Hellion

I temporarily take back every sweet nice word I said about my furry child, Massimo, the other day.

That hellion showed his ass yesterday.  I wish I had taken a picture of the destruction, but in the moment, I didn't even think of it.

Yesterday was his first full day alone in the new house.  Yesterday morning, I put the blinds up (he has an issue with them), tied the blinds cord around the door handle and left him with my usual "love you, baby".

I got home at my usual time yesterday afternoon and the little asshole destroyed everything he could get his little teeth on.  The victims:

-two pairs of flip flops...he shredded the straps...rubber was everywhere
-chewed through the cords to the blinds...remember where I said I tied the cord around the handle...well, that saved the blinds from falling down and getting destroyed as well.
-he ripped the curtain off the door.  Bent the curtain rod that was holding it.  Shredded the ribbon that was holding the two curtains together.
AND
-CHEWED THROUGH MY LAPTOP WIRE.  I can't even express how mad this made me.

Now I'm a little mad again.  Let me remind everyone that my dog weighs a whopping 6.6 pounds.  His head is the size of a small child's fist.  


I had to leave again for a few hours after this massacre of my things, so I had to kennel him.

I put his kennel in the middle of the room.  With a giant heavy box on top.  So he couldn't ninja his way out that.  Because he is a ninja.

An asshole ninja.

Look at this face

If you can ignore the fact that the camera on my phone has undergone a mysterious downgrade and suddenly stopped taking decent pictures, then keep reading.

I want you to look past the horrid quality here and look at my adorable baby sleeping on the back of the couch...one of his favorite places.

My little fur baby.

You can see my desk shelf in the background that is still empty along with some bits and bobs on my fireplace mantle.  I haven't quite finished moving in yet.  I think I'm going to do a bit of rearranging before setting everything up.

I do that...set something up and feel it out for a few days, then if it's not exactly what I wanted, redo and try again.  

I can't rearrange the couch while Massimo is sleeping on it though... :)

I was mistaken

I like to think of myself as an adventurous eater.  So when I see things with new or interesting flavors or combinations of flavors, I like to give them a try.

I happen to enjoy greatly honey mustard pretzels and generally anything slathered in tangy honey mustard.  I saw these crisps while travelling and thought "OOOH, I bet these are yummy"!

I was wrong.  These aren't yummy at all.  They're confused.  The dry powder of honey mustard they use on them isn't quite right and when that's put on a yummy crisp...well, the result is not yummy.

What I learned this past weekend.

Here's a list of some things I've learned this past weekend:

-  Not only does my sister hate car rides...she hates sitting in traffic exponentially more.
-  Porcupines are humongous.  Seriously.  
-  In the same respect, orange poison dart frogs are minuscule...like the size of a dime.
-  You can tame goats and sheep if you hold them every day from birth.
-  Turtles are extremely horny and watching them "make love" is, I believe, comparable to a 90 year old couple doing it.  Wrinkles and all.
-  No matter how much you love someone, you still want to punch them in the face sometimes.

That was my weekend in a nutshell basically.  

Coming up this week...work, working out, meal planning (when you're poor like me, you have to plan things like this out carefully), unpacking the bazillion trash bags in my house, and loving Massimo.

Oh, I didn't mention...I moved!  I live in Lexington now, and instead of moving like a proper citizen, I threw all of my clothes and non-breakables in giant trash bags.  Great way to save money on boxes, I thought.  I did look like I was just moving trash around though, but I promise, it was clothes, shoes (the shabby ones...my beloved ones went into boxes), purses (same here as with shoes), linens and the like.

I do have a few boxes left to undo as well and massive organization.

I'm excited though.  I've turned my guest bedroom into a craft room and I'll store all of my yarn and BlueQuail bits in there.

Oi, that reminds me...have to download my camera photos.  I've tons of pictures for recipes and events on there.  Exciting.

Ideas and tidbits

Hello lovely.

I like what I did there.  Essentially, I'm currently my only reader, so this blog is just for me...but hopefully just for now.

I've started a little notebook that I jot my ideas down in.  I'll be randomly driving and a seemingly great idea will pop into my head...then I'll forget about it.  Then later, I'll remember that I had a great idea, but won't remember what it was....and a great blog idea has escaped again.

So, there's this notebook that I'm writing things in.  Then, I can go back and take a look and really formulate and develop my ideas.

Excited.  Some really good things to be blogged about coming up!

Edit:  Turns out, this notebook turned out to just be a jumbles mess of reminders to myself to get things done and not so much about blogging.

I am a plantsecutioner.

It's true.  This is just ONE of the many plants that have died at my hands this year.  I fail.

Most amazing product I've bought in a while!

It's not often that I splurge on items for myself, especially tiny tubes that cost over $10, but I have heard some really great things about this product, so I thought, why not?

This little bottle cost a whopping $12.97, but in retrospect, it was fully worth every penny.  

Now, I'm getting on in years and have started developing dark circles, bag-like sagginess and *gulp* wrinkles.

This little beaut completely handles my under-eye old-ladyness.  Within one full day of this being on my face, my dark purple-blue circles were almost non-existent, the skin was tighter AND I didn't get any tiny wrinkles in my under-eye area throughout the day (as often I did with other concealers).  

I will continue to purchase this until I get too wrinkly for it.

Now, I also purchased this item:

Jury is still out on this one.  I have a particularly definite wrinkle in my forehead that has popped up over the last year or so and I put this serum on twice a day...wishfully hoping it does something.  This tiny bottle also cost around $13, and it does help, it just doesn't seem to perform a miracle like the concealer.

Will I buy another bottle of it?  Probably not, but the search continues.  There's got to be something out there that reverses wrinkles or at least tightens the skin so that it appears that there are no wrinkles...wishful thinking?