Chookah

Friends

Recently I had some friends in town and we all went out and had some fun.  Here are some highlights.

The Twin Towers.  Sara is almost as tall as I am!

The girls. This much estrogen in the same place can't be good. (Sara, quit slouching!)

The crew.  Budweiser was doing a promotion that night and bought us several rounds of their fancy schmancy beer in metal bottles. By the time round three came around, I was done analyzing the marketing aspects of the promotion and settled in to admire the Bud-Mardis-Gras beads and other schwag flying about. (If you'll observe you'll see a man in a red shirt groping his wife.  That's my Scotty boy!)

Excedrin

Odds are, if you take two Excedrin Migraine tablets at 4:30 in the afternoon, you'll be up at 2 a.m. watching QVC and scrubbing your floorboards with 409 and a toothbrush.

(note: for those of us who suffer from migraines, don't even bother with any kind of Excedrin.  My migraines simply laugh at it.  Bring on the Oxycodone, Xanax and a hammer.)

My little metro

I'm raising a little metrosexual.

• If I pull out a shirt at a clothing store, he gives his opinion: "No, not that one... the purple one! That's a girl color."
• When we're getting dressed in the morning, he'll look at my clothes and pull out a pair of shoes for me - sometimes a good pick, sometimes they leave a little something to be desired (No, honey, the 4" heels don't do it for me, I'm wearing a tank top and shorts today).
• If we're in the decorating section in Ikea he'll look at a vase and tell me we need that vase, "It's a good one."
• Sometimes he wants "pineapple" hair (spiky), sometimes a "shark mohawk" and sometimes he must have it flat.
• He insists on brushing his teeth (not a bad thing at all).
• He likes slathering on chapstick (but not girl chapstick!)

Now, he's coming to me, shows me clothes that he's picked out and says, "does this match?".

On the upside, he's picking out his own clothes and getting (mostly) dressed by himself!  Whoo Hoo!

Behold, the midget closet.  Everything is within reach of a 41" child.

Sit Straight

Kid can't sit straight in a chair, just like me.  Another genetic defect showing it's face.

Bacation

Tonight I asked Sebastian if he wanted to go on a vacation.  He said yes, of course.  I asked him where he wanted to go - if he could go *anywhere* - what his ideal vacation would be.

Sebastian: "I want to go to the pet store, then the toy store, then the park."

Mom: "but if you could go anywhere you wanted?  The mountains, the desert, the jungle...  Do you want to go on the big boat and the fast boat at Lake Powell again?"

Sebastian: "mmmm, I like the big boat and the fast boat.  Are there sharks in the lake?

Mom: "No"

Sebastian: "Crabs?"

Mom: "No, but there are fish."

Sebastian: "(pause) I think I want to go the ocean.  Okay?  Is that a good idea? I want to go on an airplane to the ocean."

Mom: "That's a good idea.  I'll have to see how much money it's going to cost and if I have enough for us to go."

Sebastian: "Mom, I have money! I have money in my piggy bank, let's use that to go on bacation!"

Mom: "Honey, that's really sweet but you need to save that money, it's yours."

Sebastian: "But we could use this many (holds up 5 fingers and nods emphatically), that's okay.  Okay? Let's use my money and go on bacation."

How cute does this get?  He only has a basic understanding of money (what it is, what you buy with it and how you should save it) and he's willing to use his money for us to go on "bacation". Makes my heart melt.

New Do's

Behold the lack of hair!  Both Sebastian and I got haircuts.  The main difference between the two of us is that I still have hair and thus can still have bad hair days (like in this picture).

The Simple Things

It's the simple things that make my day:

• A call from an old friend
• Listening to a song from waaaay back that you loved but forgot about.
• A new tube of lipstick
• A clean bathroom
• Scaring the crap out of the smarmy car salesman as I haul ass up my hill during a test drive (that was fun! He *totally* had the white knuckles going)
• Finishing a project on your to-do list
• A dog that doesn't shed... oh, wait, this one's a pipe dream and off topic.
• An *awesome* cup o' joe