if i was hosting

a few weeks back we gave our extra large sectional + end tables to one of mike's buddies. so with our lack of furniture at the moment, mike + i canceled our annual superbowl party but if i was hosting this would be part of the menu. yum!
courtesy via tiny talk via rachel ray

case of the brain farts

i've been having a major case of the brain farts {i swear i haven't been drinking, at least not before 5pm} to start off, i've been trying to fix my blog banner so it fits nicely on the screen instead of it being in your face mega big. so what did i do, went to elements and was just getting ready to start the whole dang process over when the thought of why not just change the size of the one you alreadyhave? hits me. doh!

then at diner i told mike i had a house warming present for him but couldn't make up my mind. i tend to surprise him with these type of things but i didn't know if he would want a beer pong table or a regular ping pong table. i haven't done my research so i don't know what the difference is though the beer pong says its portable. during the discussion i happen to ask him how can he not know, didn't he watch the movie with christopher walken +some ugly hairy dude drinking beer and playing ping pong? he started to laugh and i knew instantly what i did. i combined the movies balls of fury + beerfest together. doh!

and before bed, i wanted to get mike's schedule of his fridays off which is every other friday and today is one of those fridays even though he went into work. i continued on with writing on the calendar "off"on those days when the light bulb finally goes off. he gets every other friday off as mentioned a few seconds earlier. i was confusing his fridays off with his weekends of being on call. duh! mike just looked at me and started to laugh. i know, hard to believe but i'm not a rocket scientist. i'm more like a contestant on rock of love except i have way smaller boobies. and they're real.

last sneak peak into phaeton place

awhile ago i received a comment telling me that the word man cave was a word made up by hgtv and the correct terminology is the mantuary.

so welcome to the husband's mantuary. going down the steps you will see a big, red wall, the dan marino fathead might be going there to welcome all guests. and when you turn to the right this is what you see in the 2nd picture. its one hell of a long room. continuing along the right side of the room is a door that leads to the unfinished area of the basement. its pretty big going the full length of the basement and it has plenty of storage space as well as room for the exercise equipment. see the big red pole? while its not stripper regulated, i think it will work just the same. thank goodness mike's got semi decent man hands since he's the one going to be doing the dancing to help pay for the house. and pool depending how much he makes. hopefully we don't end up paying like last..... ok then, continuing on the right side is a bathroom w/shower also known as "mike's office". and after that is the bar. i'm hoping to con a few bar stools from el parentays establishment to go around it. dad's out of town so i'm hoping to get some for free from my favorite brother. {love how family members become favorites when you need something?} and then opposite of the bar will be my crafting/computer room. i was counting on ham taking this as his bedroom so my crafting/computer room would be upstairs away from the mantuary. no such luck. i'm definitely getting rid of the yellow walls, way too bright for me. and the last room will be kaylee's toy room. this "mantuary" was the deal breaker in buying the house. once mike got downstairs, his jaw dropped and i do believe he got a boner from it. {please excuse the description but i'm just being honest here} all numbers were thrown to the side and he was ready to sign on the dotted line then and there.

randomness on wednesday

its random thoughts because i dont want to make paragraphs.


1. loving this idea: via: apartment therapy ohdeedoh

2. daily conversation with kaylee: mom, i love you. (me) i love you too. (kaylee) i love you more. (me) no, i love you more. (kaylee) no, i love you more. and this can go on all day. dont know where she got it from but i love it!

3. on our way back from ikea on saturday kaylee tells me that i'm the best mommy in the world so she's going to start calling me "best" and she did. she changed her name to lulu and daddy got changed to "ba dunka dunk daddy" because he's got a big butt. dont know where she got that from either, yeah, no idea at all.

4. kaylee's been trying some "new" foods: oranges, blueberries, orange juice and cheesy scrambled eggs

5. 14 more days till closing day on arlene and hopefully on phaeton

6. even though its snowing and its cold, i'm suffering from allergies hard core

7. ham still doesn't know if he wants an itouch. just asked him this morning before dropping him off at school

8. i'm having a hard time coming up with meals. even with all the websites + recipes. i just want new and easy recipes to try

9. today is part 2 of root canal and crown

10. i cant seem to find the desire to lose weight. i'm blaming it on the cold weather + the allergies. its making me tired.

i want

i want to see this movie. at the big theatre. with lots of buttered popcorn. isla fisher has become one of my favorite actresses. she was just awesome in wedding crashers + definitely, maybe.

short trip to ikea makes for long post

thursday morning i decided that i was going to ikea on saturday. i've been talking about going for a few months now and i was going to make it happen one way or another. mike invited himself to tag along. later in the afternoon i get a call from nana- mike's mom. she wanted to know if kaylee wanted to spend the night friday and maybe the whole weekend. {whoa nelly! a whole weekend away from my little mini me?} sweet, little kaylee was all gung-ho about it even friday morning when i asked her. her reply,with much enthusiasm, was "today's the day i get to spend the night at nana's? today's the day?!" and once nana got here, kaylee asked if they could leave. as i was getting ready for mike and i to get some bites, i decided that maybe we should stay in since we had a big day planned for saturday. translation- i planned on spending some money at ikea. so we got a movie- stepbrothers, it was dumb, and some sandwiches from a local place and some candy/popcorn from target. it was a nice, quiet evening of not having to get the demands of a very high maintenced four year old when we get THE CALL. its nana. kaylee wants to talk to me. all i hear is mumble, mumble, crying and sniffles. nana translated it to "mommy i want to come home because i love you." it was sweet yet sad. sad because nana lives an hour away, sad because kaylee cant be anywhere without us and sad because mike's parents wanted to spend some time with her. half an hour later we get another call- she finally fell asleep.

later that night we get another phone call except this time its mike's work. first thing in the morning mike leaves because he thinks he's found a way to fix the problem at work. he loves his job and he loves being the boss. i know he does. i knew this was going to take some time since he told me to take my time in getting ready- my trip to ikea is getting delayed! around 9am-ish, there's a knock on the door. i'm thinking its mike and he just left his keys in his truck. nope. its kaylee, nana and pop pop. kaylee had a rough night and she looked it- her eyes were all red and puffy. the first thing she said in the morning is that she wanted to go home to mommy and that her mommy's name is kristi. and she kept repeating it over and over like nana and pop pop were complete strangers. kaylee is one strange cat- it was only a few months ago that she went right back to nana's house after being brought home, she wanted to stay with nana. so after this episode i'm thinking what are we going to do once school starts? will she behave this way and maybe, just maybe the doctor was right and we should have kaylee see a shrink? oh the joys of parenthood!

so we finally took off for ikea around 10am. i got a few things for the house and we found some bigger items that we need to buy once we move so you know what that means- another trip to ikea! we ate an early dinner at one my favorite places- pf changs and then headed back home. it was about a 6 hour drive total but the no traffic made it nice. of course kaylee complained a little about a "bellycake" {she just needed to poop} and that she wanted to go home and watch spongebob but overall the trip was a good one. mike even behaved.

need to get me a sugar daddy

i am so in love with these bad boys. christian louboutin armadillo satin shoes. if i had an extra $865.00 to buy a pair, i would wear them everyday and admire myself in them.

image from: net-a-porter

i saw them first on jasmine star 's blog. i about had a heart attack seeing them against the green grass and the "i do" printed on the bottom. and tell me how unfair is that jasmine star has a great name, is soo talented and beautiful + has a great sense of humor along with being so smart? some people got all the luck!