Nonsense From Wonderland

So we took the bikes out to lunch at the Luxury Diner, then headed to the Harley store to get something for me to cover my face with on these semi-chilly days. About 3 hours later, I came home w/a face cover AND a new bike!! I’d been kicking the idea around for a long time, but just hadn’t really acted on it, other than looking online every now and then. I am very happy w/my new bike, and think it’s a great place for me to start w/a Harley, to get used to the power. It’s quite a difference from my Honda (which we traded in). She really gets up and goes! The bike is a Sportster Custom 1200 Low, w/upgraded pipes, carb, backrest and windshield. I got to pick out 2 free shirts for buying a bike too! The people at our Harley store are really great and so helpful, plus they know Jason because he’s in there so much. When you buy a bike from them, you get to ring the bell up front. By the time we got done, the store was closed and it was only a handful of workers and us, but it was still cool to be able to ring the bell. Plus, I got my picture taken for the Maverick Family wall . The weather is supposed to be good tomorrow, so we’re hoping to go out for a ride. It’s kind of weird for me, because I never thought I would own a Harley, let around ride a motorcycle, but taking the class and getting my license has been one of the best things I’ve ever done. There is just nothing like being out on a bike. It can turn a bad day around like that !

In other exciting news, sis got us tickets to No Doubt in Denver in May! We’ve seen Gwen Stefani twice solo, and she puts on an awesome show. At the last concert she ran down the aisle, and I was on the end seat, where I could have reached out and touched her! I am so excited to have a concert lined up. Crue Fest will be back this year, in August, but I don’t think we’re going to go. There are too many supporting bands that we don’t know or like, to spend that much $ on tickets. I wish the Crue would have just come through on their SOLA tour. Def Leppard is in Denver at the end of August, w/Cheap Trick and Poison, so hoping we can make that one. It would be my 6th time to see them! They are always fabulous in concert.

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My friend Mel always finds the coolest things online, so I am snagging this from her!  It’s a fun site called Wordle, which I can tell is going to become a huge time waster for me, when I actually have some time to kill.  My first two ”pictures” are the lyrics to 37mm by AFI, which is one of my all time favorite songs; and Happy Birthday by The Birthday Massacre. I have this song stuck in my head on a daily basis! Clicking on the small pic will take you straight to the bigger version on Wordle’s site. Enjoy!

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We had a pretty good, productive weekend I think!  The boys were both at sleepovers last night, so Jason and I went to the Chinese buffet, then over to the mall to see Taken.  We both liked it.  After we got home we watched Eagle Eye, which I had from Netflix, and we liked that also.  I always enjoy Shia.  We slept in a tiny bit this morning, then Jason decided we should get the bikes out and ride to breakfast at the Luxury Diner.  I wasn’t so sure my bike would start, after not running since about October I think, but she fired up and went!  It felt so good to be out again, even if I was a bit cold.  Hopefully we’ll be looking at some warmer days, where I could ride to work.  After breakfast we headed to Barnes and Noble.  I’ve been on a book buying spree lately.  Today I bought 4 books by Neil Gaiman, the guy who wrote Coraline and Stardust.  I ended up getting Stardust, The Graveyard Book,  Neverwhere and Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders.  Can’t wait to start on them.  I really need to get serious w/my reading.  I had planned to finish Breaking Dawn this weekend, and I did read both days, but didn’t finish : (.  When Breck came back from his sleepover, his friend came w/him and hung out for a couple hours.  Jason got them McD’s for lunch, while I was busy scraping old caulking off the kitchen counters.  I was only going to do right behind the sink, but kept going and decided I’d do the entire counter on that side of the room.  It looks so nice and fresh w/the new caulking.  We also redid the caulking in our shower, and put new stuff around our vanity.  I rearranged the stuff on the kitchen counter, got dishes put away, and did some laundry.  We also finally hung Jason’s new Bengal thermometer mom and dad got him for Xmas.  It looks nice, and I’ll be able to see it w/out my glasses.  We had a digital one that came w/the house when we bought it, but I couldn’t see it unless I had my glasses on, and even then, the numbers were tiny.  We were going to replace some pieces of lattice on the bottom of the deck, as the dog has been going under there, but we couldn’t find just the strips, so will probably end up doing the whole piece.  While at Lowe’s, we browsed the sinks, faucets, stoves, and carpet.  It would be so great to carpet both living rooms and the basement in one swoop, but that stands to be very pricey.  Might actually have to have someone from Lowe’s or Home Depot come and measure, so we can get an idea.  The basement definitely needs carpet first, since it’s in a semi-unfinished state.  I told Jason today we need to make a list of what’s a priority, because we’d like to have a lot of new things (couch, dining set, sink, stove/micro, carpet). 

Tonight we watched Stardust.  I bought the DVD last night before dinner.  The boys and I had seen it, and since I’m on a Neil Gaiman kick, I just had to have it.  Plus, it has a small appearance by one of my favorite people–Ricky Gervais.  The boys stayed up late to watch it, so hopefully morning isn’t a pain.  I showered tonight, in hopes of making my morning go faster.  This week I have class on Tuesday, and the kids have their school carnival Friday.  It’ll be the first time Jason gets to go, since he no longer bowls on Fridays.  Peyton’s done w/basketball, and will have a pizza party at school Thursday, to turn in his uniform.

I guess it’s about time to hit the hay.  I need to take some laundry out and throw in another load before I go up.  Looks like we’ll have some decent temps this week, which I am hoping really is true, since I have bus all week!

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We saw Coraline tonight and absolutely LOVED it!  The 3D was totally amazing, and we were laughing at how funny the glasses were!  I bought the book Saturday, and read it in about 2 hours.  The movie did add some things not in the book, but you know how that goes.  I just got the soundtrack on iTunes, and kind of want to get the video game too.   You could say I’m obsessing a bit .

It’s back to the grind tomorrow.  I just told Jason I wish it could still be the weekend.  It’s nice being lazy and not having so many things planned.  We all just needed to get healthy again too, and I think we are.  Tomorrow we have basketball after school, at a school on the other side of town.  Think we’ll go look at bookshelves and lamps after that.  We’ve needed a new lamp for a while, and although we looked at shelves yesterday, we didn’t get anything.  I think I’ve figured out what to get now.  Didn’t really want to get the inexpensive, pressed wood kind, but I think if I get them at Target they will look okay, and I plan on putting one on each end of the fireplace.   We have such a varying array of furniture in here, as far as colors and type.  Drives me crazy.  Some of it matches, but it’s my grandparents’ old Ethan Allen stuff, and is older than me I believe, so in great need of restaining.  The kids have not been gentle on any of it!

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Hope everyone enjoyed a nice day with their loved ones and/or family!  I got a wonderful surprise at work yesterday after I got back from lunch….the gorgeous boquet pictured above!  They smell so good, and the color is so vibrant.  VERY sweet card w/them as well.  This morning I came down to some nice cards from Jason and the boys, as well as a box of all dark chocolates!  I LOVE dark.  It’s my favorite kind of chocolate.  It was just a very nice day spent together, and of course we got a lot of Little Big Planet play time in.  Jason finally got us past this evil level that had us stuck for the last week. 

This afternoon I spent my Barnes and Noble card that I got for my birthday from my co-workers, and picked up a new Twilight bookmark w/Bella and Edward (I have one w/my favorite Edward pic too), Coraline, a comic version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and What the Dickens.  I just love shopping in the kids’ section.  Seriously, they have the best books, and I am the kind of person who immediately gets drawn in by cool cover art.  I have often thought about getting a Kindle (my friend has one and loves it), but I just don’t know about giving up the real book feel.  I also check out a lot of books from the library, and rarely buy a book that I will plan to give away some day.  I told Jason I’d like to get some nice bookshelves for the living room.  I have books tucked away all over the place it seems. 

We are all on the mend, although Jason’s still feeling a little blah today.  Peyton’s stomach was bothering him too, but hopefully it wasn’t flu related.  I went back to work yesterday, and Jason stayed home.  Luckily it wasn’t too rough of a day, and the girls were looking out for me, not letting me be outside for my bus duty.  It’s great to work w/such caring people : ).  I did go to Kerri’s Tastefully Simple party last night, but I didn’t eat a bunch, because I was worried about my stomach.  She had the choclatinis I wanted to try too, but didn’t, dang it : (.

We have Monday off, of course, so I will really be enjoying the next 2 days.  I would like to get some reading done.  I’m trying to make some kind of plan about which book I want to read next when I finish Breaking Dawn, but I am so all over the place w/my books, it’s hard for me to stick to any one thing.  I just want to read everything, and I want to do it NOW!  After watching Harry Potter 5 with Peyton the other night when he was ill, I really had a strong urge to reread the whole series.  It’s been a while, and of coure I’ve forgotten a lot of those little details.  One thing that I am thankful for, is that I will never have a shortage of things to read.

I suppose I should get up to bed.  We watched Madagascar 2 tonight.  Mom got it for the boys for V-day.  I dozed off, so will have to rewatch, but what I saw was so funny!  I want to go see Coraline at the theater, but am wondering if I could read the book before we go see it.  It looks like a really short, fast read.

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That describes my feeling today.  Peyton came home sick from school yesterday, after throwing up on his clothes.  I came home w/him, since Jason was in a meeting.  He pretty much threw up and was in the bathroom all day, and had a fever last night.  I kept him home today too, to make sure we were out of the woods w/the throwing up.  He was feeling much better, and said he was just a little dizzy.  About 5 this morning, I started feeling nauseous, and was trying to talk myself out of it.  I showered, then immediately felt yucky, so called in sick.  Jason was home today for telecommuting, but he is also ill!  In the whole time we’ve been married, we have never been sick together.  We both ended up throwing up and laying in bed all day.  Kind of feeling so-so right now, but my tummy has been crampy off and on.  I HOPE we are all healthy tomorrow.  They are having Valentine’s parties at school, and I’m supposed to go to my friend’s/co-worker’s Tastefully Simple party.  Indy got groomed today and looks and feels so much better.  I had to call Dana to have her go get him, as neither of us were in the position to leave at that moment! 

We have a 3-day weekend, which will be nice, although the weather is getting crappy.  Supposed to get more snow and cold.  We had thought about going to Ft. Collins on Saturday for V-day, and to check out the Harley sale of repo’d bikes.  Not sure if we’ll make it.  I have to get out tomorrow to get V-day surprises for everyone.  I got the candy part yesterday.  I think I’m getting all 3 of them some kind of game.  I was looking at the parts pack for Peyton’s Spore, and maybe Wall-E for Breck’s DS.  There is some Civil War game Jason wants for the PS3, that’s only at the mall, but I don’t know what it’s called.   

Here’s a picture of the boys helping Tim, our neighbor and Jason’s boss, shovel snow at the end of Jan., on one of our very cold days!  They were outside playing, and he asked them if they wanted to earn a few bucks helping him : ).  He has a snowblower, but it must not be working.

 

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Took a sick day to stay at home w/my sick Bubbie.  He’s got a chest cold and lots of coughing.  This morning he was dizzy, so I thought it was probably not a good idea to send him.  This is the first time he’s been home sick from school in a year and a half!  I went out and got some cold meds and cough drops for him.  Been so long since he’s been sick, I didn’t really have anything for him to take, other than some old cough syrup that has expired.  He’s going to miss a game tonight, but that’s the way it goes I guess.  I’m not going to my Skill for Success class tonight either.  Jason is going to Wheatland for work, and will be home later.  He found a recipe for crockpot chicken and noodle soup, so brought the stuff home at lunch so I could get it going.  I’ve spent the day catching up on housework.  I think I was in our bathroom for an hour alone scrubbing the walls.  UGH!  I’ve probably got 2 more loads of laundry to do, some to put away, and vacuuming, then I’ll be done.  For now I’m just sitting and taking a break.  Going to do some math flash cards w/Peyton.  I have to get Brecken at 3:15.

Yesterday was a half day for the kids, but I still had to work.  Jason picked them up and took them to lunch, then they bought 2 new controllers for the PS3!  Now all 4 of us can play Monopoly, Little Big Planet and Ultimate Alliance!  I am so loving Little Big Planet.  A video game has never made me laugh so hard that I cried, until this one!  It was just crazy funny last night.

We went to Bill’s for the Superbowl.  WAY too many Steeler fans there.  There were quite a few of us cheering for Arizona, and I really thought they had it with that last TD.  I even got goosebumps.  I really, truly, loate and despise the Steelers and Toothlessburger.  Thank goodness it’s over and a new season will be upon us before we know it!

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