My favorite quote of the week....

So is this why....

Girl Next Door

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I unwrapped lotion instead of sexy lingerie from DH on Valentine's Day. Yes, this is me demure... pure...sweet... innocent. :D

As weird as...eating fresh pumpkins

Today my oldest bambino dulce, Buddy, and I had a little conversation that still has me confused and bemused at the same time. Buddy, age 8, asked if he could go to the gym with me. He wanted to practice basketball before his afternoon game. When I finished my workout and went to sign him out of the childcare, err I mean "play place" our conversation started.

Me: Yo, dude you ready to jam?
Dulce son (looking at me as if he has no idea who I am): Huh?
Me: Hey bud let's rock and roll. We've got to hit Target and get a ball before your game at 2.
Dulce son: Mom?
Me: Ah, yeah.
Dulce son: You are acting wierd.
Me: Weird? *raising one eyebrow and talking out the side of my mouth* Who me?
Dulce son: You are being so weird! *shaking his head and looking down*
Me: Well, who do you think you inherited it from?

Dulce son: I'm not wierd!


Buster (dulce son #2) is wierd.


Dad is wierd...


and now YOU ARE WIERD!


But, I'm not wierd.


Me: Ah, babe, our whole family is wierd


except for the Baci-galoop (dulce son #3)
and that's only because he's too young yet to be wierd.

Dulce son: No, you and I aren't wierd mom. You know who is wierd?
Me: Who's wierd?
Dulce son: My friend Matt, he is wierder than eating fresh pumpkins.
Me: *blank stare*
Dulce son: ...wierder than eating fresh pumpkins off the vine.
Me: Wow, that is wierd.

I think I'll keep that one.

Tip for the Day

Here is my tip for the day: If you happen to be happily singing along to Check on It whilst chopping red peppers and onions for a little fajita feast and the knife happens to slip and is about to fall to the floor - DO NOT... I repeat... DO NOT cave into your automatic reflex of trying to grab said falling knife. Or the result will be...

Much blood.

Many screaming children.

A spouse who nearly passes out after insisting, "Here, let me look at it."

Long wait in a waiting room full of coughing, hacking, and a general germ-a-poluza to get stitches.

Yeah, so if you find yourself in that kitchen situation. Be smart, override you impulse to catch and let the knife fall - just make sure to jump back or you'll get your foot instead.

4 Me?

Okay, so Ms. Halushki the
stinker meme-ed me. I'm not even sure how to punctuate that. I'm
sure Sister Mary Ann is rolling in her grave after all those lessons on sentence diagrams and correct punctuation in 7th grade language arts at Holy Family. "Jesus-Mary-Joseph! She can't figure out the difference between a verb and a noun. Oh, father in heaven! She can't figure out when to put a comma or hyphen. Save us Lord Jesus."

Anyway back to this *meme* thing. I guess you just dive into it and
start yabbering about yourself.

Four Jobs I've had... hmmmm... keeping this PG right?

1. Lifeguard/Swim Instructor/City Pool Manager by day cocktail waitress by
   night


2. Residence Life Coordinator at large University (read -Dorm Babysitter)


3. Therapist and Biofeedback Instructor


4. Human napkin for my offspring

Four Movies I could watch over and over

1. Moonstruck


2. Joy Luck Club


3. Fried Green Tomatoes


4. Like Water for Chocolate

Four Places I've Lived

1. Denver, Colorado


2. Rome, Italy


3. Manhattan.....................Kansas


4. Cumming, Iowa (I'm not kidding it really exists... and it is spelled that way. I always blushed when I wrote down my return address)

Four Places I've vacationed

1. Banff, Canada


2. Disney World


3. Venice, Italy


4. Gulf Shores, AL between hurricanes...

Four favorite dishes

1. Shrimp scampi and stuffed Artichokes with a Pinot and warm French bread


2. Tomatoes fresh from the garden... still warm from the sun... with salt and pepper with some fresh mozzarella and a drizzle of evoo


3. Ben & Jerry Cherry Garcia and a slice of devil's food cake - I know you think it's dessert but for me it's the entree


4. DH's chicken and sausage gumbo - I proposed to him after tasting it for the first time and we weren't even dating... seriously.

Four websites I visit daily

1. CNN (it's an illness)


2. Google


3. Work database website


4. dailyOm.com

Four places I'd rather be

1. Hawaii


2. Disney World


3. Small Cafe in Paris - drinking cafe au lait and eating a fresh croissant
   with butter


4. Having lunch with a friend on Pearl Street in Boulder, CO

Four people I'm tagging: Everyone I know who blogs has been tagged
except:

1. Husband - who told me to forget it. He's swamped at
   work.


2. Salty

"Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religous experience out of removing burned on cheese from the grill of a toaster oven."
- Erma Bombeck