{"id":1646,"date":"2009-06-04T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T04:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2009-06-05T09:09:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T16:09:40","slug":"thursday-this-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Thursday This &#038; That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really digging these &#8220;This &amp; That&#8221; posts. I realize some of you will actually be reading this on Friday &#8211; but I&#8217;m sliding it in here, and it is still Thursday on the west coast! And since I feel like we&#8217;re traveling at warp-speed, these kind of updates just seem to fit into our life right now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of &#8220;warp speed,&#8221; after many weeks of J. hinting that he would like to see the new Star Trek movie, and many weeks of me slightly resisting (well, maybe more than slightly &#8211; I think my response was usually, &#8220;I have no desire to see that movie. None.&#8221;) I finally gave in last week on our date night, or was it the week before? Whenever&#8230;we did actually go see Star Trek.\u00a0 And as we were walking out I asked him, &#8220;Are you going to gloat all weekend if I tell you I really liked that movie?&#8221;\u00a0 Yes. It was good. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. There I said it.<\/li>\n<li>Woot! Go Lakers&#8230;that was a beatin&#8217;!<\/li>\n<li>Whoever invented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skinnycow.com\/myproducts\/sandwiches.php\" target=\"_blank\">Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches<\/a> is a pure genius. And I really should buy some stock in the company as often as I&#8217;ve been <em>investing<\/em> in their product. But, (and I know this is not something you would ever expect to hear from me) skip the chocolate ice cream ones &#8211; the vanilla ones are far superior.<\/li>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0059.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/3596529317\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2427\/3596529317_a65beb79be_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0059.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Thanks to everyone who contributed to Em&#8217;s Jog-a-thon. I went to the Pride Assembly last week and she was the #1 jogger in the entire school, not just the k-garten, the <em>whole<\/em> school! She was awarded a $100 Tar-zhay gift card. And no, Mommy has not &#8220;borrowed&#8221; it. Yet. She has purchased a Littlest Pet Shop toy and a new Webkinz and is going to &#8220;sell&#8221; the rest of the gift card to mom, so she&#8217;ll have some spending cash for vacation.(Gah. I had a cute little pic of her getting her award but I was blurring out so many of the little faces and t-shirts, that it isn&#8217;t even worth putting the photo up. But trust me, she was so cute and so very proud &#8211; as are we!)<\/li>\n<li>Oh yeah &#8211; spending money. We are going on vacation! In three weeks we are going to go to Maui for a week. After much deliberation and research we decided that Hawaii is really the best bang for the buck &#8211; even though we had to use a lot more of our airline miles to go 4 hours to Hawaii, than it would have been to go a good 8-9 hours to the Caribbean. Don&#8217;t ask me. I can&#8217;t explain it. I can say that I am thankful for a very smart hubby who figured out how, with AmEx points and airline miles, to get us a very sweet trip, for very, very cheap! And I guess I am thankful (?) that he travels a lot for work which racks those points and miles up!<\/li>\n<li>He is traveling as <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">we speak<\/span> I write. Four cities in four days. Quite a whirlwind crazy trip for him. Come home soon, please, Daddy.<\/li>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0035.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/3596530745\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3411\/3596530745_0b093be0ed_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0035.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>I had a &#8220;horrible Mommy&#8221; moment this week when Addikins burned her hand on the stove. Between her cries of anguish and my huge blanket of Mommy guilt, it was a very long night around here on Tuesday. She is fine, in fact the little blisters are nearly gone already today. Whew.<\/li>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0035_2.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/3597294052\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2423\/3597294052_caf8507c48_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0035_2.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Em was a lovely, lovely swan in the end of year dance recital yesterday. The lighting is horrible in the little studio, and I brought the wrong video camera, so I&#8217;m not sure what the video looks like, but I&#8217;ll have more on that soon.<\/li>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC_0094.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/3596487855\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3329\/3596487855_0391ea96ef_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0094.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>We have Em&#8217;s musical on Saturday. Dress rehearsal was today. Um. Yeah. It should be very interesting. Let&#8217;s just put it that way. I&#8217;ll definitely make sure I have the right video camera for that one!<\/li>\n<li>And my sister is coming tomorrow! Today? Well, 12 hours from now she will be touching down in L.A. We are looking forward to a relaxing fun weekend just hanging.<\/li>\n<li>I just pulled the banana bread she requested, out of the oven. It smells so good in our house right now.<\/li>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0027.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/3597301916\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2429\/3597301916_65873ed2b0_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0027.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/ul>\n<p>Fun weekend wishes to all of you, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really digging these &#8220;This &amp; That&#8221; posts. 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