !!




Happy Friday my little pedicures!  I will have a Saturday Post, but then I am outie until Tuesday. 

Will have pics from ORLANDO!  pinkie swear.

Who do you want to be today? Oingo Boingo Y'all!

 This was an easy one for me...so I am playing along.
Each week, The (Un)Experienced Mom and Confessions From A Working Mom pick a category, then ask you to share your Top 3 thoughts on it!


This week...

If you could be a character in any movie, not the actor or actress but the character, who would it be and which movie?

 

#3 Would be if I could be a guy...cuz I would want to be Wooderson!!!

 

Dazed and Confused was an awesome movie - "I like High School girls because I keep getting older, but they stay the saaaame age."  Yes, he's a dirtbag, but he is fun!  Alright, alright.

 

moving on then...

 

#2 I would have liked to have been Julie Andre in Daddy Long Leg's....never heard of it?  Well, my family is BIG on old movies and I love love love this one.  As I get older and have a daughter though, it is a little creepy.   I even read this book!




#1 Speaking of OLD MOVIES.  Who WOULDN'T want to be Scarlett O'Hara. 

Heck I would even want to be her in the TV Movie SCARLETT!

WW - Working from home in the wildlife refuge

PROOF of my former hotness...but beware, she is under 18 boys!

Is it weird? Or just me?

Is it weird that last Sunday I asked my husband how my step-son dented his truck...and he doesn't even have it anymore because he sold it over a week ago?

Is it weird that I look back at old pictures of me from swim team and wonder why I wasn't more popular?  Damn...I was cute.  I will have to scan that one in tonight for you.

Is it weird that I asked my husband twice what the name of the store was that someone used his credit card to buy a television at - and now I can't remember the name of the store?  Yup!  Someone went on a shopping spree with hubby's Visa yesterday and it wasn't ME!

Is it weird that I was never even CLOSE to being prom or homecoming queen, but I dated a guy who WAS our homecoming king in high school and in college the homecoming king and a guy who was on homecoming court?  At the U of MN!!!  Go Gophers!

Is it weird that I like to wear PALE fingernail polish and DARK toenail polish?

Is it weird that I think underwear should cost no more than one dollar, but I always spend more than that?  Its PANTIES not something everyone sees - WHY do they cost so much?  $29 Hanky Panky's?  Not happening for this mama.  $3 Fruit of the Loom? More like it.

Is it weird that I don't mind watching iCarly and Sponge Bob, but I HATE Jonas, Big Time Rush and True Jackson VP?   And don't get me started on Miley!

Is it weird that I think I am skinny - until I look into a mirror?  I have really skinny wrists and that is what I usually am looking at...

Is this post weird?  Thoughts?  Anyone?  Bueller?

Monday Minute from the darkside...

Because today - I really only have a minute. I am too crabby to devote any further time...you would get bored with my ranting I tell you!!!

1. What drugs have you done in your life?  I really don't have an answer other than I have had several sugeries and they gave me good drugs then! 
2. A/S/L? 42 for less than 2 more months/F/Work/St. Paul ...blah! 
3. Do you pick your nose?  Of course...you ALL DO!  Liars if you said no.
4. What's your favorite childhood cartoon?  I liked Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street the best, but they were not cartoons.  So I will go with The Flintstones...except now I think Betty and Wilma were RAGS - they did nothing but complain and go shopping.
5. List the URL, of what you believe to be the best blog post you've ever done.  This is tough so...

Here is my favorite "snippy" post - http://www.mommysnest.com/2008/04/too-busy.html
Here is the post that explains how I come from a long line of "chicky-babes" http://www.mommysnest.com/2008/02/i-read-blog-of-this-fabulous-chefchicky.html
My favorite Boo Boo post was Saturday, I think...but the poop ones are good too - or the shameless photo blog...I really can't pick. 

I love my blog and that is why I write it! 

Earth Day in Boo Boo-land

On the evening of Earth Day it was my turn to pick up Boo Boo La La from daycare.  It was a bright and warm SUNNY day here in the land of sky-blue waters. 

65 degrees farenheight to be exact.

Boo Boo was at the bottom of the hill playing in sand, as usual the dirtiest kid in the yard.  J was wearing a tank top and shorts.  It is very protected from the wind in her yard and was actually HOT in the sun back there.  I know because I sat on the deck with J for a few minutes chatting while Boo Boo got one last drink of water. 

In BLACK pants and short-sleeve cardigan. 

As we say our goodbye's & walk out of the gate to head down the drive, Boo Boo La La exclaims,

"Mama!  You have to see what I drawed for you.  Look!  Its Christmas!" 

Really?

"Yup, see the snowman?  His name is Hershey and those are his earrings and a cake for him."

Hershey?

"Yeah.  And he is playing in the snow for Christmas by the Christmas tree."

Oh, okay. 

"Yes, and do you see the snow-sun?  That is so the snow doesn't get melt. (so smart!)  And I wrote my name there..."

What is the heart for?

"That is because I love Mama!"

Happy Earth Day to Me!  And to all a good night...

Just a few things today...

This past week I have been grabbing buttons and putting them on my {PEEPS} page.  If you want me to put yours up there - comment here or email me the HTML code and its done.

Oh - feel free to grab mine!

I also am working on following you all on Twitter - again, let me know if I am not and we will follow each other...

Happy Friday Kids - now go see how FABULOUS Iris is today.


And of course a video!  This song has been in my head because my iPod has been playing it EVERY time I workout lately...Enjoy The Ravonettes.

How do I love you? Let me count the rings...

I am playing the THURSDAY TOP 3 hosted by Confessions from a Working Mom & The (Un)Experienced Mom. If you'd like to join in click on either lady's blog to get started!

TOP THREE STORES FOR SHOPPING?

yes please.

who DOESN'T like to shop?

But I need to clarify my lists here!

For Boo Boo La La?

Once Upon a Child.  I refuse to pay full retail for jammies for a child under the age of sleepovers!  And probably after that too.

Old Navy.  Where else can I get her a Wonder Woman T?

Target.  For EVERYTHING else, duh!*

For ME!

Banana Republic.  God I love their t's!!!  Always perfect!

Old Navy.  Can't beat the prices!

Target.  ummm, again - DUH!  (j'dore tar-jay!)

For groceries for the fam?

Cub Foods.  My devotion to my home state!  I even went to Cub when I lived in Indy!  And they employed my daddy for the last 37 years.  He retires on Saturday!!!

Costco.  How do I love you?  Let me count the teenagers in my house that you feed & the Diet Dew habit of my hubby that you fulfill....

TARGET!!!  I love Target for grocery shopping.  Especially when I get those little 10% off coupons.  Their prices are awesome...(wal-mart can suc it!)

However, I never go to any of these locations any longer without my Envirosax.  You have heard me spew on about them in several posts.  And if you have NOT click on the label and all of them will pop up! 

Get some for yourself today - the set above is exactly like the extra set I have.  You can get them just about everywhere these days - including their own website.  They also have a blog explaining how responsibly they act toward perserving Mother Earth while making a fashionable product. 

Seriously, I get compliments DAILY!  Oh, and 10 cents off PER BAG when I use them at....wait for it....

TARGET

*My mother worked at Target on Roberts Street in St. Paul, MN.  I called her for the details because I +may+ have been a little fuzzy on it.  It was not the FIRST Target, like I thought, but one of the first!  She worked there when it opened in 1967 at the bakery.  Funny how things come around.  You do KNOW that Target had groceries via Applebaum's and a McGlynn's bakery in them in the 60's and 70's.  They got away from that in the 80's (If my memory is close enough) and in the past few years have moved BACK to having grocery items & a pretty rockin' bakery!  I LOVE TARGET!!!

p.s. Mommy Lisa has never recieved ANY compensation from Envirosax.  She had ONE giveaway for Father's Day where a reader got ONE Envirosax.  I just love them and their company and think their product is genious for an IDIOT like me to ensure I always have reusable bags with me.  I keep a set in my purse & a second set at home in case I need to wash them.  Which I do frequently - I always have a back-up!

Adventures in radio - Where did I work?

Radio is an odd business...even more now than when I was in it.

From my graduation at Brown I went off to a job in Crosby, MN at a station that no longer exists!  But I worked for the most awesome lady!!  ;)

When I lost that job because my boss couldn't afford to keep us all any longer I got a job in Ottumwa, IA!

When the new PD hit on me and things got too crazy in IOWA - I made them get me a new job at KDOG in Mankato, MN - well, my lawyer made them.  Again, it no longer exists.

That stunk.  So I got another job in Alexandria, MN at a station that no longer exists! (are you sensing a pattern here?)

Weekends I started working in Minneapolis at KOOL 108 - which still exists, sorta.  I got that gig because Bob Wood could not "get my voice out of his head!"  I love Bob.

I dreamed of a big market radio job.  Somewhere COOL!  (I even interviewed with Pig Vomit once by phone!)


I interviewed for a job in Syracuse...that would have been cool.  But they just brought me in to scare the crap out of the girl they had.  AND I HAD NEW HEADSHOTS TAKEN FOR THEM!  a-holes.

I got a call one day from another Wood.  David Wood.  He always joked to people "in the biz" that he was Bob's little brother.  They were BOTH hot-shot awesome PD's. 

David said he got my tape from another PD in Texas and wanted me to fly in and interview for a brand new station in Indianapolis - that no logner exists! and really neither does radio - They sent me a ticket and booked me a hotel.  It was the first time I went for a radio interview where I did not have to pay to get to the interview!  so cool.

I came in during a DOWNPOUR and David picked me up and took me to the hotel.  Told me to order whatever to eat and put it on my room - he would be back in the morning to pick me up and show me around! 

He was late - we took quick tours of both buildings - whirlwind introductions and no "real" interview.  Then we went out to lunch on the way back to the airport.  I am wondering how this is going to end.  Lunch is over and really all we have done is talk and get to know each other...then, in the car

"So do you want to start the week after Labor Day?  Will that give you enough time to move from Minnesota?"

Uh.  Sure!

"One thing.  Will you change the spelling of your last name to B-A-Y-H?"

Sure...(I had no idea why, my dad told me.) so you want to hire me then?

"Oh YEAH!  We loved your tape.  We only had you come down to make sure you weren't a nut or something."

Okay then.  Noted.  I am not a nut.

I wonder if I am normal...

Some days I get so frustrated.  EVERY morning I am not only responsible for getting myself and all of my stuff ready to go to work, but I have to get someone else

Awake
Dressed - argue about what she is wearing since she was 1.5
Sunscreened
Teeth brushed
Hair brushed - as she SCREAMS at me about it
Remember if she has school and get the backpack
Argue about which shoes are appropriate
Discuss who will turn on the alarm - HER unless I forget then we have to turn it off again...
To the car after running around the yard and checking on the duck, or the bunny, or the leaves, or the lights...
Buckled into her car seat
Discuss what should be on the radio for the two block drive to daycare
Out of the car
Chase to the door of daycare "I'm gonna beat you Mama!"
Jacket off
Shoes off
Maybe she tells me not to go...
Maybe a conversation with J about neighbors, school, vacation...
Hug and Kiss
Bye

Then drive the 20-30 minutes to work - all the while wishing I had done something differently that morning. 

Taken time to make her a piece of toast - even if she gets breakfast at daycare
Read a story or four
Brushed her hair slower - no rush
Let her wear the flip-flops

Is it normal that I am frustrated.  Is it normal that I want a break, but I don't want a break?  I don't want to miss anything, but sometimes you miss little things.  And time is something you never get back.

All About MEme: Quarter Beer Night in Indy

Supah

&

MommyBrain

have this little Monday MEme...I wanted to play, but am posting a day late.

Going forward this MEme will be a MommyBrain exclusive - check her out for details.

Today (Yesterday) We want to sit down, have some wine ... or several bottles and listen to you whine or gloat about your :

WORST DINNER EXPERIENCE

or

YOUR BEST DINNER EXPERIENCE

or maybe even

WHAT you would make us for dinner if we came to your house?

We don't care. Just feed us while you talk.

so away we go!

Back when Mommy Lisa was still just Lisa - over ten years ago - she lived in Indianapolis and worked at a radio station from 7 to midnight.

She had an on-off boyfriend that annoyed the crap out of her..."I am older and wiser than you and you should listen to me Lisa."  Do you THINK I liked that?  I wanted a real boyfriend.  Not this 42 year-old semi-retired guy who tried to tell me what to do WHEN he was around...

I had a bunch of guy friends I hung out with at the bar across the road from our apartment complex.  One night I was bitching to Dave and said,

I am sick and tired of Fritz the Wonderdog* and his bullsh-t.
"Really?  I have been wanting to fix you up with this guy on our shift." (Dave worked for FedEx)
You have???  You think I will like this guy?  I mean you KNOW how picky I am...look at Fritz the Wonderdog?  He is good looking and super-rich and I CANNOT STAND HIM any longer...
"Yes...I think this guy is PERFECT for you.  I will bring him by tomorrow so you can meet him."

I meet the guy.  He is cute enough and seems completely normal.  THIS should have been my first warning.

Flash forward to the Saturday before the SuperBowl, the night of our first date.  He is SUPPOSED to be picking me up and taking me to the Mexican restaurant near my apartment and I have been rushing around because I had a personal appearance that day at some stupid store or another...

The phone rings and it is my date.  "Hey Lisa, I am running behind because of the planning I have been doing for my SuperBowl party.  Can you meet me at the restaurant instead?"  Uh, sure.  When?  "In twenty minutes?"  Okay - that is fine.

It was NOT fine.  I had rushed to get ready, he called five minutes AFTER he was supposed to be picking me up.  Strike ONE.

I get the restaurant THIRTY minutes later and WAIT for another ten minutes.  Strike TWO.

He shows up in a denim suit, western shirt and bolo tie...ummm Dave?  HELLO?  You set me up with a fake cowboy.  I am secretly plotting Dave's death right now.  Thinking some sort of torture. 

After apologies and getting a table our waitress comes over and tells us that it is quarter beer night.

HALLELUJAH!

We each order one and begin the small talk, "What looks good to you?"  I don't know, seafood enchiladas maybe?  "Yeah, I was thinking Burrito" (go RIGHT ahead this date is going nowhere) So I hear you are having a SuperBowl party? 

yada yada yada through our beer and the start of the meal. 

The waitress thankful interrupts this starstruck evening with a query...

Would you like another beer?  and as I am about to say YES! this genious in wall-to-wall denim says,

"NO THANKS WE ARE GOOD."

WTF???  I am not an alcoholic.   Nor am I a teetotaler.  DUDE if you want me to stick around you better re-THINK that answer.  I am flummoxed.  The darn beers are a QUARTER and you can dig out an extra two-bits for another beer.  Strike THREE.

I sit quietly and respond to his random babbling about not wanting to get too drunk with his party and all - meanwhile it had not even been suggested that I attend.  I have been trying to give this guy the benefit of the doubt...but right about now I would rather punch him in his denim suited nads.

As the bill comes over I say,

Wow, look at the time.  I have to get up early tomorrow.  I guess I will head on home and really thanks for dinner we should do this again some time.  (It is about 8pm)

He stammmers, "Uh, yeah.  Okay I thought maybe..."

Bye now.

I SPRINT out to my car and high-tail it out of there.  Home, home, home to my cute little apartment to quickly phone all my gay boyfriends in the building.  Thankfully it is only just after 8pm so they are still getting ready to go out.  They rush to my place with wine and ideas for the best outfit for me to wear to go with them to the gay bar downtown.

And we trash denim knight the remainder of the evening.  In between gawking at the cute boys and drag queens...

And I punch Dave as hard as possible in the arm when I see him Sunday at our SuperBowl party.

* True story.  This boyfriend had introduced himself to me at this same bar...he lived in my apartment complex..."Hi I'm Fritz."  No you are not... "Yes, that is my name."  No REALLY what is the name your parents gave you?  "Fritz."  ^chirp chirp chirp^  "Really its Fritz and my brother is Hans."  Apparently your parents liked your brother better, because they named you after a dog.  "No.  Its a real name."  I know its a DOGS name. 
Apparently the appeal that Mommy Lisa had for dear old Fritz was that I gave him SH-T constantly...everything from calling him Fritz the Wonderdog to telling him his neon running shorts were a desperate attempt to hold onto his youth.  Ahhh, we were quite the match.

But this was the view from my cool apartment!

Okay - someone I follow bloggged with this meme today - and I kind of liked it, so...And now I follow the Daily Dose of Reality too.p.s. Dude...buy your URL if it is available!

1 - Ever take a s**t in the woods?
When I was on a Girl Scout canoe trip in the Boundry Waters...yes.

2 - If you won $1,000, what's the first thing you would do with it besides give me a cut?
Sorry, no cut for you.  I would spend it on some house projects right now.

3 - What's your favorite phrase?
Wow.   This is a toughie.  I am gonna say, "No Biggie" cuz I would like that phrase to come back in style with the rest of the crap from the eighties.  ;)

WAIT - Motherbitches.

No WAIT - Really?

4 - Fill in the blank - the world would be a better place if ______ left the planet.
all the other drivers...

5 - How do you take your coffee or tea?
Herbal tea.

Gee, am I boring? 

AND - I still need to play with Messy Mommy too!!! This week...



 

We went up to the RedBox for the very first time ever...

Boo Boo La La and I spent the weekend at my parents house because T-Bone wanted us out of the way while he scrapped the ceilings to prepare them for our home project, mentioned above.

My parents thought I should go get us a movie when I went to get lottery tickets and to fill up my car...This was the movie I thought would be least annoying.

It was pretty good.  The songs were not so memorable, the story was a nice turn on the boy meets girl theme...I love that Tiana was a strong person. 

BUT THE ANIMATION!!! WOAH!  simply spectacular.  Especially the firefly sequences.  Just beautiful!!!  See if for the animation alone.  Very good.

Happy Monday!  (ugh.) I stole that from Caribou Coffee this morning.  I tweeted them...wonder what they will say about my visit today...  You can follow me @MommyLisa!

...You might be a redneck.

Thursday was a lot of things for our little family....

Well, it was coupon day at Costco and T-Bone had his first night of league golf - A WEEK TOO EARLY FOR ME - and so I had to pick up Boo Boo La La from daycare. 

Which means I have to leave work early - a curse and a blessing.

I love going to Costco on the first day of the coupon because then I am sure they have everything...and Boo Boo loves their cheese pizza, churros and berry smoothies...so we all win. 

Read: Mommy does not need to cook, YEAH!

or as Boo Boo does it with a fist pump and a YESSSSSS! quietly, but forcefully.

Several months ago Boo Boo noticed a sign outside of Costco and asked,

Mama, what does that sign say.

No guns allowed in Costco.

NO GUNS in Costco?  You can't SHOOT in Costco?

No.  No guns allowd.

She seemed to take that now as a fact.  Fast Forward to Thursday as we are walking into Costco.

Mama, no guns allowed in Costco.  You can't shoot PEOPLE in Costco.

Uh, yeah.

But, you can shoot SQUIRRELS outside of Costco, just not inside Costco. (you realize this is all said at four-year-old volume.)

Right.  No shooting.

Yup, you can shoot SQUIRRELS outside of Costco though.  Just not IN Costco.

Okay.... (I notice some lady giving ME Maude Face...sigh) Here Boo Boo, give the man Mama's card.

Yessssss! (and a fist pump)

End scene.

Chocomize Friday Video - Sooooo YUM!

Okay - so I got FREE chocolate from Chocomize because I won a contest on Let's Have a Cocktail...but

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

It was darn good if I do say so myself.
I created three custom chocolate bar types:
Dark Chocolate, Sea Salt and Caramel (T-bone and I opened this last night and it was delicious!)
Dark Chocolate, Cayenne Pepper and Currants
Milk Chocolate and Hazelnuts - that one is tame I know, but I wanted to try the milk chocolate...

So, Thank you JennyMac for the contest - and thank you Chocomize for giving me a new obsession!

p.s. I ordered it Monday and got it YESTERDAY...packed very well!
p.p.s. I told them one of my favorite chocolate creations was black pepper and lavendar and I would probably be ordering that next...they emailed me BACK and told me they tried it and it was wonderful!

Top Three Thursday - "Guilty" Celebrity Crushes...hmmmm

I liked the idea of this meme a lot!

...because really?  I have posted who my Top Five are in the past (except now I would swap out Letterman for Hugh Grant...

(so cute!)

...and now I can tell you the "dirty little secret" celebrity crushes I have...

#1 Steve Burns

Before I was even THINKING of having kids I was in love with Blue's owner Steve.

When I worked radio in Indy I was on from 7 to midnight...my late mornings and afternoons at home got me the opportunity to discover "Blue's Clues"...don't judge.  It was veggie-time for me before a show.

I fell hard for Steve, I wanted to marry him!

#2 Dr. Michael Cohen

Yup.  I love this book and this pediatrician...

I even reviewed this book.

#3 Wooderson - Yes, I love Matthew too...

HOWEVER, the first thing I ever saw him in was Dazed & Confused...and I was in L-O-V-E!

So hop to it people...who are YOUR Guilty Celebrity Crushes???