Good (and free) Fun on a Spring Day

Spring Break is over. Boo hoo. Now it's time to make the home stretch to graduation. I have just over 4 months left and really no breaks between now and the BIG DAY. I'm not complaining though. I would rather push on till the end.

But to celebrate the last little bit of Spring Break, Jeff and I had a little bubble blowing, sidewalk chalk extravaganza with Brandee and Leslie. There's nothing quite like blowing out your stress into a little bubble and watching it float away...yeah right :).

Leslie made a fantastic chalk design for us that I love....hopefully it is forecasting a true story unfolding over the next year or so.

And speaking of Jeff...even he got into it a little bit. He told me that swirling the bubble stick in the air is the RIGHT way to create bubbles...not my wimpy way of exhaling through the bubble holes. I guess I can't argue with the mass of bubbles surrounding him.

If you want to view the whole album of the day's pics...click on the picture below.

Bubbles and Chalk Day

My new hair and stuff

Jeff and I finished up with Habitat for Humanity on Tuesday by spending a torrentially rainy day inside the warehouse assembling the kitchen cabinets for two houses. It was a (frustrating at times) great experience and I think Jeff and I are better for having done it. We may just make it a habit to do this volunteering stuff together.

To celebrate both Spring Break and a successful volunteer experience...and the receipt of our tax return...I got my hairs did. Brandee took me to her awesome hair woman and I got beautified. I do love my new locks...
Can you tell?

It's auburn and blondey and streaky and stacked and all that good stuff. If I can style it like Erin did then I will be amazing.

It was worth it....hee hee.

I Love People...

...but some times they suck. And to memorialize that sentiment I bring you a couple of quotes from David Sedaris who I will be fortunate enough to see live with my dear bro in a few weeks...

“I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”


“Maybe I'll learn a trade. I've considered taxidermy. I always thought it was a shame you couldn't do that on people.”

Hee hee. That dude is fu-hu-unny.

Ode to the lizard in my window

You frolicked in the sun while it was cold outside.

Your presence in our house made my hubby tongue-tied.

Emerging in the day and hiding out at night.

A reptile, bug eater, quite a sight.

Google says you live for 3 years

So why, now, was your passing so near?

Such a sleek, fast, pretty green mover.

Sorry I had to suck you up in my Hoover.

P.S. I didn't kill the lizard. It lived a full life in our window and died of natural causes some time this week.

Freaky Plastic People

Not since this guy has a marketing campaign freaked me out like this. Old Navy (sorry Bran!) has these weird mannequins that have smiley evil joker looking faces that stare RIGHT-AT-Me every time I walk in to the store. Granted, they have some cute clothes on but I kinda walk away from the plastic people and toward the clothes sans mannequins just to minimize the freaky factor.

He's a joker, a toker, a fast backstroker

I'm sure the whole world knows by now about Michael Phelps and his reefer incident. I am sad cause I had a little boy crush on him when he was in the Olympics -- > http://nicolesdoodlings.blogspot.com/2008/08/olympic-excitement.html . I am sure he wasn't in possession of any doobies in the swimming pool.

P.S. I have to give credit for our local sportscaster, Mikey Baby for the quippy rhym that entitles this post.

Lines and Lizards

These words are more than just meaningless alliteration - they are the theme for today in Nicole's world.

Question: What's worse than a ton of Alabamians at a Nascar race?
Answer: A bunch of folks waiting in line for a very limited number of the new "TMX Elmo" toys


This morning Jeff and I went to Toys R Us to try to pre-purchase one of the new Nintendo Wii's for Mom and Dad. It turns out that today was the same day that they received a new shipment of those Elmo toys. What a fiasco...and we didn't even get the stinkin' Wii cause they only had 10 available and, of course, hard core folks were there at 9:30 last night sleeping outside the store. Funny experience.

And my 2nd trivia question for today...Which is weirder?
Choice A: A lizard on a cart in Super Wal-Mart OR
Choice B: A woman in Super Wal-Mart whipping out her digital camera to take a picture of a lizard on a cart

I saw movement out of the corner of my eye as I was grocery shopping and looked down at my cart, had a heart attack when I saw this lizard and then took it's picture. I know ladybugs are supposed to be good luck in China adoption - I wonder about lizards...hmmm.

Buddha holds crazy ball

As I sit and wait for the next batch of baby referrals to be announced (and the website that I get ALL of my info from is down - AHHHH!) I am reduced to finding weird things that I deem entertaining. This morning I was walking through Wal-Mart to get some cards and saw this blazing at me from one of the aisles (thank goodness for camera phones). It just doesn't seem right to make a Buddha somehow lava-lampish. You might remember those electric light things that you touch and the light centers on your hand...this is a Buddha holding one of those - whodathunkit? So until I hear if the CCAA in China has made more progress on referring babies to their families, you all will have to be victims of my "stupid forms of entertainment".

Ok who did this?

Is someone trying to tell me something? You take one little letter off of my name and I am now "of the behind". I know I'm bossy and mean sometimes but what's up with that?

Dream or NIGHTMARE?

Remember this guy? We used to play this game(was it on Atari?) for hours at a time. Unfortunately my mind hasn't let him go yet because little Mr. Q-bert haunted my dreams last night. I can still hear the "boing boing" as he bounces from platform to platform - AHHHH! Anyway - I know I'm weird but I thought you would all appreciate a trip down memory lane with Q-bert.