Could not resist this one....

Maybe it is because there is no preschool this week.....

We will go thru a LOT of colors but.....

Our House will probably end up looking almost exactly like THIS:



I know us. WE are BORING.

Some PEEPLE have all the fun...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040501976.html

Every year the staff of the Washington Post have a diorama contest where the requirement is the use of PEEPS

Look at the slide show on this year's entries... I think the winner was the King TutPeep.... My favorite in the slide show has to be either the SAY ANYTHING peeps or DATELINE one

Hilarious.

More pics of Faux Chateau

http://www.flickr.com/photos/villebois_rental/


STILL for rent. It is easiest to see the 68 photos if you do the slideshow. GAWD It give me the creeps just looking at them. I hated just about every minute living there.

Family of Stalkers

How lame are we?

I had some overdue library books that I wanted to get into the drop box by the time they open on Monday so since my family and I were all going crazy and getting on each other's nerves we decided to take a drive into Canby. We dropped the books off at the library night box, and then we decided to look at the progress on the house..

BUT since we were there we started talking about exterior paint colors, and since we had a camera and a car and not much to do, we decided that a good way to spend Easter was to drive around taking pictures of house paint colors we like and then compare them when we got home.

Wow this is what passes for entertainment in Canby... Not really Most people were with their extended families, but since my only extended family live in Michigan and Florida and Bills are all down in So Cal, and no one came up to visit us, and we did not really plan a huge dinner or anything, we decided to stalk other people.

SO we had our frozen Costco Casserole , broccoli and Fresh Strawberries for dessert dinner, and then headed out with the binoculars, night vision goggles and high speed photography and surveillance equipment.

A good time was had by all!!!! No seriously Bill is on a deadline to finish some instruments for a guy who is going out on tour, so he has a lot of work to do. Spencer and I watched the Tigger Movie and hung out, and Bill hung out a lot too. Amy was in the goat field for a long time today. That dog loves that goat.

SO here are our pictures.....

WHICH COLORS WOULD YOU PAINT MY HOUSE?? PLEASE VOTE!!!!

ONE: This is one of Bill's favorite's - it is very dark Brown. I am not fond of it... Also there is a house directly across the street from our new house that is painted like this as well - part of why I do not like it.

TWO This is one we both agree on that we like okay but I am not sure this color would get old very fast.. BUT the red door is good luck in Feng Shui so it has THAT going for it...

THREE: This one only Bill Likes....

FOUR: This is my VERY VERY VERY all time favorite, and there are NO red houses ANYWHERE around us BUT Bill says it would look like a barn.... but I still love it...

FIVE: Here is a final option that Bill hates and I like a lot Just do the house in this stucco. Ithink it looks nice, but Bill grew up in a stucco house in CA so maybe that is why he does not like it. THis house is right behind us...


VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE!!!!!!!!!
(Please vote for the red one...)

If you HAVE TO visit Costco, this is the way to do it...

Poor Spencer - We tickled him all morning, and goofed with him, and he ran around after the dog and we went to visit the new house etc and I guess we wore him out, because on the way to Costco: CRASH!!!! He was out and we knew he was in one of those moods where he is just NOT going to get up. The only thing do do at times like this is, put down Bill's coat, and throw him in a cart. You have to put the groceries in a separate cart. He slept on the way there, on the way in, alll through the store, on the way back out, and all the way home. He crashed in his bed and he is still as asleep now. What this means for us is, he is going to be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow am. Usually in fact when this happens, he comes into our room at about 5 AM and starts jumping on both of us until one of us wakes up.

My brother just had his first baby Friday night... a girl they named AnaMaria. He was gushing into the phone about how she is so sweet and precious and beautiful and of course they are. I wanted so much to tell him to just wait until she is 3 and refuses to wear clothes, throws her socks out of the car window or puts your ipod in the freezer.... THEN call me and tell me how much fun you are having..... but I couldn't. He will find out soon enough.

More progress on the house.

Also it is time to pick out windows. We spent the afternoon with one of our attorneys Herb (Robin) Going over stuff. Joel (Batman) is still in Africa but he will be back in April. Its a quiet Good Friday around here. Yesterday we bought a 50 lb bag of this stuff called COBB that this lady at Curves who has a bunch of goats told me that our goat would love. We did not want to buy that much but it only comes in that size. Luckily Elmo DOES like it, and also 50 lbs of that stuff is like 8 dollars.

Amy the dog and Elmo the goat are reallly reallly good friends lately and I think it is going to be hard for Amy to leave the goat when it is time for us to move off the Goat Farm. NO WAY can we take the goat with us, as A it is not our goat and B you cannot have a goat in the city. I used to not like the goat, but I am gonna miss the little fella when we move back. Maybe we can come back and visit.

Multiple Choice Test Friday

THIS is one of the funniest books I have ever READ...

Remember there is only one right answer.

1. Who would you rather be stranded on a Desert Island with?

A. Hugh Grant
B. Curious George
C. Maureen Stapleton
D. Barbara Streisand


2. If you could live for one day as a different person who would it be?

A. Scooter Libby
B. Aretha Franklin
C. Dan Rather
D. Princess Margaret


3. Which is your favorite type of coffee?

A. Nonfat half caff mochachino
B. Half caff laugh staph streptomycin
C. Skinny tall caramel macchiato on the half shell
D. Frozen coffee crap from 7-11

4. What is your favorite cocktail?

A. Draino on the rocks
B. Sloe Ginn Fizz Bloody Mary
C. Windex Spritzer
D. Turpentine-tini

5. What the hell should Tydwbleach do with Master Thespian Fridays now that she has completely run out of ideas????

A. Go back to Master Thespian Friday
B. Start training for Ostrich Riding Team for Beijing
C. Master Recipe Friday
D. Fill in your answer here:________________________

I cannot wait for those ZERO comments....... WHERE ARE YOU PEOPLE??? DOESN'T ANYONE LOVE ME???? hahahahahahahahah

House has half a roof.

I wonder if we get to keep that orange thing? It could come in handy doing yard work.

Another Spencer picture, house picture...WW thing.... Color I like

Point of Information: For those of you playing at home, This is a Four year old.

In this picture it is nearly time for him to leave for preschool, and he needs to find his shoes, and get his lunch out of the fridge, and then get into the car. Instead, he decides to sit down and build a car wash. Also you can see in the background a pretty interesting chair. THAT CHAIR CAME WITH THE HOUSE. It will stay here when we leave.. It is very comfortable. You may also notice that I like to decorate with Guitars. Well, who doesn't, really? They make a certain statement...

New House Progress... Or maybe this is how we will have to leave it... not sure yet.


WW thing I got last night.

This is the color I want to paint our new house... Bill says it will look like a barn, does not like it. I guess you have to picture the color on YOUR OWN house, which is much HARDER.

They have more stuff up... I could not stay because I was late getting home from WW but they have done a lot more on the house.

Also at WW I got this little thing for coming for 16 weeks. Its an award for showing up... but I did show up. Siri is about to get her 10% Key Chain. I am jealous of her.

And an idea I had for the house, as in how I think it would look nice... This is from a different house in Canby, one that is located sort of near where my Canby BFF Siri lives. Hard to see from the picture. Its hard to take pictures of peoples houses around town of exterior paint schemes you like without looking like a crazed stalker.

Survey: How did Charlie Rose REALLLLY get that Black Eye?

" Seriously? You want a piece of me? You feelin' lucky, Punk?"

A. Was jumped by the McLoughlin Group
B. Late night tryst with Maureen Dowd
C. Suze Orman was trying to teach him to break dance. Again.
D. There was a sale on striped ties at Barneys, and he had to fight Tom Brokaw...
E. Hit in head by wrench trying to fix dripping sink at Eleanor Clift's house
F. Mosh Pit at Seal concert.
G. Jumped out of a moving car shouting:"I AM A GOLDEN GOD!"
H. Just woke up that way, in a Red Roof Inn in New Jersey with Diane Sawyer.
I. Its nothing serious, he is just having some work done.
J. Dancing with the Stars audition did not go so well....was kicked by Debbie Gibson
K. Argument with a toll booth operator got out of hand.
L. "For the last time, Greenspan, I am NOT going to Arm Wrestle you!"
M. Sick of being made fun of because his middle name is Peete. Seriously. It is.
N. Tried to break up a fight between Client Number 6 and Client Number 4
O. http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/03/18/charlie_rose

Charlie Rose, the Sexiest Man Alive.

Seriously. I thought perhaps he had gotten into a knife fight with either MacNeil or Lehrer, or maybe had been jumped by the McLoughlin Group. And certainly, whatever happened, he would not go on the air like this... but Charlie cannot be stopped by conventional weapons. Awesome.

When in doubt, just put up more pictures of Spencer....

I have a cold again, feeling feverish and yucky. But Spencer has been having a fun time out on the town. Yesterday we went to McDonald's, because it is one of the few places in Canby (where it rains constantly) you can take a kid to run around indoors. He takes two bites of his eggs or whatever and then goes up into that Petri Dish Play Structure and runs around until he is exhausted. It is on my list of things I always said I would never ever do as a parent - take the kid to McDonald's and let them play on the play structure. This list was compiled before I was a parent.... The list also included things like NO TV. EVER. and NEVER have one of those cars with a DVD player in the back seat.

Later in the day Spencer went to his friend Cole's 5th Birthday party. The party was held at a place that had a rock wall for kids and the grips on the wall were all letters. Here is a picture of Spencer "Climbing the alphabet" as he put it. Oh and yes, he is wearing white socks with his Keen Sandals. Like Mother like son.. I try to dress him at least as dorky as I dress, so as to present to cohesive family unit to the world.

I am going back to bed so I can continue to alternate being freezing cold and boiling hot. My tonsils are the size of canteloupes. I don't understand why I even still have them. My Dad was a doctor and did not want them taken out. i wish they were gone.

They did more to the upstairs...also a dinosaur parking garage

More on the upstairs....

We are thinking this garage would not work for the new house....

We only came to look at it when it was getting dark last night so this pic is weird... I took it with my phone but here is the lastest house pic.

Spence The Builder... Can He Build It? YES HE CAN!

This is the Tower after it got really tall That is Spencer in the background

This is the zoo he built one afternoon, pretty much by himself. It even has a parking garage.

The Final version of the tower. Spencer is in the foreground.

He spends hours in preschool building these structures and usually it is just him and maybe one other kid. The above zoo he did pretty much by himself in one afternoon. the tower was pretty great too. At home, he lost a lot of blocks and stuff in the explosion, and Boogie ate a lot of his mega Blocks BUT that does not phase him....he builds things out of whatever is around. Today it was a parking structure out of like a turned over chair and a bunch of mixed types of blocks and I think a cardboard box. HE builds these really high towers all of the time too, and he challenges himself to see if he can have it not fall. The preschool is used to his creations now, his massive structures, and when he gets going they just let him go. It is not ALL he does but it is clearly his favorite. He is getting more blocks for his birthday

I do not know where he got this, or what it means, but I am very happy to see that he has found a passion for a bit. maybe I can nurture it somehow. I like that fact that he can build something cool out of ANYTHING around him. This will hopefully serve him well later on. I do know that he LOVES his preschool, which is called, ironically enough.... Building Blocks.

Maybe a flying doorknob hit me in the head....

I really CANNOT explain what the hell is wrong with me lately that I LOVE these stupid videos of dogs talking and singing. Stress? Senility? Concussion? Insurance Adjuster Overload? maybe I have been living with a goat too long. Or maybe a sever case of MOMnesia. I cannot be sure, but Heaven help me, I do love these things. I thought for sure one day as I got older I would get somehow sophisticated.... but I think that ship has sailed, and now I am just this kooky gal who cannot resist an Afghan Hound singing along to a person playing The Girl From Impanema" on the piano. Does stress somehow turn you into a big goof?

I dunno... but you gotta watch these. You'll laugh.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYaw5tGYAs&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIB79nLOlkE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58CZcCvwND4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1R56ZdTTh8

And Sometimes you just gotta dance with your trumpet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wffwg7pA0t8

I KNOW this is a rerun.... but its probably the funniest thing I have ever seen on You Tube.

Sometimes.....You just gotta dance with your walrus.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPghCH5uAeY&feature=related

Three Great ones.

Three AWESOME You Tube things.

I no longer try to embed them. They never work.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A61k7iFrQ0w&feature=related
Ray.


2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n7C1AyU-9Q&feature=related
You Gotta Tighten Up

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbeW94nfPKc
Tell me Girls, are these pants too tight??? HAHAHAH This movie was really fun... Seriously.

I Heart MY NEW CURVES T SHIRT!!!!!!!!

Curves sells all these silly stupid icky OLD LADY-ish Cutesy T-shirts. They have like 12 new ones a month.. Its so annoying. All the old ladies wear their CURVES shirts every day.. UGH. They say things like "I Love my Curves" or "My Curves Blow me Away"(that one has a clothes line on it) or "Created by God, Maintained by Curves"

So uhmm... I wear this stupid gross old huge black T shirt to Curves. It is SOOOO comfortable...I had an idea to make my own shirt as a joke, with puffy paints, and I told Siri and she was like "You TOTALLY have to do that..." SO I did.

See if you can GUESS WHICH Stupid CURVES SHIRT is mine????? HAHAHA I know it will be a challenge.. Bill was like, "Liz that is retarded..." HAHAHAHAHA And DON'T THINK I am not gonna wear it, like EVERY DAY.

Curves Food Drive

Curves baseball Shirt

My Curves Blow Me Away Shirt

I Heart Curves Shirt

New pic of house, Dog in the car,

Yesterday we went to visit the house. You will notice Spencer wore his Bob the Builder helmet from his Halloween costume.... it has part of the top floor done!!!

Also we took Amy our Plott Hound along, who has turned out to be the sweetest dog we have ever had... She is really such a sweet nice dog. So here she is in the front seat of my Toyota.

NEW FEATURE: Stupid List Friday.

Gift Ideas for Lumberjacks

1. Harmonica with Neck Supporter
2. Ax Guard
3. Socks
4. Insect Repellent
5. Sandwich meat
6. Guide on Poisonous Plants
7. Tweezers for splinters
8. Tea Tree Oil Shampoo
9. Book of scary stories
10. Compass
11. Alprazolam
12. Ride to the Airport
13. Organic lemons
14. Pineapple Upside Down Cake
15. Lounge Lizards Album


What do YOU give the Lumberjack in your life?

2 more pics of house being built

They added a big long wooden thing across the top of the garage. now if you will excuse me i have 200 phone calls to make for my lawyers. sigh.

Its a nice day here in Oregon.

This is the view from the door out to the patio looking across the liv and out the dining room window. But of course, no stairs yet...

This is a view as if you were standing on the patio and looking in thru the back door and you can see the bay Window outline of the kitchen.... You have to sort of use your imagination a lot...

This is one a the few tiles I am going to use in Spencer's bathroom, which will have a sea life these... I am going to use like TEN of these tiles only because they are hideously expensive. From a co in MI called Pewabic Pottery Frog above and TURTLE Below... Cause Spencer is my TURTLE

It is sunny. We had a picnic at the Maple Street Park today. The dog is out playing with the goat in the field. Yesterday they were all out in the field, the goat, the dog, Bill and Spencer , and I was even out for a bit feeding treats to the goat. They were trying to fly Spencer's dragon kite he got for Xmas.. a great buy from Costco for 9 dollars, but they had no wind... We are thinking of a rule... No TV on Sundays anymore. He watches some during the week and that should be fine. Still the only TV I let him watch is SPROUT which is PBS Kids. He loves Sesame street Bob the builder OF course... He is getting out of KIPPER mode...

Spencer is unhappy with this rule, but there are plenty of better things to do when the weather is nice on a Sunday then TV. Like tickle Spencer and then read him 7 books and then go to the park for a picnic. We did not MAKE the picnic... we got Quiznos... but still fun. Amy Mamie the dog is feeling so much better, and we took her too!

Oh and the house has WALLS now.. at least on the first floor. It was weird to "walk In" to the house last night, but it felt oddly good. So. There you go. We have SO MUCH WORK to accomplish for the mediation and I am going crazy trying to get it all done and keep these lawyers and adjusters and other sometimes annoying people out of my hair with their deadlines. BUT I am getting it done somehow. Not fast enough for them.....but...

My Name is Sally O'Malley and I'm FIFTY YEARS OLD

I swear to you there is a woman at my Curves who is like this business manager person.... SHE IS that Molly Shannon Character on SNL.. She has the big hair, the intense Mary Kay, the RED VELVET like track suit, giant sparkly glasses circa 1985....I have not LOOKED for the Camel Toe cause its too gross but I am sure its there.... I am sure somewhere in her wardrobe there is also a leopard skin purse. I doubt she can tell stories about sleeping with Mickey Rooney, but I'll bet she can KICK, and STRETCH and KICK!!!!!!!!!

I cannot even look at her when I go there now.....
I want to just scream out... I'MMMMMM FIFTY!!!!!! FIFTY YEARS OLD!!!!!!!

WOW, Up go 1/4 of two walls!!!!!!!!

Just keeping you updated, for those of you keeping score at home....I used to do dishes and yell at my family right in front of that hole in that plywood half wall over there.... Good Times....

OMG One more piecve of news...My friend Siri, who is probably my BFF in OR? Al week long she is like OW My foot hurts, right? I am like Gawd did you sparin it? Do you have GOUT? What is the deal? She did not know...

Are you ready???? Her foot is like BROKEN!!!!!!
O. M. G. No more Curves for her for a WHILE.

I still go. Those old ladies treat me like I belong on the short bus seriously. Today one thought I was Spencer's gramma, they are all either blind, deaf, or crazy.... BUT tomorrow I am gonna try the STAIR MASTER for the first time. Yeah. Lookin forward to THAT.

Master Thespian Cage Match/ Dinner Party

if its Friday it must be time for.... Master Thespian Cage Match/ Dinner Party

You all know the rules. There are two parts of the game: The first is to choose who would be a more interesting couple of Thespians at a dinner party, and then for the Bonus Round, Determine who would be the winner in a cage match bewtween these two thespians.

SO First Round Questions:

Of the following pairs of Thespians, who for the purposes of our game are dating, who would you most want to have to dinner, and WHY?

A Sigourney Weaver and Nick Nolte
B Wanda Sykes and John Malkovich
C Loretta Swit and Ashton Kutcher
D Shirley MacClaine and Jamie Foxx


Bonus Round:

If the following pairs of Master Thespians were in a wrestling match, who would win and why? Note that I have tried to Match the Thespians in equal weight classes, to keep it fair.

A Rob Lowe and Carol Burnett
B Marisa Tomei and Michael Douglas
C Jeremy Piven and Susan Sarandon
D Peter O'Toole and Nicole Ritchie


Here are my choices:

For dinner, I would have to choose D Shirley MacClaine and Jamie Foxx. I think they would make an interesting couple. If the conversation got boring, Jamie Foxx and play the piano and Shirley can sing.

As to who would win the match:
I am not sure who would win but I would enjoy watching Susan Sarandon slaaping around Jeremy Piven for a bit.

WOW.
I need therapy.

HEY LOOK!!!! We have wood floors again!!!!!

Well, uh sort of...

Actually we are rethinking wood floors now and are pretty much have decided on sort of a cool looking fake slate tile on the entire first floor. I have always loved the look of slate. A lot of people either love it or hate it. But we may have have wood in the very entry part and the dining room, like in front of the stairs.


Anyway, as you can see they have started to rebuild the house. Finally a step in the right direction.. The foundation was okay so Nick just hooked up all the gas and water and heater crap or whatever and then put the floor in. Well, this is not the REAL floor.. it will be underneath the floor. In the back to the left is our tool shed, and then in the way back is a little play house that came with the house. I was gonna paint it all log cabin-y one of these days with a FORT SPENCER sign on it or something, so it would not be like pink anymore. Bill had to take the front door off of it, because Spencer kept going in there as a toddler and Bill was afraid the door would stick, and he would get stuck in there.. Plus in today's world, I do not think we ever need to put the door back on. Seriously. Until he is about 35 I don't think Spencer should be doing much that I do not know about... ANyway the tool shed survived the blast along with the play house.

Spencer is looking forward to getting back to the neighborhood. We all are.

I DID go to Curves today... I am still sick but feeling a LITTLE better, so I went. SInce I have not been in two days my arms and legs feel like spaghetti. SO I have Spaghetti Arms... Which remind me of Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing... I hope he gets better soon. Nobody puts baby in a corner...