"I Love You Snowman" by Olive 6 years old

We are constantly looking for things for Olive to do...Ballet, acting, baseball, soccer...

anything to help her develop her 

little self.

You know what?  I think she might all ready have a talent we should be encouraging a bit more.

Last night while we made dinner

she made this:

(and in PEN!)

Art by Olive  6 years old

The models

Angelina and Johnny?

What do ya think...

another notch for her dance card?

I bet so.

Let's just refresh her dance card:

(this is a limited list)

Ethan Hawke (while married to Uma)  "Taking Lives"

Mick Jagger (while married to Jerry Hall)  music video "Anybody Seen My Baby?"

Ralph Fiennes...mmmmm

Lenny Kravitz (I'm sure he was dating somebody!)  music video "Stand by my Woman" 

Brad Pitt (while married to ...that friends chick)  "Mr. and Mrs Smith"

Billy Bob Thronton (while married/dating Laura Dern)  "Pushing Tin"

Here's what John John says:

"JOHNNY Depp doesn’t want the world to see him get intimate with Angelina Jolie!

According to a new report, the actor — who raises two children with partner Vanessa Paradis — asked for an explicit scene in his and Jolie’s new movie The Tourist to be left out of the final cut.

The scene — which shows Johnny and Angelina writhe together in a shower — caused Vanessa distress.

“She put pressure on Johnny and finally he said he wanted the shower scene out,” a source said."

does he want this?

Vanessa Paradis (even though she has a porn name, not sure she can compete with AJ)

insert here  ....

Poor poor Vanessa, I would be distressed too.  I mean, you know, Angelina doesn't have great history with staying away from married men.  If I was Vanessa I'd be getting that Prenup stuff in order...oh yeah, Johnny's not married!  Maybe there is no prenup...
You know what they say, Vanessa...2 in the hand is better than one in the nest...even if it is a pirate from the Caribbean with a really big "sword".

because you just never know who that pirate may want to stick that Sword into.

Words for thought.

xoxox
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Retro Living Room Redo....

They came and did the carpet...

here's the first part

We moved up some of the old furniture so we can start getting set up for the holidays....

You know, before the 6 year old packs her Hobo bag and leaves. 

We are required to get that Tree up this weekend, so we thought we better just make do

and save the fancy decorating for after the holidays.

 we brought the retro couch over and the retro coffee table, leaving room for the tree by the windows.  The marble table was my mom's and we will probably repaint the base to make it a bit more modern.

The walls definitely need painting and artwork, but that will have to wait

I do love the retro look, but we need to make it a bit homeyier (sp?)  It will get there.

They took the good carpet and put it in the guest room downstairs.  so that looks better and less at the landfill, right?

I have to work all this weekend so I have to leave Mr. ICU in charge.  

The 13year old helped me drag the couches up and down 3 flights of stairs, so he is retired at this point by his own request, but Bobby has plenty of energy to tinker about.

The next thing is picking out fabric for that chair I tore apart, and recovering pillows...

then...for all my super retro Rockabilly Gals, I'll be posting all my old dresses on Ebay in time for the weekender...

Gotta run

Gotta work.

Redesign the Living Room

I have shown this room multiple times but its time has come.  The carpet is coming so we are starting before and afters. This is the room as we are moving stuff out....It usually looks a bit nicer than this!  hahahaha  The room is a long L shaped room...the L part being the dining/bar area which you can see is Orange.  That part is fine.  Its the  Living room we are trying to figure out.

The couches are will be moved.  The rounded one will head to the basement until I can afford to recover it...the dog ate the corner off of it...But it is still a great couch with good composition so it is not leaving the house.  The other 60's straight couch will be come our primary couch until we can figure out what we need.  There will be a flat screen TV on the wall where the star clock is and then we have decided possibly to section the room into 2 seating areas.  Window and fireplace  I would like to paint but haven't decided on that yet.

Any links to any reasonable ideas would be great.  

thanks you guys!

Rabbit, Rabbit

all ready December 1 and I am just waiting for something to happen.  Bobby is still not home and the carpet people are coming.  Yikes.  I have to move the furniture!  I'm going to start today piece by piece and try to drag some of it down the stairs without banging up to many walls.  The oven broke inbetween all of the ICU hoopla, so my niece brought this gigantic microwave.  I was thankful, until this morning when I turned it on and could feel my kitchen full of radiation!  seriously those things are weird and if you quit using them for a while you can really tell.  

I have applied for more jobs, I figure I'll just keep sending my resume out until people are sick of hearing from me and give me an interview.  Right?  right.

Well...I better get to cleaning, if Bobby is coming home I want it to not look like I just walked in the door every night he was gone and fell on the floor and wept for forgiveness...I mean I didnt really do that, well, not every night...one night I got drunk.