My Birthday - Monday, February 4th

Monday I had lunch with the girls at The Whistle Stop Cafe for my birthday. Bread Pudding is my favorite dessert, and Whistle Stop has my most favorite bread pudding. So, I have gone there several times for my birthday.

Guess what my sweetie did?
Since we had a big group, Whistle Stop put a couple tables together for us. When we sat down, in the middle of the table was a little cake made out of flowers with balloons tied to it. B had it delivered so it would be there when I got there! It was so cool!

Here's some of us.
The tasty goodness.
Me likey cake!

Me likey presents!My mom slippin' L some make-up
After lunch, we walked around to some of the cute little shops.

Monday Evening

B took me to my favorite Sushi place, Uni. And afterwards, we decided we would make a new addition to our family.....................

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The New Addition

Here's my new little Brownie........it's sooooo pretty!

And it's my favorite color.

Harley checking out the new family member.

Don't worry Harley, you're still my baby.

Glenn's Birthday - Sunday, February 3rd

For lunch we went to Jananese Habachi for Glenn's birthday.

Not too fond of the fire. I drew Batman for Glenn and made it into a card.Sunday evening we gathered to celebrate again.
A rousing game of Hungry Hungry Hippo
Icing the cupcakes

Glennapalooza 2008 - a.k.a. Playing Rock Band - a.k.a. Yay, we're not watching the Super Bowl!

The opening actThe main eventGroupies

Shake what yo mama gave ya

The next act

The final performance of the night

Gotta watch out for the paparazzi

Racoon Ranglers

Thats right folks, the critter living in our walls and attic was a RACOON!
It all started last year when we heard somthing in our outside wall of our gameroom. We hoped it would go away (so naive), but instead it decided to have babies in there. We could hear them crying. Ew! So, we called around and had someone come out, but they wanted to charge us like $800 to put traps up there. Uh, no! I can put a trap up there myself, thank you. So I bought one, but before I got it up there, it apparently had moved out. (Must have heard I was coming for it. hehe) Well, as I posted in my January 18th blog, it came back. But this time it was moving around in all of the gameroom walls and all over the attic. Ick! And from the sound of it moving around, it was sounding way bigger than a squirrel, which was what we orriginally thought it was. So, I got to thinking that the trap I had bought last year wasn't nearly big enough to catch what was up there. Yay for Lowe's, because they took the old one back (it had never been opened) without a receipt, and I payed the difference for the BIG trap. Yesterday, we finally put it in the attic, and a few hours later, we had us a coon! But then we didn't know what to do with it. Hmmm....... Now everyone knows I am a huge animal lover, but this thing has been making me crazy, and my sympathy for it was pretty much gone. So, when B was putting the trap in the attic and he turned to me and said, "You know I'm going to have to shoot this thing when we catch it?", I actually said "Good!". I know! I even shocked myself when I said that! But after we caught it, we realized that firing a gun in our backyard would probably not go over too well with the neighbors. What to do, what to do......? Well, the only thing we could think to do......and I should say we were getting panicky, because at this point we had the stinky thing in a cage, inside of a box, in the middle of our living room, and those things are crafty, and we could see that it was trying to devise an ecsape plan, and it was looking like it might suceed......was to drive it away somewhere and let it go......and hope it didn't find it's way back, which I image is highly likely. So, we loaded it into B's car, rolled down the windows, stuck our heads out (that thing was really smelly), and drove away. Stinky is now in Porter, Texas.
But, wait! This business is not over because, I forgot to mention, Stinky wasn't living in our attic alone. There's at least one more we have to catch.
Here's Stinky trying to look all cute......almost worked.......
The release
So long Stinky!

Please don't come back!

The Crafty Insomniac

I made this cute little notebook this morning when I couldn't sleep. It's 4.5 x 4.5 inches. Everything was stuff I already had. I cut graph paper for the pages. The ribbon wraps around and tucks in to hold it closed. I should redo these pics cause I guess I didn't have the flash on which made them a bit blurry, but, eh, I don't feel like it. hehe

Happy Groundhogs Day!

Phil Says Six More Weeks of Winter!
http://www.groundhog.org/prediction/

Tasty

B, Tom, and I tried out Genghis Grill - the new Mongolian stir fry place last night and it was good. I usually get a little overwhelmed at Mongolian places, because since I don't cook, I'm not sure what to mix together. But this place was pretty easy. Of course it helped that B was there helping me along. I just signed us up for their b-day program, so we should get "free bowl" coupons for this month.

[UPDATE: Got our coupons already. That was fast!]

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Just finished watching The Usual Suspects. I never tire of the end of that movie. It's one of my favorite movie endings. Plus, Benicio Del Toro's character cracks me up.

Bad Hair Day

A few years ago I found a hair spray that I really liked called Thermasilk and I have been faithful to it ever since. So, last week upon noticing that I was almost out, I went to Walmart to get some more. But it wasn't there. And even after scanning the shelves 3 times, it still didn't appear. A few days later, while out and about I checked another location, and again not there. Yesterday, I realized I was becoming dangerously close to my final drops, so while I was out I checked Walgreens, Target, and Ulta and struck out with all three.

Huh? What's going on here?

Now, if it was some special hair spray, I could see, but really it's just your average, run of the mill, sold everywhere hair spray. But it's the one I love. It wasn't stiff, it had a nice flexible hold. And it didn't have a really strong scent like a lot of them do. When I got home last night, I, of course, had to get on the internet and find out what the heck the deal was. And what I found was.........my Thermasilk is no more.........boo.......

http://lindseysnow.com/2007/04/oh-thermasilk-whered-you-go.html

Ugh! Now I have to find a new one. Which means trial and error, because I'm picky. No fun! The funny thing is that the above link was from April of last year. So, that goes to show how often I use and buy hairspray. It's been gone for nearly a year, and I hadn't noticed. Had I been warned, I would have stocked up. And now I can't even find it on ebay any more. hehehe

So long, old chum.....