levy season

mood: whoopdie-doo
listening to: jack crawling around the kitchen (slap! slap! slap! bonk! wahhh!)
last read: alcatraz tour reservation email

we made the chex mix. i didnt have onion powder though. bummer. we did not conduct the taste test. maybe tomorrow. the mini sturgesses will be coming back in the a.m.

we went swimming. it was a perfect accompaniment to the blistering afternoon. jack is not down with the floaty ring (that's not him in the pic). he wants to crawl on the water. he must be destined to be a pastor.

kimi picked the kids up at the pool and then we came home for naps. the boys slept and i caught up on email and on farmer wants a wife.



was comtemplating what to make for dinner when Trevor called to say the office is ordering in. this is the ONE benefit of levy season-- my dinner making requirement is knocked down by a couple nights a week. tonight they are having Cosi. jealous. told him to tell them he's really hungry and to order two things. not gonna happen. i think i will just have yogurt and pretzels for dinner.

i need to start packing, seriously.

monday

mood: too warm (that's not really a mood, i know...)
listening to: kids watching super mario brothers cartoon (free redbox code!!)
last read: chex mix recipe

watching cj & maya today till 3. dolla dolla billz yo. we went to albertsons to get ingredients to make chex mix to send to my brother in iraq. cj swore it would be easier and equal in taste to just buy it already made. so we are going to do a taste test. i sure hope i'm right. otherwise, countless hours around the holidays have been wasted creating something that is already perfected in an easy-to-open-and-serve bag. i'll let you know.

jack is sleeping. we are going to go to the pool when he wakes up. love that pool!

sunday am

mood: GRRRReat
listening to: van halen
last read: rsvp card for jenni's wedding

woke up this morning and relished in the fact that we have had a whole week free from house hunting. now that we aren't doing so anymore, i realize just how much time it has take up. i actually got to spend time with my husband WITHOUT a computer screen in front of our faces. nice.

without further ado, here are more pictures of the casa:

front

entry

formal living into formal dining

kitchen

kitchen again



family into nook

loft

master br

master ba

back yard & balcony off master

sea world solo

mood: good
listening to: noah watching the incredibles
last read: kimi's blog (spray tan on maya??!?! was not happy to read it)

so i took the cj, maya, and noah to sea world today for a few hours, and man am i tired! i think i mentally psyched myself into exhaustion, stressing like crazy that i was going to lose one of the sturgesses. but i returned home at the appointed time with 3 kids, handed them over to their mother along with $20 worth of cheap plastic crap that will inevitably be in a land fill w/in 4 months. it was fun though.

as we were driving home, i pondered cj's lifestage and how he's like a kid for real now. as in, he is making memories in the incredible brain of his. i wondered if in 20 years he would remember going to sea world with us. im glad to be part of his life, and maya's. i dont have nieces and nephews, and i am honored to be close enough to that family that i am able to taste the sweet life of an auntie. they are great kids and i love em a lot!

boba field trip part deux

yeah, got a little side tracked. my bad. anyone wanna shoot for Wednesday Jul 2nd, 11am? lemme know.

Boba field trip

wanna shoot for weds am? say 11:00? comment me if you're down and i'll get details to ya!

hi

mood: a wee bit tired
listening to: silence
last read: abs final us blog post

just wanted to say hi. i sat down to "quickly" check my emails an hour ago and got sucked into catching up on blogs. im tired now. good night

"it"s a beautiful morning... ahhhhh"

mood: refreshed
listening to: norah jones
last read: comments about boba field trip

i think that there should be a key stroke for a music note. i'll contact apple. if they did such a thing, it would be the cherry on top to make me an apple convert. my blog title for today is from a song from the 70s i think. it's used on a commercial, i just cant remember which one.

anyway, i love may gray and june gloom. it energizes me when it is all gray and cloudy. i know, it is totally un-southern californian, but the bright sunshine makes me want to hole up in my house all day. cloud cover on the other hand, makes me break out the stroller and go for a walk around the hood... neighborhood that is. although, when i lived in san bernardino, it really was the hood.



i had my first physical therapy appointment this morning for my broken toe (yes the one that got cracked 6 months ago). i should have gone earlier, but i was in protest of the need for physical therapy for a stinkin toe. but then i went to yoga over memorial day weekend (loved it btw. i lost my yoga virginity and have to say it was fantastic. painful, but a great workout. i ached for two days), and that downward dog had my little puppies aching! so i thought maybe i should go to PT. so at the crack of dawn, i dragged myself over to fallbrook and some stranger pulled my toe. now i have to scrunch a towel and balance on a pillow. those are my exercises. kinda funny. the funnier thing is that he printed out instructions for me, and there were actual pictures of scrunching a towel and balancing on a pillow.




oh... and the WORST news, he ix-nayed my flip flops. WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!(that's me bawling) until i get my toe in working order and my ankle de-stressed, the Asics i will don. sad day in laurel-land. sad sad day.

Boba defined

i put up that boba poll and had many questions as to what it is. "Boba" are marble sized tapioca balls that sit in the bottom of your drink. they are kinda reminiscent of unflavored gummy bears. they are offered at asian restaurants or specific boba/tapioca drink places. we do have a couple locally. they have these cool machines that seal your drink with this plastic lid. then you pierce it with the giant straw, resulting in a satisfying "pop."

you can have boba added to any of the drinks they offer. a milk tea is exactly what it sounds like: milk and tea. a snow bubble is in essence a smoothie, but i dont think there is really any fruit. and the texture is much lighter, airier. noah's favorite is mango. my favorite is taro. it's purple. but taro root is not really purple.

anyway, maybe we should take a boba field trip for any of those interested. comment me and i'll organize something. lets get some culture up in here!

zippidy-do-da

hello! it's been quite a while since i blogged. here's the haps:

fri 5/23: tupperware party at kimi's. learned how to make a microwave cake. then we left at 10pm to go up to the inlaws.
sat 5/24: had birthday party for mother in law. we got her a fire bowl. it was too big to wrap, so instead we wrapped smores supplies and a case of wood from albertson's. she was so excited with just that. it was funny. i don't think i would be excited if someone gave me a box of wood!! the firebowl was anticlimactic b/c it smoked like a chimney. so we roasted marshmallows over the charcoal briquettes.
sun 5/25: hung out around the inlaws house. cant remember if we did anything.
mon 5/26: drove home in the am. janelle came over. we went to old navy. got some camis. cooked dinner. sante fe tofu salad. not so good. trevor and janelle were good sports though! was up till 2 am doing mops stuff.
tues 5/27: last mops meeting. allison hand delivered my winner winner cds. thanks! janelle was the speaker. she spoke on home safety. my home is not safe. should probably work on that. funny story-- noah and trevor we rough housing as boys do, and noah got knocked in the head with a nerf gun. he moaned and whined for a bandaid. so he went to mops on tues with a bandaid over his eye. everyone asked him what happened. his response? "My dad hit me with a gun." im grateful cps didnt show up at my door that afternoon.
weds 5/28 to present: a little bit of this and this mixed in with a lot of putting out fires. oh yeah, we had our 5th wedding anniversary. went to SD for the night and then wandered around the gaslamp quarter like real life grownups. it was nice to only have to cut up my own food for 24 hours.