Category: Holidays

Garage sale finds

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Check out the Halloween decoration I picked up at a garage sale today for only a buck. Nice! I don’t usually buy stuff when we take the kids garage-saling, but I couldn’t resist. I just love Halloween stuff!

The kids made out too. The Girl got Disney Scene It and The Boy got Trivial Pursuit For Kids Nickelodeon Edition. Together they go for $55 new and they only paid $3 each. Other than a missing character (Mickey) in the Disney game, they were both in mint condition.

I’m not ashamed to tell you that the only Trivial Pursuit game I’ve been able to win to date is this kids edition. I don’t watch any of the shows they ask questions on, but I’m very good at making an educational guess. I also won Scene It. Yea, I guess I’m a bitch like that, haha. But the kids are so cool that they were happy for me and not upset they didn’t win. As far as they are concerned as long as their father doesn’t win, the universe is still in balance. LOL!

Making lemonade

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I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. We had a bit of that situation recently. Nothing earth shattering, but we had made plans for Fourth of July, completely forgetting that this is Joe’s year to have the kids. We were kinda bummed at first, not because we don’t want them around, just because we wouldn’t be able to do what we had planned, plus having them one day during the week requires a lot of commuting which sucks. But what can you do?

To avoid having to drive all the way to our place just to drive the kids back home (can’t keep them overnight since we leave for Indianapolis the next day), we decided we should take them to see my parents. My mom loves her role as step-grandma and never declines an opportunity to have us over. Except instead of her making tons of food for us, we’re going to bring steaks, hamburgers, and hot dogs and grill for everyone. I even bought some corn dogs this weekend.

I’ll admit, we do have an ulterior motive – we don’t want my dad manning the grill because he tends to ruin the burgers by cooking them far too long. I like my meat nice and juicy and I’m getting better at grilling all the time, so I relish the opportunity to show off a bit.

Now I’m looking forward to the 4th instead of dreading all the driving around.

Memorial Day

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I had to say something about the chirping birds in my last entry, didn’t I? They would not shut up this morning. For whatever reason they were more obnoxious than usual.

I just ate the most delicious dinner. We grilled two t-bones and made two huge baked potatoes to go along with them. The steak came out very tender and flavorful; didn’t even need the A-1. I think we get better at grilling every year.

Earlier Joe dyed my hair… twice. The first time there were a few spots that didn’t take. We went to Sally Beauty Supply to pick up more hair-dye and got some tips on how to re-do it from the helpful staff. I should shop there more often – they have good products, reasonable prices, and great service. After Joe did the touch-ups, the coloring is much more uniform. Overall it turned out a bit darker than I was expecting, but it looks good, so I’m happy.

Didn’t do much else today except clean and do laundry. We got up a little later than usual and did some grocery shopping, then spent a good part of the afternoon dealing with my hair.

Yesterday we brought a bucket of chicken and corn-on-the-cob to my parents’ house for a pre-Memorial Day celebration. I’m guessing that no one is going to want to play Pictionary with us anymore since we kicked butt at it, as always. It was fun, even if Joe spent hours trying to figure out why they are having so many problems with their DSL connection. I’m so frustrated with it that I think they should switch to cable and be done with it. We never have issues with our cable internet connection.

I’m sad that we’ve reached the end of our three-day weekend. I could get used to staying home and never working again. Who wouldn’t, right? At least we’ve got another extended weekend coming up since we took Friday off to take the kids to Indiana Beach. I think I can handle working only three days this week.

Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday!

Friday Fill-in #15

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Friday Fill-in #15 – Easter

1. My favorite thing in an Easter basket is chocolate!
2. Easter means candy and bunnies to me.
3. The best part of the chocolate Easter bunny is the ears.
4. My memories of Easter as a child include dyeing eggs and eating rye bread with the butter lamb.
5. Red jelly beans are the ones I eat first.
6. I like green grass in my Easter basket!
7. On Easter, I’ll be hiding plastic eggs for the kiddies.

Bunnies and blades

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Today was a very productive day off. We went to Walmart, the mall, a book store, Petco, and got lunch at the New China Buffet all before noon! That’s because we went to bed at a decent hour so we were able to drag our butts out of bed before 7:30 am. This new sleeping schedule is great!

We went to the mall to look for a birthday present for the boy, as well as look at mattresses. Both attempts were unsuccessful. The boy wants a strategy guide for a game that’s been out for over a year which is considered ancient these days, so we’ll have to scour the internet for it. None of the stores sell Simmons mattresses so we had no luck on that front either. But all was not lost; we did get two new Easter decorations and some bath towels at Kohl’s. We had just been talking about wanting more and wouldn’t you know it, Kohl’s had our towels 2 for 1. Nice! I don’t think we paid full price for them last time either. I really do love Kohl’s. They always have the best prices and their decorations can’t be beat. I mean, look at how cute this bunny and candy dish are. And both were only $5.19 (reduced from $12.99). Score!

The movie theatre at the mall has been closed for renovations and I’m looking forward to when it opens this summer. I hope the prices are reasonable because I’m getting a little worried about the future of the theatre we currently patronize. The mall it’s in isn’t looking good. Every time we go there we notice more and more empty retail space and it’s rather alarming. I can think of more than five empty stores just off the top of my head and we only walked around half of the first level before before our movie on Saturday. If they close the mall down we’re going to have to look for a theatre elsewhere and I refuse to pay $7 for a matinee. So I hope the one closer to home ends up being ok; although I wouldn’t be surprised if they charge more to help recoup the cost of all the renovations. :p

Oh and we saw Blades of Glory which was pretty funny, albeit not as great as I was hoping (yet exceeding Joe’s expectations). I have a feeling it’s going to be one of those movies that gets funnier with every viewing. I’m sure we’ll see it a million times once it comes to cable.