Tuesday, September 29, 2009

South Fork -- come visit!

Look, it's fall in the canyon. I love this place.


This isn't our cabin above. It's the lovely green one below!


It's coming together. (FYI - The beige is just the color of our Hardiboard, not our destination color. Should we do one green below and a lighter color on top??)

Monday, September 7, 2009

Obama Permission Slip


Zina's painting of Pres. Obama if he were a princess.



Xanny's letter from school explaining that IF they show any part of the president's speech, he will need a PERMISSION SLIP stating whether or not we would like him to participate. Other schools in Utah have already issued apologies for advertising Obama's message to stay in school and get an education.

All of this is good news for my homeschool friends who have tried to talk me into rising to challenge of home education. In truth, I never thought I would consider homeschool because there is NOT ENOUGH government in my kid's public school.

Ah, Utah. You gotta love it.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Intervention!!

I confess -- this morning in the paint store at 7:20 am, I burst into tears in front of my contractors ... and every painter in the greater Utah county area. When they asked which red I was going to pick, I had to tell them that red (yellow, green, blue, purple, magenta, violet and all related wallpapers) had been voted off the island. And then I cried. You know you have the nicest builder in the world if he will hand you a clean tissue as you begin sobbing in the back room of Jones Paint.

I told him all contractors should have a little section of their tool belt dedicated to the medication of their clients during unexpected frustrations. You know, you got your hammer loop, your tape measurer slot, your V-a-l-i-u-m dispenser. It's just incase the homeowner's paint color turns into banana peel yellow. And I don't mean a quart of banana peel, I'm talking TWENTY GALLONS of banana peel yellow. (Of course I am just being dramatic. It's not that bad.)

Don't worry, crisis averted by being nursed back to mental health by my neighbor, Amy. She keeps an emergency supply of neutral Ivory paint chips around Just In Case. Please remember Impressionist Ivory is way better than Greenmount Silk. I had to learn my lesson the hard way.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

I know it's bad for me, but ...

I LOVE this ...

I lust for this ...

and this room makes me want to change my religion.


The kicker is that I just told the painters to paint everything GREEN. Lord help me. Well, that is exactly the problem. The Lord isn't going to help me. At the end of the day, Jesus doesn't care what color I paint a room. How depressing is that??? Color is driving me MAD and Jesus doesn't care.

Man.

This is the President of the United States -- thinking deeply about color -- looking fabulous -- in his red room.

Could this be the sign I've been waiting for???

Friday, August 21, 2009

I heart KSL

Today I came across this ad on KSL.com classifieds. Many of you know that I have quite an obsession with this website and this is exactly why ....




$450.00
Must sacrifice daddy's big old brass bed.
Salt Lake City, UT 84152 - Aug 20, 2009
Dad was talented guy...a cleo-award-winner and a randy fellow. Boy, if his bed could talk...my mother would melt it down to make candlesticks.

I'm looking for studly man to buy my daddy's bed. As you can see, it's a genuine winner, precisely the magic you need to inspire a new family...hell, it practically glows in the dark. Buy it. I guarantee, "She'll dig it."

Call me to see it at DEAD PEOPLE'S THINGS in Holladay.
801-230-8203.

Ciao for now.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

'Tis the Season

RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU HAD ZUCCHINI FOR DINNER!


Someone should write the national anthem of Utah in August ...

"50 Ways to Make Zuchini"

"The problem is all over your yard, there's tons of squash
The answer is easy if you know how to be posh
It is so versatile, in everything from soup to succo-tosh
There must be fifty ways to make ZUCCHINI!

She said it's really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore, I hope my recipe won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself, at the risk of being sued
There must be fifty ways to make ZUCCHINI!
Fifty ways to make ZUCCHINI!

You just split it down back, Jack
Fry it up in a pan, Xan
You don't need to EAT SOY, Roy
Just get yourself free

Make zucchini musch, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop IN SOME PEAS, Lee
Make some rattatoille, Louie
And get yourself free


Stir it into stew, Sue
Ooo Shred into slaw, Ma
Just bake into bread, Fred

Just listen to me

Leave some on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop in some ghee, Lee
And get yourself free

She said it grieves me to see your yard filled up with squash
But you can mix it into anything if you only have a bosch
I said " 'ppreciate cha" and would you please explain
About the fifty ways to make zucchini

The fifty ways to make zucchini.

(Who says the words have to match up with the music? Ah, just eat some more zucchini!)

Monday, August 3, 2009

About Me

I avoid house work by field-tripping with my kids. I avoid my kids by blogging.