Randomness

I think my cat is over me taking photos of him...

I found a box in the basement and found these. You tube the song "I love onions" and you too can have the song trapped in your head all day. 

This was all stuff from my grandmas house....

Clown car drawer

I went on a decluttering clothing binge after Christmas and then came across clown car drawer.

This tiny little drawer held 81 pairs of socks. How does that even happen??

This led me to post it on facebook and ask everyone to count their socks. It seems that you either are a sock hoarder like me or barely have enough socks to survive. There is no in between.

Still Alice

Girls night out - combine this with some Famoso pizza salads and soup = perfect date.

Random

I do like frosty mornings...

Decorating

Apparently I fail at Halloween uploads....stare at some decorations that we had around the house.  :)

That's MY Tree

You might remember me posting this tree last year.  Every fall I walk to it during my lunch hour to see if its turning red yet.  It's a perfect climbing tree and the leaves are so huge.  Anyway without going on and on...here is the tree this year

Walking

I spent about 40 minutes walking through my neighborhood this afternoon. Just me. :) we lived near a new construction neighborhood and it was fun to watch all the activity going along. I discovered 4 new show homes in the area and made a mental note to visit them on our next free weekend. I have no interest in moving but like to wander the floor plans and get decorating ideas.

Of course by the time I was done my walk I had about 30 questions related to home building. Lol sometimes I feel like a 5 year old. Why? How come? Can they? Lol I need either an expert or a know-it-all to walk with me to answer these questions as they occur to me. 

Fluffing Up

Laying on the couch trying to sleep and turn my brain off, I wisely decided to play candy crush. As I madly began sliding candies  around, I felt a thump beside me and heard an almost  deafening purr start up.

"Hello Tucker" I whispered.

The noisy rumble was punctuated with a happy whirr and he began kneading the blanket beside me.

In the 9 year break between having our old cats and getting Tucker a month ago, there was one thing I missed the most... The kneading. Or fluffing up as I like to call it.

Tucker turned his attentions from the blanket to my stomach, certainly not caring if it was a little soft due to too many potato chips, instead finding it the perfect spot to prepare a little nest for himself. Settling into his preparations with a focus that only cats can have, I paused my candy crush game to enjoy the purring and impromptu massage. His purr reached lawn tractor levels as he ramped up his fluffing up of my stomach before stopping suddenly - perhaps realizing that preparing a nest on my stomach was entirely pointless since I was laying in my side.

With a small sound that I can only assume is disgust, Tucker leapt over me, turned around once and promptly fell asleep on my feet.

I smirked as he began to snore and turned my attention back to my phone only to realize that my mind had grown silent and I was ready to sleep. Defeating the world of candy can wait another day.  

Bamboo gone wild...

I was just cleaning up from supper and caught a glimpse of my bamboo from the corner of my eye. Apparently I don't pay attention often because I think its doubled in size. I eagerly await it becoming bean stock size so I can climb up and have a look around.

Cleaning Combs

That's right - I cleaned combs today.

I had my shower this morning, reached for my comb and stopped - ewwww! Product build up!

Years ago this would have resulted in me calling my Mom and being frustrated because it's curling season and she wouldn't have been home.  Today I used my iPhone and asked Siri how to clean combs.  20 min later my comb was sitting in a measuring cup of baking soda and water.  A couple hours later - it was completely clean.  I love the internet.  :)

I thought up a much more interesting post this morning but then I had a nap and it drifted away...

Testing the picture part

This is a test

This is my sons room and a Bellini I had last week.

Yay! Blogger app is fixed!

Let It Snow...

Ignore the sad garbage and recycling in the background.  It wasn't garbage day yet!!

We hadn't shoveled because... well there is no sad little excuse that explains it.

My husband took this picture and there is just something about the snow...

Fight against the zombies...

In case the zombie apocalypse comes in the winter...my husband is very prepared....

I think perhaps we have been watching a little too much Walking Dead.

Zombies in the window, the door....

on the steps...

and then just in case the snow blower isn't enough to take care of the unwanted visitors, this guy should be able to handle it....

Crunching Leaves

It's cold and I want a fireplace.  Nothing has changed there. 

I have a bunch of pictures stuck on my camera that it's time to download.  They made me think of warmer times.  During my lunch hours in the fall I would walk.  Looking for  a tree with red leaves. Not really caring if I didn't find it because any colored leaves will do. Enjoying the crunch crunch beneath my feet while enjoying the older houses with their old trees.

Just before the snow came I found this tree.  The leaves wanted to change to red but the weather changed first. It snowed and snowed and then froze.  The leaves fell off - still green.  Maybe next year.

Oh Christmas Tree

I let the kids completely decorate the tree this year.  At the very end I lifted the kids up high to decorate where they wanted to and I added another 3-4 decorations on my own.  Here was the the result.

I love how all the lower branches have multiple decorations on each branch.  I think I counted 5 decorations on one branch.

I kept it this way for the whole time that the tree was up.  It just fits how we are.

Mom of the Year!

Should I have hidden this reading material in a better place than in the magazine rack?

What about elevators?

As I rode the elevator alone today bobbing my head and in general acting like a fool, I wondered if others do this too.  When you are completely alone in the elevator do you stare at the numbers just as if the elevator was full?  Or...do you twirl, dance, sing, make faces and other goofy things?  Don't tell me that I am the only one....

Is there anything better than singing in the car?

I am a morning person.  I'll just put that out there.  I am usually up by 7am or 7:30am even on weekends...by choice.  Today I had the opportunity to drive in the morning blissfully alone.  This set my day off to a positive tilt as it does every time I get the chance to do this.  I plugged in my iPod and set it playing my favorite On-The-Go playlist. Then I sang in a loud and largely out of tune voice all the way to my destination.

Singing alone in the vehicle is one of the greatest happiness pills there is.  As I tuned back into the world around me this morning I noticed that no one else was singing.  They were all yawning, scowling, talking on the phone, drinking coffee or staring zombie like in front of them.  Why aren't they singing?  Do they know what they are missing out on?

Sometimes I feel like I have discovered things that no one else knows or that I exist in a separate universe than everyone else... and that's ok.  Sometimes I try to fit back in with these people who don't sing and I sit silently in the car.  Almost as though against my will my toes will start wiggling or my fingers will tap the steering wheel in time to the music.  Then out of the corner of my mouth I will start muttering the lyrics, trying to keep my face impassive and zombie-like.  Eventually (usually when the light turns green) I will abandon these restraints and begin to enjoy the moment fully once again.

I haven't yet progressed to doing this when I am not alone in the car.  I'm just not that mean...

Do Lilacs Really Smell Like Urinal Cakes?

This is the dwarf Korean lilac that we have in our front yard. We planted it last fall and was so excited to see so many blooms this spring.  I did snip a few and bring them in the house but my husband Mr.Cheerios doesn't share my opinion on them.  He feels quite strongly that lilacs smell exactly like urinal cakes.  Not having been around a lot of urinal cakes, I tend to give him the hairy eyeball when he makes such statements.  The other part of my brain wonders if he might have a point somewhere in his wild accusations.  Rather that seek out a urinal cake for me to sniff, I'd rather ask you... do lilacs and urinal cakes share the same smell?

Bucket List Update

Let's catch up!

* My Mom taught me how to knit one evening at her house.  I have not picked it up since but I had better try soon or my dream of knitting something recognizable will fail.
* My friend Heather and I met during my lunch hour and we went to the Antique marketplace.  I didn't buy a thing and wasn't even tempted to buy anything.  Am I losing my touch?
* I signed up and attended a scrapbook retreat in Calgary
* I don't actually remember what I got done - if anything.  LOL  I will have to go back through the projects I brought and see if I can tick any more off the bucket list based on that.
* I did purge quite a few supplies from my scrapbook room.  More work is needed.  :)   Or maybe just more scrap time is needed.
* I do not move my butt 3 times a week.  Some weeks I do well with that and other weeks I fail completely.  The last 2 times I moved my exercise bike into my scrap room and watched PVR'd episodes of Days of Our lives.  I kept the remotes in the cup holder for convenience.  Hee Hee  That was fun.  I could do more of that.  I think I still am behind about 21 episodes.  I got addicted in University and now it's my guilty pleasure and stress outlet.  How can you watch that and NOT laugh your ass off?  I think I have perfected my own John Black eyebrow raise now and maybe even Friends Joey's "smell the fart" acting.  Almost ready to go pro with this and use it on real people...
* I thought about baking a pie.  Instead I played more Frontierville on Facebook.