neglectful

i've been so neglectful of my blog for the last month or so. 


it's been busy here and seems to just keep getting busier! 


i'll keep this a fun blog today. 


dan, thomas and i had a blast at disney! it was so great having a vacation with just us! besides a few long weekends, that was a first for us...7 whole days, just us, doing what we want! of course we can't wait to go back! 


here's a few of my favorites!

 Donald!

awww!! 

my steak at le ceilier steakhouse in canada. those are cream cheese mashed potatoes. best lunch ever. definitely on the list to go back! 

 Magic Kingdom all dressed for xmas.

castle all lit up!

 cold morning at animal kingdom

jiminy cricket...who is no longer there!

 repeating a pic from last year

 his third favorite ride...the train to conservation station. we rode on "ecow" which translates to thomas the tank engine's passenger cars annie and clarabelle 

 orchids at animal kingdom

 eating his corns otherwise known as disney crack pop corn. 

checking out the money his g.g. gave him for his trip!

 the best night! asleep at 6.30 during dinner, he slept through being picked up and put down in the stroller and the bus ride back to the hotel. left him for about an hour or so like this...he slept 12 hours that night!

 cute new mickey and minnie set up!

 boy stuck in epcot, because of his adult beverage. no go cups there!

his favorite ride...the bus. from the hotel to the parks and back to the hotel.

BACON!!!

one of my other favorites...cookes of dublin at downtown disney. fish and chips!

 thomas watching richard marx

my inner pre-teen self was so excited!! ok, so was my 35 year old self!

 waiting outside our ride...carousel of progress

 his second favorite ride...the monorail.

christmas cuteness!

this moment

This Moment

{this moment} -  A single photo -  capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to remember.  I'll try and keep this a weekly thing. 

Happily painting his salt dough halloween shapes. we crafted all week long. it took a few days for the dough to dry (some are still drying) and i'm sure it'll take another week for all that glopped on paint to dry! 


to make your own salt dough...


1 cup of fine grain salt
1 cup of all purpose flour
1/2 cup to 1 cup of water


mix salt and flour together. make a well in middle of the bowl and slowly pour in water. mix together and add more water or flour if it's too watery or not watery enough.


throw some flour down and roll out on a flat surface. 

hurricane rant...+6

i watched the hurricane activities on tv last week. i'm glad the news people let everybody know how horrible a hurricane can be and all the stuff that goes with it, but never once did they ask "are you going to rebuild?"  


i guess i'm still bitter about that, 6 years later. i'm still bitter at how much help people get now after watching the people of NOLA suffer for a week. yup, bitter.  


i'm still seeing people with all the flooding in the north. yes flooding is horrible. i had over 7-8 feet of water in my house in chalmette. i got to wade thru the katrina sludge trying to see if there was anything to salvage. 


gross and disgusting. i can still "feel" the way i slipped and squished in the muddiness that was the kitchen. 


so now there's an article on msnbc.com about people cleaning up and what they lost. 


first off they get to go home, what 2 days after a storm. 


NOLA peeps were gone at least 5 weeks, some still aren't home. 


they're getting help, NOLA peeps didn't/won't get that help. 


there's more....but yes, i'm still bitter.


especially now that there's a depression/tropical storm brewing in the gulf and we're getting rain all weekend. 

four....

1. Four Places I Go

• walmart

• mom's house

• library for story time with thomas

• the bathroom

2. Four of my Favorite Smells

• disney world. there's just a certain smell there, no place else has it.

• the beach

• five guys burgers/fries

• dan and thomas

3. Four favorite Movies/Shows

• bridget jones 1

• big bang theory

• zac and miri make a porno

• anything on food network

4. Four recommendations

• take a nap everyday

• quit even if you need the money, it's just not worth the high blood pressure and extra stress

• always take your photos when you evacuate a hurricane

• eat chocolate whenever you want

tv

i've always been a tv kid. it's always on 24/7. 


the past 2 weeks since we've been home from baltimore, i've found i'm becoming less tolerant of it. 


i've never minded the background noise while cleaning and whatnot, but omg i'm about ready to rip the little bit of hair i have out!!


thomas has taken over the t.v. that's fine. cartoon noise doesn't bother me. 


it's the normal t.v. and the portable dvd player going at the same time with different shows. AHHHHHH!!


and if that's not bad enough, throw in when he takes "his" iphone and puts the sprout app on for even more cartoons. 


when he's sleeping i must hide the dvd's and portable dvd player. i just never remember! 


so right now i can hear him watching thomas in his room and i have no tv on in the bedroom. 


i think i've shocked my husband!! <3


plus the portable dvd player can't get broken, we have at least 3 trips in the next year we'll need it for! 


just 82 days until disney!!!

dining room

i'm working on getting our dining room painted. it's a boring ugly color...plain white or off white. whatever it is, it's ugly and boring. not to mention the ugly ass goldenrod curtains with shiny brass curtain rods. 

the crazy bitch got those and just raved about how wonderful they were. *eye roll*  the damn curtain rods don't work. how can that be wonderful?? 

so here's part of the room... as seen thru thomas' eyes on top of the table. see those ugly curtains. they don't even stay in the curtain clips....

a better shot from his 2nd party. the chairs and putting green are no longer in there. the chaise and another chair are in front of the curtains now with a little rug (that won't match when i paint) and a little side table. 

it's a pretty long skinny-ish room. 

i hate those damn doors. i managed to get the one in this pic off it's track today. idk how, but i did. the only good thing they are for is when i'm crafting at the table, i can shut them and let sushi in there with me. she's not allowed upstairs. that's vester's territory. 

oh and did i mention, i hate that damn carpet. who puts light beige in a dining room? crazy bitch! 

here's what i've come up with so far...

glidden's paint and primer in one. because whatever crazy bitch painted the walls with in this house SUCKS UP ALLLLLLL the kilz. i could kilz and re-kilz and it still sucks it up. 

the tester i bought of glidden p&p in eggshell, in 2 coats seems to not have gotten sucked up by the ugly paint. YAY! hooray!

for the ceiling...cause white is just too boring... arctic blue. it is paler on the paint swatch. think i may do the trim in it too. 

the wall color...steel blue. mom said it looked more like a gunmetal blue. it's different and not purple ;) 

and this is what started it. i bought this material during our evacuation to shreveport for hurricane gustave/ike. i was about 6.5 months preggo, so it's been awhile. i'm going to cover the chair seats in this. 

it's a super close up of the fabric. i stole the pic online, so i guess i can't be too picky with it. 

so now i just have to figure out curtains and the floor. for the floor i'm thinking acid wash the concrete and giving it a gloss finish. 

curtains...i just want plain curtains that will actually open and close. none of that pull the cord and the damn things don't move like now.

guess i now i just need to go buy paint...  

stop motion animation

since i've had my iphone, thomas has quickly taken to it. it didn't take him long to figure out the slide to unlock. didn't take him long to find the apps i d/l'd for him. 


he played toddler teasers FOOOOREVERRRRR. it's a shape game. free. the voice asks you which shape is a circle? and you press it out of the 3 or more choices. if you get it right, it cheers and claps. sooo right up his alley, because he'd cheer and clap too. 


i found the ABC's with animals and those cracked him up. man doing silly voices is hilarious. m mmmm mouse eek eek eek is the pattern. can you tell i've listened to that one a few times? 


after a few months those toddler apps just weren't cutting it. he's moved on to angry birds. i guess i should go buy the 3 angry bird apps, just to have more games for him since he likes them so much. 


angry birds comes in handy when he's fussing and we're out. 


also sprout t.v. i can pretty much repeat the little clips on that app. at least it's not that damn kid caillou. i want to hurt that cartoon. 


but the reason of this post, thomas has found the camera. i guess it was about easter time when he found it. he took over 100 paparazzi shots of himself. i have countless pictures d/l'd to my iphoto of his little head, face, legs, the floor, table. whatever may fascinate him at that moment. 


edit to add...my awesome friend tommy sent me a gif of these...

so here's the latest batch. it's a short gallery of his work from yesterday. 

this is the 2nd set. moved locations and included more than just his little face.