HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Happy Halloween, everyone! I have to tell you that Nici's fun Halloween drink e-mail the other day got me thinking about the Bunko/Halloween party that never was. It was going to be a blast! I had "Graveyard Gravel" as sweet treats (they honestly looked like rocks!), "Bathwater Punch", "Body Bits Dip", "Poison" (aka wine), almond bark covered "fingers", eyeball icecubes, and all sorts of fun stuff. I even had a Jesus wig that Kit cut to look like Jay's hair. That's what I was going to be, Jay. Darn. Not in the cards this time, I guess. But slap me back on the end of the Bunko list and we'll have fun, then. Have fun tonight, everyone!

Song of the Day

I don't know how many of you go to Stabucks often.. but right now they are running this promo with itunes. Everytime you buy a coffee you get a little card for a free download of a cool stabucks song! Mr. Jim goes to Stabucks A LOT to get himself a cup of Joe so he brought home a bunch of them. We entered all the codes tonight and downloaded a bunch of songs! Most of them are really awesome... totally good mood music. There were a couple songs that I didn't like and I argued with Jim about why we were downloading songs we wouldn't listen to and take up hard drive. He said with a disgusted look, " Jill.... there free!" So of course we must download them.. so we can fully take advantage of ANYTHING Starbucks and itunes is giving us! :)
So we both made our own Stabucks mixes tonight.. plus throwing in a couple of other songs we like. We both are chomping at the bit to get in our cars in the morning and throw in our super duper new cool mixes and JAM on the way to work! Jim said he was worried he wouldn't be able to make it into work.. he would just sit in his car and listen.. I will be taking my mix INTO work! haha!
If anyone would ever like to come over and look at our expansive collection of music on itunes and play DJ for a day and make a nice little mix that you can shake your groove thing to, please call me.

WT

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Drafts

does anyone know how to post something that is saved as a Draft on here?

Eat it...

I am grouchy. I bought a magazine subscription on ebay, which I have talked to several people that have and it was fine.. but of course I am the one person that gets SCREWED! I contacted the people about 3 months after not getting it and they told me it was coming.. never got it. I have emailed them nasty emails.. demanding my $18 dollars back.. nothing. And of course I can't dispute it now because its been over 60 days.. how conveniant for them. Arg. I hate losing money.. even though it was only 18 bucks.. still makes me mad.

Like Mother Like Daughter

Erica and Colleen - we all have these shoes.. or shoes just like these and we love them. I was on Payless.com and noticed they make them for little kids too! So of course I had to order Kate some... they should be delivered to the Payless by my house anyday! Free S&H!
You guys might already know this.. and Erica, Eliana probably already has these.. but anyways. just excited. :)

Use Baking Soda for what?

So I came home to the wet dog smell today. There is nothing WORSE than that! With the house being closed up and the weather being so rainy lately, how do you eliminate the grody smells (without eliminating the dog)? So I tried the smelly candles, the plug-ins, the room sprays, even the smelly carpet powder...I ended up with flowery/vanilla-y/apple-y wet dog smell. It was worse!

Then I had an "ah-ha" moment.

I sprinkled Arm & Hammer Baking Soda on the carpet, let it sit for about an hour (you get a funny grainy feeling in your socks!) vacuum it up, and viola! Smell gone. THEN spruce up with the smelly good stuff if ya want.

So I started thinking - It's pure, it's natural, what else could you use it on? You HAVE to go on this site - so many things even I couldn't imagine! And for what? --Way less than a dollar a box? There are even fun activities for kids.

Genius!

http://www.armhammer.com/

10 Must Haves

1. chocolate chip granola bars
2. Teriyaki and Soy Sauce
3. chicken and hamburger
4. some sort of Little Debbie snack
5. graham crackers
6. beer
7. mac and cheese
8. frozen pizzas
9. turkey lunch meat
10. Ranch

Don't go to Pooley's Pumpkin Patch!

So I was watching the new tonight and apparently Pooley's Pumpkin Patch Family isn't playing fair. There is a neighboring pumpkin patch called The Big Red Barn & Pumpkin Patch(or something like that) whose been putting up signs near the road. They continually go missing and so they hire a private investigator because the city says they can't do anything without proof. So the PI catches a woman (related to the Pooley's family) getting out of her car and pulling two signs out of the ground and placing them in her car. She refused to go on camera, but a spokesperson from Pooley's statement was something about : we've had over 150 signs stolen in the last 3 years but we don't want to burden the city with this petty stuff, etc....we hope we can put this behind us and just enjoy the season! Are you kidding me?!?!?! (but here are two cute pictures I got of the boys before I ban that place!)

Erica's 10 Must Haves

1. M&M's
2. Vanilla Coffee Mate (although I am trying to get away from drinking so much coffee)
3. Chocolate Protein Powder (I think I may have a chocolate problem!)
4. Almonds or some sort of nut mixture
5. My organic peanut butter that I can eat like it is going out of style!
6. Pregnancy tests (just at this time in my life!!)
7. Clorox Wipes (I use them for EVERYTHING...LOVE THEM!)
8. Erin Baker's All Natural Breakfast Cookies
9. Batteries
10. Hmmmm...I can't think of another off the top of my head.

10 Must Haves.....

So I was talking with Erica today, telling her I wanted chocolate and she mentioned that she ALWAYS has M&M's in her cupboard, so it got me thinking....what does everyone else ALWAYS have to have on hand....besides the normal staples, milk, break, etc.? Here's my list: Doesn't have to be food, just where I mostly go....

1. Tostitos
2. Usually Chips Ahoy, but I've taken a break to OREO's this time
3. Chai Latte (International Foods) mix
4. French Vanilla Creamer
5. Frozen Ground Beef /Taco Seasoning
6. Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
7.Rootbeer
8.Sunbelt Chocolate Chip Granola Bars/John
9. Mountain Dew & Diet Coke/John
10.Tortillas

Ode to Jill...

Girlfriend, you win the award this week for most blogs and biggest social butterfly. Holy cow woman - two concerts, one including a grody bathroom, the other crazed dancing fans. And not only that - it was your birthday! You rode a giraffe and ate mushroom soup. Yet you found the time to blog it all. Can it get any better!?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILL!! We love you!

What did you say?

• Went to Elton John last night with my parents for my bday
• Realized I don't actually know that many Elton John songs...
• Had crazy Elton John fans in front of us and had to endure watching them dance the whole concert.. not pretty.
• Realized half way into the concert I had lost one of my earings.. that came with a matching necklace.. :(
• The concert was so loud I had a headached in 10 minutes and couldn't hear for most of the car ride home
• The highlight of the night was eating mushroom soup at M's Pub....mmmmm.
• Realized why I don't go to concerts that often.

Private Practice

Did anyone watch tonight? Holy COW! that was a SAD episode. whew.. my eyes might be puffy tomorrow. I won't talk about the details..in case someone wants to watch it still..

Deserving of a Post all Its Own..

I thought the disgusting bathroom at Sokol deserved a post of its own.

This is soo discusting. I am too old to be peeing in places like this! I refuse! But a girl's gotta pee!
What am I to do!
Thank goodness there was some TP in the stall...

Rock on Mandy Moore!

So last night I went to see Mandy Moore with some girls from work. (see below.. drinking some yummy 2$ PBR) She was playing at Sokol (yuk-o) and us and about 90-100 other people jammed with her to her new music.. that nobody knew.. for only about 1 hour. At the end she did play "Candy" and made it a little jazzy - very cool - and the crowd went NUTS! It was a great way to end the concert.

The opening act was Ben Lee. I have heard of him.. I think. We got there right after he finished his set. But we still had to get a picture with him, pretend we loved him, and tell him he did a "KILLER JOB DUDE!" Because when was the next time I could get a picture with someone famous!
One of the pics of Mandy. I had several.. she was very close. She is pretty and sweet and she said "You guys are great! I F@#$ckin love you Omaha!" I could not believe sweet little Mandy dropped the "F" bomb. She also rubbed her nose a lot. My coworkers think she might have been high. She is very earthy ... and stuff now. The pop is all gone.
I will say though, she sounded GREAT! She has a really great voice and sounded just like her CD, if not better.. you know how some people sound worse in person, she was great.
My coworkers did faint at one time because we couldn't believe how close we were to Mandy Moore. Luckily I held it together long enough to take a picture..

The OTHER George...

I have an undeniable crush for these men...they melt my butter! I am just moseying along on the internet, checking out MTV, People, etc. And who do I see...ahhh, George. Mr. Clooney, that is. How dashing. How handsome. Just a classic. And what a riot. I would love to spend the day with him.




But it doesn't stop there. Imagine my surprise when I realize I'm watching soccer on TV? Oh, and I am home alone! I can't even blame my husband for making me watch sports. But who CAN I blame? A little hottie by the name of David Beckham. He's so hot he get's two pics. Only because the second is simply amazing! I have no other point for this posting, other than to drool. I can't concentrate anymore...seriously...who has muscles like that?? I kinda have a thing for shoulders...yum. Go ahead, click on the picture. Get a closer look. It's an art form.

Britney, you're "Toxic"!

Oops, she did it again! Britney lost custody of her two cute munchkins to ex-hubby Kevin Federline. (Whoever would have thought we'd actually be rooting for him to get custody?) What happened to the fabulous, gorgeous Britney of yesteryear? Dancing and getting loose and flat out EN-TER-TAIN-ING the heck out of us at her Qwest show just three and a half years ago? Get your Mommy back in your life Brit, clean up your act, lose the drugs and alcohol, and come back, come back. We miss you so...