OH MY FREAKIN' what?!

baby platypi-these babies are so homely, they're cute!!!

just had to share....have a great evening!

chairish is the word

summertime, and the living is easyyyyyyy! well, it would be if it wasn't hot and humid and bug-gy and if we could sit outside and enjoy the view. but, alas, it is all those things aaaaaannndd we do not have any type of comfortable outside seating here at the hellhole.

i was checking around online and found some interesting patio chairs. i totally fell in love with these little numbers from anthropologie:

oh yeah, they are gorgeous, made in argentina and, at only $298, i think i will get all four!! (NOT!)

then, there is this little blue number from roomandboard.com:

it's not really my style, too modern and it is one dollar more than the last ones!

and speaking of modern, here is an awesomely beautiful set from designer david trubridge:
he is from new zealand and i could not even find out the price for these, though i bet they are out of my price range!

pier1 has several reasonably priced beauties, i love this red one:

made in china, it is $79.99

and also from pier1, and in my favorite color:

made in viet nam and, at $39.98, the one i could actually afford! it's really cute!

now, if we could just deal with the mosquitoes, i could withstand the humidity, as long as i had my butt planted in a cool purple chair!

grateful:
1. for take-out pizza
2.for living vicariously through magazines and decorating blogs
3. it's 8:35...he is in BED!

yo! yo! play-doh!

just a little play-doh fun on a tuesday. t.willie has a play-doh kitchen and i like the challenge of making play food.

here is my carrot:
here is my eggplant:
here is t.w's...um...scrambled eggs?:


here are cute little hands:
i love this face:grateful:
1. for my leetle friend called ambien cr!
2. for "leftover" cake
3. time to play with kid stuff

honey do list

i was jotting down a few things that i needed bilbo to do-a honey do list, actually. i had things like:

1) drill hole in ceramic pot

2) redo weather stripping around doors

3) dig up and re-plant the redbud tree that planted itself

and it got me thinking...about all the honey don'ts i would have on a honey don't list.

things like, don't:

1) leave dirty clothes on floor (in front of hamper)

2) leave empty food containers on counter (six inches from trash can)

3) walk through the house with your muddy boots

but, as i was thinking of these items, i was also thinking that:

1) those dirty clothes come off of the guy i love

2) those empty food containers are from the guy i love who provides for me anything and everything i need

3) he walks through the house in those muddy boots to kiss me good-bye while i am still in bed in the morning

so, yes, i do still need him to do those little jobs for me, but as for the honey don't list...never mind.
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click on the above image to be taken to ddsdoubles etsy shop. this cute handmade honey do list is just $10.00!
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grateful:
1. for my guy
2. for wind chimes on a breezy day
3. for funny kids

oh, embraceable you!

see that beautiful un-hellhole-ish house? that's my mom and dad's place. it's very homey and lushfully landscaped. my mother was interviewed for an etsy project embrace blog. check it out, you will get to know her a little bit and you'll learn about etsy's project embrace...

...it's a GOOD thing!!!

grateful:
1. for the do-gooders of the world
2. that my mom is one of them
3. that i don't have to get up really early in the morning to go yard saleing cuz my mother doesn't want me to go with her...apparently

john and joan, joan and john

so bilbo and i JUST got done watching the movie "war, inc" with john cusack. man, what a weird, funny, gory, satirical flick!! it was good. not my usual kind of movie, but, it had john in it, so i knew i would like it!

this is the plot description on imdb.com:

"A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man, to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter in check."

it was good. it was weird. it was funny...and also scary when you think about what actually goes on in the minds of our leaders!

and hey, what is the deal? if ya hire john for a movie, do ya automatically get joan cusack too, and vice versa?? i don't mind, though, i love them both! have you seen "martian child"? it's another movie starring john and also has joan in it. now, that IS my usual kind of film!! really good! warm, funny and with a happy ending!

so, run out and rent one or both of these movies...and tell them aurorafedora sent ya!!

grateful:
1. to spend a quiet evening with bilbo...and john!
2. for quick thunderstorms that blow in and blow out in a matter of minutes!
3. that t.willie is so cute, as it saves him from bodily harm on days he does not take a nap!

oh yeah, i remember...

...why i call this the hellhole...

early this morning, the phone rang and i flew out of bed to answer it. as i stood in the kitchen talking, i turned towards the living room and saw several mounds of dog poop and next to it, two spots of "something else". OMG! not this again. so i hung up the phone and put the dog outside. on my way back in, i noticed a couple spots of cat puke on the dining room rug...oh yeah, happy june first...to me!!

so, once i cleaned up ALL the messes, i got t.willie up and fed him. the rest of my morning went okay. after lunch, i attempted to get t.w. to take a nap. he did stay in his bed for about 45 minutes, all the while singing and banging and pulling apart his bedding.

i let him back up but made him play in his room for awhile. he absolutely tore his room apart! every single toy came out of his toy box and he pulled all his jackets down from the closet. but he was happy and not bothering me, so i let it go. but the afternoon dragged on and he became whiny and bratty and basically NOT fun.

after eating a big supper, t.w. perked up and cheered up. we settled down to watch "riverdance", one of my favorite videos. as the dancers lined up and did their first step dance, t.willie was mesmerized. this was not the first time he had seen this, but he was younger and didn't pay much attention to it before this. he got all excited and started doing his own version of irish step dancing along with the dancers for the entire length of the dance. it was very very cute!

it pretty much made up for his behavior earlier in the day...man, i love that kid!!

grateful:
1. for yesterday's leftovers!
2. for all the rain (i guess) since we will probably not have enough later this summer
3. for 2 1/2 year old step dancers