Good Times, Noodle Salad

Mi Familia

Dear Bowling Ball,

My finger still hurts, it really really hurts. I know that I went bowling almost 2 weeks ago and that if I was a better bowler I wouldn't hurt myself, but nonetheless it seems unfair that my finger still hurts. So I am blaming you, stupid bowling ball, for acting like an awful Chinese finger trap.

I can't remember how I found out about Blogger...so I am going to make it up. One night while I was sleeping an alien came into my bedroom etc etc etc and now I have a blog.

I have a blog mostly for me, I like to write things down. My head may be a jumbled mess but if I can write things down it makes them clearer.

Saturday morning I was sitting in my bathroom putting on my makeup, a rare occurrence nowadays, when Marti walked in. After a minute of watching me this was the conversation we had,

Marti: "Mom that's cheating"
Mom: "What's cheating?"
Marti: "Putting on makeup is cheating"
Mom: "Why is it cheating?"
Marti: "Because you are trying to make people think you look like that when you really don't"

At this point I was laughing so hard I nearly fell off my chair. I should probably be offended, but she is pretty much right.

This is a picture of my best friend Laura and I. Apparently I need to make it a point to be in pictures every now and then, I can hardly find any pictures with adults in them.

I love music.

I hate these categories so I made my own.

Best road trip music - Tom Petty, Queen, Johnny Cash, Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband
Best chill music - Jack Johnson, Five for Fighting, Paul McCartney, Dave Matthews Band
Best singalong music - Coldplay, John Mayer, Keane
Best rock out music - Led Zeppelin, Kings of Leon, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Best want to feel like you are back in high school music - Weezer, Beck, Oasis, for Kory Warren G, Sir Mix A Lot, Bush
Best winter blues music - Grizzly Bear, Radiohead, The White Stripes
Best dance with your kids music - The Wiggles
Best great voices music - Linda Eder, Michael Buble, Jewel
Best Broadway music - Phantom, Les Miserables, Chicago
Best soundtrack music - Disney, LOTR
Best Canadian music - Barenaked Ladies
Weird music Kory likes - Celtic Harp, Annie Lennox, Enya
Best anytime, any mood, any occasion music - The Beatles

Something I'm proud of.....hmmmm. It is funny to think about something I am proud of for myself, I spend most of the time being proud of things the girls do. I guess I am proud that since the holidays I have been trying to tread lightly where food is concerned and I have been doing ok (not perfect, diet coke still gets me sometimes). Also I was proud of myself for sitting with the girls to read books even though I had other stuff to do, amazing how that kind of stuff gets neglected if you are not careful. That's it for today, 9 down 21 to go.

I am bored with this challenge, so I am not going to do it. What I am going to do is show you Marti's beautiful face after she lost her first tooth last weekend....



She looks so grown up.

The tooth fairy came to our house and left Marti 5 bucks for that tooth. The next day she wanted to go to the store to buy something with her money but she was worried that Emy would feel bad because she hasn't lost a tooth yet and couldn't buy anything. So, my sweet little Marti, without any prompting from Mom and Dad, got 4 quarters out of her tooth fairy money and gave it to her sister.

They are so kind and loving to one another it leaves me in awe. I know that as parents we are supposed to set the example but I definitely fall short a lot. So there you go, without meaning to I just did the challenge, my short and long term goal is to share my tooth fairy money.

Get it? Ha ha. I crack myself up.

This is a question that Kory would answer much better than I will. I don't know that much about superheros, anything I do know I have learned from movies that came out in the last 5 years.

Batman is rich but he isn't smart, he gets all his stuff from someone else and he can't fly (just falling is lame). The Superman movies stink and I find Clark Kent annoying so he is out. I wish that I had more information about a cool lady superhero, but other than Storm (not a big enough character) and Jean Gray (whoop de do you can read minds, boring) from XMEN I don't really know any others. Spider-man is just awful and whiny so I can't pick him. Wolverine has too much emotional baggage and is no fun.

So based on my lack of knowledge on the subject I am going to go with my favorite superhero movie character Iron Man. I like that Iron Man doesn't have any special powers, besides being super rich, and that he is smart and made all his own gadgets.

This is a picture of a beautiful ravine in New Hampshire. We went to visit Jason and Steph and they took us to visit places all over the northeast. It was the first time I had been past Michigan and I was so shocked at how green and beautiful it was.

I procrastinate, and to illustrate that point I put this post up a day late. Totally on purpose. No, really.

This challenge bored me so instead of doing it I am going to tell a funny thing that happened last night.

Marti asked us last night if she could wake up early today and watch Saturday morning cartoons before Mom and Dad got up. For some reason she thinks that waking up early is fun, I don't know why, maybe because she rarely does it (she is not an early bird at all). No big deal, I thought she would be up around 8 maybe 7 at the earliest. WRONG. I was sleeping quite soundly at 1:30 in the morning when I heard the tv downstairs. In my sleep induced haze I was sure that burglars, or maybe a wild animal, had broken into our house so I poked Kory until he woke up and made him go down to investigate. He went down the stairs and there were Marti and Emy sitting on the couch watching cartoons in the middle of the night. As we were putting them back to bed Marti said to me "But Mom, you didn't tell me I couldn't wake up at 1:30", I forget how literally she takes everything. I should probably give her more exact instructions next time.

Just one day in and already behind, what a slacker. The name of my blog is Good Times, Noodle Salad which is a quote from the movie As Good As It Gets. I like the movie and I liked the quote and I thought it was kind of unconventional just like our kind of unconventional little family.

This is my most recent photo, it is me ice skating, the word skating is probably too generous it is really more like holding on to the wall for dear life.

15 interesting things about myself...tricky, I don't find myself that interesting so this may be a stretch.

1. I can't sleep if my feet are hot.
2. I don't like the volume on the tv to be on an odd number.
3. Popcorn is my favorite food (yes, I know it barely counts as "food")
4. My kids are 13 months apart, that's kind of more interesting about them but I was involved so it counts.
5. I really, really, really hate chair lifts.
6. I love sports talk radio, especially Dan Patrick.
7. I put salt on my apples.
8. Pretty much everything reminds me of a song.
9. Every morning my kids come in my bed and snuggle with me, it is the best part of my day.
10. I don't eat fish. At all. Don't like it. Let it go Kory I'm not giving in.
11. I love what most people would consider to be weird movies.
12. My favorite book is Wuthering Heights.
13. I can get motion sickness from almost anything, i.e. snorkeling, amusement park rides, swinging etc. (don't even talk to me about helicopters I may throw up)
14. I love water, looking at it, swimming in it or kayaking on it.
15. My feelings get hurt easily but I have a hard time expressing my hurt, it usually shows up as indifference and detachment.