Pubs, peanut butter and napkins

Pubs....with a long "u" as in crotch hair, not a bar. I don't really remember getting pubic hair......one day I didn't have it and then, I did. I don't think it was elementary school, but maybe. Anyway, tonight Kyle started basketball practice. So we went to one of the other elementary schools in town. In the middle of practice, I went to look for a restroom. I didn't know my way around, so I just started walking and found one down a dark hallway. I found the light and entered the closest stall, which was were I found the monstrous black curly pub on the toilet seat. I'm sure it's possible that another adult had used that toilet, but usually a grown woman would turn to flush the toilet and see it sitting there, right? Leaving something gnarly and massive would be something a kid would do, wouldn't it? But if so....how fucking amazon is this grade schooler with giant pubic hair?! I mean, that thing didn't grow overnight.....it had been cultivated. So needless to say, I used the other stall.
Today Emma and I went to the mall. There was a dude who had brought his own lunch and was eating it on a bench. Why he couldn't have eaten in the food court is beyond me......anyway, his lunch consisted of an apple, a jar of peanut butter and a spoon. So, of course, I watched him for awhile. He ate the apple, then ate what appeared to be at least a half jar of peanut butter with a spoon. Alrighty.
I picked up my pottery that I had painted a couple weekends ago at Glazed Expressions. It is a snowman napkin holder and I have to say, it looks pretty good.

Post Thanksgiving talk

We got back from Minnesota yesterday after our long weekend of eating and shopping. I didn't eat or buy as much as I could have, but it was still enough. My BIL works for Target and because of the nice weather they had made more money at his store on "Black Friday" than anticipated....something like $600,000 that day. Can you imagine? My mom and I waited in line at Kohl's for about a half hour. The kids stayed with Rob at my sister's house, so I was perfectly fine waiting in line worrying only about myself. While in line we heard people talking about when they had gotten there, so much they had bought, etc. and this woman was saying that she had gotten there at 5 am and then left because the line was so long. Then she came back at 9....when we were there.....and the line was even longer. Duh, dipshit, what did she expect? The nice thing about going later, was that by 1:00 in the afternoon all the early birds had gone home. Here are some pictures of my mom, me, my sister and Emma on Thanksgiving.

Shots and Thanksgiving

Yesterday Emma had her 4 year check up. She had to get 5 shots including a flu shot and she was a champ. She normally doesn't give too much of a fuss about shots, or blood draws or anything because she has a high pain tolerance, but with the 5 shots.....and they save the one that stings the most until last.....she was getting pretty fed up. Finally she said to the nurse "stop pinching me!". What a gal!
So in about an hour or so we are heading out for our Thanksgiving weekend in Mankato, MN at my sister's house. I made some stuffing to take along and whole house smells of sage and sausage....mmmmmmm. I hope to do some massive shopping on Friday, but we'll see what I end up with. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Decorating for Christmas

Yesterday at the Hobbs household was spent taking down fall decorations and putting up Christmas ones. I also made cookies and Kyle helped me decorate them.

Peppermint Patty

I took an online quiz "What gay childhood icon are you?" and found out that I am the Very Gay Peppermint Patty.......yeah I guess I can see that. ;)



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Am I missing something?

This whack-ass upside down Christmas tree is being advertised at Sears for $800. They were toting it as a "conversation piece". Yeah, if you want the conversation to start out with "You paid $800 for that?"

Happy Birthday Emma!

Today is officially Emma's 4th birthday. At this time 4 years ago, I was in the tail end of labor and cursing the anesthesiologists for not letting me have an epidural. Emma was born at 5:14 pm, and was the nail in the coffin of "I'm never doing this again".
Yesterday was her birthday party. We had it at CiCi's pizza, which she loves, but doesn't eat the pizza. She is partial to the noodles and sauce, instead. She had a ball, eating, running around with her friends, having cake and opening gifts. I can't believe that in a little over a month she is going to be receiving even more toys. UGH! Here are a few photos of the day:



She had a Strawberry Shortcake party......can you tell? ;)

Nicknames of old

Something got me thinking of nicknames this morning and I thought it would be fun to list some of the random nicknames I've either had, given, or used on a regular basis throughout my life. If you are reading this and remember any of these, feel free to comment on their origins, or just to make fun of yesteryear.

Shoulders
Watermelon Head
The Nader-nator
Red Pants Jason
Stumpy
Junior
Larry, Curly and Ho
Lunatic Fringe
Madame Crossaint
Josh-wa
A
The whornado
Schactermunch
Nay Nay
Ketchup Pants

Emma's 4 year picture

Here is little miss Emma in her 4 year photo. Damn, she's cute!



Oh and check this shit out....the scariest fucking kid's toy ever created:

New Layouts

I went scrapbooking this afternoon/evening with my scrapbook group buddies and I got quite a few layouts done. I had delusions of using some new ideas or techniques, but that didn't really pan out. So they look kind of typically Trish, but cute none the less. Some are from the apple orchard, but mostly Halloween and the pumpkin patch. Here are a few examples:

Thanksgiving gets the shaft

Yesterday while Emma was in preschool, I went walking at Valley West Mall. They must have had overtime employees galore the night before because the whole place was decked out in Christmas decorations. Von Maur was the most. They even had the Christmas muzak going. It was crazy......apparently in the mall November is the new December? ;) Off topic, here is a picture that I took last week of Emma at tap dancing class: