handy

"Let's get going and fix it right
Twist and turn, make it tight...

"Trabajamos juntos
we work together now..."

"Cut it, measure it, tap it flat
Bend and twist, just like that..."

"Each of us has a special job..."

"We work together - todos juntos!..."

"We can fix it right!"

-"We Work Together" Handy Manny

my very own book nook!

other day mentionables...

it's that time of year

happy weekend.

"vogue, vogue, vogue, vogue..." (i.e. shortER)

short-ER.
"What Are You Looking At?
Strike a pose.
Strike a pose.
Vogue, vogue, vogue
Vogue, vogue, vogue...

"Come on, vogue

Let your body move to the music [move to the music]

Hey, hey, hey

Come on, vogue

Let your body go with the flow [go with the flow]

You know you can do it..."

"Beauty's where you find it

Not just where you bump and grind it

Soul is in the musical

That's where I feel so beautiful

Magical, life's a ball

So get up on the dance floor..."

"Vogue, [Vogue]

Beauty's where you find it [move to the music]

Vogue, [Vogue]

Beauty's where you find it [go with the flow]

...

Greta Garbo, and Monroe

Dietrich and DiMaggio

Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean

On the cover of a magazine..."

"Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean

Picture of a beauty queen

Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire

Ginger Rogers, dance on air

They had style, they had grace

Rita Hayworth gave good face

Lauren, Katherine, Lana too

Bette Davis, we love you..."

"Ladies with an attitude

Fella's that were in the mood

Don't just stand there, let's get to it

Strike a pose, there's nothing to it

...

Vogue, vogue, vogue, vogue

...

Oooh, you've got to

Let your body move to the music

Oooh, you've got to just

Let your body go with the flow

Oooh, you've got to just,Vogue!"

-"Vogue" by Madonna

it's been stuck in my head all morning;-)

5 inches in the back goddesses!

i kept the front a little longer for the pony.

i can't do summer without the pony.

or anything before 11am for that matter.

99 cent fish tacos

my father in law is the director of marketing and training for bajio.
i know, it sounds so fancy.
it is;-)
we call him the "hot old man."
i was the "hot blonde," until i died my hair.
now i'm the blushing brunette??? or something.
my face does have a red tint.
especially in the summer.
it's inevitable. concealer and powder please.
so he told us they just launched a new menu item: fish tacos
"99 cents on cinco de mayo," he said.
so of course we went.
s.d.gib is on break. ann marie met us.
the pork loin was in rare form.
all he wanted was orange bang.
have you tried it?
it's frothy, it's lovely.
so we walked in and the tacos were posted for the regular price of $2.49.
so i called my father in law.
they rang up as 99 cents.
we sat down with our food.
and orange bang.
i also got a pineapple shrimp salad.
it's DEE-vine.
a few minutes later the phone rings.
i noticed the employee talking.
she hangs up.
walks over to the white board,
and well, you can see what she fixed on their sign.
"the daughter in law of the director of marketing is in our store right now and said you're not advertising our cinco de mayo special. could you please fix it?"
or something like that;-)
i laughed.
a
lot.
want to find a bajio near you?
click here.
so they're 99 cents today.
you should try them.
it's festive.
for cinco de mayo, saavy?

a dress up party

AZ is hot.
real hot.
again, i apologize for not using my adverbs correctLY above.
added for emphasis only.
no more solo trips minus s.d.gib for awhile.
i come back far too exhausted.
far too much fun is had, but far too exhausted occurs.
story goes as follows...

other trip mentionables...

now i will sleep for 1 week straight.

and read.

are you reading yet? click here.

note: car dvd player, you saved us from catastrophic events, thank you. 4 movies in one day, far too much for one toddler, but he was glued. it was lovely.

I'll have mine with a side of tired.I felt insecure today.sensitive too.and Happy.I'm guessing 4 or 5am hun?Can't wait. cactus & an arizona sunset.sleep please

I had a wake up call at 5am. You'd think they'd let you sleep in on vacation;-) the boy on the wake up phone was very cute. They tell me his name is pork loin.

Vacations never keep me up on current events.Is the swine flu pandemic still scaring everyone to pieces?Obama's 100 days?Global warm?What's the word goddesses?

Brutus and i are 4 hours into our trip to pheonix,but we're only 3 hours out of slc. how did this happen?? Hyndai Santa fe, 5 adts & PL. PL is zzzz. Me too soon

walking, walking, walking!!!

and several other locations

congrats fiauna!
you guessed within 2 days of the first steps!
email me your address for some tasty treats;-)
see video below for further evidence

s.d.gib and i did not see eye to eye on how "walking" was to be defined.
thus,
gigi,
aris,
dana,
one of still has a chance at a second batch for when he starts "walking around" ALL of the time;-)
the more, the merrier right!?
our
other
afternoon
endeavours...

this is brooke.

we've been friends since the 6th grade.

she's d-a-r-l-i-n-g.

you can see her blog here.

she has a Polynesian Pork Loin.

i think i should have worn sunscreen...

short, brown hair

remember the red tint the MAC lady told me.

here it is in full force

(trying to see what short brown hair would look like)

i am afraid of short brown hair.

i think it looks DANG CUTE on my friends.

i think it looks NOT CUTE on me.

let me begin at the summer before my senior year of high school.

actually, i'd better take you back to junior year.

junior year i had really long hair.

me (left) & paige, junior year

that summer i saw my cousin's hair.

it was so cute and short.

so i went to my mom's hairdresser (these are the pre-kim days, she would have never allowed me to make such a drastic decision without some serious discussion before. if you are in crisis, you are not allowed to drasticly change your hair. love you kim).

and i chopped it.

to my ears.

it was cute for about 2 weeks.

then i took my senior portraits.

not awful.
but it's short.
i had always wanted long hair.
i had worked really hard to grow it out.
why was i taking senior pictures with short brown hair?
to this day i still don't know.
then i ate a lot.
i think this is the main issue.
what it all boils down to.
i'm a good eater.
15 pounds later i had short brown hair and really tight pants.
i even had some of my friends' mom tell me what a cute cut i had and
"could they have my hair dresser's number to get the same one?"
sounds like such a compliment now, but to an 18 yr. old it was just short of the world ending.

this picture just doesn't do it justice.
i actually really like my short brown hair here.
mainly b/c i had just done the atkin's diet and lost about 10 pounds.
mostly in my face. and rear;-) HOT DOG!
did i mention i refuse to diet now?
it's not good for the psyche.
i speak for myself and myself only, so diet on if your psyche is okay with it!
my pants were slick as a whistle to my skin with those extra pounds.
uncomfortably tight.
and NOT in the "i like big butts and i cannot lie" kinda way.
on came the beginning of 8 yrs of fad dieting and extremist exercising.
after years of despising short brown hair for the fear of looking like a mom (especially since i am one now;-)
have i finally come to terms with short, brown hair?
i'm not sure.
i can list dozens of you with short, brown hair that make me want to chop, chop, chop!
why then can't i chop?
sean says, "it's just hair."
silly boys!
i don't think it's the short brown hair at all.
i think it was me being sad inside.
sad for not knowing who i was inside, trying to like myself in my skin.
i feel really great in my skin now.
i found this one of me, i think age 10 or 11?
i clogged.
it rocked.
i really liked my short brown hair here,
but i felt nerdy.
not because of the hair.
at least, not then.

so i think i associate short brown hair with nerdiness too.
i felt like a nerd in elementary school, although stacie assures me i was not.
bless you stacie, bless you:-)
do you notice the cuffed pants?
and white pink ruffled socks?
i don't even know if it was cool then.
i really liked them a lot though.
as far as the country western outfit?
i was dancing to a country song.
enough said.
...
so, can i get past all of these issues to cut my hair and avoid a hot, sweaty neck this summer?
it took me 2 years to go dark from blonde.
it may take a decade to go short.
until then, i foresee another hot muggy summer with long hair.
at least, i think it will be...

and apparently, you goddesses really do read all the way through, not just sue!

(sue, did you like my attempt at poetry there?!)

for which i would like to say, "HOT DOG, HOT DOG, HOT DIGGITY DOG!"

and thanks, it makes me feel special:-)