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:

Tricks or Treats

Last night was Beggar's night here in Ankeny. Which I still think is stupid....that we can't call it trick or treating and have in on Halloween. Ugh. Anyhoo.....so it was windy as hell and me, Kyle and Emma were out for about 45 minutes before calling it a night. They scored lots of good loot, but Emma was bitching the whole time about her hat blowing off. Rob took Kyle out again a little later by themselves, but they still were only out for about 30 minutes. It was 55 degrees, but the wind was 30 mph, so it felt a lot colder. I bought a ton of candy because our neighborhood has millions of kids and I didn't want to run out, but because of the weather we only had kids for about the first hour and then it dwindled off. So now we are stuck with 2 huge bags of red licorice. I'm sure Rob will take care of that, but I can't stand the stuff. Here are some photos:

Race for the Cure and Living History Farms

Yesterday was a busy day and I woke up with a runny nose, cough, sore throat and thoughout the course of the day, got a headache. Yippee! I still went through the motions and even got to take a nap yesterday afternoon. The race was good, but chilly and overcast. Luckily by evening it was warm enough that the kids could trick or treat at Living History Farms without wearing their coats the whole time. They had fun roasting marshmallows and riding on the horse drawn cart.....but the storyteller was lame. We sat in the tent listening to this guy with a microphone that you could still barely hear and the story wasn't scary in the slightest. Needless to say, we'll be skipping that part next time. Oh and since when did they have microphones in the 19th century? ;)

The finger

For some reason whenever someone wants to take a picture of me, my first reaction is to give them the finger. Not sure why that's my first reaction.....but it always is. So quite a few people have pictures of me giving the finger. As a matter of fact, here are a few of me in my costume at the Halloween party and one has my favorite pose. ;)

Post Halloween Party

It was a really good time. I dressed up and got to scare some of the kids as they were coming in the house. ;) My kids had a great time. It was kind of a chore cleaning it all up the next day, though. Old stale popcorn all over the floor, decorations that were halfway ripped down, kool aid spills, etc. It was worth all the trouble as look at how happy these kids are:

Getting ready for Halloween

Tomorrow we are having our mom's group Halloween party here. I've cleaned out the garage and set up a haunted house of sorts. Nothing too scary as there will be little kids Emma's age here, but black lights, a fog machine and some scary music ought to do the trick. Today I made caramel apples, which I've never done before. What a mess! I had visions of using a double boiler and somehow they'd come out picture perfect. Whatever. I wound up just melting the caramel in a glass measuring cup in the microwave and dunking each apple individually. They aren't pretty, but I'm sure they'll taste good. I also planned on having the kids bob for apples. A friend suggessted that instead of using water, that I use popcorn so it woud easier and less wet for the little kids. So today I popped, and I popped and I popped popcorn....like a 64 oz bag of kernels. The house completely smells like caramel and popcorn. Not a bad combo. :)
Kyle is going to be a vampire, so today Emma and I headed over to the theatrical shop in Valley Junction to get some vampire teeth. I had thought that maybe Emma might be scared in there as there are monsters and all kinds of scary props/costumes. So we get there and start looking around. She is completely unaffected by the giant skeletons, severed heads, aliens, coffins, ect. There was even one of the employees dressed up like the devil and she didn't even flinch. Then another employee dressed as a Wizard walks by and she freaks. A fucking wizard! Just a damn robe and pointy hat and she was crawling up my leg, yelling "NO!". That child is nuts.

Gentlemen prefer skeletons

Check out these hilarious pictures of photo-shopped celebs. I guess that anorexic look is still in, huh? ;)

Smokey Robinson and Clay Aiken

What could these two possibly have in common besides music, you may ask? They are both going to be on Days of Our Lives in the near future. That's right, just when you think it can't go any further south.......Clay and Smokey show up. Ugh, why do I torture myself with this shit?!!!!

Insolence!

Check out what my family did to me today.......

I made a chicken and sweet potato dish for dinner tonight. I put it in the oven and then went on my merry way of doing the dishes, laundry, etc. When it was done, I took it out and set it on the counter to cool. Then I came down to the office to make a couple of phone calls and mess around on the computer for awhile. About a half hour later I hear the clanking of silverware on dishes. I listen for a few minutes thinking that maybe someone is setting the table. I wait a couple more minutes and then go upstairs. There they were.....all 3 of them, sitting at the table having dinner as if there were an invisible woman who cooks their food, but never dines with them. I say "what the hell is this?!". They all turn to look at me with "what's the problem?" facial expressions. "So I'm good enough to make your food, but I'm not good enough to eat it?", I say. Then comes the ramblings of...we thought you were busy, we thought you were on the phone, we didn't know you were hungry...blah blah blah. The worst part is that I kind of expect that stuff from Rob as he only had 2 organs that he thinks with...one of which is his stomach.....but the kids?! That neither one of them said "where's Mommy?". Oh the disrespect!!!! ;)

Music

Let me start by saying that my musical taste is all over the place. So today while driving Kyle to school we were listening to Pantera. Emma was outraged and demanded that we listen to "girl music". I think she had gotten a little too used to the Enya I had been playing yesterday. ;)