Housewares and Chocolate.. and wine.

I went to a Pampered Chef party tonight at my sister in-laws. She was hosting a party for her friend Christal. It was a lot of fun! She served lots of chocolate, always a good time.. and we polished off 3 bottles of wine. I didn't, I had to drive home and I don't really like wine too much.

Christal made these puffed pastries which we cut open, she had each of us participate so we could use the products instead of just watching her do it. it was much more fun that way I think. Then we filled them with this chocolate mousse filling and sliced strawberries, hmm yummy. I think I had like 3 of them!

After a couple people left and it died down a little, Shala (my sister-in law) was telling us how excited she was because she and her sister-in law (her brother's wife) signed up for a session with the personal trainer at the gym. So she's all excited to get some one on one time with an expert and the fitness equipment.

I had to finally come home, not that I really wanted to or anything because I was having a lot of fun but I had to go to bed, which I am obviously not doing since I am here typing this post. I haven't even had a whole lot of caffeine, my last coke was at 4 before I even left the house. I am just amped because I got out of the house by myself for awhile. I left early to get my nails fixed before the party. I was like 10 days overdue for a fill, my nails looked like hell. I got them a lot shorter this time and I'm having an easier time typing. A lot less typo's.

Oh well, I guess I am off to bed to stare at the inside of my eyeballs and listen to all the rambling inside my head for about an hour.

Catch y'all on the flip side.

My Anniversary Flop!

Sunday was our 12th wedding anniversary. Dan was scheduled to work a race so I was going to have to spend it alone.. well, as alone as it can get with 5 kids.

He calls Saturday afternoon and says find a sitter for sunday, we need you up here. Ok, so I get my mom to take the kids and because we have to leave at 7 am for the track (it's a little over an hour's drive) she took them Saturday night. I had a few hours of quiet before Dan got home and then we watched a movie before we went to bed.

Sunday, we get up to the track and no one is there. Dan calls his friend to see where he's is and turns out the truck broke down on the freeway about a half an hour away. So we went to go pick up the trailer keys so we could start work for the day but the keys got left in the truck which by now has been towed to a local dealership, but not close enough to get them out. We were on the motorcycle so it's not like we could give him a ride to get them. So no work.

So we go home, put a new battery in OUR truck, get it gassed and washed and go pick up his friend at the train station (30 min drive) so he can borrow our truck to go pick up the trailer at the track. By now it's 2 pm.. then they spend the next 3-4 hours installing the brake controller on my truck. So then it's dinner time... we spend our anniversary dinner at a local pub watching the Olympics.. the three of us. Yay.

Boy am I ever glad I didn't invest in anything too special, like new lingerie or anything fun like that.. he pretty much went straight to bed after we watched our movie. I had to stay up and wait for my mom to bring the kids home.

The upside is that it wasn't only just me who had a bad Sunday. Apparently, my sister-inlaw hit another boat while she was driving theirs.. OOPS! And her brother blew out a couple of tires on his way up to meeting them at the Delta. Only way I can think to explain it is the after effects of the full moon on Saturday night. What a weekend! Hope yours was better than ours.

Does this exist?

This was the question of the day over in my world and I found out that it does however not as well as I had hoped it would.

What I was looking for was a specific type of color scheme generator that lets you upload a photo and it pulls all the colors from the photo into a swatch with hex codes. Low and behold I did find one that does exactly that however the swatches come out more monochrome than anything else. I'll still use it though because it really is a cool little tool. It's called ColorHunter.

I love these types of generators, which ones do you use? Which is your favorite?

My Mom Is A Dork!

Last weekend I was over at my mom's and an Allstate commercial came on the tv. She said, "I can never understand what that g iuy is saying, something like 'That's Allstate Stan..', who the heck is Stan? It makes no sense!"

I'm laughing because she's a dork, so I said "Ok let's rewind it and listen." Well, he didn't say it in that commercial, so I googled it. Apparently, it's not part of the current slogan. What the actual slogan said was "That's Allstate's stand, are you in good hands?" Stand.. not Stan mom!

I swear she needs to use the closed captioning on her tv just so she can understand what they are saying... either that or a hearing aid!

**For those who are wondering what rock I am hiding under today (this week), I'm ok.. nothing's wrong. I am just feeling anti-social so I have unplugged my phone and am just not feeling up to talking to anyone right now. I'll be back to normal in a few days.

Anniversaries...

Our 12 year anniversary is coming up next weekend and I'm trying to think up some good gift ideas for my husband. He's a man of few tastes.. it pretty much comes down to alcohol and electronics.

One idea I had was a subscription to one of those wine of the month clubs. He likes wine and likes to pretend he's all sophisticated. It's kinda cute actually.

I have an electronics item in mind also but I was thinking I would save that for his birthday and I can't mention it because he reads here. I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise or anything.

Or I could get him a new game for the PC. I have no idea which one to get though.. or which one he even wants. I guess I could ask the kid. He might know.

He is such a hard person to shop for sometimes.. wish me luck!!

Just another day in the city...

No, No, No I am not going to bust out in song, don't worry your ears are safe.

I spent the day in the city (that would be San Francisco by the way) with my mom. She had a convention thing to go to and had wanted to take my son. Well, he didn't want to go so my husband suggested that I go in his place and get out of the house for a bit. Shoot.. you don't have to tell me twice!

I had about 20 minutes notice and I needed to shower, do my hair AND my makeup..so yeah we were late.It was an all day event anyway so it was OK. It was a really good thing that my son didn't want to go because when we got there they had big yellow signs that said no children under 16 would be let in. He's only 12.

he would have been completely bored anyway. He has no interest in listening to demonstrations about makeup, acne creams, and facial cleansers. They had a lot more going on as well, like energy drinks, vitamins, household products and so forth.

I got a really cool little lip gloss sample and it wasn't a cheesy little thing on a cardboard card. It's like the size of one of those little cell phone charm lip gloss things. Really pretty color too.

After that we went out to dinner at this cute little pub-style restaurant that didn't serve pub food (??). It was more upscale and bit more pricey but the food was good. I had Tortellini and pesto sauce. I also had a yummy margarita. it was called a La Pinta margarita. It is made with La Pinta Pomegranate tequila, lime juice and sweet &sour mix. REALLY good!

We got back into town and we had to stop off at my brother's house to give him his work keys. My mom is borrowing his car til hers is out of the shop.. a whole OTHER story there. Anyway, we got there while they were in the middle of dinner and my brother being the good host that he is offered to make me a drink. So, I'm like sure what the heck.. hit me!

So he hands me this concoction he made and refuses to tell me what is in it. Just taste it he says.. famous last words right? I thought so too. It turned out to be pretty good. It was lemonade with sliced strawberries, ice, and vodka. I normally don't do vodka but this was pretty good.

We played with the girls for a little bit and then headed home. So that was my day, how was yours?

Hilarious!

A friend of mine directed me to this blog called "Cake Wrecks" here on blogspot. This blog is hysterical! It's all about professionally made cake disasters. Some are just silly stupid, some are just ugly and some just belong in the "WHAT??" catagory.

I spent a good portion of my night last night reading the posts and yjust all sorts of wrong on so many levels, you'll know it when you see it.

My favorite one was titled "Naked Mohawk-Baby Carrot Jockeys". The title alone had me in hysterics! Still makes me laugh every time I think about it. The post was funny too.

Anyway, go check it out and have a laugh on me. But, be careful you may need to wear an adult diaper while reading!