"If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me and I could fly down and eat them because I hate that song." - Jack Handy, SNL Deep Thoughts

1. These Are The Days - 10,000 Maniacs
2. Satellite - Dave Matthews Band
3. Fix You - Coldplay
4. Jimmy Olsen's Blues - Spin Doctors
5. Why Georgia - John Mayer
6. Something To Be Proud Of - Montgomery Gentry
7. 1985 - Bowling For Soup
8. Only The Lonely - Chris Isaak
9. Lullaby - Dixie Chicks
10. 29 - Ryan Adams

Bonus: Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake

"Mama, Mama. It's your birthday, you haf-ta wake up!
We got you some really neat presents. Come open your presents."
So, I open my presents and get lots of great candy! After all the presents are opened and the candles blown out, Thing 3 says to me "Mom, can I have your candy now?"
Sure.
Happy Birthday, Motherboard!

Would you like to hear the latest exploits of my "little Thelma and Louise?" I would like to say that it was Little Thelma that was helping Thing 3 to come up with her crazy ideas. But, alas, I can not. All of the crazy antics of Thelma & Louise are straight from the mind of Thing 3. I had this confirmed to me yesterday when I came home from a church meeting to Thing 3's head looking like it was soaking wet.
It wasn't wet.
It was greasy.
Yes.
Greasy.
Jefe had already washed her hair twice... but it was still greasy!
Greasy.
Lets get real people. Where on earth does she come up with these ideas?
I asked her what had happened. She said "Well. I decided that I wanted my hair to be pink."
Oh really? I said. Pink huh? "Yes Mama. Pink. So I took the Pink chapstick, and painted my hair pink."
Oohhhhhh. I see. That's actually chapstick in your hair... and that lovely fruity smell isn't my clean house!?
Right. OK.
Yes she really did take an entire tube of chapstick, and "painted" her entire head with it!! Makes perfect sense to me. Pink chapstick means that you would have pink hair right?!
In her book it does.
"Thing 3, help me help you. You have been coming up with some amazing ideas. Please tell Mommy all of your amazing ideas and I will help you execute them so that they have better results. We could have gotten this really cool hairspray that would turn your hair pink."
REALLY? Can we get it now?
Uhhh. No.

I hope and PRAY this is not indicative of what is coming for me in the years to come...
Holy crap if it is!

Thing 3 has this friend, whom we will call Little T.
Its really fun to see that she has this little friend. The first thing she wants in the morning when she wakes up is a cuddle from Jefe and I and then "can I play with Little T?"
There have been days, when Little T is out of town, that we have said if you say her name 1 more time, you are grounded from her when she gets back!!
Really.
We have.
It gets THAT obnoxious.
When they get together they play so nicely together. I never hear anything from them, just two happy little girls playing, and laughing! They like to go dig in the backyard for bugs. Thing 3 loves bugs, and Little T knows how much she loves bugs. She will find a bug, and run all the way to our house (all 3 houses away) screaming "Thing 3 I found a rollie pollie!! "

However, lately they have been quite the little "Thelma and Louise"!
And I am not even kidding. Who would have thought that 2 little 4 year old girls could create such havoc?! I totally understand the whole Lord of the Flies now!
Seriously.
Jefe said something to the 2 of them when they were together, and it made Thing 3 cry... Little Thelma over there got all mad and started yelling at Jefe cause he made her friend cry. "You're not being nice to my friend!"
Uhh. Ok.
Thats Loyalty. Yelling at an adult for your friend!
Lately their exploits have gotten bigger and well... badder... is that even a word? It has gone from loosing all my silverware and bowls in the backyard to bug excavations to the bird feeder being dumped out and "planted" in the backyard. The mattresses in the bedroom being flipped over and hanging off the bed to make them a fort...
Now.
Just this week let me tell the exploits of Little Thelma & Louise.
On Monday, they decided they wanted candy. So they got the jumbo bottle of vitamins and started chowing on them. They had locked themselves in the bathroom and as soon as I tried to get in they were yelling "We're not doing anything wrong". Once I got in there, they had their hands hidden behind their backs and their mouths stuffed with vitamins. I FREAKED out... made them spit the vitamins out and then drink giant glasses of milk. Why milk? I dunno. I thought that sounded like a good idea. I immediately called poison control... thankfully poison control said they would've had to eat 35+ vitamins a piece for there to be a need to rush to the emergency room.
Then the next day they decided they wanted to feed the birds.
So. They took the GI-NORMOUS bag of bird food and threw it all over the driveway. Then they started making giant piles of bird food for the birds to come eat from. That little escapade took me over an hour to clean up. We also had the destroyed bedroom with the mattress all funky for their fort.
The next day was when they were hair stylists. Please Thelma and Louise, go to school first!
Now today Thelma & Louise have become artists. Full on artists, resembling Picasso or Rembrandt.
What did they paint you ask?
Yes.
PAINT!!!
Well.
Not the walls.
That of course would've been to easy.
Not the floors, that wouldn't have been any fun.
Not paper, how boring Mom!
No they chose a living object to paint.
My DOG is now lovely shades of green, yellow, red and blue.
Yes they did.
They painted the dog.
AND THE DOG LET THEM.
I guess the Dog really didn't have a choice in the matter.
I mean its not like she could say "UHHEM. Excuse me, but I do not want to be used as your painting easel. Please do not paint my entire body a rainbow of colors!"
NO.
Boxer dog can not do that. So boxer dog sat there and let them paint her.
Her entire body.
All over.
It's a good thing I walked in when I did, cause they were starting to work down her backside!

Sheesh.
Thelma & Louise... This is going to be a LONG summer!

How nerdy am I that I know that today is my dogs birthday?
Pretty nerdy!
She's 6 today.
You would think that she would stop acting like a complete retard, but no luck.
For her birthday, she's getting one of THESE.
Grin.

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other." - Jack Handy (SNL Deep Thoughts)

1. If Mama Ain't Happy - Eddie Coker
2. The Lucky One - Alison Krauss
3. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
4. Stay - Alison Krauss
5. Clocks - Coldplay
6. Is She Really Going Out With Him (Acapella) - Joe Jackson
7. Baby Hold On - Dixie Chicks
8. Wonderful Tonight - Michael Buble
9. The Lighthouse's Tale - Nickel Creek
10. Over You - Daughtry

Bonus: Sweetest Thing - U2

Thing 3 HAD long, beautiful hair. Practically down her back. Well. At least to the middle of her back. When she would let me REALLY fix it-- put stuff in it and blow it dry-- it was stunning!
WAS.
Past tense.
She has a cousin, Colorado cousin, that she just loves to pieces. This cousin has short hair. Thing 3 decided that she wanted short hair...
Oh yes she did.
She cut her hair.
Again.
I was combing her hair last night, before bed, and screamed "Oh My Gosh! What happened to your hair??" She had large chunks of hair missing. All over her head. Sections of it had been cut up to her chin. It was quite the hack job! She started to cry, 'cause she thought I was telling her that she looked ugly.
No baby. You're not ugly. We just have to go visit a real hair cutter person now. Jefe explained to her that Daddy's don't cut their own hair. Mommy's don't cut their own hair. Thing 1 doesn't cut her own hair... and Thing 3's should cut their hair either. But I wanted short hair like Anonymous Colorado cousin, Mama.
Uhh. OK. But, next time can we chat about it before you take the scissors to your hair?
She cried the whole time she was getting her hair cut today. I don't want it cut now, she screamed. Uhhh... its a titch late for a change of heart sweetie! I was worried about how it would all turn out, but I have to say that she looks darling with her hair all cut up to her chin! Actually, it will be super easy for us to take care of this summer!
Whew.
She is all spiffed up. And the scissors have been hidden!

Balboa park! I wish we would've known that everything was closed on Mondays. We should have done Balboa park on Sunday when all the cool stuff was there... free concerts, united nations village with food... it was an awesome park! Not to mention all the museums... a must visit again!

The San Diego Temple! What an amazing site to come around the bend on the interstate and have that building burst out at you! AWESOME!

Hotel Del Coronado. We ate an amazing meal on Coronado! Yummy halibut with macadamia nut sauce. Just thinking about it now.. yumm! This place really was quite awesome and quaint!







This photo was taken on top of a moving bus. Pretty good shot if you ask me! My good friend, Louisiana chick, suggested that we eat here. Come to think of it, she suggested pretty much everything that we did... Good job Louisiana Chick! You made awesome suggestions!


What an awesome awesome awesome mall...Horton Plaza!! I would've liked to just hang there some more, but it was getting late when we finally hit that place... Too cool!
These beautiful flowers were all over San Diego. They were like trees or some crazy thing! There was also jasmine everywhere... WOW! Did that stuff ever smell sooo good! I wish it would grow here in the desert. I heard that I could plant it as a potted plant, and then just move it inside for the winter. I just might have to do that, cause it has an amazing aroma!

This was taken from Seaport Village. We had a blast there, and spend 1/2 a day there. There was yummy Greek food, and then yummy ice cream, all on the ocean.... Lots of fun shops to hang out in... I really liked that place!



This was our first night there.... I was a little psycho about eating in Old Town (which BTW is my favorite place in San Diego) at this Mexican restaurant... we had to hike all over Old Town to find the one that I had wanted to eat at, The Cosmopolitan... and I am glad that everyone was patient with me cause it was definitely the best Mexican food ever!! The other place we ate at before we left was The Old Town Mexican Cafe, and it had the best tortillas I have ever tasted! The first place we ate had awesome enchiladas and the second place had amazing tacos!! YUM! I found these two restaurants online in the San Diego magazine, and they were listed as the top 2 best places in San Diego for Mexican food. (see how freaky I am about my food? Researching out restaurants... I mean what kind of crazy person does that besides me??)
Yes siree! I would have to agree! Amazing Mexican food!!

Good grief! Todays Random 10 Friday is wicked, kickin', screamin' AWESOME!!
I couldn't have made a playlist this scha-weet if I had tried to do it myself!! I LOVE it when that happens!!!
Have a rockin' day people! School is out today! Yeah!?!

1. Hot Cookin' - G. Love & Special Sauce
2. Blue & Lonesome - Alison Krauss & Union Station
3. Let Me Down Easy - Chris Isaak
4. Home - Daughtry
5. Wonderwall - Ryan Adams
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
7. Idiot Boyfriend - Jimmy Fallon
8. But You Know I Love You - Alison Krauss
9. Magic - The Cars
10. When In Rome - Nickel Creek

Bonus: Shadowlands - Ryan Adams
And just cause its the last day of school: Somebodys Crying - Chris Isaak

Thing 3 found a Lady bug yesterday. My oh my. Was she ever excited. She started squealing at the top of her lungs... trying to catch that silly little bug. It was quicker than you would think... keeping just out of her reach...
Once we got that little lady bug caught, she lovingly looked at it and then said:
"Oh Mama! I'm so 'a-cited' to have a lady bug. I never see'd one in real before. I only see'd 'em in da books!"
Seeing the world through the eyes of my children...
Priceless!

"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates." - Dave Barry

1. Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake
2. Wonderwall - Ryan Adams
3. Let Me Touch You For A While - Alison Krauss
4. Galileo - Indigo Girls
5. New Years Day - U2
6. Cupids Chokehold (feat. Patrick Stump) - Gym Class Heroes
7. Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
8. A Message - Coldplay
9. Typical - Mute Math
10. The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani

Bonus: Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.

I'm Back! I'm up and running! YEE HAW!!
Thanks to the generous donation of my sister, Ima10cow, I now have a working, functioning computer. I am soooo happy! I am now saving for one of those spiffy little flat screen monitors so that I can move the computer into the kitchen. Much better location. When I work on the computer, I feel like I have been banished to a cave!
Anyway. I'm back. Sigh. Did you miss me? LOL.
It's Random 10 Friday people. What are you listening to?

1. It's Not Over - Daughtry
2. When The Stars Go Blue - Tim McGraw
3. When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss
4. My Town - Montgomery Gentry
5. Whats Up - 4 Non Blondes
6. New Years Day - U2
7. Wanted Dead or Alive - American Idol Season 5
8. 29 - Ryan Adams
9. When You Know - Shawn Colvin
10. Someday We'll Know - New Radicals

Bonus: Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega

OK.
So my computer is still broken. I think the reality is that my computer has gone to computer heaven.
It has ceased to exist.
Gone.
Goodbye little computer. You were such a good little computer, always willing to help me out at a minutes notice. Full of so much wisdom and knowledge. Oh how I will miss you, my little computer. sniff sniff

I was in San Diego this past weekend. Yee-haw it was a total blast!! I hadn't been there in well over 10 years... so it was a lot of fun to get re-acquainted with the city. I would LOVE to take my little family down there! We were able to have some amazing food! Those of you in computer land that know me know that food is a major deal to me. And boy oh boy, did we have some amazing food! YUM!
I have so much to update you all on. The trip was a smashing success! I have all sorts of photos to upload... proof that we didn't kill each other. lol.
I will do that tonight when Jefe gets home from work with HIS laptop. I have really upped the campaign for my own laptop. It is a necessity now. How does a family function without a computer? I think that it is almost impossible now. I am getting desperate!
Must. Have. Laptop. NOW.

I was unable to post before I left on the trip that Thing 2 took first place in the Pinewood derby at church. Yup. First place. Little stinker. He and Jefe really worked hard on that car... they only used the stuff that the church lady gave them... and just painted the crap out of it! They even accidentally broke one of the wheels, and had to superglue it back together! But, if I'm lying I'm dying, Thing 2 won the whole deal. He was clueless as to what really was going on with the whole thing. He was having so much fun running around racing the kids. Jefe had to really explain-- in depth-- as to what really happened! I think he would've been just fine if he would've taken 3rd place or no place at all... he was just having fun.
Anyway... I have much to post, and will do it later tonight with photos and all. I know. You are all just holding your breath in great anticipation of my posts... hee hee
This whole using the Internet at the library thing really puts a kink into my life...
A Great Big Kink!

I just wanted to give a shout out to my sister, Islandmom and her new website... Fontologie.com
It's a pretty sweet site and if you like fonts, like me, you will totally dig this website.
She is pretty talented, and I find myself hoping to be her when I grow up. Go check out her site and then go and tell all your friends!!

"The look, it was like something out of the Adams Family." Simon Cowell, American Idol


1. Mayberry - Rascal Flatts
2. Firefly - Tony Bennett & Kermit the Frog
3. Life is a Highway - Rascal Flatts
4. Ebay - Weird Al
5. Speed Of Sound - Coldplay
6. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
7. Geek In The Pink - Jason Mraz
8. On The Way Down - Ryan Cabrera
9. Never Know - Jack Johnson
10. You & I Both (Live) - Jason Mraz

Bonus: When You Come - Crowded House
And just cause its a nice day.... Sleeping To Dream - Jason Mraz

Thanks to Pandora.com I was able to get this here little list put together, since I had to sign that stupid (we don't say stupid mama) contract to not download crap onto Jefe's laptop. Check it out, its a pretty slick little sight. You can type in an artist or song that you really like, and then the music gods will find all sorts of music that is similar...
Scha-weet! Rock on!
What are you playing?

OK. I sort of disappeared off the face of the earth here for a little while. Let me explain why. On Tuesday, I was sitting, happily I might add, playing on the computer. Thing 3 decided that she should climb up onto the desk to "play witch you mama". She used the actual motherboard for the computer to help boost herself onto the desk... see whats coming? The computer tipped over, and ceased to exist. It no longer will even turn on. I think that it is now beyond resurrection. Its dead and gone. I just need to have that little funeral for it!
Sigh.
So, I have been yanked from a world of being connected to an antiquated world that I do not understand how I even survived! I mean, lets be real people.
Google.
1 word.
Google. How did we ever make it through school without this amazing device? If I want to know something, rather than taking the old school way of actually researching at the library, I go to the source of ALL knowledge,-- Google and there it is, my answer, in 2.1 seconds.
Amazing! Jefe says that Google is really just another word for God.
He (God) is all knowing, and so is Google.
Coincidence? I wonder.
Anyway... I have been disconnected from the world for a week. I had to do some major groveling to get to use this little laptop here... Jefe's laptop. I had promise him a little of this and a little of that... sign a waiver and a contract that I wouldn't download anything... meaning no fonts (gasp) no music (bigger gasp) nothing... sigh. But, my little Internet friends, that was worth it. Just to be connected again.
I feel human... well as human as can be expected!

I made a little proposal to Jefe... I would move all the bookcases from the family room, and get a recliner for him, take the desk in the office down and make a reading room if we could in exchange get a laptop to have in the kitchen to use... all of us use. He hates the bookcases in the family room, he wants a reading room in the office. I think that's a fair exchange don't you??
As you can see, I am pumping up my campaign efforts for a laptop. I had one at one time. But, Jefe gave it to a single mother that needed a computer. I hope she likes it. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad we could help her out. I am just missing my laptop right now, especially since I don't have a computer. Oh well. As Jefe says, no good deed goes unpunished... I'm sure that's not really true. But. People. I Want a Laptop.
Maybe I should start an Internet campaign and start taking pay-pal donations? Humm. That is something to think about!
Ta-ta for now.

Why does he get a laptop?