friday night leftovers (one sentence version)

• Maria doesn’t like splash pads…  Freak.
  
  
• Celebrity Jeopardy was kind of boring.
  
  
• Siamang Gibbons are fascinating.
  
  
• The tomatoes are growing.
  
  
• I bet they’ll die before they get ripe.
  
  
• I have mosquito bites annoying the crap out of me.
  
  
• It was beastly hot today.
  
  
• We ate delicious tacos tonight.
  
  
• Henry is restricted from television tonight, so he is currently completing a puzzle.
  
  
• He’s restricted because of his severe dawdling over the last few days.
  
  
• I’m so glad I have ice cream in the freezer.
  
  
• This weekend will be busy – not much time to celebrate Mother’s Day.
  
  
• I seriously cannot remember signing my mother’s card before I mailed it to her.
  
  
• Maria is much better. 
  
  
• I’ll take her to the doctor Monday or Tuesday to get her lungs listened to.

saturday morning leftovers.

Yeah, I'm just now getting around to posting what I should have posted last night.

• Turns out that when you stick a potato covered in eye sprouts in a pot of dirt and ignore it, you just might get potatoes.  We ate them in our dinner last night and haven't died yet, so I think we can all consider this a success.  Seeing as how the only things we've consumed from our garden thus far have been parsley and mint, I am thrilled to eat something I grew myself (albeit accidentally).
  
  
• Our zucchini plants have only produced male flowers so far.  Obviously female flowers are the ones that make fruit, so we are still waiting to see them.  Two of eight tomato plants have flowers - I'm hoping the cardinal I keep seeing in the backyard leaves things alone so that they can produce.
  
  
• Monday Maria and I are taking off to go see Jen & Elizabeth before they abandon us move north for a great work opportunity.  We're also hoping Barb & baby E, and Farah with MT & Armadillo can join us, too.  I will be taking custody of Jen's strawberry plants.  What are the chances they'll survive under my care?
  
  
• We almost never go to the movie theatre anymore - the last movie we saw out was Star Trek.  However, I WILL be seeing Iron Man 2 as soon as possible.  LOVE love love RDj, Sherlock Holmes was (surprisingly) pretty dang good and I'm hoping Iron Man 2 does not disappoint.
  
  
• You may remember I have a great love for Rockin' Green soap.  I recently purchased the Hard Rock variety and am even more impressed.  We were having some diaper cream issues (we use wash cloths as a barrier but still usually get some cream on the diapers themselves.  Hard Rock took care of all that residue and they are back to being squeaky clean.

friday night leftovers

• Now that baseball season has begun, I have been watching A LOT more tv than we normally do.  Ay yi yi. 
• Our washer is STILL not functional.  I cannot even tell you how much laundry is piling up, although I did go to a friend’s house this morning to wash diapers.  Fortunately the part seems to have been shipped and will hopefully arrive soon-ish.
• Maria seems to be recovering from whatever virus/mood-altering bug that was affecting her yesterday.  She was a total pill and only slept 20 minutes yesterday, and finally talked herself to sleep around 9pm. 
• We caved and turned the A/C on yesterday.  Our original goal was April 1, and then it was still comfortable, so we left it off and set a new goal of the 15th.  If we hadn’t had that month where we actually used the heat (EGADS, not THE HEAT?!?), our power bill would have been lovely.  All you northern people who are about to say YOU DON’T KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE HEAT IS MISSY, please consider that in order to not lose my ever-loving mind from April – November, I must pay lots and lots of money to keep our home even at the tolerable level of 80 degrees.  Plenty of other Floridians I know keep their homes at 70, and I don’t want to even think about what they pay.

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friday night leftovers

• Henry’s kindergarten class (and the other three at the school) went on a field trip Wednesday… and let me tell you, chaperoning will WEAR.YOU.OUT.  I’m still recovering. 
• Here is a collage of photos from said field trip:

• My parents are coming to visit soon!  Mom comes tomorrow morning and Dad arrives Monday morning.  It’s Henry’s spring break and so they’ll get lots of time with him. 
• Jen’s moving and I’m terribly upset by this.  I just got her!  Boo.
• I’m actually playing guitar on a song in the praise band this week.  It feels like old times – sweaty palms, nervous stomach, shaking hands… ah, the good old days of stage fright are back!  YAY!
• I always look forward to Easter, but this year I’ll look forward to it even more since it means I’ll get a lull in the nonstop busyness of work which has been INSANE since the end of February.  I’m TIRED.

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