Mojo, Fear and Sprouts

Today was a great day at the office, I had four work orders where I simply showed up and things worked, without touching a thing. One of the users said I have the IT Mojo, and another noted that the equipment is so scared of me that my mere presence gets them to behave. I'm going with both, cause I am the IT Goddess. Having the users AND the equipment scared to submission is certainly the ideal, wouldn't you agree?

Madison and I checked her flowers when we got home today, and one of them has seeds sprouting. She was so excited, you would have thought she won a new car! We planted Cosmos and Lavender, I sure wish I would have noted which bowl was which, as I have no idea which one kicks ass and sprouted in three days (not to mention which to expect)...

She is so proud of this little project that she wanted me to take her picture with the progress. This is awesome considering she is not so much the camera ham!

Weekend Update

Saturday, as you know, I cleaned the whole house in about 7 hours (which is pretty quick if you knew how seriously I scour) - so I slept like a brick last night.

I'm pretty sure Madison had a sleep-walking like incident last night. At about 11:45 I heard "Mommy.... Mooooommmmmyyyyyy come here." So I walk in and she's sitting upright, eyes open, and says to me, "Look Mommy, I spelled my name!" I see on the bed that she has her animals and pillows arranged around her, but uhhhh... they didn't spell her name. I told her that it was great, she did a good job, but it's time to lay down - and she laid back down, closed her eyes and was completely asleep. She's done that a few times, and it's kind of freaky, but at least she doesn't actually sleep walk. She never actually makes it out of bed. Of course the next morning she never remembers, either.

Today was a busy but low-key day. We spent some time with family and Madison and I planted some seeds that we hope will be flowers soon. She asked me to take her picture with a teddy bear next to her flowers:

Happy Mother's Day

Cleaned my whole house today, so I can loaf in a big way tomorrow... thus I'm pretty tired and feeling rather numb in the brain. I'm stopping in just to wish all you mommies out there a Happy Mother's Day!

I'm off to catch up on some blogs while I have a glass of wine, and get some serious sleep (for a change).

What's On My iPod

Trent Reznor - "Entity" - This is a good video I just kind of stumbled upon while looking through videos, and I might actually have this on my iPod, I have quite a bit of NIN that's just labeled via track number (I have A LOT of music tags to clean up in my 42 GB). What cracks me up is the little boom box he's using as accompaniment music to his piano. You see him push play at the very start.

Vanessa Carlton - "Nolita Fairytale" - Good song, and great video - it has a lot of fairytale imagery.

Simple Minds - "Don't You (Forget About Me)" - From one of my favorite 80's flicks, Breakfast Club. Billy Idol actually did a really good remake of this song.

Honeydrippers - "Sea of Love" - When this song was released I just didn't get it, and (don't throw rocks at me) I really didn't know anything about Robert Plant... but it's definitely grown on me with age.

She Wants Revenge - "True Romance" - They're in town tonight and I missed it. :( This is a pretty catchy song, I'm kind of surprised I never heard this on mainstream radio. It almost sounds like a remake?

Ooops!

If you've visited here for awhile, you know I don't watch much television. I keep recording a couple of shows I want to watch but never seem to find the time to, "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and "Medium". I have episodes from February still sitting in there... there are a few other shows that have been getting recorded only because the recording feature hasn't been turned off, and so the DVR has been a little clogged.

Before we left for vacation I thought to myself, "Note to Self: Clean out DVR listing so HIMYM gets recorded Monday night." Do you think I remembered? Uhhhh... NO! Damn! Guess I'll be going to CBS.com tonight and watching it there, assuming they still show episodes from their website, and hopefully they'll already have this week's episode posted!!

I'm Baaaaack!

After a significant flight delay, we got home around 1:30 this morning. We slept until about 7:30 a.m. and recuperated today. We had such an excellent vacation, but it was really nice to sleep in my own bed and feel that hot sun today.

Yesterday we spent some of the day at the Como Zoo, which had a place called Como Town with rides and such for the kids - but it was closed. Guess they only run during the weekends until the summer. We still got to see a lot of animals and the kids had a blast... in fact, they forgot all about the rides. It didn't take too long to get through there and we had a lot of time until our flight, so we went with family to a Chuck E. Cheese in St. Paul. What a difference from Vegas - it was clean, all the games worked and the service was great! We ran the kids out of energy there and then we said our goodbyes, and were off to find my grandfather's grave at the Fort Snelling National Cemetery. My aunt had given me pretty good directions considering I was looking for one headstone in over 176,000, so it took me only about 15 minutes to find it. I'm really glad I got to visit and spend some time there. Pretty sobering when you walk through and see all that are laid to rest there. The rows and rows of white headstones are overwhelming.

I hadn't walked in five days so when I walked today my body reminded me I'd been a lazy slug (who ate poorly on vacation, I might add). I'm sore and tired... So I'm going to get to bed and leaving you with my favorite picture from the zoo:

Vacation Part III

We spent all of today at Sue/Gary's house with family, barbecuing brats and hot dogs and watching the kids play with bubbles. Bubbles are the magical formula, you know. They played with them pretty much the whole day. The weather today was absolutely perfect... sunny, warm (like 70 degrees) and a slight breeze. We sat outside the whole day, and my red face proves it. Madison played ball with my Uncle Bob for awhile; she can hit a ball pretty good, and her throwing accuracy was just crazy, so I am guessing I need to look into t-ball for her this summer. Tomorrow it's off to the zoo and the Fort Snelling National Cemetery to visit my grandfather's grave. Hopefully I'll be able to find it, there are over 172,000 veterans buried there! We go home tomorrow night, and while I'm sorry the vacation is coming to a close, I'm happy to be going home!