What's Shakin', Bacon*? (*This post has nothing to do with bacon. Sorry to disappoint)

- I have today off, because I have to work on Saturday. Boo to that.

- I have to get busy cleaning my house today, since it IS my day off. Why,
you ask? Aside from the fact that cleaning your house occasionally
is the normal thing to do...MOM is going to be here on SUNDAY.
Just in time for fireworks. : ) Yay!

- I am fighting the lingering feeling of a cold. Who gets colds in the
middle of the effing summer? Apparently, that's me.

- The Monkey has morphed into a terrible two. Everything is no.
I could ask him if he wanted to move into the castle at Magic
Kingdom, or offer him cookies and ice cream for dinner, he
would say no. Crazy.

- I ordered new coffee for my Keurig, and it won't be here until Friday.
Auuuugh...

- I had a giant empty glass vase, so yesterday I got plastic lemons and some
green glass stones to put in it. I wanted it to look cool- it kind of looks
ridiculous. I can't really figure out why though. Guess I'm not
meant to be fancy with fake lemons. I suppose it was a silly dream,
to have one pretentious thing. ; )

- Hubby has started a battle with a nerf gun. We have a set of "guns"- okay,
there's no " ", they are guns and they even look like real guns- that shoot
nerf bullets- he's been randomly catching me off guard and shooting me
with it. Including while I was in the shower. At night. Home alone except for
the Monkey, who was asleep. It was heart attack ensuing. So, now we
have a battle of who can catch who off guard the most. Its
what marriage is all about, right? True love.

- It is hot. I know it's summer, and I know I live in Florida, but my GOD in
sweet heaven, it is hot. Mid 90s, every day. And humidity. How I haven't
melted, I don't know. Speaking of melting, I accidentally left my cup with my
crazy straw in it in my car. Can you guess where the melting becomes
the tie-in? My crazy straw is no longer crazy. It's just sad.

- I'm watching Wag the Dog right now. I watched half of it when it came out-
I was about 13 then and it didn't make a lot of sense. Now I am old enough
to appreciate it. The same thing goes for Seinfeld. I didn't get that show at
all when it was on, because I was just a kid. Now, I find it hilarious.
Its all about perspective, huh kids?

- I'm making cupcakes tomorrow for Monkey's last day at his current daycare.
He's moving to one closer to home. I even got a fancy cupcake tote to
transport them. How cool am I? ; )

- Our 2nd anniversary is on July 5th (don't worry, we won't let the nerf
gun battle get in the way of things). This morning, Hubby announced
he knew what he wanted to do for me for our anniversary.
And then that was it. Oh, and that it was going to make me "cooler". I said,
"I don't think I can get any cooler" (haha), and he said "No, cooler like
temperature". Well, in that case, yeah, I could get cooler. But we have A/C already,
so I'm not sure what he's cooking up.


Well, house cleaning is calling my name. Lucky me!

Girls Weekend, Baby!

Girls Weekend was a success!!
We stayed in a cute little hostel place called the Pirate Haus.
All pirate themed, of course. : )

Our room was also painted like a pirate ship.

Only the finest for us classy ladies! ; )

We had an amazing weekend together, just laughing
and talking like us girls do.

We ate.

A lot.

This was key lime cheesecake. YUMMM...

We drank.

A lot.

This was at the Tini Martini Bar.

Rosie had a Cappacino-tini.

I had a Tahiti-tini.

Kelly had a raspberry beer.

We went to the beach!!
We saw dolphins and flying fish swimming
right near us. It was amazing.

We saw some funny things, like this sign
Um...really?

All in all, it was a great weekend. And even
though we had so much fun, I am actually glad to be home.

Isn't that one of the strange and great things about vacation?
That no matter how fun and exciting and adventurous it is, you are
always thankful and happy to be back home, and back to normal.
It makes you remember how great your every day life is. No, its
not perfect, and yes you definitely need those little breaks to remind you
of how good you've got it, but I think the definition of being blessed is to
be on vacation and miss your life back home. : )

Hope ya'll had a great weekend!!

Fun Spot...Not An Innuendo (At Least In This Case)

Also for Early Father's Day, we went to a place here in Orlando

called Fun Spot. Its basically just a permenant carnival, with race cars,
a roller coaster, a giant fun slide, bumper cars, etc.

Hubby decided he wanted to take Monkey, so we did.




Talk about a fun time! It is amazing how much fun you have by
making sure your kid is having fun. Monkey was such a trooper- he
rode everything, never seemed scared of anything (I, on the other hand, was and
am afraid of everything...yes, I am lame). Hubby went on everything
with him. I was the photographer.


And I got some great shots!!




It was soooo flippin' hot, so we only stayed for about two hours, but
we had a blast. And we wore little Monkey out- he went right down for bed without
any fight. Success!

Present!

I know you've probably been logging in every 15 minutes just itching to know what Hubby's Father's Day present was. ; )

Well...




That's right, a foosball table! It's a portable table topper one- because you just never know when you'll need to be on the run with a foosball table. ; ) So maybe not the most practical gift, but I think he liked it. Also, I made a little "free boys night" coupon to go with it- I'm constantly doing fun stuff with my girlfriends, so I felt it was about time that he had a freebie boys night. Now we just need to find the time for him to do it!

So what do you think? A good present or no? Please remember that it took me over two hours to put the bleeping thing together (well, part of the time I was on the phone with my mom, so the project wasn't initially getting my full attention!).

Upcoming Events

I've got a few things on deck in the nearing future....

- Due to "things on deck", we are celebrating Father's Day tomorrow. I've got a surprise present for hubby that got delivered on Friday. Since he was off on Friday, I was worried that he would intercept it accidentally. I had this big goal-dream that I could pull a surprise off and seem impossibly smooth and clever. So...

*Phone call to Hubby*

Savvy: "Please do me a favor, and don't touch anything on the porch."
Hubby: "Anything?"
Savvy: "Anything."
Hubby: "What if there's a dead body?"
Savvy: "I'll take care of it."
Hubby: "What if there's a giant pile of poop?"
Savvy: "I'll take care of it."
Hubby: "Wow. Uh, why didn't you just tell me to park in the garage and come in the back way?"

...Because THAT wouldn't be nearly as fun, and I wouldn't have a ridiculous story to blog about, proving that no matter what, I cannot be smooth. Or clever. *sigh*

Anyway, it's alright, because he wouldn't ever guess what it is. Do you want to know?

...well, too bad! Like I'd put a super surprise secret out on the Internet! You'll just have to wait like he has to. I know, its tough. : )

So. Tomorrow is our Father's Day. Not to be confused with everyone else's Father's Day. Don't send yourself into a panic. You've still got a week.

NOW, the reason we're having Father's Day a week early is because Monkey is going to Grandma's house for the weekend. The whole weekend! Its her birthday on Saturday, so they are sharing the weekend together. Since he's going to be busy, I decided this would be the perfect weekend to go have a little girls weekend with two of my best girls! SO we are going to St. Augustine for the weekend! I'm definitely looking forward to a weekend of relaxing, drinking, soaking up sun, and a little shopping. Yay!

There you have it. My few new things on the horizon. I know this week will probably feel like it lasts a month or so, but I'm still excited.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!!!

Projects...

I've been thinking and/or starting a few new projects...

- Making sun tea. *check*

- Painting and/or giving the house a few new fun
touches.

- Cleaning out my disaster of a closet. This one is in the mix; I'm
working on it. Its a big project.

- Clean out my car! For crying out loud!

- Figure out what's for dinner (I'm working on this...there will be
chicken involved).

- Make cookies from scratch. *check* I did this yesterday!

- Go to the ZOO that I didn't know existed!! ...well, we were going
to do this today, buuut its supposed to rain. It hasn't yet, but it will. Maybe.
And even if its not, its hot as hello outside. Not the best equation for
fun times w/ a two year old. : )

....the funny thing? I should come back to this list and check stuff off.
Do you think I will??? : )

We'll see!!

Girl's Night!

Remember, I said there'd be pics from the Sex and the City 2 Girls Night Extravaganza! : )

We started with dinner and drinks at the fabulous Maggiano's- seriously, if you live within 50 miles of one, GO. Everything is delish. Every. Thing.

We laughed. A lot.

We posed for pictures, like the model-y types that we are. : )

....And, of course, we saw the flick. It wasn't as good as the first one, I
have to say, BUT we still had a grand time!