Katy Perry

I have had the most ridiculous traffic since I posted Katy Perry HERE.  Hundreds of people a day since Friday!

I feel like I should do a post on her.  It’s only fair, right?  She’s creating all this buzz for me. 

 

I first heard Katy Perry on the radio for her song, I Kissed A Girl.  Love it.  Jason and I attend Warped Tour every year and guess who was going to be there?!  Katy Perry!  She rocked it.  Oh yes, she did.  She’s knock out gorgeous too.  The line to see her and have her sign stuff was wrapped around the place. 

Jason and I don’t do the meet and greets.  Makes me feel old and creepy.  We stalk admire from afar.

Jason bought me her CD and it’s awesome.  We’ve all heard the new singles on the radio:  Hot & Cold, Waking Up In Vegas, etc. 

In short, I dig her.  Regardless of my opinion on her personality.  Honestly, who am I to judge?  The last person.  Believe me.

So thanks Katy!  I had no idea I’d receive all this attention from one little picture.  lol

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Saturday’s Adventures

We had a full day ahead of us! Starting with the Train Museum in Sacramento.

 

Jeromy was very interested in reading the fact boxes.  He says to me, “Mom, I’m getting to be like Jarrod.  I actually like learning about this stuff!”  Jarrod is my cousin, our children’s second cousin and Jeromy thinks the world of him.  Jarrod is almost 15 and one of the best teenagers I know.  I’m stoked Jeromy has chosen someone worth looking up to.

Don’t expect to see any actual train photos because I’m lame and didn’t take any!

Moments before I took this photo, Aiden tried to walk through the window! lol  He was a bear all day.  Didn’t want to be held, didn’t want a snack, didn’t want to be in the stroller.  Grr.  Most of his photos are of him being hugely irritated.

You can see my Aunt Meg with Miranda in the background of the above photo.  She was showing Miss M were her Great-Great Grandfather worked.  Just across from the train museum in the rail yard.  This was new to me too!  I enjoy learning about my grandparents and the lives they led.  They were not easy, I can tell you that.  Meg lives in Sac and came out to meet us.  We appreciated having her extra arms and the nice visit!  Miranda didn’t leave her side for most of it.  Just like me when I was her age!

Aiden found a cool little space to play in while we took a break.  More like let him take a break.

Ooooo!  A string!  lol

On the second floor they have the toy train displays.  TONS of toy trains.  Even a play area of Thomas the Train.  Only today, on free museum day, there were no toys.    Evidently they get swiped pretty fast so they don’t put any out.  They did have this cool window:

Miranda wasn’t sure how fun this was.  Lots of kiddos in a small space.  Sam was somewhere in there too.

We finished our short two hour trip with a  picnic lunch and then it was on to Sam’s friend’s birthday party.  Where he was the only boy chosen to attend!  Quite an honor when your seven.

Build-a-Bear is insane.  Kids everywhere!  With way too much yellow.  I like the color yellow and it was still too much.  Sam chose to stuff a cat.  He’s a cat person.

Meet Zakary the Cat!  He originally chose this A’s hat, because he loves baseball, but then changed his mind.  Zak the Cat now has a cool pair of sunglasses and an American flag.  Zak hasn’t left his side since the party.

After that loud and crazy fun, we rushed home, slammed down some dinner and rushed back out for the California Cougars game.  My Mom came and watched the Littles for us.  It was very, very, very nice to have some time with just the boys.  It doesn’t happen very often and we miss it.  We need to make it a point to do it more often.  A couple things about this particular game:

• Sam actually wanted to watch it!  Usually he’s bored out of his mind and asking for food every 15 minutes. 
• The team we played had their coach thrown out of the game for rushing the field!  It was pretty fierce there for about five minutes.  Gotta love testosterone.
• We won 10-7! 
• Nachos and soda?  Yes please.

 

We were all pretty beat by the end of the day but so worth the family memories! 

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When you speak of someone or about someone, you should speak as though they were in the room with you. The ears that you speak to today are attached to the mouth that could relay the message tomorrow. ~  William ‘Biddy’ Allen

Miranda’s Gallery Wall

Jason and I finally hung Miranda’s stuff on her wall!  It’s only taken over two years to do.  Geez.

 

 

Sorry for the grainy quality.  Pictures at night with my little basis camera suck. 

Isn’t her wall sweet?  I just love it.  I’d like to be five and hang out with her.  Under the ‘flutterbys’.  lol  She stands on her bed, waving her arms and saying, “I flying!”  Her comforter is one of my favorite things in the house.  It’s a quilt with a wood grain pattern!  We wanted something that wouldn’t be overkill on the girly stuff because Aiden is just across the room.

This lovely little gem is something Jeromy did for Miranda when I was still pregnant:

 

Because of the super craptastic photo quality, you can’t really see the words.  This is what it says:

 

I used the same grammar he did.  I think its so cute he capitalizes his name and baby, but not mom and dad.  lol  We see were we rank!

Jeromy knew we had a giraffe theme going and traced this baby giraffe from some light box toy we have.  It’s one of those things that I hope Miranda treasures forever.

Headed up to Sacramento today for Free Museum Day.  Then it’s a birthday party at 3pm for Sam and a California Cougars game at 7pm for Jeromy.

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All Knotted Up

My Mom is a licensed massage therapist and she recently created a Facebook for her business! I know plenty of you readers have Facebooks. Would you be so kind as to add her, helping her spread the word for her business? I’ve posted a link below:

Annie Baker – All Knotted Up

I probably didn’t post the correct link to add her as a friend but I know zero about Facebook.  Someday I’ll probably start my own, but for now I’ll stick with my happy ‘lil blog.  By the time I get around to it, Facebook will be replaced with something more hip like, Twitface.  Where you can post to your wall in seconds by merely speaking out loud.  With all this new snazzy technology I’m sure this will happen.  “Add a Twitface microchip to your mouth for only $199!”

Anywho, my Mom is fantastic and any shameless marketing I can do for her I will.  You can find her information on my sidebar too.  She does so much for us, I could never do enough to repay her for being the person she is.  Love you, Mom!   

I also love this little ratfink:

 

Who kept me up for three hours last night….zzzzzzzz.  It’s good thing I love him.  Sheesh.  He woke up Miranda too.  She walked out into the living room all sleepy and lays down on the couch.  Aiden sees her and wants to snuggle her!  He lays his head down and she reaches for him and starts petting him.  Rubbing his head and fluffing his hair.  He had the sweetest, my sister loves me, look on his face.  This all would have been much cuter if it wasn’t 2:47am.  I’m glad I was there to see it though.  I think once these difficult toddler years are over I will truly enjoy that they are so close in age.  Right now?  Not so much.  I’m figuring a least another year and half of not sleeping through the night.  I’ve been doing this sleep deprivation thing for almost three years in April!  What’s one more? 

My sanity.  lol

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Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. ~  George Sheehan

The Menu

Dinner last night was so lovely.  I need to take a moment and share the deliciousness that was our meal.  Mrs. H prepared the yummiest food I have eaten at home in a long while. 

First up, fondue with sourdough bread and grapes.  I’ve never had fondue so this was very exciting!  I could have gobbled up the entire plate but controlled myself enough for the kids to have some.  I also didn’t want to scare Malissa by stuffing my face while she gracefully cooked the rest of dinner.  She might not have wanted us to come again!

While we snacked on this yummy new treat, Malissa made pasta with fresh tomatoes and basil. YUM.  She then pulls out an entire pan of baked chicken!  I didn’t even realize she was cooking it.  lol 

And I’m not done yet! This may have been my favorite.  It’s hard to choose.  The salad.  A work of art.  Spinach.  Arugula. (Children vote a big no on the arugula, lol)  Feta cheese, blueberries, pear, toasted almonds!  With a dressing of sesame seed oil and Orange Muscat Champagne Vinegar from Trader Joes. 

Holy hell.  It was good.  So, so good. 

We don’t eat like that.  I wish we did, but we don’t.  lol  My husband shops and we eat what he gets.  I cook what he tells me to cook.  Not because I am lazy.  Ok, sometimes I’m lazy.  But really, because I work full time and my brain is fried.  When I get home there is no room left to plan a meal.  I should be better.  Maybe plan the week on the weekend before.  But readers, I don’t want to!  Why, when Jason has it all taken care of?   

Jason says if I ever eat fondue without him again, he’ll go out and buy the most expensive fondue set he can find and get the best cheese and not share a single dang drop with me!  lol

You can read more about our lovely evening and see some photos HERE.

Oh, and how’s the header?  I took my Aunt Meg-O’s advice and lightened the green font.  I also added my three little descriptive words.  I like it.  Any more thoughts on the matter?  Leave me a comment!

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I’m only happy when it rains. ~  Garbage

My Evening

I’m having dinner with this lovely chicka and all our brood of punks.  Should be loud and full of merriment!  After which we’ll go home and I’ll fall asleep on the couch.  lol  This has become a nightly thing.  I don’t even realize I’m falling asleep until I wake up an hour later! 

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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New Header

So what do we think?  I’m thinking maybe a little too dark for the creaminess of the blog.  Any thoughts?  More experimenting tomorrow!

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New Header?

I’m working on a new header for my blog.  I didn’t even know I could have a custom header!  Now I just need to decide what to do with it.  Photos maybe?  A flower?  After all the blog is called Crazy Daisy Love.

I could use some ideas! 

Stay tuned to see it…

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How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. ~  Davis J. Schwartz

Are You Supposed To LOOK Like Your Partner?

Regarding my husband and I, I had someone recently tell me, “You guys don’t look like you would ever be a couple!”  This chick was genuinely shocked when I pointed out my husband.  lol  This isn’t the first time I’ve had this happen.  I find it funny but it also has me asking, am I too square for my long-haired rocker boy?  Do I look uptight or something?  What the heck?!  lol

I’ve been told, “I just expected someone more straight-laced than that!”  Or this one:  “I pictured you with more of an artsy emo type guy.”  Seriously?  Ok, so what kind of chick should my man be with?  This one?

 Na.  Jason loves to travel and they would never make it through airport security.

How about this one:

She comes with boobs a guitar!  Maybe if she came with drum sticks.

Wait!  I know!  How about this one?

 

Katy Perry.  Hell, I’d vote for this one.  lol  I don’t think she’d work either though.  Did you see her on American Idol?  She was kind of mean.  Bummed me out.

 

The thing is, Jason loves my squareness.  He loves that I’m a nerd.  A total dork.  I have opposite rhythm and I find dancing publicly humiliating.  He loves that I eat all the sweets in the house.  Or that I’ve never been afraid to eat in front of him.  Evidently some girls are wierd about that? 

 

What I’m trying to say is, he does love me for the outside.  And there is no standard for what love should look like! Quite frankly, the shock factor is fun.  lol

EDIT:  Did anyone notice my total typo in the above paragraph:  “he does love me for the outside”.  LOL  Here I am writing a post on how its the inside that counts and I wrote that?!  Oops!  It should have read “he doesn’t love me for the outside”.

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People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ~  Joseph F. Newton

My Love

I fell head over heels for my best friend.  I love him so much I can’t breathe sometimes.  Passion isn’t a strong enough word for what we are. 

 

He gets me.  He pushes me to be better.  Teaches me to be selfless.  Is over protective and I secretly like it.  Would do anything for me and his family.  We have so much fun together its ridiculous.  He’s romantic and will plan things months in advance just to sweep me off my feet.

Jason, you rock my world.  Everyday. 

I love you.

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