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Surefire Way for Migraine Sufferers to Need a Sick Day

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Step 1:  Pick a night in which natural hormonal fluctuations coincide with a high pressure weather system.

Step 2:  Drink an entire bottle of tasty wine with a friend.

Step 3:  Eat two chocolate chip covered brownies.

Step 4:  Stay up until midnight playing with photos.

Step 5:  Eat one more chocolate brownie before bed for good measure.

Step 6:  Sleep.

Step 7: Wake up and drink three cups of coffee without eating breakfast.

Step 8:  Call in sick because if you’ve done everything right, you’ll be seeing migraine auras within the hour.

(By the way, I’ll classify this as my Dumbass Move of the Month.)

Hulu.com

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I had a new visitor today!  Skepticalsinner just happens to be a Hell’s Kitchen fan, and mentioned on my “I Love Gordon Ramsay” thread that hulu.com has free episodes.  Head on over to Skeptical’s Blog for more info.  Check it out!  The list of shows available, both old and new, is pretty impressive.  Thanks for the info Skeptical and welcome.  I’m thinking a Murder One, Season One marathon might have to be put on my calendar.  Unfortunately, Lost isn’t available.  Sorry Shrew…I know how badly you want to see it.  *tee*hee*

And had anyone heard of this show????

A Wiggly Post

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So, remember I mentioned that Fabulous Neighbors won tickets to see The Wiggles over the weekend?  The concert was at a local amusement park, and not only did they go to the concert, but they got the opportunity to spend time with the guys, and Neighbor Girl even got to ride a park ride with Anthony Wiggle!  🙂  They came home with this page of signatures for my Little Girl.

I took Little Girl and Baby Boy to see the concert while Zan worked on the deck.  (Big Girl wouldn’t be caught within 50 miles of the Wiggles for fear that a school friend might see her.)  We had a great time!  This is the third time I have seen them perform live, and they are truly in their element when they are interacting with an audience of laughing, dancing kids!  I regret that I was unable to snap any photos, but I was on my own holding Baby Boy high enough to see the stage, and making sure Little Girl didn’t fall off the picnic table she was standing on.  I considered hanging around outside their trailer in order to get a photo, but then I realized how much flack I would’ve gotten for being a Wiggles groupie, and opted to leave photoless.  😉

But I did manage to locate this video of the event on YouTube!!!  I must have been about ten feet behind this videographer, because this was the same view we had, only farther back.  🙂

Here’s another.

 

I declare Monday, June 9th, BonBon Day!

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Okay Ladies (and Zan…and Tojo if you’re watching)  I am declaring this coming Monday as BonBon Day….you know…let’s sit around and eat bon-bons all day BonBon Day? 

I have been in a bit of a lazy funk this week.  Of course, duty calls and I find myself half-arsing through my chores, never getting anything really accomplished, but feeling too guilty to actually do nothing.  So, I figure, if I take a “day off” (other than motherly duty type stuff) maybe I’ll get it out of my system and can go back to being productive.  It can’t be tomorrow or Friday, since I have too many responsibilities those days, and it can’t be the weekend, so that leaves Monday.  The only day with nothing on my calendar for the next few weeks. 

So who’s with me????  Pajamas, a good book, and of course, bon-bons.  No housework!  I won’t even get the baby dressed…he can have a PJ day too!  Only kid related care allowed.  Man, I have a lot to do this weekend to get ready for my big day off!  But it’ll be worth it.  So who’s with me?  We’ll exchange stories when it’s over. 

(And those of you who are working, don’t you feel a terrible griping in your stomach?  Or a sore throat that’s bound to become something awful by Monday?  *cough*cough*cough*  Do it…you know you want to.)

Back to the 80’s…the 1780’s that is…

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On Friday, Big Girl’s school held it’s Eleventh Annual Colonial Festival.  It is a full day event in which presenters and re-enactors come and teach the students about the Colonial way of life and period history.   They learn how wool from the sheep became clothing (seeing the process demonstrated from start to finish,) see a small encampment, witness musket and cannon fire, learn about tatting, colonial medical practice (complete with tools of the trade,) boatmaking, and food preparation over an open fire pit.  There are many more…eighteen in all.  It is a fantastic day and the kids really love it.

I took several photos.  Unfortunately, due to the fact that most of them have students in them, I can’t post them without a release.  But, here are a couple that stand out: