Tuesday, May 25, 2010

A Little Of This, A Little Of That, Then Give It A Shake

I didn't even realize it was Tuesday (even though it's not since I'm still in Monday) until I was about to turn off the computer. Good thing I horde. Digitally. Here's a picture of a cool mid-1930's Moto Guzzi, because it's random and because designers just made things sexier back then.


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Monday was (is) a holiday here in Canadaland. Queen Victoria's birthday. I don't know, we needed a holiday in May. Anyway, Mother Nature, being the ruthless bitch that she is, saw fit to give us rain over the weekend and then sun today. Plus a frigid and bitter wind that was a real treat on the beach this afternoon (yesterday). While I was trying to build shelter to save myself from hypothermia my youngest was soaking himself up to the waist in the ocean and ignoring daddy's pleas to go home.

Dragonfly in Louisiana courtesy of The Big Picture. The spots on its wings are oil.


When we did go home the boys decided to fight for the rest of the day. Yay holidays!


Very cool Beatles cake.


Doesn't care what the cake is, as long as it's his.


(For those who confuse easily, he is not eating the Beatles cake.)

Life in retail. My department carries personal shavers along with housewares, and Saturday afternoon I had a mother and her teenage daughter looking at a couple and asking if they could look at two of them (they're locked for security). Now, I did have a couple points to make regarding the similarities and differences between the two products, but how does one, in particular one who stands to pee, broach the subject of whether you're intending to shave your legs or, er... maintain the lawn?

I wish I wasn't poor.


iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

via oneplusinfinity

Supreme Leader and Baby Fish Lips (movie?)are doing well. His exit visa is up on June 9th or 10th, barring further volcanic activity in Iceland that could keep our doctor in Europe instead of here performing the caesarian. He'll be four weeks early, but the doctor has decided that, all things considered, better out than in by then. She is still on bed rest and we're pretty much... well, we're not ready at all. Hence the dearth in posts or visits lately. Whatever. Once I've walked him home from the hospital because we don't have a car seat we'll just wrap him in newspaper because he has no clothes and he can sleep with us because... wait, we do have a crib. Woot! One thing off the list.

The Un-Mom's. Go.

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  1. Mother Nature... she is a cruel mistress.
    That Beatles cake is a really awesome design. I love cake art.

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  2. I love the Moto Guzzi. Looks like it's made out of saddle leather.

    When do you get your bed rest?

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  3. Hey! Too cool. I'm on bed rest too!!! Although mine is not technically prescribed by a doctor and I'm not cooking a baby -- I AM kinda sleepy and lazy. Same, same.

    I'm sorry you're poor. I will send you some of our Washington Post to swaddle the new first mate. It has lots of pages, so the wee one can keep warm if it rains. Plus, the weekend section rocks. You can read all about the cool stuff other people who are not lazy like me might be doing in DC. (I'm on bedrest. Focus)

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  4. I'll take both shavers.


    don't ask.

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  5. PLEASE CHECK OUT MY BLOG == I'M LOOKING FOR FOLLOWERS TO MOTIVATE ME -- I AM A WORKING MOM WITH ISSUES !!
    BLOG: MOMOFTWINS

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  6. They call them "personal shavers" now? Where have I been?

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  7. if they are personal shavers does it keep others from using them, putting them back without telling you , until you rip half your face off on a dull razor...just wondering...

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  8. I think it's Baby Fish Mouth... not lips. You're probably thinking of Meg Ryan's lips. eh, whatever.

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  9. Moto Guzzi looks as though it's made of chocolate. Sweet, sweet chocolate!! And yes...very sexy. I was once overdue with a baby (the last one) and after a few days I called Psychic Friends Network. I didn't really believe in them, but I was desperate and fat and eating compulsively with two pre-schoolers at home. The upside is that they predicted a date that was eight days away from our original due date. They were right. Good luck with Baby Fish Lips exit. I'll start teaching summer school around that date. I think I'd rather be giving birth. Seriously.

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  10. Are you gonna have SL birth him in a manger too by any chance?

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  11. Did I tell you that Hubs won an iPad in a drawing recently? Will check out the Velcro options...

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  12. I, um, guess I confuse easily. Dammit.

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  13. We were so poor when our first one came along that everything we had was borrowed. Except milk, I had that covered.

    The iPad is over-rated. Or that's what I keep telling myself.

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  14. June 9/10? Only 2 weeks to go... how exciting!!

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  15. That Beatles cake is amazing.

    Mmm..cake.

    Glad to know Baby Fish Lips is doing well. I will be traveling through Canadaland on the due dates and will raise many pints in honor of your family.

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  16. What??? She's having the baby in like two weeks. OMG I'm so stressed out for you right now.

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  17. Thanks for clearing things up in regards to the cake eating.

    My older sister's very first car seat was a highchair with the legs cut off.

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  18. Velcro. I was gonna say duct tape is The Stuff. But nope, now it's Velcro.

    Not that I would ever have a n iPad to do that but it totally makes me want one. Just so I could.

    June 9, umm yeah, that's soon. Good luck.

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  19. I'm not a motorcycle person, but that Moto Guzzi is cool. The poor dragonfly is sad.

    Good luck with your new deadline for # 3, and I hope SL is doing well.

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  20. Good to hear that you and your family are doing well. I'm sure SL will be back on her feet and bossing you around again in no time. :)

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  21. Damn,that baby's coming soon. Good luck with that. You know that somebody's still going to ask if the kid is eating the Beatles cake, even though you explained that he isn't. Because people are in fact easily confused.

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  22. Like I said, it snowed here yesterday, so quit yer bitchin'!

    Happy Canadaland Holiday... hope you enjoyed it in between trying not to freeze your ass off and keeping the kids from drowning.

    Tell SL and Baby Fish Lips hello for me... hope all goes well with the delivery and precursory preparations.

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  23. mother nature is a big ole bitch! so hoy here ya cant breath

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  24. < Simpsons Voice > I sleep in a drawer!< /Simpsons Voice >

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  25. Ok, here's the deal. Pick up the older two. Get in car. Travel to Cleveland. "Shop" in little o's room. Give SL a break, and get some krappe. Do my spring cleaning for me.

    It would be magic. Everyone would win! You'd have stuff for new kid and I wouldn't have to figure out what the hell to do with all the krappe I accumulated in the last year!

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  26. I cannot believe you splashed oil on a dragon fly. Oops, you meant BP didn't you!

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  27. Have you ever thought of listing the things you need for baby? Some of your friends in bloggy land may be able to help out.. Just a suggestion...

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  28. That cake is sweet, I was like "is he eating...Oh! She explained!" thank goodness ;)

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  29. Mother Nature is one giant bitch. She seems to take great pleasure in messing with everyone.

    The motorcycle picture = priceless.
    The dragonfly picture = sad.

    That Beatles cake is way too cool - and thanks for the clarification, I needed that. ;)

    Woot! June 9th is my un-birthday! :) And I'm still giggling over the description of walking Baby Fish Lips home and wrapping him in newspaper. I'd send you some clothes Princess Nagger outgrew, but you know, girl vs. boy.

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  30. Ooo, I love that Beatles Cake. The Ipad+Velcro thing is pretty cool - not so sure about the one on the motorbike though. Seems to up the danger factor a wee bit.

    Hoping for no additional weather craziness in Iceland so Baby Fish Lips can be delivered with as much ease as possible. You know if you cut a few holes in a pillowcase you have a perfect "coming home" outfit!

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  31. i wish queen vicoria would've given her home country a holiday too

    a 4-day week is my kind of week

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  32. *victoria* even, where's the spellchecker? :)

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  33. The iPad and Velcro was pure genius! Though I was waiting for the iPad to fly off the motorcycle...cruel thoughts eh?

    http://www.apackalipsnow.blogspot.com

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  34. Be where you need to be, dude.

    iPad + velcro = cool

    Baby + mom at home = even cooler. :)

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  35. YES! I FINALLY got a movie reference! "When Harry Met Sally..." LOVE that movie!
    And of course the Beatles cake. Sigh. Gorgeous.

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  36. You cropped my daughter out of the picture!!

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  37. I love that cake!! Wow..eviction day is getting close eh?

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  38. That cake is really fabulous!

    Can't way to see what the new baby looks like.

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  39. Looks like a melted bar of chocolate on top of that bike.

    Good luck, good luck!

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  40. Great news about the baby! Four weeks early means he'll be a little guy. While my first was over nine pounds, my twins were born 3.5 weeks early and they were teeny (not even 6 pounds each). Very different...and kind of weird when your point of reference is a newborn who looks like a three month old.... But I sometimes think of my little guys and melt. Can't wait to hear more.

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  41. Trust me- Mother Nature will be up to her hijinks in NY Metro this weekend too, since Memorial Day Holiday is Monday!

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  42. Dude! Father's Day is in a few weeks. They're buying it for good ol' dad. I hope.

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  43. Argh, that poor Dragonfly. :(

    & ew³, the costs of a job... women & ladies' shaver.

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  44. That cake is absolutely fabulous. I love cake. And motorcycles.

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  45. Moto Guzzi does look like it's made of chocolate. Yum yum yum.

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  46. Every time I read "Come on, sailor. I love you long time." I laugh.

    Very cool cake. Very cool velcro idea.

    Your wife is tough. So are you. Wear your catcher's mitt and mask, catch the baby and your good. You're going to have a ball with three boys. Hang in there...

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  47. I just love that bike...I would feel like Batman riding on that! Wishing all the best for the "exit".

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  48. June 9th? wow, that went fast! Hope all goes well!!

    Now I want a motorcycle cake.

    Pfft...Like nobody else was thinking it....

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  49. I've been reading, just not posting. It's certainly an interesting time in your house. Didn't you know baby newspaper outfits are in now? June 9th is coming soon. Good luck!

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  50. That is one awesome bike!

    And maintain the lawn? LOL.

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  51. What? There's a different gadget to maintain the lawn? Dang.

    That cake totally rocks! I'd love to say I bit the heads off the beatles.

    Whoa, less than 2 weeks to go!

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  52. Retail huh? I've been out of the loop myself lately.

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  53. Hey, we're gonna get u that baby carseat, I'll
    be down the day before the big day! Please
    fill boys up on vallium prior to my arrival!
    IN CASE NO ONE KNOWS, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAPTAIN
    DUMBASS

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  54. That motorcycle looks like something Batman should have. And I'm guessin I owe you a Happy Birthday :)

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  55. How's everything Captain? And, apparently Happy Birthday! (Is that really your mom up there?)

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Come on, sailor. I love you long time.