A few photos

Olivia fulfilling her grandiose plans of building the tallest tower ever. Olivia and her BFF Ellie at the park. Finally, Chad working hard on the desk. Note, tools are involved.

Also

I am officially adding learning to cook everything I love to eat to my life list. This includes the time consuming stuff like tamales and mole. I can already cross off croissants. Chad sent me to a class for Christmas, that was a bitch, but what a sense of accomplishment.

Recaplet

So I know that I have been MIA lately, but if you saw my calendar for the past few weeks, yo'd know why. So here is a short catch up. Olivia is going through a phase where everything has to be green, it is her new favorite color. So we are eating green foods, not all bad, but it is starting to grow tiresome. However, it does fit in nicely with cutting out red meat, which is going pretty well for me. Less well for Chad who realized when I returned from grocery shopping that there was in fact no red meat. I think he is hording the pound I have left in the fridge like a feral animal. I plan to mollify him by bringing in more fish.

You may have noticed that my typing is a little off, that is because I am still geting used to the new laptop. I really dragged my feet on this one, but Chad made extra money selling his car so it was hard for me to say no. Now, i don't know what I was thinking. 1) I am blogging in bed while watching The Daily Show instead of in the cold office in the basement 2) I am running three programs AT THE SAME TIME.

Unfortunately for Chad, my one requirement for a new computer was a new desk so that we could both work in the office at the same time. The catch was I didn't want to pay for a desk, so I hatched a scheme to build one. Then I got a horrible cold, so here I am trying to convince reluctant husband unit at 8 PM on Friday night that two mismatched doors can make a desk. So know we are building a desk.

Other than that, it is a lot of yard work. Luckily this year Olivia is much more into it. Mostly worm hunting, though on Tuesday we found a frog, a huge highlight. So I promise to return the funny now.

Do-It-Herself

i know I am really behind on my blogging and i will sit down soon and catch up, but I had to let off a rant about how much I hate it when men can't accept that women aren't idiots when it comes to tools and home improvement.

I will admit that I am not particularly construction savvy, but I know what basic tools are used for and when left to my own devices I will eventually fix it. Perhaps not the most expedient way, but it will get done. To me, home improvement is all about attitiude. I believe I can do it, it may take six calls to Stephanie or my father-in-law, but in the end it's done. However, there is one area where i know my stuff and that is paint. I know color and how it is mixed, what should go with what and how to paint a room. So when the Home Depot guy gave me attitude about my paint choice for the desk Chad and i are building (that's a whole other post) I was pissed.

Note to all men everywhere, just because i have a cart with a child in it does not mean I need to be talked to like a child. He forced me to watch a moronic video about how to paint a room before he mixed my paint!!! At first he tried to dupe me into thinking that it was a special process because it is a textured paint. Seriously, the fact that it requires two coats is not a special process. Then he had the nerve to tell me "good job" for pulling the correct base off the shelf.

Hey jackhole, every customer in line with me this morning was a woman, all six of us. We can't all be morons. Maybe if you stopped spending so much time talking down to us the wait at the paint counter would be less than thirty minutes.

Hung over

I have a hang over from fried cheese curds. I guess I should take this as a good sign that I have been religiously sticking to my diet, but it is really just making me feel really old. Chad and i went out to celebrate our anniversary last night and I stuck to my diet at dinner, no booze, no caffine, no red meat. However, i decided to "splurge" with the cheese curds. Ugh, now I am ill, headache, nausea, getting up at 5 AM for the Tums, the works.

I will blog from bed after a breakfast of my tried and true hangover cure, plain bagel, OJ and lots of water. Oh, and like 5 Advil.

Blogging in sick

Sorry everyone, I get totally annoyed when my favorite bloggers don't post for a few days. I have had a vicious cold, but Sunday Chad will have our new laptop up and running and I can blog in bed!!!!

Lazy girl's post

I am going to piggyback on Angie's post today because when she asked the question I didn't have an answer. What is your life list? You know, those things you have to do before you die? I tend to get so caught up in my short term lists that I lose sight of the big picture. I think of things in the abstract, I want a happy family, a beautiful and comfortable home, not I want to be on Wheel of Fortune. Great one, btw Ang. This kind of thinking is spilling into my birthday decision making. I know that I was supposed to have this big blow-out party like Chad did, but I can't commit to a location, a time. I actually asked Chad the other day if it was okay if I just use my birthday budget to buy a new stove. Lame.

Chad and used to have these long talks about when we were older, when we retire, when our kid was older, etc what where we would go. Travel is nice, but I have never once thought about what I would do all the rest of the time.

So I will give it try, this is by no means a complete list:

1. To celebrate Chinese New Year-in China.
2. I would like to work in a bookstore again. I sometimes think that I would like to own my own children's bookstore, but I am forced to admit that I would not enjoy most aspects of owning my own business.

This will have to do for now, because I am running behind on my to do list for today!