Showing posts with label costume. Show all posts
Showing posts with label costume. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Brain rot

I obviously am having a hard time blogging lately. I keep staring at the screen, thinking about what I want to say and then it doesn't happen. Yesterday I started Ten on Tuesday but I just couldn't finish. I'm going to go ahead and blame it on the fact that I have ONE WEEK LEFT BEFORE GOING BACK TO WORK. I just can't concentrate.

So here's what I've done since my last list update:

Watched movies -
Good Dick - listed as a comedy. NOT a comedy. Should have been a comedy. Someone give the script to Kevin Smith and have him make this thing funny.
I'll Be There - much better as What A Girl Wants with Amanda Bines.
Lost In Austen - I wasn't expecting much from this, so it was cute.
Forever Strong - have I told you about my serious love for sports movies? Even sports that I don't care about. Love them. Loved this.
Remember Me - good, received by accident by not keeping track of my Netflix queue
I Hate Valentine's Day - Oh. M. G. I know that my husband thinks Amy Pohler is the worst actress on the face of this earth, but he's never seen Nia Vardoles "act". She really is the worst ever.
Did you Hear about the Morgans - eh, cute
Leap Year - obviously predictable but sweet and ahh, sexy Irish accents.

Reading books:
I am Number Four - fan-freaking-tastic. I loved it. I assume there's a sequel and I can't wait to read it.
My Name is Memory - fascinating look at reincarnation. I loved it, but there's a subplot that is weaved in at the end that I wasn't fond of that lends itself to a transparent plan for a sequel. I would have much rather it been the straight story without out that subplot.
Life as We knew it - I didn't like the format (written in diary form) and it was depressing - sort of a cross between War of the Worlds and The Road written from the POV of a 16- year old girl.

Other things done:
-- Cut out all recipes that looked good from my two years back issues of Rachael Ray, Bon Appetit, and random other cooking magazines and recycled the rest
-- Took Spencer to the Children's Museum, Chuck E Cheese, and the playground.
-- played many hours of Fallout: New Vegas (but not nearly as much as my fair husband, who has been attached to the computer almost every night)
-- slept in until 9:30 two days in a row! And Spencer didn't tear the house apart!!
-- took good pictures of the boys
-- am on day 3 of keeping Spencer home from daycare and don't want to tear my hair out. yet. (We get one free week a year, and since Henry won't be eligible this year and I'm not taking any of the holidays off, I thought I'd keep him home for my last full week before going back to work)

I have officially done everything on my list except the working out and I've come up with a plan to start working out when I go back to work. I work on the third floor, and the coffee machine is on the sixth floor. I plan on doing stairs to get to my desk and to get to the coffee. I need to get a pair of flats that I can stick in my purse for this use (I'm thinking of getting a pair of City Flats). Once I start getting use to all those stairs, I'll work on adding to my regiment.

Other quick things:
We went to a Halloween party on Saturday, and this year I was the one that got sick. Before that, so much fun! Evidently taking jello shots every time the tray was passed was not such a good idea. But my hubby got me home in one piece, and I woke up on Sunday sans hangover.

Here's us before drunkenness set in:


I don't have any plans for the rest of the week except to maybe bust out the Wii with Spencer and see if he likes it, enjoy every smile and laugh the Henry graces me with and try to speak in normal volumes and lengthen my fuse. And maybe I'll blog.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

Costuming

It was pretty easy to decide what to dress the kids in for Halloween (even if it hasn't been that easy to execute the idea).

Spencer will be Buzz Lightyear. We are almost done with the costume, except that I don't like the headpiece I made so I'm thinking of just not doing a purple headpiece. The wings are done, and I've figured out how to fasten them to his back. Pictures are to come, I swear it.

Henry will be a ghost. I found a little bunting outfit at Babies R Us, and it was 40% off so it was sold! I haven't put it on him, but hey it's cute and easy. Done. Pictures also to come :)

Our outfits are harder. Last year we were Clark Kent and Lois Lane, and all I had to come up with was a Superman shirt for my husband to wear under his work clothes and make Daily Planet press passes. We go to the same party every year, so we obviously couldn't dress in the same costumes again this year. I had thought of doing Doris Day/Rock Hudson, because we have appropriate clothing (I'm a big fan of the 50s style dress) and we would just need wigs. However, it didn't really work out so I'm shelving that idea for next year.

I found a Devil Mardi Gras-style mask, so my current idea is to go as "Devil with a blue dress on". I've been on the hunt for a blue dress; I borrowed one from a friend and also found one at JC Penny that might work, but I haven't been able to find anything that really makes me comfortable. I'm going to model them for the Hubby tonight and see what he thinks. All else fails, I'll just wear black on black top and skirt with my black boots with the mask and be a plain old devil. I'm sure I can find a cheap pitchfork at a party store.

The Hubby's current idea for his own costume is a scruffy army guy. He needs fatigue pants and he wants to wear an army camp shirt that I wear to sleep in. I think it will be too small (it was his in high school) and he'll end up looking like a gay Army dude, but hey - Don't Ask Don't Tell is all over the news lately so at least he would be topical!

Friday, October 15, 2010

Buzz wings

Sneak peek - the front of the wings are done, now I just need to do the back part that you can see and affix them to his back.
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Chicken

This post is coming to you from chick fila, where I would love to say that my boy is not a chicken and climbs those steps with reckless abandon, crawling through tubes and sliding down slides but alas, that is not the case. If there are any other children around he will happily watch them play, and if there are no other children he will march up those three steps... And then back down. We've tried meeting friends, thinking if he knew someone it would encourage him, but to no avail. You'd think a kid so intent on being crazy (especially on playgrounds) would be braver, but no. He loves the IDEA of playing at playplaces, but something about the enclosed space just doesn't work for his sensitive nature. Although right now he's alternating between stuffing chicken nuggets in his mouth and jumping three feet off the bench seats.

I bought a gift certificate for our favorite Mexican restaurant today for a birthday present, and I suppose I should tell you that I find it to be a good thing that it took 3 people who understood "gift certificate" in English. Even if it was a little annoying. One guy thought I was asking for seating for 25.

And I stopped by Joann's to get supplies to make wings for Spencer's semi-homemade buzz lightyear costume which he is seriously excited about. If it works out how I want, pictures are to come later today - I'm even excited.

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