Food Fight

Erica and I occasionally do this thing where we email each other our awful meals for the day. She sent me this list 2 days ago.

What I've eaten today so far:

8:00 am Uncrustable and Diet Coke
10:00 am Cheetos
10:05 am Mini bag of Reeses Pieces
10:15 am Water to attempt to settle stomach
11:07 am Mini snickers

This is what I sent her:

Breakfast: 2 donut holes/coffee
Lunch: 1 small bag Cheddar Sun Chips/Diet Red Bull



When I’m home, I eat like a normal human. Hot oatmeal for breakfast, a nice sandwich for lunch and some sort of nutritious dinner, normal. Something happens to me when I enter my office cubicle, some sort of molecular mutation takes place and my cells start to crave, greasy junk/sugar/vending machine and caffeine. Then I start this weird calorie count vs. shi*eous food, rationale trade off. This is what goes on in my head:

“OK, 2 donut holes equal about 150 calories, so I will omit the healthy breakfast bar I brought and add 2 more donut holes and a large coffee...ahh breakfast. 1 bag of Sun Chips is 210 calories but high in fat, I will just eat those and a zero calorie Diet Bull and call it lunch. That leaves room for 5 Fireballs, 3 licorice strands and a sugar free turtle.”

I wake up every morning and consider packing a healthy lunch, that's as far as I get.

Par-Tay Time

Everyone produced a costume. Some had to be bribed and some threatened, but in the end the costume was worn. I give you the Vampires.


Mr. Obama and Sarah Palin


A purple fairy princess, whose wings sometimes came off their velcro.


Heat Miser and Gabriella from High School Musical, ya I knew that.


A tennis ball and a 70's tennis pro.


A witch and a bad ass.


Chris produced the cauldron of dry ice and Zach and Griffin became 9 years old. Had to stick their faces in it and swirl it around.


The Pinata had an early demise. Sween at least had a go at it.


Caca and Zach decided to play baseball with said Pinata. Caca had a swing:


...and a miss.


The winning pumpkin? The team of Erica, Abby and friend. The 2 little girls inquired "Erica, when do we get to help?" Her reply in a mumble "ummmm ummmmm in a minute." She finally threw them a bone by letting them carry it to the table.


Morgan's cookies were delish. Sween should know, she ate a dozen or so.


It was a very spooky night.


I instructed these ghouls to imitate the pumpkins.


HAPPY HALLOWEENY

Party Planning

I have been driving Chris and Erica nuts with talk of "the party." I think I like PLANNING the party the most, which requires talking non-stop about it to Tim, who is O- BLI- VIOUS to my excitement. (I do finally have him talked into a costume, no easy feat my friends).

me: I think for the party I will hang the pinata on the Ficus Tree.

Tim: What party?

me: The Halloween Party!

me: I think we need a scary music CD.

Tim: For what?

me: The Halloween Party!

There is nothing better than a Halloween party complete with costumes and a witches cauldron bubbling with root beer, which Chris will be supplying.


Caca insisted that I hand out the Martha Stewart "Witches Broom" gift bags and I concurred. Only my Martha could supply me with a kit so perfectly crafted.



I created these. I love the black glittery witches.



A very sweet pin-the-face-on-the Jack O' Lantern, hand-made by my beautiful Erica:



Griffin has died his hair black for his vampire costume and Morgan has paid a hefty price for her vampiress costume and she will be supplying the homemade sugar cookies! Caca won't disclose her costume except to say "it's brilliant." My nephew Alex will be the Heat Miser:



Abby will be Gabriella from High School musical and Sween's costume is a surprise.

I can't wait!

Caturday = Faturday

I woke up this fine morning, had my coffee, read the AZ Republic, flipped on my laptop and clicked on "Stuff." The first 2 pictures to greet me were none other than my beloved Fatness. What a lover.


"Fatness has just gone to the birds!" (their captions)



"I'll hold this pose so you can carve my likeness into a pumpkin"

Flowerama

The great thing about October? I get to plant my winter flowers. This includes dragging Tim to the nearby nursery, nailing down my color scheme, correcting Tim on the names of the flowers, mentally calculating how many I will need, dragging $90.00 worth of flowers and potting soil home and then spending all day getting their sweetness's into the ground.

This year I decided for the pots, yellow Marigolds, red Geraniums and purple Stock. The bricked area received pink and purple Petunias.



Griffin is not fond of this ghoul. He said "I don't like its spiny arms."

"It's over Joker"

Just Tuesday

I received this in the post. Isn't she cute? My lifetime giggle-fest friend Alli-Cat sent it to me because she is thoughtful like that.



I saw Eagle Eye this weekend, it was intense and had a completely ridiculous premise but that's beside the point. The point is the film has Shia in it, so what if I'm old enough to be his mother, shut it. I love him.



On Saturday Tim was doing something official and important all day, me? I watched "Extras." I planted my butt on the sofa, cracked open a Diet Coke and laughed my ass off for 3 hours. Then my sister called and we discussed how funny and brilliant the show is.



Look at this Harry Potter costume. No, I will never tire of cats in costumes.



Dear Angie,

This pic doesn't bode well. Shiloh is wearing green Crocs, Pax has something akin to seaweed dangling from his armpits, no one's hair has seen a brush in 3 days and umm Angie your dress is ugly. Please give your uterus a rest, wear something other than black and hem it. Your children look like orphans and carry around bags of Cheetos, but you are still magnificent and I look forward to "The Changeling." xxoo --me

Happy Caturday

Fatness and I have narrowed down his Halloween costume to these 3 choices. He is leaning towards the 18th century Tricorne Hat ensemble, he feels the jacket is slimming. He made me promise I wouldn't put him into a sloppy t-shirt costume.

Palin Bingo

This is a great idea. For those of you who would like to play along tonight click here to print out your play card, there are 4 versions with phrases like "glass ceiling" "maverick" "Wasilla" "bad guys" "ummm" and "maritime border."

Every time Palin uses a phrase or word check your box. Some are doing it as a drinking game too, maybe Tim and I will do shots of Root beer, however, Tim won't find any of this funny because he is mesmerized by the Governor's beauty and cup size.

Hopefully Biden will be careful with the gaffes and allow Sarah plenty of time to speak her mind. I can't wait.